Forum Cartel V vs. Forum Hangout V!

I guess I will shut my pie hole for those easily offended today.

But people forget, they have a choice, if it is not to their taste then why read it in the first place.

I personally like the diversity of these posts and IMO I get a good laugh from time to time, but that is my choice.

If you ever get a laugh from any of my posts, please send me some $L inworld. I don't spend all day spamming the forums for my health. Thank you.

I don't either... most of them bring at least a smile to my face and some of them much more than that. So they are ususally welcomed.

The flashing tab gets to me once in a while, specially if I got three or four of them flashing at the same time. If it gets too much I just kill the tab.

So FD, at the risk of being glib, just hang out and don't worry too much about the group... Just relax and be yourself.

This made me chuckle.

Can we all get back to delving into women's bras and panties, please? Thank you.

Monies on its way!

That's what I did. I am usually pretty shy until you get to know me. Sometimes I go there and just sit and listen,sometimes I talk and talk ..... Either way I feel welcome there and have a good time.

My last thought for the day: 95% of the glib comments are usually posted to lighthearted threads where they are appropriate (this started out as one, but quickly turned into a poutfest). Serious threads with serious issues/questions are treated with respect and helpful answers are always the priority there.

Also, the ignore button is a great tool for those who can't handle a little levity. Another is using your own judgment and simply not reading threads with headers that make it clear they are not going to be 100% serious or will contain subject matter that does not interest the viewer.

There are certain topics that I always try to avoid (ageplay, gambling and ginko) because everyone's said everything I think or will ever think on the subjects. There are some topics, like the honest questions, that I'm just not capable of answering (especially if they're seriously techie.) I DO TRY to answer what I can and hope that I'm vaguely right. And then there are some that I just can't avoid, espcially when they get overly goofy. My RL job is so amazingly tediously dull that these forums keep me awake to collect my paycheck. If I can laugh and help out at the same time, so be it.

Go here inbetween the awful urls
http://fdspark.blogspot.com/2007/09/free-pie.html
Her is the photo I don't know how to do slurls right or if it I put in right.
It said Dagon Grimm was at secondlife//nakji/30/152 but it should be 30/152/512

Anyway Thanks for all the kind words I got to log off and look for some recipes with my Nurse before he goes to lunch.
I am sorry I was being grumpy.
Sometimes levity is good thing but sometimes annoying when one is looking for specific answer or grumpy at least in my case.
The world I want to imagine sometimes just doesn't revolve properly around me and my alts. LOL

Dont forget my favorite... if I have sex in sl with a dragon in sl, you know they don't really exist in rl.. do I have to tell my partner? Would that be considered cheating?

No apology necessary at all. The issue of perceived exclusivity is an important one and I'm glad we're addressing it, because I'm certain that nobody wants to make anyone feel unwelcome. We need to understand how our posts here might be perceived by others. Tone and context are difficult to convey in written posts.

Awww Denise .... you are one of my dearest friends .. I for certain would never exclude you ... and pretty much i dodnt feel anybody would... but I do understnad how things can get lost in a thread..... and im sorry about not passing over the last few stuff *s*


Love ya loads

Mart

I'm sorry about my 5% ... I just get .. kinda .. carried away sometimes ... I'm sorry!

And sometimes it's easier for people who are shy, insecure, or simply introverted to just point fingers and say "clique".

I know this from personal experience. I was a wallflower most of my life until I got a job that required me to attend a lot of parties and do lots of schmoozing. Wasn't natural to me at all but it taught me that the issue had been me all along not the others.

Not everyone has to be part of a group. Some people it's just not their thing. Some prefer a few close friends only. It's all neither good or bad.

As I said, I don't think there's a clique -- a clique is something that actively tries to exclude others, in my view. I don't think, however, considering a group to be a clique has anything to do with being "introverted". It's a perception of exclusion (and that has nothing to do with the mindset of an introvert, at least not in my case) -- rightly or wrongly. I think that the FC does a lot to reach out to *include * people rather than exclude them, but perhaps sometimes things that seem to be inclusive are more easily perceived by others as being something else.

GOOD LORD ok I just skimmed the two Cartel threads. Wow we can talk! 3 .. no make that 5 things:

1. Poor FD, I'm sorry! I spawned this idea of cherry pie furniture, got lost in "dead system cannot login to SL" nightmare, and then never caught up with these humongolicious threads. I WANT YOUR FURNITURE it looks cool! I'll be by to pick some up tonight ... thanks so much for doing it! MWA!

2. These threads are outa control. I'm just sayin'

3. Re" group IM's/spam. There are now so many different clients in use that I don't know if it works in all of them, but on Nicholaz's clients, if group IM chatter is bugging you, you just click the x in the upper right of JUST THAT GROUP's tab in the IM window. You will not hear anything more from the group during that login (once the queue empties), unless you explicitly start up an IM window with the group. And yes, on the group info page, the little checkbox to "stop receiving group notices" stops only the notices that are distributed via blue pop-up boxes ... does nothing about group IMs.

4. Did I mention that these Cartel threads are waaaayyyyyy outa control? lol!

5. I went to the hangout last night for the first time since the build, met Christalle and Winter and saw the ultracool clothes Oryx wears when she's not a raven. It is a fabulous build and a great community resource! Great job guys!

Yes, I've had fun in many of the threads the "cartel" hang out in, but the threads specific to the hangout/cartel are always on the 2nd page (and I have it set up to show the most messages on one page at a time) before I even think of looking (including this one, but I was bored).

/me looks confused

Just barge in . . or start twirling off to the side . . eventually someone will at least comment on the twirling . . .

Oh, and I never notice cliques, and I've never been in one in real life . . .

I loved the one time I was able to go and visit the hangout.

/me wonders if her pole is still there, or if it has been removed, or claimed by another

Your pole is still there, ready for you to dance the night away.

/me smiles very happily

I was just saying that as someone who isn't part of what people perceive as the in-crowd or the captain of the forum Varsity football team or whatever, one of the new guys with no legitimate SL-type skills, nobody has made me feel like I'm unwelcome. Not that there is a clique of cool kids here like most of us experienced in high school.

How's that for a poorly-worded explanation? I'd rework it, but I'm astoundingly lazy.

I think you did pretty good. I'm just as lazy, and probably even more unskilled as you.