Bolts, Bans and Room Logs, Oh My!
I think this is the kind of stuff that should be talked about in the room when Byrdy is here so everyone is clear
Ok Phoe is exactly right, as i understand it. Byrdy has said more than once that it’s not the political chat per se that she doesn’t like, it’s the name calling and fighting about it. Actually it already has been talked about in the room with Byrdy here, but a lot of people don’t listen or aren’t in the room when it happens. If this kind of situation keeps happening then don’t be surprised if the room loses people to other rooms, which was kind of the point of my «nice» skit on last night’s post. It was meant to be funny and
Once again, so we are clear
Hyp and Byrdy were both wanting to see the Arf chat around the time she bolted him and i think some were wanting to see the Suzy gig from last night so after i pontificate on a
Earlier today or last night Byrdy commented about how the blogger probably wouldn’t agree with her banning of Arf I posted previously on the bolting/banning topic several weeks ago and was clear about my view. I mistakenly assumed that because Byrdy said she was keeping Temp’s list of banned chatters active carrying forward to this room, that she was also keeping the same two rules. Byrdy has a right to have any rules in place she wants since it’s her room. What i think and how i would run a room has ZERO to do with how she feels her room needs to be run. A big part of my position on bolting has to do with my disdain for political correctness of any kind. I am also a huge believer in freedom of speech even if the speech is distasteful, snarky, hateful, juvenile etc. Doxxing is a gray area for me only because i’m enough of an asshole that if someone wanted to put my shit in the room, i DON’T FUCKING CARE. If they extended that to coming to my house, it’s game on bitch and for their own safety they better hope they don’t cross the threshold of any door of my abode. The idea of someone telling me how i can talk and act is something i simply could never accept since i haven’t had that kind of restriction since i was a kid and even then my parents were somewhat accepting of our rights to say what we feel (unless we were grounded or somehow in other types of trouble!). Don’t mistake this for me backing Arf or anyone else that has been bolted. I’m not here to plead their cases and in Arf’s specific case, if Byrdy feels personally threatened, keep the shithead banned. Hell i can even admit it was fucking funny as hell to see his ass kicked out of the room. Having said all that, too many people in the room want to control who is allowed or not allowed there by offering their input when they feel someone is crossing the line. My thinking is use the goddamn Block feature. Byrdy can’t block without blocking people from the room, but no one else in the room has a right to that excuse and if someone is getting stressed to the point they can’t handle the offender then block block blockity block block block. A secondary problem with bolting if it gets out of hand is the room soon will become too «nice». Let’s face it, if the room only had nice people, words, situations every hour of every day, this blog would get boring as fuck real fast. let’s see what that might look like .