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Reviews Are In
Posted Jan 8, 2012
Amateur Thematics was last night, and it was amazing. I can't review it objectively, so I won't, but the first review is here:
http://www.thepublicreviews.com/amateur-thematics-the-lowry-salford/
I'm very proud of the guys.
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It Never Rains, But it Pours
Posted Jan 6, 2012
And now my mother's in hospital with heart issues.
Having a cracking few weeks, me.
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Houses and Whatnot
Posted Jan 4, 2012
Hooray! Yesterday we finally got a moving in date on the house we're buying!
We had an offer accepted in August, and the current owner has dragged her heels for five months, but it's finally done and dusted!
Or not. Because not 24 hours later, she's pulled out entirely, meaning we've wasted no end of time, money and effort.
Not sure if there's a word for how angry I am...
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Forums, Offenders and Moderation
Posted Dec 28, 2011
My Twitter feed's thrown up a very interesting piece on someone shutting down the forums attached to his online content (in his case, a blog):
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2011/12/why-i-shut-down-the-forums/
Two sentences just leapt down my throat:
"Some people seemed to feel they could annoy other members as much as they wanted as long as they stayed within the gray area of the rules."
And
"[W]hen it came to controversial bans involving one of the regulars, they had a hard time pulling the trigger. They frequently opted to keep giving warnings instead. But this response amounts to what’s called intermittent reinforcement conditioning. Effectively this rewards the negative behavior and conditions the offender to do more of the same by proving that s/he can get away with it."
Wow.
Who'd be a moderator, eh? Come down too hard and the community turns on you, keep letting the trolls off the hook, and you're basically giving them carte blanche to run riot.
Seriously though, if you can read the whole piece without developing a newfound respect for the trouble the behind-the-scenes team here at h2g2, then you're a far more heartless person than I.
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L's Coming Home
Posted Dec 23, 2011
She's being discharged today.
Wonder if I can tell her that burglars broke in, drank all the beer, ate all the chips and left dirty clothes on the floor.
Seems more likely than me actually tidying up...
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