kontrols_blather_test Kontrol As some of you may already be aware I will shortly be retiring but I couldn't leave without giving you the opportunity to redeem yourselves so here it is, your chance to wear the gold_star. I REQUIRE ABSOLUTE SILENCE...Thankyou Answer one question from section A and one from section B. Marks will be awarded equally for the two sections. All answers to be no longer than fifty words. You have until 29/06/01 when marks will be posted here and the gold_star will be awarded. Section A 1. If you could impose one unbreakable rule on blather what would it be and why? 2. What do you consider to be the most heinous crime perpetrated on blather? Section B 1. In Blather_published the fictional Menia jackson raised the idea of blather in book form. Write a short blurb for the back cover. 2. "Blather would be greatly improved with the addition of a delete function." Discuss. I doubt any of you filthy anarchists will have the discipline to complete the test but one lives perpetually in hope of being surprised... 010618 ... nocturnal at work I emailed you a question I had about one of the questions. please don't post it here as I don't want others to steal my arguments. 010618 ... nocturnal at work wait, I meant don't post the answer here, but don't post my question, either. 010618 ... dB SECTION A, Q-2: Ok, the most despised crime on blather in my eyes, is actually knocking someones opinion (and I think we all are guilty on doing this at some point to a certain degree). Free speech gives us the opprotunity to say what we like, but this does not mean that you MUST say whatever you like. Voice your opinions, and be ready to have them challenged, but NEVER expect to have slander brought to bear on you because of it. This should not happen. SECTION 2, Q 2: I vowed, many years ago now, that I would never regret anything I say or any decisions I make. Mistakes are there to acknowledge, and learn from. If you say "So and so sucks ass" and then realise that this is not appropriate, you should not have said it in the first place. Hold your tongue. But never regret what you speak or do. See it for what it is and make amends. (I know, 50 word limit. But sometimes, you just need more, and speech should not be limited, I think that rule unfair... well not unfair, but not right). *Much Peace* 010618 ... just another filthy anarchist A.1) the only rule for blather is that there are no rules, no guidelines. it is "an experiment to see what shape this will take when left at (our) mercy." if we turn this place into a big chatroom or a cyber sex gathering, so fucking what. there will still be words that have no link and you can still say what you want. i don't understand what the big deal is. A.2) crime? you cannot have crime when you do not have rules. people should respect each other, obviously. some people are just stupid. i suppose that could be a crime. B.1) "Welcome to blather. You'll figure it out eventually." B.2) delete, hmm, well as many times as i have wished i could take back a few entries, it's not right. i have learned to think before i hit the little white button. don't bother with the points or stars. 010619 ... The clock on the wall Tick Tick Tick 010621 ... Kontrol Just as well you do not require marking mr Anarchist as you disqualified yourself by answering all four questions. Shame, your answers were rather good. 010622 ... nocturnal A1. Given such an opportunity, my one unbreakable rule for blather would be to make it illegal to make any kind of personal attacks on fellow blatherskites. I may have been guilty of this act a few times in the past, but I simply see no justifiable reason for it. It's one thing to aggressively argue a point, but to insult a person for their beliefs, or even just for the hell of it, is entirely unnecessary. I think we should strive to make this a place where everyone is free to express themselves however they wish to, without fear of a personal attack. Such a place does not exist, at least from what I've seen, in the real world. We have the opportunity here to create one. It is therefore absolutely necessary to control ourselves enough to keep people from feeling apprehensive about posting something for fear of being insulted. Disagree with them if you like, but it is best for everyone to be civil at all times. B2. Since the beginning of blather time (c. 1998), many changes have been made to the general format of blather. One change that has been suggested several times is that a delete function be created that would enable blatherskites to delete entries at any given time. Some say this would be an overall improvement for blather because one could delete entries they might, for whatever reason, regret having written or those that they later realised were just stupid and a waste of blather space. Personally, I disagree. Blather is, in many ways, very similar to life itself. The inability to erase regretable moments is one of the greatest parallels between the two. We should look at blather as one big picture. We must accept all blathes, the good, the bad, and the obnoxious. It is like a photo album filled not with pictures, but with words. We can look back on what we've written, whether we wish we hadn't written it or whether we wish we were still experiencing what we were at that time, and read about what we felt. Look at it as a documentary of your life, bad times and good. You can't erase what happened, so why should you be able to erase what you had to say about it? I would just like to add that I didn't read anyone else's responses before I wrote mine, so if this resembles anyone else's answer, it is by pure coincidence. 010623 ... nocturnal shit! no longer than 50 words? oops. that's absolutely impossible! there would have been no way in hell I could have said everything I had to in 50 words. come on, now! 010623 ... Kontrol Hmmmm Perhaps the fifty word rule was a little harsh. As I relinquish my grip on this brave new world I am willing to admit that my rules were always meant to be broken. heh heh heh. Oh dear perhaps that twelfth brandy was a poor decison. 010623 ... nocturnal otay, sooooo.....? do I get the star or what? I actually spent some time on that. do I have to wait till the 29th to find out? 010623 ... bijou ahem, ms anarchist to you. 010623 ... dB *applauds* Nice one Nocturnal (I mean your answer to Kontrols questions). So far, you get the star, unless someone better comes along. Kontrol, am I to take it that I am not the only one who... indulges in... uhm, recreational drinking and then drifts around blather? Lucky the blather police don't seem to mind. 010624 ... nocturnal aw, thanks db. you're the best! and no, you are not alone in the drinking thing. I have actually had quite a few myself tonight. the screen's kinda swimmy like. if possible, I do believe this place is even a bit better when under the influence. anyway, thanks again. 010624 ... blather_police arrest this man, he talks to much... 010624 ... nocturnal OH NO! IT'S THE FUZZ! I can't believe I actually just used that term. 010624 ... DannyH Results will be published on the 29th and not before. I can't be seen to show favouritism, even to my more gifted pupils. 010624 ... Kontrol (feeling more himself) Oh dear, I seem to have momentarily forgotten who I am. Nurse...more brandy. 010624 ... dB Well I guess that answers that question. Thanks for claifying the drinking issue Kontrol. 010624 ... Kontrol Closing date for entries is 2pm Greenwich mean time tomorrow (about 8am for most of you I think.) 010628 ... baby satan time for me to have some fun. hey wilty---did kontrol leak anything to you about the test when he was drunk? c'mon; you can tell me. we're buds, aren't we? remember that hot tenth grader that gave you a blowjob in the third floor bathroom? i made that happen. now it's your turn to help me out. spill. 010628 ... wilty the janitor well...there was that one time...i'll tell you everything! everything! ::: starts sobbing violently ::: ::: regains his composure ::: so, whaddaya want first? i got the marking scheme thing, what he's looking for in the answers, pictures of his wife doing naughty stuff...okay, so i hired somebody to take those. but the rest came right from kontrol himself. i wrote it all down. here ya go. ::: hands notes to baby satan ::: 010628 ... baby satan oh my! this is marvellous! but what shall i do with these notes? shall i post them somewhere? shall i feed them to squishy? regardless, i know where these filthy pictures are going! yowza! 010628 ... nocturnal alright, y'all SUCK at cheating. I mean, doing it if you're at least on the other side of the room from the teacher's one thing, but this is, in effect, doing it directly in front of his face. if you get away with this, I'll...I'll...well, let's just say I'll do what I know upsets you both very much. I deserve that star and I'm an extremely competitive person. if you fuck with me, have no doubt that I will have my revenge. 010628 ... baby satan ::: recoils from the flames spewed his way ::: my god! it was only done in jest! you expect me to actually share my findings? i was only after the naked pictures. even if i did go through with it, how's a teacher gonna punish a baby demon? i breast my laces. i'm not after the star, nor am i trying to take it from anyone. as a rule, i don't get involved in the competition. just pretending to fuck stuff up. that's my job. as for fucking with you...if you choose to misconstrue my shit, there's nothing i can do about it. um...i think that's it. ::: runs away ::: 010628 ... nocturnal um, anybody else having problems with this page? for some reason my computer won't let me see past the first entry. I am seriously getting irritated. 010628 ... nocturnal disregard that last thing I said. problem fixed. and as for you, baby satan...consider yourself warned. we shall see about the consequences of your actions. 010628 ... Kontrol Children, children. What's all this fighting in my exam room. back to your desks immediately. Ah baby satan, I see you got the fake mark scheme I left out as a decoy. These demons are soooo predictable. I am intrigued by the pictures, however. I am not married, being wedded to my vocation, so to speak, although it would be an honour to be the spouse of such a flexible and accomodating woman. Hang on...isn't that Wilty's mother? 010629 ... Kontrol Hmmm. Technically speaking you all disqualified yourselves but I enjoyed reading your answers very much. a decision has been made on the recipient of the gold_star. All assemble now at the gold_star_presentation_ceremony 010629 ... User24 well, I'm only 2 years late, but I thought it'd be interesting, so; Section A 1. If you could impose one unbreakable rule on blather what would it be and why? I would say that every blathe would have an accompanying blathe_conversation page, for little one liners, conversations, etc, that, while vaguely related to the blathe title, don't actually add anything to the blathe, stuff like "yeah, I agree with xxxx", and "hey, xxxx, glad to see you again, what's up?" that way we could keep blather nice and intellectual, while not shutting out people who just want to chat. Section B 2. "Blather would be greatly improved with the addition of a delete function." - Discuss. I think that a waiting time should be allowed, so you can make your blathe, and then have 2 days to think about it before saying yes or no, if you didn't answer in that time, it would go on, and, once the answer was made, you couldn't change it, so I guess what I'm saying is a half-delete button would be cool. we could call it an afterthought or hindsight button. -------- btw, I haven't read any of the other answers yet, so if I'm repeating something, well.. tough. 030630 ... nods at birdmad.. sorry again... my suggestion for B2 would have been very useful about 1 hour ago 030630 ... - - 100129 ... / __ 100129 ... beware this is a dangerous way to communicate we'll be in you're door before you know it. 100129 ... meta meta 100129 ... Vs. Me About the 'filthy anarchist' comment, I just happen to actually be one of those 'filthy Anarchists'. Anarchism is not about a complete opposition to rules, it's about rulling yourself in a collective matter. I believe Anarchy can actually be achieved if people chose solidarity and peace over making enemies through education and organization in a total liberated collective fashion people wouldn't have a reason to steal or kill for money, passion or power, but if a dictator tried to take over a large group of people working in peace love and solidarity, that dictator would get the boot, so no one would try to dictate. Just remember, a large group of organized fish can eat the big fish, as the stencil I saw painted on the side of a walmart said.. ORGANIZE!!! 100130 what's it to you? who go blather from