Post by Akbar Le Grey on Nov 26, 2006 10:27:39 GMT -5
November 27th – December 4th.
Editor-in-Chief: Akbar Le Grey.
Sub-editor: Linda.
Contributors: BSam, PJ, Libitina, Spoony, Descartes, .
Published by 667er Publications, ltd.
A subsidiary of the 667er Group.
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Is there such a thing as too many rules?
This writer thinks there is. The reason? Well, this quote speaks for itself better than anything else at the moment.
"Now clarify it so we know how best to follow that rule." Who made you my boss? The new rule is that you need to do at least one post every other day - a total of 25 post a week - all over the Dark Avenue - if you dont do it for two weeks in a row... YOUR FIRED! :)unless you have a good excuse OK? oh and of course I wont be able to keep tracking of everyones posting. Its just when I catch you that matters. So what hat do you think?
*waits for complaints*
*waits for complaints*
This rule, made official when Trish asked for the reasoning behind her reason dismissal, has stirred up controversy over just how many of the moderating staff will be fired. Swans and Derik seem to have been fired already, along with the previously demoted Misery and Woe. Snicket, who showed up on Wednesday to post after what seems like a months-long hiatus, seems to have returned in direct response to his imminent demise. SnicketFires, with much less than 25 posts in the past week due to no fault of her own, tried desperately to explain to ADR that being a good moderator doesn’t necessarily mean posting a lot. And although Gigi has made her 25 posts this week, ADR’s menacing “Its [sic] just when I catch you that matters” seems to indicate that it’s just a matter of time until ADR catches her.
But is that really what moderating is all about? Posting mindlessly in order to obey a decree?
As PJ pointed out, moderating jobs are volunteer work and cannot be treated the same as actual employment or the moderators will quit. And the moderators all seem to be echoing that. Says Dante: “A moderator's job has very little to do with posting. A moderator is basically an organiser who keeps things ordered and tidy.” Says Songbird: “I think this rule is a stupid rule.” Says Triangle Eyes: ”That's ridiculous!” Says Amanda: “posting all over the board is a bit excessive.” Says Jemima: “This new rule is absurd.” Says Antenora: “I think this sort of thing is more or less covered by the rule that a mod will be demoted if they neglect their duties for 10 days.”
Despite this, it appears the new rule will become part of 667, at least as long as ADR is. And it leaves us wondering: has adminship turned into a sort of Big Brother, designed to root out and punish all naysayers? At the moment, it appears so. For 667’s sake, though, let’s hope not. And for now, let’s hope ADR reads this Proboards thread.
And what of Trish? Will Trish get her powers back? Says ADR:
I was waiting for you to promise to try post more
-Linda.
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On November 3rd, All Due Respect, our administrator, made a new thread called “FINE! Lets [sic] do it again!”
It was a compromise with the repeated comments that an application process would be better than a poll for finding a new Global Moderator.
From the poll, Linda Rahldeen became the new g-mod. This position was not taken back after the new thread was made. Our administrator said this:
Dear People of Dark Avenue -
We need a new Global moderator to have applications aside from Linda Rahldeen! The wonderful suggestion came from an article in the 667er which was once again mocking me so here we go again! Please submit your application here. Isnt’ this exciting?
Love,
Emily
Immediately, people started to apply. ADR gave no format for the applications, stating: ‘No way! Its up to you to pick out what information is important to hear silly’, in contrast to Tragedy’s usual process. 18 people applied, including many well known members such as BSam and Dupin. In the end, ADR choose only two people to hold a vote on, and those members were Jemima and Songbird. Her reason: “...because they had the longest and best applications.”
This sparked a bit of an uproar, because people interpreted this statement as saying that applicants could ramble on and on, as long as they had long application.
ADR reminded those who spoke against it that she said best as well as longest. She then encouraged us to vote as soon as possible.
Since November 11th, when this was announced, the thread stayed on topic for the most part, and then, on November 19th, the winner was announced.
The victor of this race was Jemima, who won with just one vote: 7-6.
The members of 667 Dark Avenue were quick to respond, bringing congratulations for Jemima. Rellim had this to say: Congratulations, Jemima! *glomphugs!!*
Jemima’s opponent, Songbird, had a rather unenthusiastic response, saying only “Yeah...congrats”
From the time when Jemima was made G-mod, there haven’t been any complaints about her. This reporter wishes her congratulations and the best of luck.
-Descartes.
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Some of you may have noticed the other week i had a stint at being a proper newpaper editor, and i realised it's not all fun and laughs i thought it was.
here is a breif days dairy of my time as editor
6:30am wake up
-i do have to start the day off with the most dificult task of all, getting out of bed
-whilst i do have the highest classs escort ladies to present to me my breakfast it is still a hassle to make sure the scrambles egg are indeed cooked to prefection and not cooked all rubbery like as they so often are in the cheapest hotels in town.
7:30 cocaine
8:30 read prospective articles and stories, reject all of them, rubbish
9:30 lunch, salmon, cigars, champaigne and cocaine
11:30 mid meal rest
12:30 resume lunch.
3:30 write all new articles myself because none of my writers are good enough
3:35 collate articles and publish newpaper
4:00 cocaine
4:30 bask in glory as my newspaper is brilliant
6:30 coke fuelled daycare center with my female aquaintences
10:30 sleep
the next day
9:00 rehab
7:00 leave rehab
10:00 cocaine
i look forward to the chance to relive this amazing experiance
if akbar ever needs a rest and has some spare cocaine
-BSam.
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On the End of the World
It’s 1:25 Am. Which really isn’t that late. But my bedtime for the rest of this week has been 11:30, so staying up the extra 2 hours has been quite a chore.
Was pestering Dante on MSN. He had to do homework, so I stopped chatting, and decided to write this instead. See, I was telling him about how I’d go about ending the world, if I was God.
Which, really, is a goddamn awesome topic for an essay. Like, really. Even if this was sloppily written, lik dis al ova, it would still be brilliant, worthy of publication, purely because of the content.
My first suggestion, courtesy of Max, total jerk I fence with, is to create a very, very slow explosion. Or black hole. Basically, it would expand quite slowly. Slow enough so that people could stand by and watch as it expanded, and also that they’d be able to flee. I’d control the speed, too, so that it’d be slow at first, but would then speed up so that the people wouldn’t have to wait for too long. Basically, they’d all have enough time to pray and repent and go crazy and loot and pillage and the like. It’d be more entertaining than just one big unifying, instantaneous explosion. Besides. Excruciatingly slow explosions are cool, no matter what the context.
My next idea, was that I’d announce the following throughout the entire world:
“In precisely 15 hours, I will be sinking one of the continents.”
Heh. It’d totally keep ‘em guessing. I’d sink all the continents, eventually, but only in like 24 hour time periods, or something. It’d just be cool. Think about it.
...and that’s as far as I got, before Dante told me to leave him be. So now what? How else could the world end, in way that is both humorous, and thought-provoking?
Variations of the continent sinking one include simultaneously killing everyone in the world who’s names start with the letter “E”, for instance, or just randomly killing loads of people every second. But it’s all pretty much the same.
Of course, there’s the nasty way of doing things, such as starting World War Three by launching a whole bunch of nukes everywhere, but that’s just cruel. And not really funny.
Well, it’s only – well, actually, it’s Saturday, now. Very early in the morning. Still got till Sunday afternoon to think of a few more ways of ending mankind. Sleeping might also help.
*interval*
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11 AM!
God just stops the Earth from spinning! Just like that. Bam. This hunk of earth, just freezes in space. Eternal Sunshine on one side, and eternal night time on the other. Well, it wouldn’t really be the end of the world. But it would certainly make the weather a damn sight more interesting. And by interesting, I mean “cataclysmic”. Great word, cataclysmic…but I’m not done yet. People’d still survive. They’d just invent super-protective umbrellas, or something. So I was thinking, to finish them off, I’d, like, set everyone on fire, or something. You know. Use your imagination.
And now, we come to my favorite. It’s probably the last, too. There’s only so many ways you can think of the end of the world before lunch. So anyways, get this: I’d collect up all the water on Earth. Swimming pools, water bottles, oceans, the whole lot. Everything there is. Well, not EVERYTHING. I wouldn’t take the fluid from people or plants or anything. Just the entire water reserves of the world.
Which, of course, means that everyone dies pretty quickly. Thirsty. BUT I’M NOT DONE. See, I’d get all this water, this huge, vast, incredibly gargantuan amount of water, and dump it all on one spot. Like, the centre of America. Or Australia. Or Africa.
As you can imagine, the sheer amount of water would just drown the entire country in a few days. I say days because enormous waves of water can only travel so fast. It’d flood the entire country, quite possible just crush it with the sheer force of the water. So while everyone else is really, really thirsty, all the Americans, say, are wiped out instantly. The truly epic wave of water would also probably annihilate everything else on Earth. It’d be a race between dying of thirst, and the wave getting you. I think it’d be awesome.
But yeah, that’s pretty much all I can think of. I mean, sure, there’d be other ways of doing it, like, stealing all the tectonic plates one night and hiding them on the moon, or something equally sneaky and apocalyptic.
I hope it’s been fun.
-PJ.
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HAPPY DEATHDAY GRETCHEN!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUIS!
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This week, we interviewed Freshie.
The 667er: Welcome, Freshie. Thank you for joining us. How was your day?
Freshie: Of course, tis an honor. My day was boring. ;_;
The 667er: Why is that?
Freshie: There’s nothing to do in my little home in my little town. ;_;
The 667er: You should build a mall. Have you ever considered building a mall?
Freshie: I have no money. There is a semi-new shopping plaza down the street that’s an half an hour from here though.
The 667er: That's a shame. If you were to build a store/mall, what would you include in it?
Freshie: Probably things I like. Share my interests with the world. Even if I think my interests are too good for some people.
The 667er: What are your interests?
Freshie: Music, photography, anime, girls, boys, equal rights. : D
The 667er: That's fun. What kind of music do you like?
Freshie: Indie rock. Techno/dance/eurotrance. Odd and ends that appeal to me.
The 667er: Do you like Asian people?
Freshie: Yes.
The 667er: Which kinds of Asian people are your favourite?
Freshie: Japanese people, but thanks to having a new friend at school who’s Korean, Koreans are second.
The 667er: Nifty. What is something unique about you that nobody at 667 knows?
Freshie: I'm sure they know all about me. ;_;
The 667er: You aren't hiding any deep, dark secrets?
Freshie: I probably am.
The 667er: Please share, m'lady.
Freshie: I wish I could. I just don’t know if they're good ol' secrets though. XP
The 667er: Mneh, suit yourself. What's your favourite song to listen to around Christmas?
Freshie: Hm. Well I just got two Christmas songs on my computer. "12 Pains of Christmas" and "Last Christmas" by Wham!
The 667er: Haha, my brother hates Last Christmas and so my younger brother and I often play it.
Freshie: Psst. A Freshie secret: "Freshie likes younger men"
The 667er: Ou la la. Like Liam Aiken? Are you a Liam fangirl?
Freshie: I've been admiring him. But he is my friend on myspace! : D
The 667er: Ou la la again. I think he's attractive and I'm ashamed. There you have it.
Freshie: The list also includes Devon (Ned's Declassified) and Cole and Dylan (Suite Life)...
The 667er: Moving on! Do you like the game 20 Questions?
Freshie: I have I feeling I haven’t played that game.
The 667er: Aha, I see. If you could obtain anything at all right now, what would it be?
Freshie: It would be a friendship with at least one of my idols, in where they would ask me for advice on new books or music, and have brunch together, and the like.
The 667er: Brunches are fun. Do you like muffins?
Freshie: Not really unless they're chocolate chip.
The 667er: Ooh, you have good taste.
Freshie: You know it, sister.
The 667er: If you could choose to meet one member of 667 and have tea with him/her, who would it be?
Freshie: Hm. Probably Kimia. She’s the first that comes to mind.
The 667er: Kimia is a nifty person. Is there anything else you'd like to say to the general public of 667?
Freshie: Hi.
The 667er: That was very eloquent. Thank you for your time, dear.
Freshie: You are welcome.
-Libitina.
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Spoony's Thought of the Week
why the hell isn't it snowing outside?! it used to snow all the time before Thanksgiving, but now because of global warming we have to wait until a day before Christmas. I HATE NO SNOW. why the heck would I live up here if it didn't snow?
Spoony's Game of the Week
Okay, what's wrong with you guys? I give you tons and tons of clues, practically giving away the answer to last week's game, but no one took 30 seconds to send a reply. Yeah, 667 definately has lost its touch. bah. I should leave but then I feel all sympathetic for Akbar because no one takes time to write him articles, either. Plus I'd miss tons of people. OH WELL.
the answer to last week's game, by the way, was a music box.
This week, you'll have to fill in the acrostic name poem, which spells out SPOONY. i'll put up everyone's poem if they send it in. hahah, I'm that desperate. so, here we go.
S...?
P...?
O...?
O...?
N...?
Y...?
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Hello, 667 Dark Avenue. Welcome to Who Am I? the contest where the whole of 667 guesses who I am. I may imitate people, but do not be fooled. Listen closely, because these are the rules. (Ok, I just rhymed there, and not on purpose).
1. Don’t go around randomly asking people. Only send a PM to my account, whoami, and then ask if I am that person. I won’t be cryptic.
2. This is not to insult people. It is a fun way to have fun, and to help the 667 after recent troubles.
3. There is no prize, but I’ll exalt you as often as I can. If I remember to.
4. I don’t respond in any way to your PM’s its because I’m busy. Don’t get mad. Be patient.
5. There will be a few codes, puzzles, etc. After about three or so weeks, the clues will be easier and easier.
6. Watch out for my regular self. I could point in the wrong direction (so only listen to what you have to say, not what other people say).
7. Don’t ask Akbar. He won’t tell you.
8. The clues could all be in code, or in the style of a rant, article, etc. I'll number them for your convenience.
I will give three clues today.
Alright, so the first clue is…
In code.
This is a number code/ space code. This is how it works:
First, it will be in numbers. Lets say I say G=2. G, therefore, is the second letter of the alphabet. Write out the entire alphabet using G as the second letter. This means that F is the first letter. Once you hit Z, add on A,B,C. Hint: handwrite it on a piece of paper.
This is what it should look like:
F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B C D E
Then place the numbers underneath, starting with 1.
It will look like this.
F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16…
Try this one using what I had written above (only uses letters F-U):
3-4 15-10 1-4-9
The – means that these letters are connected.
It says:
HI TO FIN
I’m not sure what it means, but it looks cool.
The space code means that the letters are scrunched together and there are spaces where there should be no spaces. So solve for the letters first.
Example:
A HAS HA RK!
Can you guess it?
It says:
AH A SHARK!
Ok, so now, my first of three clues:
1. The first is the most complicated, using both the numerical and space codes.
Part A:
A=8
Part B:
16-15-8 3-12-21 22-23-22-4 12-25-26-15-12 25-12.
2. The second clue is more difficult to find, and is quite generic:
I have been at 667 since 2004.
3. The third clue is more specific:
I am well known for my obsession over _____.
[hint]might not just be more than one word...[/hint]
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Hi all.
I have a niece! She was born about 5 hours ago, in London. Yzay! XD + (: + =D x 100000000.
This the sixtieth issue of The 667er, yzay for us.
Now, on to 667 stuff.
I have something to all you plotters and grumblers and moaners and the est: GET. OVER. ADR. We have an idiotic admin who doesn't know how to do anything. Tough. It happens. That doesn't mean you should abandon 667, disappear in a poof of melodrama; nor does it mean that you should go around moaning about how 667 sucks. Adapt. It's not that hard.
That said, I think it's perfectly acceptable, and highly commendable, when people have the courage to complain and point out things she does wrong. That is justified. But going stalking off and sulking, or scheming, is not justified. 667 is still 667, and always will be; we've gone through bad patches before, and come out stronger than ever. So calm down.
Exaaaaaams. *moan*
I have 11 this term. But I get off before my friends, because they take Physics and Art and other random things. Blah. I've finished studying for 3, and I should finishing a foruth. BUT I HAVE SACRIFICED MY GRADES FOR YOU, 667. Feel special. (:
You all rawk and are exceptionally cool and stuff. [Insert clichéd saying of choice (My favourite's 'Keep shining') HERE]
Peace out,
Akbar.
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