68kMLA Classic Interface

This is a version of the 68kMLA forums for viewing on your favorite old mac. Visitors on modern platforms may prefer the main site.

Click here to select a new forum.
Cheese?
Posted by: alk on 2009-07-25 07:51:41
What happened to the cheese thread in the Lounge? I was interested to learn if any members from Canada had tried a cheese I mentioned (Le Migneron de Charlevoix), and was about to ask that explicitly. But when I returned to post my question, I couldn't find the thread. And searches for "cheese", "migneron", and other terms I used turned up nothing.

What gives?
Posted by: JRL on 2009-07-25 07:56:50
TBH, I'm pretty sure that person was trolling. :O

Posted by: alk on 2009-07-25 08:19:37
TBH, I'm pretty sure that person was trolling. :O
If that was a troll, then I'm oblivious. It seemed like a reasonable thread to me. What's the point in trolling about cheese!?

I'm not buying that one.

In addition, it's unusual for the admins to delete entire threads. Even the worst flame wars we've had have only resulted in locked threads. So what's up? Are the admins themselves using the very "revisionist" practices that they decry as the motivation for disallowing post editing after an hour? If you can't see it, it didn't happen, right? It seems a little two-faced for someone to delete an entire thread just because he didn't like it and then to claim that us lowly members can't edit old posts for fear of deleting something controversial we said more than an hour ago...

> 🙁

Posted by: JRL on 2009-07-25 08:28:34
Well, one of the other polls he had was certainly beyond borderline status too. :-/

Posted by: alk on 2009-07-25 08:34:31
Sorry, I'm not trying to argue with you, JRL. I'm just a little irked and annoyed at the hypocrisy displayed by the admins. Control spam? Fine. Delete the user and lock the thread. Even delete the first post in a spam thread if you have to. Controlling a troll should only require a locked thread (and possibly a banned user) as in the past. Managed Resistance was a great (bad) example. You don't need to delete the entire thread.
Posted by: JRL on 2009-07-25 08:41:00
It's OK.
Posted by: porter on 2009-07-25 08:49:58
MOUSEBENDER:Have you in fact got any cheese here at all?

WENSLEYDALE:

Yes, sir.

MOUSEBENDER:

Really?

(pause)

WENSLEYDALE:

No. Not really, sir.

MOUSEBENDER:

You haven't.

WENSLEYDALE:

No, sir, not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.

MOUSEBENDER:

Well, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you.
Posted by: John8520 on 2009-07-25 08:53:48
It was a trolling post made by a member who was evading a ban. Such posts get deleted.
Posted by: alk on 2009-07-25 08:54:22
Monty Python is funny. Not sure what your point is, though.
Posted by: LCGuy on 2009-07-25 08:59:11
The member in question is currently under investigation, as others said we believe that he/she was a troll, who may/may not be a repeat offender. I didn't delete the thread myself, but I believe that the reason for the member's posts being deleted are due to the content of one of his threads in particular not being family friendly, or within the rules of the forum, and the overall content of his posts being suspicously similar to that of a troll.
Posted by: porter on 2009-07-25 13:12:34
Monty Python is funny. Not sure what your point is, though.
Cheese, wasting time, getting shot? No?

And in the original thread, he did omit Cheddar ( the most popular cheese in the world ) from the poll.
Posted by: iMac600 on 2009-07-25 18:44:33
Sure sounded like a troll anyway. I knew there was something odd about the threads, so much oddity that one has to take the chance to humour them... :lol:

Posted by: equill on 2009-07-25 19:00:37
... and you'd be amazed if I were to tell you about the number of bitterly-fought wars that have been caused by disagreement about cheeses.

de
Posted by: porter on 2009-07-25 20:17:46
bitterly-fought wars that have been caused by disagreement about cheeses.
Presumably due to fermenting unrest.
Posted by: alk on 2009-07-25 20:46:31
bitterly-fought wars that have been caused by disagreement about cheeses.
Presumably due to fermenting unrest.
This is udder foolishness.
Posted by: equill on 2009-07-25 21:12:15
bitterly-fought wars that have been caused by disagreement about cheeses.
Presumably due to fermenting unrest.
Or perhaps to someone's deliberate fomenting of unrest?

de
Posted by: porter on 2009-07-25 21:34:00
I think the Curds are whey out of line.
Posted by: alk on 2009-07-25 21:35:51
I think the Curds are whey out of line.
Okay, now you're just milking it.
Posted by: netfreak on 2009-07-27 01:02:59
1