eh ? June 7, 2008 5:28 AM Subscribe
Does anyone know what is happening in waraws thread below ?
As far as I can tell stynxno did something , someone got banned from mefi during it, I could be wrong but it would help us all as a community to clarify what happened - let the healing begin !
On another note is there an actual #mefi channel anymore ? I looked at the wiki but there didn't seem to be anything.
As far as I can tell stynxno did something , someone got banned from mefi during it, I could be wrong but it would help us all as a community to clarify what happened - let the healing begin !
On another note is there an actual #mefi channel anymore ? I looked at the wiki but there didn't seem to be anything.
Don't sweat it, sgt. If you allow yourself to care about what happens on IRC, then they've already won.
posted by mumkin at 5:42 AM on June 7, 2008
posted by mumkin at 5:42 AM on June 7, 2008
Long story made short: Someone set us up the bomb.
posted by blue_beetle at 5:49 AM on June 7, 2008
posted by blue_beetle at 5:49 AM on June 7, 2008
Using context clues, here what I'm piecing together:
• waraw invites everyone to IRC channel #metafilter, gives everyone channel operator privileges
• stynxno uses said privileges to remove everyone else's, bans 'em all(?)
• dnab finds stynxno's actions greatly annoying and makes several comments about it in the MeTa thread, calling stynxno names
• Dreamghost comments, "Who deleted by dnab placeholder ban?"
• dnab invites Dreamghost to a round of particularly unhygeinic analingus
• Dreamghost responds, somehow, with an even more unpleasant insult, possibly gay-bashing in nature
• Everyone gets super bummed out and the thread is closed.
CAVEATS:
• I know nothing of IRC.
• I expect this thread to be closed pretty quickly, and rightly so. However, I was baffled by and curious about the original thread as well.
posted by 2or3whiskeysodas at 5:50 AM on June 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
• waraw invites everyone to IRC channel #metafilter, gives everyone channel operator privileges
• stynxno uses said privileges to remove everyone else's, bans 'em all(?)
• dnab finds stynxno's actions greatly annoying and makes several comments about it in the MeTa thread, calling stynxno names
• Dreamghost comments, "Who deleted by dnab placeholder ban?"
• dnab invites Dreamghost to a round of particularly unhygeinic analingus
• Dreamghost responds, somehow, with an even more unpleasant insult, possibly gay-bashing in nature
• Everyone gets super bummed out and the thread is closed.
CAVEATS:
• I know nothing of IRC.
• I expect this thread to be closed pretty quickly, and rightly so. However, I was baffled by and curious about the original thread as well.
posted by 2or3whiskeysodas at 5:50 AM on June 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
FOLLOWUP:
• I should have mentioned that Dreamghost's "even more unpleasant insult" was deleted.
• I dunno what a placeholder ban is and neither does Google.
posted by 2or3whiskeysodas at 5:59 AM on June 7, 2008
• I should have mentioned that Dreamghost's "even more unpleasant insult" was deleted.
• I dunno what a placeholder ban is and neither does Google.
posted by 2or3whiskeysodas at 5:59 AM on June 7, 2008
It's MeTa minutiae like this that I'm going to miss now that I'm not unemployed any more.
posted by Locative at 6:06 AM on June 7, 2008 [5 favorites]
posted by Locative at 6:06 AM on June 7, 2008 [5 favorites]
This is really a metameta thing and probably needs to be dealt with by talking to/emailing the people involved.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:17 AM on June 7, 2008
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:17 AM on June 7, 2008
This thread is closed to new comments.
Just my two cents!
posted by cellphone at 5:39 AM on June 7, 2008