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Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:51 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I'm a refugee from the "OB" (the original Firefly forum board put up and still maintained by Fox). Looking for another home.

I feel heartened by the above "I love freedom of speech just as much as you, but I hope that you will post messages that are at least somewhat civil and in good taste." quote...and am hoping that means this is a safe place? I'd love to meet others who appreciated Firefly as much as I did, have no problem with a good civil debate and can tease along with the best of them.

Is this a safe place? If so, may I join you all?

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 9:14 AM

PATCHIST


Gah! The picture under my name is showing the dead bodies in 'Bushwhacked'.

Hi Im new here too. Hope we're welcome here.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 9:15 AM

MANGOLO

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 9:17 AM

OUT2THEBLACK


Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2:
I'm a refugee from the "OB" (the original Firefly forum board put up and still maintained by Fox). Looking for another home. That place is terribly toxic and even tho' there are some nice people there, some others are really vicious so finally I left.

I feel heartened by the above "I love freedom of speech just as much as you, but I hope that you will post messages that are at least somewhat civil and in good taste." quote...and am hoping that means this is a safe place? I'd love to meet others who appreciated Firefly as much as I did, have no problem with a good civil debate and can tease along with the best of them, but the things that happened there have made me very gun-shy of joining anywhere else.

Is this a safe place? If so, may I join you all?


'Safe' unless you run into Hill Folk in Real World Event Discussions...

In that case , go in Guns Up , and wear your full-body condom...

Lovely to have you aboard !

Make yourself to home...

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:15 AM

TRAVELER


Hello NIKI2 and PATCHIST:

Glad to have you on board. We are always grateful to welcome more Browncoats into our verse.

Traveler


http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:31 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Yes, this is a most welcoming place - UNLESS you wander into the Real World Event Discussions (aka RWED) area. Then all bets are off. If you stumble in there, wear a very thick skin.

And Welcome to the Shiniest Ship in the 'Verse!

Mike


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Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:52 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Oh, goodie, someobody to be new with, that's neat to! Glad to meet you.

To everyone else, thanx for the warm welcomes! I will DEFINITELY make note of the area to stay away from.

But it looks like this place is livelier than just that area, yes? I'll have a look around, choose a corner and stow my stuff. I like the look of the boat. Look forward to chawin' the spit wit' ya! Niki

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:02 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Oh, we've got emoticons aplenty - when you hit "Reply", you'll see them on the let side of your screen.

As for staying out of RWED, I'm reminded of the movie "2010":

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together, use them in peace.



I won't tell ANYONE to attempt no landing in RWED; I'd just say that before jumping in, lurk for a while and watch. Have a point of view, and get ready to defend it against all sides. As one of the longtime members often points out, you can learn an awful lot about people by just asking the same question of them: "And why do you believe that?"

So, that warning given, I'd just say this:

Jump in! The water's fine - although there ARE sharks in it.



(oooh, look ^^^ - There's an emoticon now!)

By the way, we love getting new members around here. Makes us feel mighty an' all.

Mike


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Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:36 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I already like you, Mike; jumped in down there and liked what you said. I thank you for the idea of inquiring why someone feels a certain way, that will help IMMENSELY and I'll remember it.


And yeah, I saw the emoticons...and will explore further. You couldn't put up a photo or anything else over there, and I'm an emoticonaholic, so I'll enjoy it here! Emoticons and photos and color and stuff make it fun...

Thanx! Niki (p.s., LOVED 2010...just introduced friend to 2001; haven't seen it in 30 years!)

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:45 PM

TWIGA


I am new as well, and I love what I have seen so far ... intelligent commentary ... clear thinking ... and all with the same shiny attitude!!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:49 PM

KINGEICHOLZ


Yes it's safe just watch how you spell people on here are real picky about spelling.

real man.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:11 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Niki2:

I'll listen to your advice and it SEEMS so far like you don't have the same kind of complete whackos with no self-control whatsoever (I hope?).


Oh, we have 'em. In fact, on at least a few occasions, I've BEEN them! :)

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p.s., LOVED 2010...just introduced friend to 2001; haven't seen it in 30 years!)


I don't know if I *LOVED* 2010 - it had its issues - but I found it certainly helped clarify a few things. Think of it as 2001 For Dummies. I think I must see 2001 at least every few years. It changes; watch it at 20, then watch it at 40, and see if you see it the same. I was lucky enough to see it in the theatre when it was new and I was much, much younger. It made an impact, to say the least.

I was just digging through some boxes of old stuff in the garage, and found my 2001: A Space Odyssey ("In CINERAMA!") poster still rolled up and tucked away. Might have to matte and frame that one...

Mike


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Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:12 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by KingEICHOLZ:
Yes it's safe just watch how you spell people on here are real picky about spelling.

real man.


Only with self-proclaimed "geniuses" like you, Kingelbert...

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:14 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:
Originally posted by Twiga:
I am new as well, and I love what I have seen so far ... intelligent commentary ... clear thinking ... and all with the same shiny attitude!!


And a big, shiny WELCOME to you, too, Twiga!

Glad to have more folk aboard our li'l boat.

We've done the impossible, and that makes us SHINY!

Mike


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Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:26 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Always glad to see a couple of newbies, especially one experienced somewhere else. Welcome to the party. Got Wife Soup and Fresh Bao over here.

Looks like everybody's beaten me to the punch: look out in RWED, but if you can take it, it's fun too.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:39 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I can take it, up to a point. But I've been in three or four threads there already, and it's SUCH a joy! Honest debate with INTELLIGENT people...I'm in heaven! Admittedly so far because not only are the posts intelligent, but there seems to be somewhat of a left leaning...ahem.

But I have questions...I'll wander around, pracitce and get my shit together, but a couple of things would help speed it up:

How does one go back to replies to one's topics?

How does one get bak out of a particular thread back to that forum?

Is there a way of being notified of new posts in a particular thread?

Much appreciated. Between the lovely welcomes, the appreciated words of warning, the intelligent posts (hey, I don't care if you're right or left, actually, as long as you MAKE SENSE!), the ability to use my beloved emoticons, and the fact that this forum is still ALIVE (which many Firefly forums, in my wandering around, aren't)...I'm starting to feel at home already. SHINY!!


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Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:52 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


"2001: A Space Odyssey ("In CINERAMA!") poster still rolled up and tucked away" -- ooo, lucky you!

No, to me 2010 is plain old fun sci fi...2001 is a completely different matter. "Loved" as in "enjoyed", actually, not "appreciated" and "thought provoking" as 2001.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:55 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I know, isn't it fantastic? We'll have to wander around and find our way together, along with our "compatriot", eh? Shiny, shiny, shiny!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:02 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


That TOO? Oooo, I've truly gone to Firefly Heaven...I don't mind people misspelling, and at my age typos are frequent, but a total lack of grasp of English floors me.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:16 PM

BYTEMITE


Hi there you two!

You've received plenty of warning about the RWED, so don't think I need to say anything more than even if you do see a really heated nasty fight, a lot of those people are friends on other parts of the board despite hanging out on the opposite ends of the political pool.

We do have a few very strongly right-leaning folks out there, but they're honest and genuine and thoughtful in their beliefs. Everyone is, actually, don't mean to imply our liberals aren't or that in other places there's no such thing as honest right-wing folk. (I'm neither, for the record, if you end up talking to me you'll see a lot of 'on the other hand's. But don't mistake that for me not having a position. You'll see. :) )

You will see maybe some hints of prejudice and bias that may alarm you, even some strange behaviour. Heck, I readily admit I'm a kook, and biased towards the scientific sides of an issue. But we also respect people's right to speak, so we also don't really believe in banning anyone. If you see someone who just really offends you and you can't understand why we allow them to hang around, the best course of action I can suggest is to ignore them.

So, on other topics... If you guys are really into Firefly and the Whedonverse (and you're here, so I'm assuming you are), I thought I might point out our fanfiction, images, and fanart area, the Blue Sun Room.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:18 PM

MAL4PREZ


Hi Niki. Welcome!

There's all kinds of goodies buried away in old threads on fff.net, just waiting for new eyes like yours to dig them out and refresh them. The Blue Sun Room forum has many insanely thought-provoking discussions of characterization and plot. Mostly in terms of fanfic, but even if you're not into that, the writers here are pretty clever and their ideas are good insights into Joss's lovely `verse.

Most show-related topics have been pretty much gone over to death by now though, so RWED is the liveliest place. There surely are some great discussions happening there, and I've gotten many eye-opening insights into politics and such through those threads over the years. I've lurked now and then this summer and the mob has seemed well behaved lately. There hasn't been much of the usual tit-for-tat and name-calling.

I'm telling you, though, beware! You never know when someone unexpected is gonna jump out of nowhere and rip you a new one. It's happened to me, and wasn't pleasant. I don't have a tough enough hide for it. I generally only jump into the RWED fray if there's hard science or cute kitty pictures involved.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:24 PM

BYTEMITE


Ah, the cute kitty RWED threads. Those fiendish felines, luring us into our false sense of security! I owe much to the advanced warning those threads have given me.

I am now fully prepared to accept our fluffy overlords. There is no resisting those adorable little eyes and whiskers!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:43 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Wow, what wonderful welcomes!

I look forward to many lively debates. I have no problem with people laying into me, I can pretty much hold my own.

Nathan is an incredibly well-mannered, gentle person from what I heard (a number of those there have met him and others of the BDHs--do you call them that here, too?). His Twitter signature is a good sign of that. I respect him, Joss and Firefly.

I only discovered Firefly by chance (having been somewhat of a Buffy fan and hearing good things about it) a year or so ago. I had rented what looked like a kind of neat movie called "Serenity", really liked it.

So when I discovered Firefly I fell in love...of course. It wasn't until several epis in that I realized it was connected to Serenity, which was a gas. Bought all of it, plus "Done the Impossible", of course, and been in love ever since!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:49 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


As to stuff to find, oh, I will. I really look forward to exploring (oh, boy, a brand new boat!), especially as this boat is FAR more advanced than the OB and has places in it I'm dying to investigate!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:51 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Okay, I gotta find those cute kitty threads...!

Just had a bit of that on the board I left, and it was FUN! Myself, I'm a dog person, but we've had up to eight cats at once and it was quite an...ahem...learning experience! All rescues of one form or another, and I'd never had cats (!), so there were a few years of them eddicating us. Eeep.

Can anyone gimme a hint where they are? If not, I'll scrounge around...hee, hee, hee!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 4:02 PM

MAL4PREZ


Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2:
Okay, I gotta find those cute kitty threads...!



Do not fear me. I am a benevolent fluffy overload...

Kitties tend to take over the oops threads, like this one:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=39402




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Saturday, August 15, 2009 4:03 PM

FREELANCERTEX


no it's not safe!! get out! get out while you still can!!!! before you get sucked into the--aw what am i saying, we all love it here @_@. welcome to the madness Niki ^_^


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Saturday, August 15, 2009 4:24 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


Hey, niki, welcome aboard. I haven't visited the OB is several months because, as you said, the Off Topic threads were practically the only place with any activity, and I am not one to discuss politics and religion with someone I do not know, and not that often even with people I do know. I learned my lesson years ago when Adam Baldwin himself chastised me for less than "right" thinking, if you know what I mean.

One thing we don't have here that you were used to on the OB is the UMTM (that's "Unread Messages To Me" for those not familiar with that board). I've noticed you've already responded directly to some other members, but here it is best to hit the "Reply With Quote" link on someone's post so that everyone knows to whom you are addressing a particular comment.

All of the various forums have a link on the right hand side of the main page, and clicking on one of them will take you to a page with a list of the last fifty or so active threads, and at the bottom is a link to threads that have been archived. Also, when you click on any thread look at the top left of the page for the "Latest Posts" to see if there are new, unread posts on that thread. If there are, it will say "Since your last view," but if not it will display posts "As of today."

There are several informative threads around about how to post images here, how to upload stuff to the Blue Sun Room, etc. I'll look around and see if I can find them to bring them back up to the top of the list for you.

Enjoy your time here, and as always, keep flying!




wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:36 PM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


Hi there new guys.I would like to reiterate what a cool little site this is.Appreciation goes out to Haken, who is the site's owner.It's colourful,user friendly and interesting to browse around.I've noticed loads of new converts entering the fray recently and it's fun to look at reactions to episodes that have been watched by them for the first time.So even the stuff that we've been over hundreds of times before is still often revisited from a fresh newbie perspective.I can remember posting a question about Inara not so long ago(as a relative newbie)and the guys who have been here for eons turned it into a thread that was 200 posts long.So even well explored stuff still illicits fervent discussion.Welcome aboard.I'm sure you already own plenty virtual brown coats,but may I be so bold as to bring out a fresh one from the site cupboard and issue it to you on behalf of everybody.

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 9:18 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


"Mal" & Mike: Your Cosmo and Rodger look SOO much like my beloved Missy (especially Rodger), only she never got bigger than your pix as kitties. She was cat of neighbor across the street who keeled over in aerobics class in her early 40s. Family came, took one cat, left Missy who ran away. I heard her one night, started leaving food out for her--VERY shy. Finally trapped her by leaving food in our pickup and standing in the rain waiting for her to enter, then shutting door.

She was my miracle cat. TINY, never left my bedroom, adored me more than any cat I've ever known or could imagine. I nursed her all through cancer (which she got by hiding under that house while they blanketed it and sprayed it, I believe). One day, for the first time ever, she left my room, came upstairs, walked up to my husband and rubbed against his leg, up to my brother-in-law (who lived with us off and on) and rubbed up against his leg, walked out into the back yard (!) and lay in the sun for a long time. That night she died.

And they say animals don't know. I've never gotten over her, even tho' I'm a dog person for the mot part.

The pix are wonderful--the captions almost as good, thank you!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 9:20 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Thanx, Tex...you couldn't drive me away with a pitchfork at this point.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 9:23 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Thanx Gordon, I really appreciate your help. Sounds a bit confusing how to check for replies, but I'm sure I'll figure it out, and it's well worth it. This is one FINE boat you guys got yourownselves, if I may say so, I'm loving everything I'm finding in wandering around, and I like the colorfulness of everything.

Off to have more fun on walkabout...

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 9:29 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Thanks Peacekeeper, I will wear the coat proudly! Yes, I love the look of the boat, it looks like a LOT of work went into it, I'd like to thank Haken too.

I've always been sad I came so late to Firefly and missed SO much, people who got to go to panels and see/hear the BDHs in person (tho' I did get to meet Adam briefly at this year's Wondercon here in SF), and some who even got to meet and talk to Nathan--and apparently both they and Joss even used to post there.

But I guess I can see it from your perspective, since I know each person I've turned on to Firefly let's ME see it from a different perspective and makes it fresh in a way to watch it with them. I'm glad we can give some back of what we receive from being able to be part of a Browncoat community, late-comers that we be! :biggrin"

It's really nice that this place is so active; I searched around (someone at the OB suggested this as a "much friendlier" Firefly forum when I first went there, but I didn't remember the name until I got here) and most of those I found were long dead or had few posts in a long time. This boat ROCKS!

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:10 PM

PATCHIST


Phew! This thread got long. Been gone for like 12 hours there's already 30 replies. Thanks for welcoming us here. As for RWED, I'm somewhat apathetic to politics so I dont think I'll enter a discussion about that anytime soon.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:02 AM

FILLYGIRL

Operative: "Its worse than you know..." Mal: "It usually is."


Niki,
Hi its Adam's Hot Pearls from the O.B. I just wanted to let you know lots of people from there post/read over here too. You might not get away from them.
From your posting over there you should be in the RW thread, you have things to say, if you remember I was NEVER in those threads. Either you agree or you stay out, its the same everywhere.....


Chaplain of the 76th Independant Battalion


Do not bother dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!


...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:04 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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I'm in heaven! Admittedly so far because not only are the posts intelligent, but there seems to be somewhat of a left leaning...ahem. Back at the OB, the hardline right wingnuts were virtually the only ones "in charge", and their "debates" weren't even sensible...you want birthers? Deathers? People convinced Obama is the anti-Christ? Go there!


Oh, we got heathens a'plenty right here... ;)


Just wait; you'll see some rather eye-opening stuff. Our nutters will take a back seat to no one else's nutters.

As for "non-sensible" debates... well, I confess I've been in more than a few. Sometimes it IS fun to poke the hornets' nest a bit, just to watch 'em go crazy. Or craziER.


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How does one go back to replies to one's topics?


Well, in your profile (My Firefly), you can scroll down and see all your recent posts and replies. If you don't want to scroll to where you left off, you can click on the most recent, and it will pop the window to where you last posted on that thread, so you can pick up from there.

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How does one get bak out of a particular thread back to that forum?


Not sure what you're trying to do. I'm on a Mac, so I'm in the habit of just hitting "Command-Enter" on my keyboard, which opens whatever link I'm looking at in a new window. I take it from there, and when I'm done, I close the window and I've still got the old window open and pulled up. I tend to leave my browser bookmarked to fireflyfans.net/community, so when I open it, I've got a quick overview of the forum areas and the last 5 active threads.

From there, I tend to look at what's going on in General Discussions, RWED, Other Science Fiction Series, and occasionally the Buffy and Angel areas. I used to spend quite a bit of time in the Buffy/Angel areas, but there hasn't been much in the way of news out of those 'verses in quite some time, so not so much reason to hang out there. Except for "The Tragic Death of Count Chocula" that got posted there. It's hilarious. And horrible. In equal measures. If you don't know what it is, Google-image search it. (It's work-safe, so don't worry; it's just a painting).

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Is there a way of being notified of new posts in a particular thread?


Yes. In your profile, you can add signatures, avatars, and click on the "e-mail me when someone replies to me" button. It doesn't work for me because I registered under old, dead e-mail addresses which I no longer have access to, and I haven't updated those addresses. Plus, with some of the "friends" I've made in the RWED area, I'm not sure I *want* my real e-mail addy out there in the world... ;)

Mike


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Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:11 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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You've received plenty of warning about the RWED, so don't think I need to say anything more than even if you do see a really heated nasty fight, a lot of those people are friends on other parts of the board despite hanging out on the opposite ends of the political pool.


And THAT is the way we try to keep it. Not sure we always succeed as a group (I know I've let some personal "vendettas" cloud my posts in other forums a few times, but I'm trying to be a better person about it. Usually.), but we try to keep our feuds confined to one or two areas. I have vehement disagreements with some people here, but when we discuss things like "Silent Running" or episodes of Firefly, we can actually find common grounds for agreement. What unites us is the show.

Mike


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Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:14 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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But we also respect people's right to speak, so we also don't really believe in banning anyone. If you see someone who just really offends you and you can't understand why we allow them to hang around, the best course of action I can suggest is to ignore them.


Right on. Ignore, or mock openly. We don't ban. I honestly can't remember a single person here (and I've been here since '05, so I'm not quite a noob, but others have been here far longer...) who ever got banned. Tagged as "offensive" a few times - and I'm not even sure what that means or entails, because I can get down in the muck with the worst of 'em, and I've never even been warned, so Haken (our dear and fluffy internet lord around here) is truly a very open-minded soul.

Mike


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Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:17 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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I'm telling you, though, beware! You never know when someone unexpected is gonna jump out of nowhere and rip you a new one. It's happened to me, and wasn't pleasant. I don't have a tough enough hide for it. I generally only jump into the RWED fray if there's hard science or cute kitty pictures involved.


Been wondering where you were, Mal. We're worse off for your not being there to offer your input.



Mike


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Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:30 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Thank you for telling me who you are. I would sincerely appreciate it if you told nobody over there that I am here. I just want them to leave me alone and I will do the same.

Good to see you. It's lovely to see a familiar face, long as it's a friendly or neutral one! Stay shiny, Niki

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:34 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Ahhh...looks like the controls I'm looking for are in Profile. I'll check that out. Great, thanx!

Hmmm...went to my profile and to "edit profile"--cannot find a button for "notify me". That's what I was looking for.

As to the other, I want to be able to post, then get back to the same thread I posted in. Right now all I know to do is click on "community" and go from back there. Does that make sense?

Oh, shoot! I tried to edit my post to put a tag line in and erase my "home page"--I don't want that out there, given the problems I ran into before. Why isn't it updating?

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:57 AM

KATESFRIEND


I've lurked at the OB on occasion, but never wanted to participate. The replies to newbies I read were often cruel. It always struck me as odd that some of the feelings of family and togetherness engendered by Joss's work could attract such an opposition in other people. I hope that this helps others understand that what they may be attracted to in the Whedonverse is something they are missing in their lives, that consideration, courtesy and respect has to be practiced to be meaningful. We're all here to learn something, and help each other through. Just not through the "dark side".

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 6:12 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


Niki, I'm not sure what problem you're having in returning to a particular thread. When I post a reply it automatically jumps to my post at the end of that thread, then I just click the "home" link to get back to the mainpage. From there you can see the latest fifteen threads from the various forums. To get back to any forum use the links on the right side of the page underneath the "News Headlines" box.

As for getting notice about replies, look for the "Your Options" underneath the message field when you are composing a post. The options are "Include signature with my post," "Notify me when someone responds to my comment" and "Override notification."

I assume you have an email address on file from when you registered here, so notices will be sent there.




wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:02 AM

BOOKREADER


That's not quite what happened over there and you know it. Please don't start spreading falsehoods here as you did there.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:06 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yes, Gordon, I've done that. No e-mails, and I only have one e-mail address. I've also had no luck trying to edit my profile and my signature doesn't show up in my posts. Must be doing something wrong!

Will try the other suggestions, thank you.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:10 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


That's exactly my opinion. It takes little effort to at least be civil, and that's all I ask of anyone. Even snarking is okay, as long as it doesn't become a vendetta or too ugly. And the fact that we're all supposedly Browncoats who came together to be with other Browncoats, especially given Nathan's opinion on the matter, mystified me.

Bookreader, would you do me the courtesy of telling me who you are on the OB, so that I know who I'm dealing with. I'm not spreading falsehoods; I suppose I should caveat what I say with "that was how I saw it", because it is.

If you saw things differently than I did, I'll accept that we disagree, and hope we can leave it at that. I want no more than to go from here. I respect your views are different from mine.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:13 AM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


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Originally posted by Niki2:
Ahhh...looks like the controls I'm looking for are in Profile. I'll check that out. Great, thanx!

Hmmm...went to my profile and to "edit profile"--cannot find a button for "notify me". That's what I was looking for.

As to the other, I want to be able to post, then get back to the same thread I posted in. Right now all I know to do is click on "community" and go from back there. Does that make sense?

Oh, shoot! I tried to edit my post to put a tag line in and erase my "home page"--I don't want that out there, given the problems I ran into before. Why isn't it updating?
Niki,when you type any post responses,if you let your eyes wander down below the signature box you will see the notify me option.Tick it and post response.

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:14 AM

OPPYH


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Originally posted by Niki2:
I'm a refugee from the "OB" (the original Firefly forum board put up and still maintained by Fox). Looking for another home. That place is terribly toxic and even tho' there are some nice people there, some others are really vicious so finally I left.

I feel heartened by the above "I love freedom of speech just as much as you, but I hope that you will post messages that are at least somewhat civil and in good taste." quote...and am hoping that means this is a safe place? I'd love to meet others who appreciated Firefly as much as I did, have no problem with a good civil debate and can tease along with the best of them, but the things that happened there have made me very gun-shy of joining anywhere else.

Is this a safe place? If so, may I join you all?
Great to have you here.
This is an amazing site. You're amongst friends.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:27 AM

MAL4PREZ


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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Been wondering where you were, Mal. We're worse off for your not being there to offer your input.



Mike
Ahh, thanks. That's kind of you.

I find that posting in RWED doesn't do much for my peace of mind, nor does it bring out the better aspects of my personality. So unless a gross misuse of science pushes me over the edge (cough*cough*evolutiondebate*cough*) I'm generally happier keeping my distance.

Niki - if you want to join a new site incognito, starting a thread is not the way! And it appears that you've been found already...


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Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:28 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yes; as I said, I DID that. I leave it that way with every post. No e-mails (if that's the way for notification?). Obviously something is wrong, as I've tried to edit my profile and add a tag line and that hasn't worked either. I'll work it out eventually. Thanx for the help.

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