minx

i'm all about softcore scorn.

wahoo! congrats -- sounds like your world is about to get interesting

you've got to kill one of us to open up a seat at the much lauded moderator's table. even then you may not have what it takes. you will have to wow us with fete's of bravery, wit and climbing prowess. one z-clip on an over bolted sport route and your out! one poorly placed cam and your chances are nil. you'll have slash harmless posts with in .4 seconds of their appearance, ban at least 3 avatars with more than 1000 posts w/o remorse, and berate and delete at least 6 posters for their grammar/spelling errors within the first hour of gaining moderator privileges. only after that will you be granted the keys to the uber secret moderator chalet in the N. Cascades. Despite the fully stocked fridge, keggerator, and annabelle hanging out in the hot tub, it's not all fun and games. You'll then be expected to attend regular meetings where we plot ways to ruin the all of the fun ont he board.

i don't think there's a research project out there doesn't involve brains. using archie's theory of testosterone, perhaps we can now substitute men for in research. i think the lab techs would probably get less attached.

hawkeye--i had no part of the fun and games with th OS deletions. this place will remain the madhouse it usually is. every now and again things just get a little over the edge. a little moderation takes place and then we go for quite some time with out having to do much.

this is up there pretty high in the "hind sight is 20/20 what was he thinking?" scale. BUT i've seen lots of people solo up that little bit of rock if it's the one i'm thinking of. it probably looked simple enough to him. heck maybe it was and it was just a freaky slip of the foot or hand that lead to the fall. it's sad no matter how/why it happened. we've all done dumbass shit at some point. and you can bet someone talked about it after the fact. smart decision or not, it still sad when someone pays this kind of price. my condolenses to the friends and family of this young man. i'm sure that the reasons don't matter to them.

are we talking about the little bit of rock where that easy kids type route is on the left? like 2 bolts?

damn! i will not ban small shoes but i should ban myself. First---Fifth.....they both start with F---then again so does Fuck up. D'oh!

excellent point wopper. the pace is definitely lagging! kevbone. there's a pinned post in the spray forum about my general thoughts on spray. i don't tend toward banning people or even deleting very much content. each moderator has different personal ideas about what merritts banning or post deletion. we try and be as consistent as a large group can be. sometimes these things are discussed beforehand, sometimes not. some bans are temporary some are not. nearly everyone who has been banned for any length of time has had at least one warning. it is difficult to set up concrete "rules" for what will get deleted and won't. it's just too difficult to cover all the possibilities. a mere shmidge of common sense and the smallest bit of consideration should cover it. we've had big discussions and debates on the boards before about what should and shouldn't be banned. it's been beaten to death. we're not going there again. you will be warned. probably repeatedly. if you don't have the sense to figure it out then deal with it. you'll get banned.

kevbone, i'm not going to get into a mudslinging thing w/two again but NO THE FIFTH AMMENDMENT DOES NOT APPLY HERE. This is not a freedom of speech or expression issue. this is a privately owned website. not the press. no one is going to be jailed for anything their opinions expressed on this site either. however, it is a PRIVATE site. the owners and admins have the privilege to delete any content they'd like and ban anyone they want.

nice TR!!

you can all bit me. i left bright yellow webbing with a dozen neutrinos slung to a dying shrub. i think i dropped my windshirt on the descent which took us 14days in the dark. if you find please pm me.

fern makes an excellent point. i'm not fast but not too slow. i like to leave a little room at the belay. if i'm not going to pass for one reason or another, i'll try and time things so that i'm not ending up at the belay while the party in front is still there. for example we had the 6+ hour epic on R&D one day. OK-- it wasn't an epic but it did take 6+ hours. we were behind a party of 3 including one super newbie and a nervous leader. it was an absolutely lovely day so we decided just to take it slow and enjoy the sun. we purposely avoided setting up belays right by them and did our best to wait until the last of them was well up the the pitch before starting. belay cluster fks are only made worse or happen in the first place by the addition of a second party. don't assume b/c you're ahead of them and they're not gaining, that they wouldn't like to be passing.

despite iaxxx's insistance that I am an idiot, i did not by a macbook. i bought a toshiba. now if i could just figure out my wireless networking

all right folks, i'm done for today. going home w/my tail between my legs i most assuredly give as good as i get when it comes to the mudslinging in spray. please note that i never ban anyone or delete any of it if i'm engaging in it. today, the whole thing just degraded too far my liking. i'm embarrassed that i continued to participate. if i stopped when i should've it wouldn't have gone that far. nothing more than that.

nope--i don't delete many things around here and i never delete anything that references me unless it was my own post.

i hate it when i find myself wallowing in the mud. what's that saying "when you lie down with pigs you end up covered in mud"? i really like the witty banter that happens in spray. even most of the stuff that isn't very PC. i like the political discussions. i like the lowbrow humor. i like PPs links. i like the same old jokes that get beat to death. i like the random topics and the sarcastic exchanges. i don't like it when i get caught up in these downward spiral back and forths. it's more than lowbrow humor. it's just offensive. i find that by trying to stand my ground i'm actually just encouraging the behaviour that i find annoying by participating. i just get caught up in the pissing contest. i'm sure that those i know and love are occasionally appalled by my lack of control in these exchanges. i'm embarrassed that they have to witness my lack of class. the thread with kevbone was worse than some drunken highschool party conversation. it's the reason a lot of people don't visit cc.com. it's not the spray that bothers people. it's the drivel that doesn't even qualify as spray. there was really nothing that clever, witty, entertaining or funny about that thread. there truly was no value to it at all. spray might not be of any substantive value but it'd be nice if it were at least entertaining. it's not like i'm going to start moderating spray any differently but i'm going to quit participating in that kind of stuff. just some philosophy from minx.

all this nonsense of insane political rantings...hmmph! and here I thought this was going to be about me. fine peter be that way. it's always just another link with you!

thanks goat. i'm looking into that option. i think, for obvious reasons, dell is off the list.

i did nothing but plant trees and flowers. $200 for 4 trees. i should've just gone and dug some up from the forest.

please tell me that last sentence was an intentional disaster.

wtf are you talking about? now you're not making any sense at all. see preceding post....lead based paint is dangerous.

yeah piglet,we know you know how a girl hits. it just makes us laugh when you say "please mistress, may i have another" trot along now, kevbone misses your lips on his ass.

Now that’s funny. Just like your log in name smalldick was it? you just got smacked down by someone with less than 30 posts. don't even try. just put that tail between your legs and go back to the lunchline with your friends. maybe the lunch lady will give you an extra carton of milk if you tell her the big kids have been mean to you today.