Can we make it against DU rules to quote the DU rules at people?

[jgraz]

I'm guessing it would cut traffic on this site by about 50%.

[peace13]

1. Too funny.

Let's make a new rule about that! Peace, Kim

[sharp_stick]

2. I think that's against the rules n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Well, school's out for summer.

I guess the hall monitors have to do something. Going outside and having fun certainly isn't an option for those types.

[seemslikeadream]

4. It's already against the rules

[Scurrilous]

5. They have that rule in I/P.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x21970

"Do not post accusations of anti-Semitism, racism, bigotry, personal attacks, plagerism, duplicate threads or any other rules violation. This includes claims against yourself or other people. Such posts add nothing to the discussion and often create more problems than the original rules violation. Use the "Alert" button instead, the moderators will deal with the post as soon as they are able."

[jgraz]

hahahahah! That is too funny!

All those tight-assed rules mavens are violating the rules! That is just fucking awesome!

On Edit: Oh, just in I/P...nevermind

[NoPasaran]

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[jgraz]

14. Can we also make posts like this ^^^ against the rules?

Something like "only respond to humorous threads if you actually have a sense of humor."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. How about the ubiquitous...

"if you don't care why are you responding to this thread" comments.

[jgraz]

17. Also subject lines that end with elipses...

Sorry Bornagin, I'm drunk with power!!!!

[JNelson6563]

7. Way preferrable to the suck-up threads

and other Jr. High stuff that goes on here. Daily the GD forum gets to be more and more like the lounge. Very sad IMO.

Julie--grateful the standards haven't changed for LBN

[laststeamtrain]

8. How about a free-lance moderators group/forum?

They could have real-time meet-ups where no one says anything & fear holds sway.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Oh that's good! I'd call it "arm-chair" though.

[BlooInBloo]

9. That would be a fucking dream.

[EFerrari]

11. LOL!

:rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. But what fun would that be?

:evilgrin:

[jgraz]

13. I know. Some people wouldn't have anything to post.

And that would be sad :cry:

[Lerkfish]

15. but then we'd disappear into the resulting warp in the space-time continuum

until our heads became permanently lodged in our nether regions.

"but I thought you said crossing the beams would be a bad thing!"

[hfojvt]

18. the great thing about that rule

Is that I could violate it all the time and nobody but a mod could do anything about it. Unless it would be okay to paraphrase the DU rules. Nobody could reply to me and say 'it's against the rules to quote the DU rules' without violating that rule themselves.

Once I went biking around this lake in the Twin Cities. Being sorta contrarian I decided to go around in the opposite direction of a group that just passed me. I made several trips around with some people glaring at me, and a few said 'wrong way' but I sorta figured they were just conformists since I did not see a single sign declaring that it was a one-way path. Finally I decided to do a couple laps in the other direction and there were signs about every fifty feet telling me it was 'one way'. If they were only gonna put signs up for one direction, wouldn't it make more sense to put up signs so they could be read from the wrong direction? A sign that says, in effect, 'if you can read this, you are going in the right direction' provides no information to people going in the wrong direction.