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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 27, 2015 at 11:53 pm
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 27, 2015 at 11:53 pm
Digesting a turkey burger. Listening to NOAA weather radio online. It's kind of hypnotic.
Also, just about spit my water out seeing myself on somebody else's youtubez.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 28, 2015 at 12:03 am
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 28, 2015 at 12:19 am
(January 27, 2015 at 6:15 pm)Blackout Wrote: I have a question - How do mods find out that some member put them on ignore list? 
Mods don't, but admins do.
In addition, it's not supposed to be possible to do so. Usually when it happens, it's because they were already on an ignore list when they were promoted. We have a way of detecting that and clearing the ignore.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 28, 2015 at 6:34 am
(January 27, 2015 at 10:49 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: GAAA!!! I was blocked from a facebook group for daring to express skepticism in the face of a woo-woo circle jerk.
Isn't that a good thing?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 28, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Sweating over the grip of late-January garden lust, when I should be buying seeds and making doodles over where I want to dig next.
But I don't have a yard to put things in. So I'm trying to calculate whether or not I'll be able to put in pots of things and have them be successful on our porch.
It's like a terrible case of blue balls.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 28, 2015 at 12:18 pm
(January 28, 2015 at 12:12 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Sweating over the grip of late-January garden lust, when I should be buying seeds and making doodles over where I want to dig next.
But I don't have a yard to put things in. So I'm trying to calculate whether or not I'll be able to put in pots of things and have them be successful on our porch.
It's like a terrible case of blue balls.
Can you do large containers anywhere. The big empty plastic pots are as good as any, functionally. Hope you get relief for that soon.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 28, 2015 at 12:50 pm
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(January 28, 2015 at 6:34 am)Tonus Wrote: (January 27, 2015 at 10:49 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: GAAA!!! I was blocked from a facebook group for daring to express skepticism in the face of a woo-woo circle jerk.
Isn't that a good thing?
It's a fan group for a TV show - one of the admins posts a poll I couldn't resist responding to.
Dave (the guy masked in blue) is the one that blocked me. This is literally every relevant post to my being blocked, I've taken out all the "Yeah, I totally believe in ghosts!" and "I'm partially psychic!" posts.
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I'm still so annoyed with the whole blocking nonsense that I can't even read back the comments to determine whether I was the one in the wrong and deserved to be blocked (I don't think I did, and if I did, were these five posts so inflammatory that they were block-worthy??) - I was even couching my responses by specifically NOT telling anyone they were wrong about any of their woo-woo psychic shit!
EDIT: Hey, I just noticed some of my posts were liked 
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 28, 2015 at 3:22 pm
(January 28, 2015 at 12:19 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (January 27, 2015 at 6:15 pm)Blackout Wrote: I have a question - How do mods find out that some member put them on ignore list?
Mods don't, but admins do.
In addition, it's not supposed to be possible to do so. Usually when it happens, it's because they were already on an ignore list when they were promoted. We have a way of detecting that and clearing the ignore. I don't have anyone on the mod team I wish to ignore; though I can't promise I don't have anyone on my ignore list. Some people piss me off. What happens if I put someone on the ignore list? Do their posts not show? And do they know I decided to ignore them? Notifications or something
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 28, 2015 at 6:53 pm
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