How Rude!

[erastes]

You know, I would have thought that a community called "little details" would be somewhere where you could post to find out, oh I don't know - little details? Or am I being unreasonable?

I asked the question about baseball that I asked on my flist earlier and I've just had my question rejected!!!

"Your message submitted to the moderated community little_details has been rejected by a moderator of that community.

Here are the reasons for the rejection as provided by the moderator:

www.google.com
"baseball charity game"
enter"

Actually, I could make that sarky comment about any of the questions asked there, and it doesn't address the part about the hot tub anyway.  The user info clearly states that it's a community for "nit picks" and for gods sake, I'm not likely to use a community like that and admit i don't know something unless I've already done a major google for the answer, am I?  GRRRRRRRRR

I'm absolutely furious!! That's one resource I won't be using any more!

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[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

I've yet to post questions about stuff for my novel over there (I've got a list started already). I didn't even realize that it's a moderated comm. :S I was going to find out about it, eventually, anyway.

But bummer about your question! I wish I could help you, but the only sports I'm slightly interested in is cycling. :S

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

That mod's action seems quite uncalled for, especially given the varied data you got when you asked your own flist. Huh. Scratch that resource, yes.

[eroticjames.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear god! With your capacity for research, you tend to be the one with all the answers. If you haven't found it then it needs to be asked. *Shakes head in wonder*

So what DO they consider a "little detail?" --

"What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

[bouncy.livejournal.com]

I really don't like communities that are like that. Pfft. I'd take it off a resource list, too.

[rwday.livejournal.com]

I know they've had some trouble in the past with people asking really stupid questions that can be answered in 5 seconds with an easy google search, but I don't really see your questions in that category at all.

BTW, I did that search the mod suggested. It doesn't really seem to work - gave me less than two pages of hits, most of them ebay listings, so not only was she rude, but she was wrong.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Your is not the first experience like this I've heard of for that community.

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

That certainly blows. *hugs*

[andsaca369.livejournal.com]

African or European swallow?

These little details are important, you see. ~cackleflee~

[ejab62.livejournal.com]

*chuckles secretly*

Asking questions about a little detail. Really, how stupid can you be?

:D

[eroticjames.livejournal.com]

"I don't know" *sproing* AAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHHA

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've found another one which looks a lot more user friendly

http://community.livejournal.com/thequestionclub/profile

If I ever use little details again (un bloody likely) It'll be under a sock.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've seen the mods being rude to other people, at various times so I should have expected it, but even though it is their community, being rude to people for only doing what the user info states seems rather over the top.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

that would definitely get rejected!!

*G*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

This is, thank goodness, only the second community that I've found so rude, but both were of this type, somewhere you could post for information.

*shakes head*

I've found another one which looks friendlier

http://community.livejournal.com/thequestionclub/profile

[erastes.livejournal.com]

and of course I'd ALREADY done that search, and several others using similar words in different order and came up with nothing. What I was after was the structure of said games, whether they were whole teams who played against each other, or - as happens here with football- lots of different well known players getting together to form teams for a charity shield.

anyway I've found one that looks more user friendly
http://community.livejournal.com/thequestionclub/profile

I wrote to the mods and told them exactly what I thought of them, too.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I adore your Icon.

And yes, I'd seen the mods being rude to other people so I should have expected something similar at some point. Rwday says that they've had problems with people asking "stupid" questions but i think it's all subjective, and that a stupid question to you, might be a brain stretch for me.

If someone were to ask what the bit between the horses ears was called for example, I'd roll my eyes and say "gah how simple" but another person might not know even how to search for something like that - they might not know that the the parts of a horse's body are called "points" and that by googling "points of a horse" would give them the answer they needed. It's very easy to be tripped up - google is a great resource but you have to know HOW to search to get the full effect.

Anyway, I'm ranting again. I've found another similar comm that says that they don't mind how banal a question is - soemone will be able to help, and not be so rude, one hopes.
http://community.livejournal.com/thequestionclub/profile

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't get so steamed up about it, but deliberate sarky rudeness really pisses me off, specially by moderators who, as far as I know, don't have any beef with me.

*hugs back*

[bouncy.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I'll never understand the need to be rude.

I'm glad you found that one!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am. I should have looked at the name of the community and realised that it was the completely wrong place to ask that question.

*headdesk*

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

I wrote to the mods and told them exactly what I thought of them, too.

Go, you! >=D

I'm checking out the comm. you found...

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

That's some fucking bullshit right there. Isn't that the whole effin' foundation for the comm?

I told you I'd help you too, dear :P

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Absolute BS. And I needed it answered quickly as the story had to be in yesterday night, so that's why I posted it on my flist and (attempted to post on) that comm.

Never mind, the story got written, anyway!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I didn't annswer to you cause in Italy we don't have baseball and I thought an american could give you a better answer... but if you can find this interesting...

> Would a baseball stadium have a hot tub? Would it be a big thing set into the floor? Is the water warm?

I remember a movie, maybe "For Love of the Game" (1999) with Kevin Costner, but I'm not sure, where, after a game, the protagonist made a bath in an hot tub in the locker room. The tub was rather small (for one or two person) in the center of the room, but not into the floor, but on the floor. Another memory was another film, much older, where the hot tub was like a cage, where only the head was out and was strictly for one person... (you can image that?)

> Do they have charity games of baseball? You know, with random teams of veterans and rookies? Or would a pro-am game be a better idea?

Here another movie's memory, "A League of Their Own", about a women's league of the '40 that, 20 or 30 years later made a memory games of veterans. I also remember that in many baseball's film people talking about a game made by Babe Ruth many years after his retirement.

ciao, elisa

[ter369.livejournal.com]

.....they might not know that the the parts of a horse's body are called "points" and that by googling "points of a horse" would give them the answer they needed

See, I'd look for veterinary or racing (!) sites, or search for horse anatomy/physiology. When I lack a word or a term, because I'm clueless at square one, I try to think like a Thesaurus to get going on research.

Thanks for the link to the LJ comm. I'll check it out for Friending in case I have some info to offer.