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Wise words indeed. The BoZo filter sounds fine to me. But what I really want to know is what this 'mod hat' looks like is it any of these? http://tinyurl.com/33e4dd6

I have received complaints from A that B is harassing him, complaints from B that C is making his life miserable, etc. Whereas I'm sure it would make A happy if I nuked B's account, and B happy if I nuked C's, and so on ad infinitem, that is, as we have seen in many online venues, the path to perdition. Put it this way. As any community grows, there are going to be people in it who just can't stand each other. There is no harm and no foul in this; no one is required to like everybody. What they ARE required to do here is get along. (Anyone who went to shows for any length of time quickly identified people in the scene who drove them nuts, or got really ugly on drugs, or had run off with their ex, or burned them on some deal. And yet they usually managed to stay out of each other's way. Online communities enable a particular sort of viciousness that wouldn't last five minutes in real life.) On other systems I've been on, the most effective way of dealing with this issue is to have available a tool called (on the Well at least, and in Unixy culture generally I think) a bozo filter. If you can't stand somebody, put them in your bozo filter and their communiques will be invisible to you forevermore. This occasionally makes online discussions a bit cryptic but is a great--and controlled by you--tool for keeping the peace. I've asked if we can have one installed here; currently you can block PMs but not posts, chat, etc. This may or may not be possible. But until such time as we have it available, pretend it's there anyway. If A drives you crazy, ignore every word A posts. We're all grownups here, we can do it. And, just a hint, do not announce to A that neener neener, I can't HEEAARR you... This invariably fans the flames, TMOT. If the chatroom continues to be a trouble vector and haven for bad actors, it will go on hiatus, but since I am very reluctant to have a few people ruin the scene for everybody, and lots of people use the chatroom in perfectly civil fashion, I would cordially invite folks to straighten this out for themselves before I am obliged to resort to such draconian measures. Thank you. (mod hat off)

The default location where most in our community of free spirits can find themselves at some point along the way....

...seems to be a euphemism for all the rejects/recalcitrants. Officer Obie indeed!

Whipper Snapper Bench :)!! That's a hoot. & I LOVE YA"LL ! PEACE

rider i LOVE U! MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

its around the back.. just a half a mile from the rail road track.....You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant .

wtf is that rider??? I couldn't handle the cigs.......OH maybe it's "Whipper Snapper" group bench.....ha.......:)))

THAT....i can handle.......the group W bench...fine place it is, with many fine folk

You boys are members.... of the Group W Bench :) "Kid, whad'ya get? I said~ I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.He said, What were you arrested for, kid? And I said ~ Littering. And they all moved away from me on the bench there~ and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said~ And creating a nuisance ~ And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, Mother stabbing, Father raping ~ all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench there ~ And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and ALL kinds of things...." PEACE