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The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits

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Front-Ranger:
That's funny, adiabatic!

Here's an acronym that I use all the time in connection with BBM and Brokie social events:

BTS

Means Better Than Sex!

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Daniel on January 17, 2007, 01:50:17 am ---The Enemy: A nameless fourteen year old troll who discovered the hidden Pierre Tremblay board and who with his accomplices mass reported every post on that board to IMDB administration, who failed to look at the posts being reported and deleted every one of them.  Also most likely responsible for preventing the IMDB rating for "Brokeback Mountain" from including it among IMDB's top 100 films (though it was there for a short period of time).
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That is just so unconscionable. I blame imdb almost as much as the trolls themselves. Sure, I understand why they can't check every single report, but to ignore a huge mass of them and act -- or to let their software act, or however it works -- against the complaints of the participants is ridiculous.

However, the troll wars (at this point, I suppose you might call them the troll skirmishes) are still being fought within Brokiedom's borders, on the imdb front. It's horrifying, but I'm glad there are still intrepid Brokies, both veterans and newbies, who are willing to fight them. Even though, IMO, they should be ignoring them.  ::) OK, I guess that isn't totally consistent logic, is it?  I guess I mean there are veterans and newbies intrepid enough to post ANYWAY, because the function they perform is still really crucial.

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: latjoreme on January 18, 2007, 01:54:33 am ---That is just so unconscionable. I blame imdb almost as much as the trolls themselves. Sure, I understand why they can't check every single report, but to ignore a huge mass of them and act -- or to let their software act, or however it works -- against the complaints of the participants is ridiculous.

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I could be wrong, but I seem to remember somebody saying at some point that the deletion at IMDb is automatic, that no reports of abuse are checked, that you hit that report button and the post disappears.

Still, I agree with Katherine: It's unconscionable.

fernly:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 18, 2007, 09:57:12 am ---I could be wrong, but I seem to remember somebody saying at some point that the deletion at IMDb is automatic, that no reports of abuse are checked, that you hit that report button and the post disappears.

Still, I agree with Katherine: It's unconscionable.

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It seems to be erratically automatic....I'm still reporting trolls over at IMDb, and sometimes they vanish right away, and other times, even with lots of reporting by at least several people, those posts are there for days. :-\

What was unconscionable for me, was that IMDb knew about those mass deletions, because lots of us were sending specific, detailed messages to their Help desk. Mostly we just got silence back, sometimes we got obviously canned, 'form' messages back, but sometimes we got responses apparently newly written by a person, so employees there knew what was going on, and, for whatever reason, did nothing.

Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: fernly on January 18, 2007, 10:15:58 am ---It seems to be erratically automatic....I'm still reporting trolls over at IMDb, and sometimes they vanish right away, and other times, even with lots of reporting by at least several people, those posts are there for days. :-\

What was unconscionable for me, was the IMDb knew about those mass deletions, because lots of us were sending specific, detailed messages to their Help desk. Mostly we just got silence back, sometimes we got obviously canned, 'form' messages back, but sometimes we got responses apparently newly written by a person, so employees there knew what was going on, and, for whatever reason, did nothing.

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Ach, don't get me stahted!

Here's my current sig line at IMDb, where I foray occasionally:

BetterMost, where trolls don't stick an hour.
http://bettermost.net/forum

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