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Post by Śp̨͡ê` (҉) on Jul 12, 2011 5:30:19 GMT -5
Excuse me for posting in a locked thread, but I question the need for a temporary lock. Isn't having very active threads a good thing? Why lock them and risk them just dying? It seems unneeded. I think I'm just going to unlock it, unless there really is a reason for locking it.  Besides, I'm having an intriguing conversation here: My goodness, Spe, isn't that just brilliant material for psychoanalysis? You're basically containing the Sun within parentheses in your Username. So the Sun is applicable to you, and yet it is somehow contained. Contained within you? Is it a natural part of you? Or, given it is a later attachment, something you've acquired and contained later... :3 As for what the Sun is symbolic of, there must be countless answers. Plato's Form of the Good? Raw power and might? The light and the joy and the happiness? Health? :3 Sorry; I reaaaally couldn't resist. :3 I think for me it's like a mixed blessing. It could be like my general joyfulness and trying to keep peace between people, but then it could also be my intense fiery rage, encapsulated within these metaphorical parentheses waiting for someone to go too far... |
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Post by Suicide on Jul 12, 2011 6:38:21 GMT -5
True, Spe - but that was off-topic, unfortunately. Such a discussion can take place in a thread like a random things thread or something like  Also, it's only a single day left and going to unlock it |
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Post by Śp̨͡ê` (҉) on Jul 14, 2011 4:39:33 GMT -5
True, F.L. - but that was off-topic, unfortunately. Such a discussion can take place in a thread like a random things thread or something like Also, it's only a single day left and going to unlock it Heh, did you just call me F.L.?  Anyways I guess I see what you mean. |
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Post by Project-Diddy on Jul 16, 2011 4:25:39 GMT -5
Lucky you caught/quoted that little slip before the edit, Spe. >:3
And, I think that's fascinating. It does seem to work in both directions, I suppose - both as a source of joy and contentedness, and as this intense rage, to be revered and, quite frankly, feared. I suppose, similar to a punishment (or knowledge of it being a consequence) acting as a deterrent.
I'm quite interested in what enticed you to add it to your name, though. :3
As far as I remember, it wasn't an original part of your username; it was added later. Does this mean you acquired it from somewhere? You learnt it, or were given it, or stole it? :3 Or did you discover it residing within you? Or have you been aware of its innate presence, and simply are expressing it at last?
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Post by Śp̨͡ê` (҉) on Jul 16, 2011 23:19:10 GMT -5
Heh heh, I knew I had to steal that quote before he changed it. I guess I have always known that it was there within me, but hadn't known of it's full potential. Then when I realized what it truly was I had expressed it within my username. Or something like that. |
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Post by F.L. on Jul 18, 2011 0:06:59 GMT -5
Georges, use the username "Georges" again  Spe, use the username "Spe" again Guys, I've got to say that suicide got a point here! I personally think I'm gonna add a rule where your "showed name" should stay similar to what you previously had! |
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Post by Suicide on Jul 18, 2011 2:02:18 GMT -5
Well, F.L. - not like, we can't change it, but at least don't use a lot of special character within it, so we can read the name clearly Thanks, F.L.! |
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Post by Śp̨͡ê` (҉) on Jul 19, 2011 5:13:23 GMT -5
Well It seems most people can read my name fine. Are you using a low-quality monitor or something? That may be why my name could be hard to read for you.
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Post by Suicide on Jul 19, 2011 7:04:32 GMT -5
No, my monitor is very good and high-quality, rather. The username itself is not so clear |
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Post by Project-Diddy on Jul 20, 2011 10:58:55 GMT -5
I quite like Spe's new username, to be honest. :3
It looks almost rugged.
Aesthetically, I find it rather pleasing. :3
The accents and little external marks (in want of a better word :3) don't seem to follow a pattern, that I can see. Once upon a time, I would have hated that, but now I think I've learnt to embrace the chaos, and enjoy the disorganised tangle of thoughts and separate masses which must be understood and unified to be expressed clearly.
Although the dollar sign could be interpreted in the wrong way - as purely materialistic. Unless if you intended to suggest something about materialism being natural and a fundamental part of human nature (what with the dollar sign being within the main part of your username :3)?
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Post by F.L. on Jul 20, 2011 13:54:17 GMT -5
...Spe's username is just fine, borderline but fine. I'm talking about people like Georges or Timelord. I'm having real trouble trying to figure who that is! Georges is easy to figure since he's a moderator, but before Suicide mention TL for Meta Knight, I would never doubt he would have been that Time Lord we encountered years ago!
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Post by Suicide on Jul 20, 2011 14:52:20 GMT -5
Yeah, F.L. is right.
From Timelord into Meta Knight - a name change would be fine, but at least leaving something significant so we can know that it's him.
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Post by Śp̨͡ê` (҉) on Jul 21, 2011 4:31:07 GMT -5
I actually used the dollar sign because the S alone looked too plain, and I didn't want to bother looking around the internet for some kind of S with a mark of some kind on it. But I've found a better one now: Ś I don't want to come off as too materialistic after all. Heh heh 'little external marks' I like that. |
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Post by Project-Diddy on Jul 22, 2011 11:00:15 GMT -5
That makes sense. I do like your new 'S', it seems to suit the rest of the username much better. :3 I must say, I did feel the dollar sign stood out a little, and I wasn't sure how to interpret it.
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Post by Śp̨͡ê` (҉) on Jul 24, 2011 6:22:24 GMT -5
Yeah I think it looks a lot better now anyways. |
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Post by F.L. on Jul 24, 2011 10:02:23 GMT -5
Yeah well Spe's username changed!
But now for the important matters, should we add a new rule where it says to keep usernames kinda the same?
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Post by Project-Diddy on Jul 25, 2011 4:32:44 GMT -5
I still fail to see the point of that rule, I'm afraid.
After all, you can always go to their profile page at look at the logon username next to their display name. If you memorise those, then people can change their display names as oft as they may!
The way I think external guests/new members might look at that is as a reduction of their liberty.
Go Go Gadget Political Philosophy Lecture!
When you want to form any sort of civilisation, then you need to lose liberties and freedoms, yes. Outside of society, we all have the "Right To" anything, including each other's bodies. So we could murder each other legitimately if there were no state, because we all would own each other. Entering into a state forces people to give up certain liberties (like that one), for the state to be able to function and not simply collapse into itself.
But there are limits as to the liberties that a state should be able to take away. Those who run the state, as Mill says, are vultures just as likely to prey on the weak as those they are "protecting" the weak from.
Forums are similar. They're a society, a civilisation, a culture. And within those cultures you have a choice as to where you position your society on the spectrum of Liberty-Security. Now, certainly, if you remove all liberties of members (as this rule would be removing one further liberty of Freedom of Name Changing), you approach security. That's natural - you have more control over the board, and hence a more stable board. However, people aren't likely to want to do that.
People tend to enjoy their liberties. Certainly, we've given up liberties before, but that was when entering into a state. We've now grown accustomed to the system used by state which dictates which liberties we have (e.g. Freedom of Speech) and those we don't have (e.g. Freedom of Rape, or Freedom of Murder). On a forum system, people are used to being able to change their display names, and they indulge in the freedom and the diversity and the dynamic cultural evolution that this liberty gives. I really can not see them wanting to give this up, especially now they're so used to it; so it seems that they would be even less likely to join this board in such a circumstance.
On an interesting aside, it would seem that a lot of the most popular Internet Cultures (if I may call them such) tend towards the liberty side than the security. They seem to grant more liberties than the members would be granted in real life, and although this makes them less stable, it also seems to make them more popular...
I suppose that's a part of human nature; anyone would take, and exploit, an extra liberty if it's given to them.
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Post by Śp̨͡ê` (҉) on Jul 25, 2011 5:18:01 GMT -5
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Post by F.L. on Jul 26, 2011 7:37:29 GMT -5
Well I'm still on my own opinion... I know I shouldn't put too many rules up there but this is important especially for us, staffs, since if someone change name, we won't reconize him and he might get away without warnings previously established. It would have been like in real life, I can't decide to change my name for pie anytime I want, it needs proceedures right? And that's what it needs here and anywhere else in since changing name is totally useless for me. Unless your name is "BigPoo", then you would be ok to change it to BigP or BigDude, something similar at least!
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Post by Suicide on Jul 26, 2011 13:05:08 GMT -5
I would agree with F.L. - although PD might be right about the freedom of changing the name, but we still have the right to know whom is that member.
And I also like the phrase "procedures"; I think we might need some sort of "Name change" thread, in which we inform one another about our name changes, or something like that.
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My goodness, Spe, isn't that just brilliant material for psychoanalysis?
