MeTa post: Medical Advice on AskMe

Ethically compelled NOT to share your wisdom? Excuse me, but isn't that the OPPOSITE of the oath you took? Then again, IANAD.

Fine, misters. Don't correct erroneous information or contribute to the discussion, even when you know you know better.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. And such.
posted to MetaTalk by furious blush at 8:13 PM on July 11, 2005

How sad, if the impetus to help people is drowned out by the fear of being sued.
posted to MetaTalk by furious blush at 9:02 PM on July 11, 2005

MeTa post: Thank you for turning off Suicide Girls.

My 2cents re the orange clock business: what Doug said.Why ban Orange Clock? Isn't it basically over for him here at this point? An outright ban seems like overkill. In my opinion Orange Clock proved to be completely insane and obnoxious in that thread, and I'll never be taking him seriously again. Shouldn't part of what makes people behave in a community be their status in that community, and not just the threat of banishment?Great point.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by furious blush at 6:06 PM on February 3, 2005

MeTa post: Suicide Girls TextAds

In principle, I understand why the SG ads are there. The reasoning is sound, and Matt has gone out of his way to make them as inoffensive as possible. I applaud this.

In practice, the ads are really distracting and tear my eyes away from the content. While I'm glad we have the option to hide the SG ads (and trust me, I shall take full advantage of this), the fact that they are colored, animated, and occupy a relatively larger space compared to the usual text ads makes... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by furious blush at 7:25 AM on February 2, 2005

By raising such a big stink about this, are we making mountains out of molehills? No, I don't think so.

I think a great big bone of contention here is the concept of "selling out", not per se, but acceding to doing something because the money makes it better.

What I'm perceiving is that this is an issue Matt is grappling with, and to which some members fear the SG ads are taking us one step closer. We don't bat an eyelash when such... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by furious blush at 11:19 PM on February 2, 2005

On a separate note, I find the comparisons of SG image ads to risque/taboo content in FPPs to be absurd. Text != images. For whatever they're worth, the taboo stuff that gets posted on FPPs is assigned value by its proponents (amusement, shock, social relevance, etc.), not to mention the discussions that follow. At least take into account the different contexts in which they appear. If anything, the gratuitous SG ads have more in common with self-links than any other content on this site, so... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by furious blush at 11:26 PM on February 2, 2005

MeTa post: We've been over this before. Some people prefer...

Bitching about the bitching, how so very meta!

I, personally, don't mind the non-capitalization. I have read enough books, met enough people, and been on the Internet long enough to grasp the thought behind a written sentence despite its typographical, grammatical, spelling and other errors. I'm sure most people here are the same.

Some would argue that this is a community, a community has standards, we must keep up a certain level of discourse.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by furious blush at 9:24 AM on January 18, 2005