gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Penguin - Exploding)
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The level of idiocy on the Traveller Mailing List is about to push me out the door.

People whinging about their favorite edition of Traveller not being supported, even though it ceased publication in 1987, people whinging about not wanted to have to do any work to use game books, personal insults, complaints about "too many words" in posts explaining complex scientific concepts!

That, and movie reviews, game reviews, and all sorts of Off-Topic crap. A hell of a lot of this can be traced to one idiot.

I'm this close to being off a list I've been on since the first day I had Internet access, about ten years ago.

What is going to happen is I'm pulling back for a while. And I may killfile two certain idiots (Certain idiots? Yes, I'm quite certain they're idiots...)

Going to go take my aggravation out on a brownie. Fear for it.

Date: 20 Jun 2004 23:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aurictech.livejournal.com
Based on a comment you made at BayCon, I'm quite certain that I know who one of the miscreants is. I strongly suspect that the other is the recent target of certain "list etiquette" posts (pertaining to constant thread-name changing)....

In both cases, I'd say you're quite justified in plonking them. Please don't leave the TML, though. You remained despite C**f; I hope that you can stick around despite these two second-stringers.

Date: 20 Jun 2004 23:33 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] isomeme.livejournal.com
Sometimes a list-vacation is just what the doctor ordered. Not forever, but long enough to let the raw-nerve annoyance level drop a little. Even elite troops need to be rotated off the front lines now and then. :)

Date: 21 Jun 2004 02:02 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kengr
Wopuld that be the same person who I "called" on trying to tell me what all players had to be like after he'd accudsed me of the same?

Date: 21 Jun 2004 07:51 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com
The one and the same.

Date: 21 Jun 2004 13:27 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com
Seeing as how I'm one of those who MADE a "hey, knock it off" post, I hope you know that I agree and you have my support.

Date: 23 Jun 2004 01:13 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com
Also, his repeated statement that he refuses to pay "top dollar" (read: cover price) for new books that do not completely satisfy him has driven me to the brink of asking what does he expect, a blow job?

"If it has CT in it, I will buy it." Great. That's ONE SALE. I'm sure Steve Jackson is wetting himself over that vast untapped market.

Make use of that kill file!

Date: 21 Jun 2004 09:19 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] murbin.livejournal.com
But stay on the list. You're part of the signal I read the list for.

Some folks are just not rational. They can redesign entire new task systems for CT, but can't be bothered to do a few converts in GT:GF? Unless you really do want to get muddy, leave that pig alone...

Re: Make use of that kill file!

Date: 23 Jun 2004 15:08 (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
AOL!

I've been round and round with him, and I just don't get it. I shall now stop in the hope that it'll go away if there's no encouragement.

Rupert (also no LJ unsername) Boleyn

Date: 21 Jun 2004 18:29 (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I too got feed up with wading through loads of stuff I couldn't be bothered to read (especially now that I'm working 12 hour shifts at the factory). My solution was to filter the five worst producers of noise into a different folder. That way I can read the TML and get most of the signal (including replies to filtered emails) and get a good idea which threads I might want to save from the mighty "delete all emails in folder"-button. You might want to give it a try.


Patrik "Got no LJ userid" Holmström

Date: 22 Jun 2004 08:33 (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
The French word guy is certainly verbose, without much to say, but nor sure who the other one who is bothering you is. For me some of the highlights of the TML have been Off-Topic posts. Since my exile from civilization, and the severe lack of playing time (for Traveller and pretty much everything else) it's nice to hear some banter of the geek sort. I suspect this is what's bothering you, but for some of us it's almost the best part of the TML.
Add to that is the fact that there is very little going on in Traveller right now, G:T books being months apart, and almost noone on the TML even bothering to comment on T20, much less admitting to playing it, there is little but old topics to discuss, ad nauseum.

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