Post your asides here

[apl68]

I think the original (CHE-based) RIP thread had a specific delineation for that thread, having to do with using it only for posting information, not opinions, and for not continuing broad conversations on it, as I recall.

It was a bit like rules for the HOF thread: no analysis, just the post being HOF'd.

The CHE having taken down all vestiges of the old forum, I can't confirm that, but it runs in my mind that something similar might need to be worked out; maybe a pinned entry can be located at the head of the thread, or something could be included in the Fora House Rules.

It just seems hugely disrespectful to start nattering on about ones pet peeves on a thread meant to maintain more dignity around the end of a life.

M.

It's evident that we need such rules in place to make the memorial thread work.  Otherwise the temptation is just too great for some posters.

[mahagonny]

Hah...you're just another couple of crackers who need taking out.

[mahagonny]

I think the original (CHE-based) RIP thread had a specific delineation for that thread, having to do with using it only for posting information, not opinions, and for not continuing broad conversations on it, as I recall.

It was a bit like rules for the HOF thread: no analysis, just the post being HOF'd.

The CHE having taken down all vestiges of the old forum, I can't confirm that, but it runs in my mind that something similar might need to be worked out; maybe a pinned entry can be located at the head of the thread, or something could be included in the Fora House Rules.

It just seems hugely disrespectful to start nattering on about ones pet peeves on a thread meant to maintain more dignity around the end of a life.

I will say that I take seeing my name linked with Spork's as a compliment.

Thanks.

M.

Well, OK...I'm sure Spork is a great guy. I'm just saying it's kind of weird to say 'take this discussion elsewhere, it doesn't belong here' and then also bombard someone's thread with static to derail it.

And there are a number of threads where those pet peeves get aired on a daily, even hourly, even minute-by-minute basis: Take them there, if you really need to air them yet again.

There are I suspect certain sentiments that you wish didn't get heard even once on your forum, because they differ from your politics. Therefore the 'pet peeve' mantra.

[FishProf]

Do we need an asides to the asides thread?

[downer]

Do we need an asides to the asides thread?

There was one on the old fora, for the equivalent thread. Indeed, there was even a third level one that was active for a bit.

I suspect it does nothing more than fuel the wankery.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate spot, but ....

I went to the funeral of my student and I feel a lot emptier now. It just broke me to see my other former students in tears.

[Morden]

I'm so sorry evil_physics_witchcraft.

[mahagonny]

Do we need an asides to the asides thread?

Well, how about a place in real life where you can talk about the forum and what it conveys to you about the state of academic life, trends and productivity.

[mahagonny]

No, the mother grows a handlebar moustache.

[namazu]

Thank you, mamselle and dismalist, for encouraging moving and moving (respectively) the UBI discussion off the Colleges in Dire Financial Straits thread to its own thread!

[mamselle]

Bien sur, de rien.

Dismalist did all the heavy lifting with the quote function!

M.

[dismalist]

Bien sur, de rien.

Dismalist did all the heavy lifting with the quote function!

M.

Quote function? On two screens plus the copy function! This afternoon tea wine went down really slowly.

Cheers, people.

[aside]

Do we need an asides to the asides thread?

There was one on the old fora, for the equivalent thread. Indeed, there was even a third level one that was active for a bit.

I suspect it does nothing more than fuel the wankery.

I agree.  We even had arguments about whether the third level was necessary, since the first level could be used to comment on the second level.  I'm content with just the one.  Discussion may break out here, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.  Depends.

[RatGuy]

I have a brother who was at U of Alabama in the same building where Amy Bishop was shooting people.  He also was at Ohio State Univ. when they had a guy attacking people with a knife or machete and then was killed by campus police.

The last time I was at OSU, some graduate students told me that there'd been a guy attacking people with a machete. Someone said, "No, he had a dinosaur bone." "Nope, pretty sure it was a machete." But none of them had more specific information so I was just assuming they were pulling my leg.

[mamselle]

As a long-ago alumna, when was this? (I could look it up, of course..)

M.