superconfessional

[Leonard Leroy]

Monsoon season started today, shit is so muggy and hot, I'm just sitting here marinating in moisture and my own stink. Went outside today and it was like seeing people trying to swim through the air.

Wow, good job on the imagery here, man.

[Mr Waffles]

i just made a margarita for myself because Im bored. Im sick of summer already. no one to hang out with, no money because work is slow. can only watch a certain amount of movies. the girly came home for a couple days though so thats cool. (always a loitering and chain smoking till 4 in the morning then trying to get in my house without alerting the dogs concept.)

[jeepster]

I'm with you Waffles, I'm done with summer already. I wanna be back at school and not having to worry about financial issues.

[freecat]

same here july hasn't even started and i couldn't find a job, my friends at home are either not here or have become boring and there's still like 30 days to kill playing guitar and watching movies at my mom's where it's hot as hell because my room's under the roof.

good thing is i'm going to spend a couple of weeks in england in august partying with english friends, then start getting ready for next school year.

[jeepster]

I'm just bored with my job. 7 years of the same summer camp counselor shit is starting to wear on me. I'm glad I'm doing some tennis lessons on the side but just barely, only have like maybe one a week, and the weather's been so bad that I've had to cancel most of them.

I'm also just bored with this town and the people in it (yet again) (cue teen angst/getting out of dodge)

[dolly]

to be honest, the only thing that's keeping me motivated at this unpaid, sloowww internship is the fact that i can now put this agency name on my resume...even though i'm barely learning anything, potential future employers don't need to know that..

[freecat]

jeep i know what you mean it's gotta be same for loads of people coming back to their hometown. things feel so slow and boring ... but hey at least you got a job.

what kinda internship you doin dolly ?

[Mr Waffles]

i need to get an internship next summer. make time go by faster.

[jeepster]

yeah, but the townies (which makes up most of this town) relish coming home and hanging with the same people they always hang with. I just have no interest in being friends with anyone around here.

[femelle]

The several circumstances above could not define my summer any more accurately. Broke, hot, exile, ill

[ProfMonnitoff]

its such a double edged sword

right now im glad that im starting my internship soon because i'm spending money too quickly by going out excessively almost every night

but once it starts i'm sure i'll wish i could just be in vienna with my friends and hang out without spending that much money

[haptronic]

^ after a pm conversation i had with him, he infracted a post that was several weeks old

i take it you mean the one where infractions were given after posts being reported?

don't try and make yourself look like a badarse, when those infractions were across the board.

[freecat]

that'd be cool if we were able to give infractions to mods too.

[lumberjack]

I hate my job as well, I've been working there for almost a year and I really haven't done anything meaningful, I don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything. I don't really say much at work because I don't have much in common with my co-workers because all of them are old enough to be my mother.

I wish I could have gone to a school up north for college. I need to get away from this town and the people here that only care about college football.

[haptronic]

that'd be cool if we were able to give infractions to mods too.

this is kinda funny.

the infractions were given out because a user reported a post in a thread, this is something that can and does happen.

if you really think that there are moderators that are posting stuff that needs to be infracted then go ahead and report these posts.

just bear in mind that infractions are not rep, and it is not a popularity contest.

my confession:

sometimes i think that the rep system is the worst thing to happen to superfuture.

there are users that don't have very much that i have learnt amazing things from, users that have spent a whole lot of time translating as a service, sharing information on local spots when people are about to travel there.

sometimes i am tempted to give people huge amounts of rep to make things right.

[femelle]

Lumberjack:

Ah, then run. Seriously what's stopping you

[lumberjack]

I can't I have to stay here for school.

I've thought about it though. Right now I'm saving up for an extended vacation next summer. I need to see different places/ do other things.

[freecat]

hap: then if you think the rep system is the worse thing can't you help it die ? i mean, i think it's a cool system to leave nice messages when you don't feel like sending a pm. but the whole point system make it bad. it could be great to keep the system but without inflation of point or anything, just as something to make small comments.

as for the infraction on posts i would never snitch anyway. but i'm an admin and mod at some other forums, not as big as sf but close, and all i know is that i've never banned popular members especially the content bringers (unless they did something really bad like scamming or spamming) because each time either semi-revolution or bad ambiance ensued when it happened. rebellious members always get straigh eventually. it's not a fuckin city burning it's just a forum. but i've seen this behavior on mods and admins since the very first forums i participated in more than 10 years ago. they think that the sanity of their forum is jeopardized by influent members and expel them before they even have time to stop. forums can be very IIIrd reich-ish sometimes.

my 2 cents

[femelle]

I can't I have to stay here for school.

I've thought about it though. Right now I'm saving up for an extended vacation next summer. I need to see different places/ do other things.

Transferring might be worth the headache. I went from Tulsa to Chicago. Best decision, ever

[ProfMonnitoff]

rep power is growing exponentially (took me 2 years to get 500, then 2 months to get 1000, and im sure others experienced the same).

i honestly believe it would be best to get rid of it. leave the option to give +rep and -rep just because its a quick way to leave somebody a message.

[Mr Waffles]

or your rep power wouldn't affect how much of an impact was made on the other person.

[haptronic]

freecat

you make pretty good point about the rep system.

although if you think that banning high profile members causes a fuss would do you think would happen if people suddenly lost the reputation points?

as an admin of a forum, i am sure you understand that the job and that of moderators is more than just punishment for rules broken.

in fact a whole lot of it is like editing, you are after the best content for the board, as that is what makes boards good and thrive. when you talk about not banning the content bringers, i wonder what you mean by content.

i have always made a differentiation between posts and content, and offhand i can't recall any permanent bans of people who really were bringing that much content, unless they were scamming/spamming.

[Egpt]

i am also for the banning of the rep system, i think the rating part of it is pretty ridiculous. just leave the option to +rep or -neg rep in order to leave a private comment to someone's particular post.

[ProfMonnitoff]

^ the double benefit would be that you could remove the limits of how often you can rep per day, the same person, etc

leave the bars for all that i care, they fill with two +reps from high profile members anyway so anybody who contributes will have them in no time

[billy.]

can i at least pass scott m before the rep system gets taken away.

goddamn.

edit

LOL reacharound 4.0

thank you all <3333

SUCKS GEEK.

[NatseOklim]

Just get rid of rep power, make every person's rep count for the same, no matter how much rep has been received. The exponential growth of rep comes from the high rep users repping each other basically.

[suicide]

i don't really understand the point of the rep system

[evisu 2000]

sometimes i pretend i'm sleeping when i'm on the train so i don't have to give up my seat to old people

[2000dB]

I dont give my seat to anyone, except pregnant women, especially if they're hot.

I was in crutches once with my leg in a cast and no one got up. It's fine, I managed/

[billy.]

cwgs always sit next to me on the train.

one time i got surrounded by 3 on their way to a britney spears concert in newark nj.

singing loud as fuck.

home made sparkle tshirts.

they were 24 years old.