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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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Whoa whoa, simmer down Aok!! It is not cool to come in here and rant about a mod in another forum closing your thread. Mods have good reasons to close threads, they don't just do it for no reason ;)

In this case I'd say it was probably closed because there are a few other rant threads scattered across BL, so there's no need for another one. In fact we have one over in The Dark Side:
Vent/rant thread

And you can also rant as much as you like in your profile's Blogs section! :)
 
Maybe I'm missing something here, but in no way am I insinuating my thread not being able to exist was purely a mod's fault...i tried to keep it as annonymous as possible, the bottom line is that I don't WANT to go to the other so-called places to rant- and only short ones or on a day I have to hope it's okay for me to write. I don't want to walk around on eggshells! I thought the perfect solution was to start a thread directed specifically for that.... RANTS. Nothing else. Period. Even this board starts out with "the rules"......mine had rules. Hell, I'd be willing to be the Moderater of it myself.
The purpose of it all was to be able to say what the fuck I/we want, when
I want, and about what I want. It's clear other people wanted it as well.

I'm not understanding why my thread- geared specifically for
RANTS only- can't be allowed. For Christ's sake- it's okay to have threads
about the size of ones tits, but heaven forbid I come up with a thread
starter that- again - people enjoyed and WANTED.
The proof is in the postings before it was shut down!
I feel like I'm asking for a million dollars!
I'm asking for a thread people Want!

And just for the record, I never was one to be a follower... it's just not
who I am.
If you look back to my very first rant, I was happy I found a site where I thought I could freely do that..... things were going along just fine
for awhile.
But when things started getting wierd, and again, I'm still not
understanding why, I thought a clear solution was to start a new
thread to fulfill others desires besides my own. But my idea was
immediately shut down.
I'm still trying to make sense of it all. I'm sure my absense
would lead one to believe it was for a reason.
 
Well, bluelight's not a democracy. You're welcome to start up your own forum or write your rants in your blog here on bluelight (as long as your rants don't include negative words against other specific bluelighters).

I really don't think complaining about it in this thread is the best way for you to go about it regardless of your frustration. I know what it's like to be frustrated with bluelight and other administrative decisions that I disagreed with so please don't take this as me coming at you with a 'mod stick' perspective. I just know from personal experience you get a lot further with honey than vinegar. If you have a problem with a decision contact the moderators and/or sr. moderators. :)
 
Aok - you have been directed to this thread for pet peeves, a venting thread in TDS and your blog. the rules are available to you; read them. i don't want to hear anything more about this issue in here. you got it off your chest - i suggest you end it now.
 
U dunno if this is the right place to ask this. If not let me know where I can put this so it doesn't cause clutter. It just seems like the place to put it since its about this thread, but its more a support type question. But I don't care where it goes as long as its answered.

I have a question I have been meaning to ask about the format of pet peeves. Why do they have to be short? I always thought that the essence of a peeve is that it's a small complaint, nothing major, not a rant. But as long as you keep the essence why does it matter what format it is in? Like in the previous peeve thread, Fjones encouraged a lot of similes and just getting it out there and it seems that the first post in this thread implies that is the wrong way to go about writing a pet peeve and that the format should be kept to something small, short and simple.

So yeah, it always seems to me that the difference b/w a rant and a peeve is the essence of what is being said and the format of how you present it is much less important. But I am getting the feeling that that is discouraged here. Why is that? Does it really matter if we just go all out on a pet peeve or do we have to keep it short and simple. I really liked the format that Fjones encouraged but it just seems to me that it is now being discouraged when it was fine for a long time. Is this change into brevity something new or has the pet peeve thread mostly contained short and simple peeves in the past? I haven't been here for that long and I am trying to understand what is going on.

This is not something that bothers me that much, I just want to make sure I am following the right format that is acceptable and encouraged here. I want to know why it has changed recently (or has it?) and whether I should totally follow the new format or can I incorporate some of Fjones old ways of peeving.
 
we ask that they are short and succint so that people don't get carried away in long-winded rants - which was a problem in the last thread. among other things, the purpose of SO is to encourage and facilitate discussion and seek solutions to problems. part of what i enjoy about pet peeves in SO is that often someone else suggests a solution to avoid or fix the irritant.

it isn't conducive to interaction to allow a thread where personal issues are vented in angry tirades because it often becomes more about that particular individual than overall discussion... not to mention while respectful, we like to keep it light-hearted in here and emotionally wrought posts tend to bring upon emotionally wrought disagreements among fellow users.

we have changed the rules of the thread and forum slightly to nip any future issues in the bud.
 
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OK...I have some idea what you are talking about...vague...but I don't understand exactly what you mean. teepee? ya-ya? the Y? Never heard these words in my life in any context. Oral sex? But what could be clinging to your thing? Toilet paper? How's that possible? Mucho confused.

I think for me the word bidet gave away the meaning, when I think of a bidet I think of a French house having one for the women to wash their privates.
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lol! i'm really dating myself here, huh? "eating at the Y" is a really old reference to oral sex. probably older than most bl-er's. "teepee"is a phonetic spelling of t.p., i.e. toilet paper, and "ya-ya" is a mild euphimism for vulva. children say it a lot. along the lines of "winky" for penis. maybe it's regional. i never heard it when i was growing up in the mid-western u.s.

as for how that can happen, i used a forest service outhouse that had the cheapest, least cohesive toilet paper i've ever seen. it basically shattered on contact, leaving paper shrapnel in it's wake. good thing i didn't have to poo! and, it only happened once, so, technically, not a pet peeve.

pet peeve of the day -- when the dogs eat deer trimmings and fart in the house. unbelievable funk! ugh!
 
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Online places without rules tend to turn into /B/ clones pretty quickly these days. Best of luck to you though Aok, and feel free to keep your Blog going.
 
I don't think she was complaining about rules, but rather, the seemingly arbitrary and nitpicky nature of the rules as they have been applied to pet peeves.

Not every post in pet peeves is going to appeal to everyone. I thought the debate between vox and rogue robot about germs and sick days was rather boring and pointless, so I did what anyone in that situation can and should do - I ignored them and moved on to the next post. It didn't adversely affect me in any way. It was a non issue. No big deal.

I thought AmorRoark had a very funny and entertaining post a few pages back about parking lots. Isn't it a rather gray area whether that post constitutes a "peeve" or a "rant?" Who really cares anyway? It was funny, there was no problem, and everyone is happy.

Really, the only pet peeve post in recent memory that caused any problem was my post where I was griping about the media and how people interpret news events. Futurepig and I had a minor exchange that I agree was not productive and didn't belong in the thread. I should have placed my initial post on that topic in CE&P where it could have been discussed appropriately. I had no problem with the post being moved or unapproved because I agree it was in the wrong forum.

Aside from that though, what exactly are these "problems" that have been mentioned or referred to? The only "problem" I seem to be able to spot is that someone or someones seem compelled to enter a thread about complaining and then complain about the manner in which people are complaining.

It all seems rather silly to me, and I think we are all capable of getting along fine with each other while engaging in a variety of "complaints" or "peeves" or whatever gray area there is in between.

I think Rogue Robot's decision to point Aok toward the Pet Peevs thread was a good one - Because Rogue Robot, along with most other people, knew that Pet peeves had been used that way for years. At the time of Rogue Robot's decision to close Aok's homeless thread and point her toward Pet peeves, was there any discussion about the "problem" of the pet peeves thread?

I feel like a problem was basically created where one didn't exist by exaggerating one or two mildly negative incidents and blowing them out of proportion in the grand scheme of things.
 
Aok said:
I'm not understanding why my thread- geared specifically for
RANTS only- can't be allowed.
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The reason why your thread was closed is because you posted it in the Homeless Threads forum. A rant thread is not a "homeless thread". As has been explained to you by multiple people, there are many avenues in which to have a good old rant: in your Blogs section, the vent/rant thread in TDS, and even right here in the pet peeves thread as long as it is succinct and entertaining and easy to relate to by other members.

Aok, I am not sure what has gone on in your life recently to cause such an outburst over something so trivial, but I hope that all is well and you can come to feel comfortable posting in here once again, as you did before.

AmorRoark said:
Oh I understand. I didn't see the rules changed.
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In fact, these were the rules all along, they haven't changed, they're just being more closely adhered to :D


My pet peeve of the day is the "Chocolate Obsession" ice-cream I bought and am currently eating. It is made by a really exclusive brand and I had hoped for the most indulgent, rich, taste-bud-explosion chocolate adventure, but was greeted with a piss-weak little "hello" of chocolate flavour, mixed with generic compound-chocolate shavings mixed in......
Epic fail :|
 
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"My pet peeve of the day is the "Chocolate Obsession" ice-cream I bought and am currently eating." by N3ophy7e ok it might not be the best tasting for the money paid but by god am I jealous.

My pet peeve for the day is that I do not have any chocolate anything in the house nor do I have ice cream :(
 
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My current peeve is medication. I have some serious postherpetic neuralgia (lower left back) and other than lidocaine patches, the medication I was given has some serious side effects. Deal with pain or keep my brain? Guess it's pain . . . It would be nice to be able to relieve pain without seriously sacrificing something else. One solution seems to just cause another problem.
 
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this is a crotchety ol' lady peeve for sure, and risks the ire of 90% of the bl community, but i get SO irritated at young peoples' constant inappropriate overuse of the words "fail", "random", and "epic". and anyone's inability to distinguish between the words "lose" (as in "can't find", or "didn't win"), and "loose" (as in "not tight", or "let go of the arrow, dog, etc.),
 
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anyone's inability to distinguish between the words "lose" (as in "can't find", or "didn't win"), and "loose" (as in "not tight", or "let go of the arrow, dog, etc.),
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Oh my word! The main one which bothers me is people's inability to distinguish between "then" (as in THEN we went to the store and bought our groceries), and "than" (as is it was brighter THAN a sunny summer's day).
I am actually finding it more and more common that people mix these two words up. It's like the correct usage of the word is getting gradually phased out as people become more lax :X
 
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