Is it me? I mean, is it???
Jul. 25th, 2006 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesIs it me?
No, it bloody isn't.
Ever since I, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
underlucius created ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hp_literotica I had requests from people to join.
DESPITE the fact that the user info clearly said that it was a closed community and you couldn't join, you had to be invited. In the main, since I was a good and kind mod, I would go and look at their fics (if they wrote at all, and most of them didn't) and see if by chance they were eligible for my snooty elitist comm. Mostly they weren't but 2 (I think) out of the 80 or so members were invited this way. However it wasn't a great start for them, because they hadn't read the RULES. With the others I politely went to their LJ's and left a nice message saying that perhaps they'd meant to press "friend" instead of join. However even that got galling after 100 requests.
Now, after I've rung "Last Orders" on the community, I'm STILL getting requests to join and now I'm mad as hell and I ain't gonna take it any more.
So here's a rant to all you numbskulls over the years that I've had to turn down, including the three most recent who asked to join this week.
1. Closed community means just that. You can't join. It says that on the user info.
2. Invitation only means just that. You have to be invited. It said that on the user info, too.
3.In fact, if you'd read the user info – AT ALL – you'd have seen that the community is, in fact, CLOSING on the 31st July 2006 and no-one will either be allowed to join, or be invited to join.
4. This is also handily stated in the post byeumenides1, which, if you'd bothered to go about four posts down from the last story, you would have seen, but I didn't think was necessary as the information was… where again? Oh yes, THE USER INFO.
5. I mean how hard is it? You are on the user info page when you apply to join and it SAYS that you can't. So you do what? Click on join? How sensible are you? If you went into a bunker and saw a button and a sign that said "YOU MUST NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON" what would you do then?
6. So, in conclusion, I'm going to have to refuse your application to join, and if I could be so bothered, I'd ban you from the community as well, as you obviously can't read, and are wasting your time sitting in front of a PC pressing buttons like some Pavlovian Dog.
7. And no. I'm not nice. I don't know why anyone ever thought I was. I'm not blaming the heat, I'm blaming the IDIOTS.
No Love.
*Stomps off, growling.*
No, it bloody isn't.
Ever since I, as
underlucius created hp_literotica I had requests from people to join. DESPITE the fact that the user info clearly said that it was a closed community and you couldn't join, you had to be invited. In the main, since I was a good and kind mod, I would go and look at their fics (if they wrote at all, and most of them didn't) and see if by chance they were eligible for my snooty elitist comm. Mostly they weren't but 2 (I think) out of the 80 or so members were invited this way. However it wasn't a great start for them, because they hadn't read the RULES. With the others I politely went to their LJ's and left a nice message saying that perhaps they'd meant to press "friend" instead of join. However even that got galling after 100 requests.
Now, after I've rung "Last Orders" on the community, I'm STILL getting requests to join and now I'm mad as hell and I ain't gonna take it any more.
So here's a rant to all you numbskulls over the years that I've had to turn down, including the three most recent who asked to join this week.
1. Closed community means just that. You can't join. It says that on the user info.
2. Invitation only means just that. You have to be invited. It said that on the user info, too.
3.In fact, if you'd read the user info – AT ALL – you'd have seen that the community is, in fact, CLOSING on the 31st July 2006 and no-one will either be allowed to join, or be invited to join.
4. This is also handily stated in the post by
eumenides1, which, if you'd bothered to go about four posts down from the last story, you would have seen, but I didn't think was necessary as the information was… where again? Oh yes, THE USER INFO. 5. I mean how hard is it? You are on the user info page when you apply to join and it SAYS that you can't. So you do what? Click on join? How sensible are you? If you went into a bunker and saw a button and a sign that said "YOU MUST NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON" what would you do then?
6. So, in conclusion, I'm going to have to refuse your application to join, and if I could be so bothered, I'd ban you from the community as well, as you obviously can't read, and are wasting your time sitting in front of a PC pressing buttons like some Pavlovian Dog.
7. And no. I'm not nice. I don't know why anyone ever thought I was. I'm not blaming the heat, I'm blaming the IDIOTS.
No Love.
*Stomps off, growling.*
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:48 pm (UTC)Omigod, the employees at Centrelink (aka the Australian social security division of the government) are trying to apply to get into your old comm, I swear.
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:52 pm (UTC)oh and I always thought you were nice.
:D
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:57 pm (UTC)Um....
People are dumb.
I've accidentally tried to join a closed comm once, but it was only because I hit the wrong button on accident. I felt like a fool. A FOOL. It was in my early LJ days omg! *makes excuses for self*
The info is very clear on the comm. There is no excuse for some people, really.
*sends Dark Phoenix to eat their brains*
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:04 pm (UTC)*lends you a shovel* Good for beating purposes!
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 02:13 pm (UTC)Stupid people make stupid mistakes.
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:16 pm (UTC)I think you're nice anyway.
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:33 pm (UTC)I could almost understand it before, as people do make mistakes and click on things without thinking, but now that it clearly says "CLOSING," there's simply no excuse.
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:45 pm (UTC)Srsly, people are so stupid it's not even funny.
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 03:33 pm (UTC)But yes, omg, I can see how that might get old after it happens 827659287346592843524 times, and even more so now that the userinfo *and* a recent post say it's bloody closing! And if someone doesn't read the posts or the userinfo, then why are they so dead set on joining? *scratches head*
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Date: 2006-07-25 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 03:52 pm (UTC)"YOU MUST NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON"
Date: 2006-07-25 03:59 pm (UTC)Lots of people don't read the MM info screen either.
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Date: 2006-07-25 05:44 pm (UTC)*RUNS AWAY FAST*
Er... it was a joke. HONESTLY. ;) I feel the same way you do. ;)
*points at icon*
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:40 pm (UTC)TWO YEARS OF THIS, I'VE HAD - over two years! And never complained once!
Was a long time coming....
*G*
Re: "YOU MUST NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON"
Date: 2006-07-25 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 06:44 pm (UTC)But there's no excuse for the comm as it is as the moment. It's got "CLOSING DOWN" plastered all over it!
*pets*
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:45 pm (UTC)SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE
And another smite for having to shut my baby down.
SMITE
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 06:51 pm (UTC)And no! See how wrong you were? You are all going to see a new side of underlucius now. The real me!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't have any evil icons yet, so have my Evil Michael and My poor abused Jon, instead.
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:53 pm (UTC)Ok. (But I am not really shaking in my shoes here...*smooch*)
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:54 pm (UTC)Accidents are allowable. IDIOCY is not.
and i'm an idiot, i'm so sorry I spoiled you for Angel, I didn't realise you were at the beginning.
*mortified*
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:56 pm (UTC)I'll just push them in the hole and cover them up.
*buries*
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:57 pm (UTC)*smooches*
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:58 pm (UTC)Anyone can make a silly mistake, hell, I've done a billion.
But ... grrrr... stupidity is ... gah!!! I think they are doing it DELIBERATELY! Swine!
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Date: 2006-07-25 07:01 pm (UTC)But still, it's not difficult to read and find out, but as they can't even be bothered to read the info, they aren't likely to read the FAQ.
AND I AM NOT!!!
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Date: 2006-07-25 07:02 pm (UTC)*G*
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Date: 2006-07-25 07:03 pm (UTC)*smites them*
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Date: 2006-07-25 07:38 pm (UTC)But yes, people are stupid. do you know what other people are stupid? People who FAIL to pay for their parking ticket before they drive up to the barrier. Those people don't read user info.
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Date: 2006-07-25 07:43 pm (UTC)*G*
And you know what else? People who don't indicate. Or know how to indicate properly.
AND PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THE WIDTH OF THEIR OWN CARS!!!!!!
i think i'll start a "what pisses you off?" meme.
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Date: 2006-07-25 08:22 pm (UTC)Really, that was great, I was giggling. I always read user info before I join and twice before I post. But then I'm a touch paranoid.
and i was so giddy when i was invited
People who talk really loud piss me off. I mean, really loud. When they are in the office across the hall and the person I'm on the phone with can hear them. That kind of loud.
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Date: 2006-07-25 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 09:30 pm (UTC)(Of course people press on the "DO NOT PRESS" button - haven't you seen all those 70s/80s SF/Action movies?)
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Date: 2006-07-25 09:34 pm (UTC)Me too me too! There were only 40-odd people in it back then and it was FILLED with all these writers I liked and hee!, you know. :D
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Date: 2006-07-25 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-26 10:16 pm (UTC)I just felt like I was walking into a room with an invite I shouldn't have had. 'Um, are you sure I'm in the right place?' Like I was playing at being grown up or something. *obviously has a complex*