[Antrax]

Yeah, I was just replying to the "her upvotes are meaningful" comment. I don't really mind anything she does or ever did, there are several forum members I would "handle" before bothering with someone who just doesn't add content.

[Lurpoa]

aguahombre, on 2012-September-05, 09:14, said:

Perhaps four forum members who don't like the stuff in the posts mentioned that fact, and the others simply block it.

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Yes, that is what I would suggest, those that do not like it: BLOCK.
So simple.
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[Lurpoa]

Antrax, on 2012-September-05, 21:08, said:

Yeah, I was just replying to the "her upvotes are meaningful" comment. I don't really mind anything she does or ever did, there are several forum members I would "handle" before bothering with someone who just doesn't add content.

♥♥♥
Yes,
know that i used to comment a lot - always constructive and polite, nobody can tell anything else - but a couple a members - I will not name them now, management knows - started harassing me, just because I was using some !H symbols in my posts.
Do you think that is serious ?
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[Zelandakh]

♥ ♥ ♥

Laying out a message with 3 hearts at the top and bottom is just fine. Honestly, this takes up less space than some signatures and personalises content in much the same way. What I do find less appealing is quoting a message and simply adding a large heart as the reply text. This adds nothing and does take up bandwidth. It is not much different in my mind from quoting a message without adding any text, which also happens from time to time. I suspect my attitude on this comes from using the internet at a time when larger messages took a considerable time to download and therefore unnecessary content, and especially unnecessary quoting, was a Netiquette no-no. Another rule at the time, which I think is still a useful guide, was that signatures should not be longer than 5 lines. I think if everyone were to look at their personalised content and make sure that it is no more than 5-6 lines in total this would not be a bad thing.

♥ ♥ ♥

[Lurpoa]

semeai, on 2012-September-05, 11:05, said:

Maybe it's time to give the anti-Lurpoa stuff a rest. She did her time as the black sheep of the forums for whatever happened a while ago and her upvotes and posts now seem harmless and mostly genuine.

That said, Lurpoa, making exaggerated claims isn't going to help things. Just use your hearts, we know you love them so much, and don't worry about it.

♥

[Lurpoa]

Zelandakh, on 2012-September-06, 00:14, said:

♥ ♥ ♥

Laying out a message with 3 hearts at the top and bottom is just fine. Honestly, this takes up less space than some signatures and personalises content in much the same way. What I do find less appealing is quoting a message and simply adding a large heart as the reply text. This adds nothing and does take up bandwidth. It is not much different in my mind from quoting a message without adding any text, which also happens from time to time. I suspect my attitude on this comes from using the internet at a time when larger messages took a considerable time to download and therefore unnecessary content, and especially unnecessary quoting, was a Netiquette no-no. Another rule at the time, which I think is still a useful guide, was that signatures should not be longer than 5 lines. I think if everyone were to look at their personalised content and make sure that it is no more than 5-6 lines in total this would not be a bad thing.

♥ ♥ ♥

♥ ♥ ♥

Agreed, 100%.
I see too much messages without added information.

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[Lurpoa]

Phil, on 2012-September-05, 09:25, said:

And if they didn't block it, they didn't bother to complain.

I'd love to see a poll. I'll give 10:1 against.

♥ ♥ ♥

Yes,

and if so, would you ban the use of ♥ ♥ ♥ ???

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[semeai]

Maybe a mod should split off this discussion about Lurpoa, hearts, upvotes, signature formats, and personalized content. Then the mod can post here about it!

[Antrax]

Zel, you can use my Greasemonkey script to remove sigs and the "interest" field. As far as empty replies, I think those are by mistake, someone hitting "reply" and accidentally hitting "enter" or something, without knowing how to edit - often the next post is just the reply that was meant to go in the "only reply" post.

[barmar]

Moderation: Split a question about the Sport Accord China trip promotion out of a thread in the Spanish forum about bridge in Ecuador and moved it to General BBO Forum, and removed the poster's full name and email from the post.

[Lurpoa]

semeai, on 2012-September-06, 00:46, said:

Maybe a mod should split off this discussion about Lurpoa, hearts, upvotes, signature formats, and personalized content. Then the mod can post here about it!

♥ ♥ ♥



Yes,
that really would be most helpful.


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[inquiry]

Post by two forum members in the overbidder's thread have been modified... the first for a possible TOS violation that then caused the second person to respond with a clear TOS violation. Both know better.

[Antrax]

Hmm. For some reason I haven't seen Lurpoa's posts in this thread until just now - I swear they weren't there when I replied. Can members block me from seeing their posts?

[Bbradley62]

inquiry, on 2012-September-07, 08:53, said:

Post by two forum members in the overbidder's thread have been modified... the first for a possible TOS violation that then caused the second person to respond with a clear TOS violation. Both know better.

Hopefully "clear TOS violation[s]" by posters who "know better" are severely dealt with, not just a "c'mon guys, play nice".

[barmar]

Antrax, on 2012-September-07, 10:41, said:

Hmm. For some reason I haven't seen Lurpoa's posts in this thread until just now - I swear they weren't there when I replied. Can members block me from seeing their posts?

It has nothing to do with you.

[inquiry]

A one bid heart only post was deleted from the six-spade thread... no it wasn't posted by who you might think.

[semeai]

inquiry, on 2012-September-10, 14:11, said:

A one bid heart only post was deleted from the six-spade thread... no it wasn't posted by who you might think.

Sorry, I was just expressing camaraderie with aguahombre, who was pointing out posts we agreed on (that was the second one he pointed out), after our heated discussion over Drury in another thread. Maybe that wasn't the best way to go about it, but it wasn't supposed to be sarcastic, just fun.

[barmar]

We moderators have been accused of being unfair, removing you-know-who's posts while allowing others to get away with similar behavior.

[gwnn]

Lurpoa, on 2012-September-06, 00:13, said:

Yes,
know that i used to comment a lot - always constructive and polite, nobody can tell anything else - but a couple a members - I will not name them now, management knows - started harassing me, just because I was using some !H symbols in my posts.

I can "tell anything else": you started a personal vendetta against any posts that were deemed inappropriate by you (chiefly "agree with ..." and shortish posts, but also some posts that you did not understand), replying with vacuous, repetitive, pointless questions (surrounded by heart symbols) that have nevertheless been answered in the beginning. Later this turned into you religiously downvoting all such posts, once downvotes were turned on. No, you were not always constructive and polite (neither was I, or most posters who got involved, but that's beside the point right now). Antrax and sathyab, among others, have indeed tried and succeeded raising the issue of short posts et al in a constructive and polite way (I personally do not think it is an issue but OK), in stark contrast to your passive-aggressive, hypocritical, obnoxious campaign.

Anyway I hope mods do create a different thread for this derailing and if not then please delete this post.

[aguahombre]

barmar, on 2012-September-10, 15:00, said:

We moderators have been accused of being unfair, removing you-know-who's posts while allowing others to get away with similar behavior.

So, we can say it's the size that counts, not what we do with it.