I can't help you with the computer game thing, I'm totally clueless, broadband just about stretches my techy limits!
Re GW, I agree, I've hardly made any posts this year, the Anti-Sock thread has tripled my post count. I think Gipsy should have considered she was a mod and as in that position carried weight. Whether deliberately or not, she has implicitly leant her weight and approval to the negative posters in the S/T threads. That disappoints me, she should have considered how other people might have seen it.
My son wants to go into graphics and gaming as well. He is only 13, so he watches what Seshat, Mazzmatazz, and some others have done at GW (they are his idols!). Seshat has recommend books to get, and sometimes Mazz posts "how too's" on her LJ, which he always checks out. He is another big math person at school, which is frightening, as I can't even keep my bank account straight. :0)
Mazz's how-to's are cool! I don't have the patience to explain how a thing is done. FP, you could tell your son to look at Before & After Magazine (http://www.bamagazine.com/). Lots of good stuff there in easy to follow formats.
As for the other situation, I think I am really odd man out here. I am not a shipper and don't visit those threads unless FP complains in her blog about something in particular, and then only for laugh at what she found funny. What I have seen is a lot of personal opinions that I don't share about the characters. IMO, I can't say (except for vulgarity) that most of the posts, even the icky ones, are breaking any rules
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I only started reading those threads when all this kicked off - I am not a shipper at all, I used to go all gooey at Jack and Sam moments but I wouldn't post about it. What I was trying to say is that the tone of the posting (atmosphere) on each of the threads is different. Hand on heart Seshat - I haven't sat and read every post, obviously. And I'll apologise now - the CHARACTER of Weir is of course a fictional one. To bash Weir is not bashing Torri herself. I'm answering you Seshat because you are a poster I respect. In regards to what's happening at Gateworld I'm not involved in it anyway - they're not my threads. It was just my opinion, I've not reported anyone, or posted anything. I'm sorry but I think there is mod bias at GW - always has been. That's not to say they're all vengeful and nasty, but rules are often interpreted according to the views of the mods. And hey - I use to love Daniel - now I seem to do nothing but bash him. I should just keep out of these things..
I'm not a shipper either, that's why I think the two of us can be pretty good judges of the thread issue as complete outsiders who don't care one way or the other
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I don't like S/T or S/W, but I have friends--good people--in both, who can't stand the others. I just hate the way things are blowing up at the moment, and hope they settle down eventually. I agree that GW is a mess, but I don't know what to attribute it to.
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Re GW, I agree, I've hardly made any posts this year, the Anti-Sock thread has tripled my post count. I think Gipsy should have considered she was a mod and as in that position carried weight. Whether deliberately or not, she has implicitly leant her weight and approval to the negative posters in the S/T threads. That disappoints me, she should have considered how other people might have seen it.
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Hand on heart Seshat - I haven't sat and read every post, obviously. And I'll apologise now - the CHARACTER of Weir is of course a fictional one. To bash Weir is not bashing Torri herself.
I'm answering you Seshat because you are a poster I respect. In regards to what's happening at Gateworld I'm not involved in it anyway - they're not my threads. It was just my opinion, I've not reported anyone, or posted anything. I'm sorry but I think there is mod bias at GW - always has been. That's not to say they're all vengeful and nasty, but rules are often interpreted according to the views of the mods.
And hey - I use to love Daniel - now I seem to do nothing but bash him. I should just keep out of these things..
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