Message from Abby [Archive] - QLC Message Boards

abby

11-08-2004, 12:23 PM

Hi! This is my new screen name (for now) - qlc experienced some technical difficulties over the weekend.

Soon I will be off to married land, and more importantly Mexico, where I will be taking a much needed vacation/honeymoon.

In my absence, the boards will continue to be monitored by my dependable, superstar moderators.......in case you haven't figured it out already I have decided it is time to 'out' them to give them the recognition they deserve...dadadum...(drum roll):

Pisces2473

and

Weirdbrake

Lets give them a hand for all their hard (volunteer) work and dedication, I don't know what I'd do without those 2!

Happy posting, be back here in a couple weeks as Mrs. Miller!
Abby

wordsmith

11-08-2004, 12:30 PM

congrats, Abby! Have fun!

Welcome out from behind your Groucho Marx false noses and glasses, WB and Jen!

(and you all thought WB wasn't a Marxist!)

coll214

11-08-2004, 12:32 PM

Congratulations Abby!!

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 12:32 PM

It is such a relief not to hide anymore...

But I'm sure all of you knew who we really were...

heatherf

11-08-2004, 12:32 PM

Wow!

I had NO idea!;)

maxwell78

11-08-2004, 12:33 PM

Ah, our masters have finally been uncloaked. ;)

coll214

11-08-2004, 12:33 PM

LOL me either ;)

maxwell78

11-08-2004, 12:40 PM

Okay, seriously, how many people knew?

I found out but very recently.

cheshrcarol

11-08-2004, 12:44 PM

Originally posted by maxwell78
Okay, seriously, how many people knew?

I found out but very recently. I had pretty much guessed, but then recently jen pm'd me and said she'd post something as the moderator because she thought I already knew.

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 12:46 PM

Enjoy the honeymoon, Abby. Don't worry about a thing. Us mods'll keep them rowdy kids under control. lol

wordsmith

11-08-2004, 12:47 PM

WB told me a while back (July or so?), but didn't tell me abt. Jen until he asked her if it was OK.

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 12:49 PM

And Jen! What that BE with yo' title "#1"? Y'all know I was the OM (original moderator)! Don't be dissin'! :p

wordsmith

11-08-2004, 12:51 PM

It's because you're a known Marxist.

maxwell78

11-08-2004, 12:51 PM

LOL! And here I thought I was privy to some state secret! I'm shocked! SHOCKED! :D

wordsmith

11-08-2004, 12:54 PM

The QLC underground is goin' DOWN!

cheshrcarol

11-08-2004, 01:03 PM

It's the end of the cliques! ;)

Skyblade

11-08-2004, 01:07 PM

Whoa...interesting :eek:

maxwell78

11-08-2004, 01:09 PM

This feels momentous...like the fall of communism or something. :D

Something to tell your grandkids. ;)

shimmer728

11-08-2004, 01:13 PM

WB told me about his and Jen's status on our second date, I think--after he made me swear I wouldn't stop seeing him once I found out the truth. :twisted:

and1grad

11-08-2004, 01:14 PM

You were trying to impress Shim, werent you? You sly dog! :twisted:

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:15 PM

Originally posted by WeirdBrake
And Jen! What that BE with yo' title "#1"? Y'all know I was the OM (original moderator)! Don't be dissin'! :p
Yeah, but who had to take over for awhile b/c someone was vewy busy wiff waw schoo?

cheshrcarol

11-08-2004, 01:16 PM

What a pick up line! "Hey baby, I'm a moderator" :D

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:16 PM

Actually, we began telling a lot of people who we were close to on the boards. It was too weird to hide it. Obviously they were people who could be trusted. And it worked :)

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:17 PM

Originally posted by cheshrcarol
What a pick up line! "Hey baby, I'm a moderator" :D
Hey! Don't knock it! Chris was impressed :razz:

shimmer728

11-08-2004, 01:20 PM

Originally posted by and1grad
You were trying to impress Shim, werent you? You sly dog! :twisted:

He was. He still is. :D

maxwell78

11-08-2004, 01:25 PM

See, for all these years I've been trying to convince girls I was an astronaut to no avail.

If I had known that convincing them I was a QLC moderator would have worked better...

:D

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:26 PM

Oooh, I just noticed that I'm bolded now on the members list.

hee.

shimmer728

11-08-2004, 01:31 PM

I noticed that, too. Weird. :confused:

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:33 PM

Oh no, that means you are a moderator. Bold and italics means your an administrator.

maxwell78

11-08-2004, 01:34 PM

Originally posted by pisces2473
Oooh, I just noticed that I'm bolded now on the members list.

hee.
What? You think ya betta than me?

Sorry, lame and obscure SNL reference. :D

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:36 PM

Originally posted by maxwell78

What? You think ya betta than me?
Watch it. I have banning powers. Ask CK about that ;)

maxwell78

11-08-2004, 01:37 PM

Originally posted by pisces2473

Watch it. I have banning powers. Ask CK about that ;)
Duly noted. ;)

shimmer728

11-08-2004, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by pisces2473
Oh no, that means you are a moderator. Bold and italics means your an administrator.

No, I meant I noticed YOU were bold and in italics.

You wouldn't want to give me that much power. Just having all the power in WB's and my relationship is enough. ;)

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:41 PM

Originally posted by shimmer728
No, I meant I noticed YOU were bold and in italics.

You wouldn't want to give me that much power. Just having all the power in WB's and my relationship is enough. ;) LOL I know...I was explaining what it meant.

I like having most of the power, since WB's never online.

Crimson King II

11-08-2004, 01:42 PM

She does. And more than just that...when she bans you, and you try to post, your keyboard explodes. My hands are still scarred...

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:43 PM

Shhh, don't scare the lad! The keyboard thing was just a test. After you came back a 3rd time, we figured it wouldn't keep people away.

Crimson King II

11-08-2004, 01:44 PM

No...you figured I didn't HAVE hands and couldn't type meaningful posts...

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by Crimson King II
No...you figured I didn't HAVE hands and couldn't type meaningful posts...
When did you ever type meaningful posts? :p

wordsmith

11-08-2004, 01:49 PM

Typing meaningful posts requires more than HANDS, CK.

Jus' kiddin'. ;)

tartytwenty

11-08-2004, 01:50 PM

Whoa!

I'm surprised!

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 02:39 PM

I may be a mod, and Jen and Allison and and1grad may heartily enjoy making fun of me... but just remember that I've written Eminem parodies... so clearly I've succeeded in life in the ways that matter! :cool:

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by WeirdBrake
I may be a mod, and Jen and Allison and and1grad may heartily enjoy making fun of me... but just remember that I've written Eminem parodies... so clearly I've succeeded in life in the ways that matter! :cool:
You better "lose yourself."

kimmer23

11-08-2004, 03:02 PM

damn, i clean out the litter boxes and 3 pages to this thread already! i think WB emailed me a few months ago saying that i guessed both correct on that "Guess the Mods" thread we had a while back ago. i belong to a boating message board and its actually posted who the mods are...weird!

MetFanL

11-08-2004, 03:06 PM

WB told me a week or so ago, but I never got what the deal was with it being so secretive in the first place... On other boards, as kimmer said, the mods are usually posted at the top of the main page.

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 03:08 PM

It was secretive b/c when WB and I were asked, we were already well-established members of the community and just didn't want it to seem weird.

Is that the reason, WB? You were the mod before me. Then I was mod #1. Then you came back.

wordsmith

11-08-2004, 03:08 PM

Every message board I've ever been on has the moderators known. This is actually the only one I'd ever been a member of where it was anonymous.

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 03:10 PM

Was it a big deal that we were anon. for so long?

and1grad

11-08-2004, 03:13 PM

I liked the secret society feel of it.

MetFanL

11-08-2004, 03:17 PM

nah, not a big deal... it's understandable that you'd want to keep separate... even if it was just so you wouldn't have to be so careful with your posts under your "normal" screennames.

People on other boards have had issues with being called a hypocrite for posting something themselves and editing a similar comment from someone else, or bringing in personality differences to their moderating... It's a difficult line. I understand the separation b/c sometimes you just want to say what you're thinking rather than have to edit for content b/c you have the moderator tag on your screenname.

coll214

11-08-2004, 03:19 PM

LOL.. i almost didn't believe Jen when she told me, yeesh last year i think?? That was before WB was mgp2... :D

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 03:23 PM

Must have been last fall, b/c that's when WB was very busy w/ school. Coll was the first person to know.

coll214

11-08-2004, 03:28 PM

I feel so special! ;)

kimmer23

11-08-2004, 03:37 PM

yeah sometimes it feels better being "corrected" by an unknown person. hehe! but i dont think i get in too much trouble on here!

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 03:38 PM

Originally posted by kimmer23
yeah sometimes it feels better being "corrected" by an unknown person. hehe! but i dont think i get in too much trouble on here!
You just wait. :twisted:

heatherf

11-08-2004, 03:40 PM

hey yeah -

The secret Underground World of QLC won't so secret now!

:(

kimmer23

11-08-2004, 03:42 PM

You just wait.

am i gonna get in more trouble??hehe!

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by pisces2473
It was secretive b/c when WB and I were asked, we were already well-established members of the community and just didn't want it to seem weird.

Is that the reason, WB? You were the mod before me. Then I was mod #1. Then you came back.

What happened was this: Abby created the mgp ("moderator guinea pig") identity as an experiment long before she made me a moderator. She created mgp in late fall of '02 but didn't have me take over the mgp role until early May '03. She told me to keep it on the down-low. I moderated until about mid-August of '03 and then because I was facing a tough semester with a number of law classes plus appellate moot court plus a trial advocacy course, I thought it would be better if someone else took over the reigns. So I suggested to Abby that Jen take over as mgp.

So in mid-August of '03, Jen took over as mgp, while I talked regularly with her behind the scenes about mod-related stuff. But I had no moderator powers at that point, so CK... Jen's the one who banned you, not me! :twisted:

Then in March of '04, Abby created mgp2, and I took over that mod identity while Jen remained mgp.

Did I leave anything out, Jen? :D

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 04:03 PM

There's no part 2. I just put that in the subject heading as a Mel Brooks movie allusion.

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 04:06 PM

Nope, I think you covered it there. Why did you end up coming back, WB? Was it b/c school got better or was that during a trying time...

And I'm the one who locked down the boards when that HORRIBLE racist day happened.

wordsmith

11-08-2004, 04:12 PM

Wow. I was gone from the boards for a while so I missed THAT shit hitting the fan. But I've heard tell from days of yore... *shudders*

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 04:13 PM

I was like freaking out at my desk, I didn't know what to do, Abby was in Italy, I think...WB wasn't the mod...I was ALL by myself.

Talk about Grace Under Fire.

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 04:22 PM

Why did you end up coming back, WB? Was it b/c school got better or was that during a trying time...

Yep, pretty much because school got better. And because I couldn't stay away. ;)

I was like freaking out at my desk, I didn't know what to do, Abby was in Italy, I think...WB wasn't the mod...I was ALL by myself.

I remember that day. Jen handled it amazingly. All kidding aside, it really was grace under fire.

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 04:47 PM

I was THIS close to calling Abby in Venice or Rome or wherever she went...I had her number at the hotel...but I didn't want to ruin her vacation by telling her that a bunch of bratty 20 year olds were being racist.

coll214

11-08-2004, 04:49 PM

I remember that day... I think you handled it quite well.

pisces2473

11-08-2004, 04:50 PM

Awww, thanks. :D

I'm sure you remember the emails that went flying down the Yale server. :eek:

pluie76

11-08-2004, 09:26 PM

Hmm... I'd have to say I knew for a while... atleast back April or maybe even March (whenever the "Guess the Mods" thing started... WB PMed me under mpg2 about something we'd been talking about. Then I blackmailed him to tell me who the other one is :twisted: then I made him tell me what "MGP" stood for :twisted: which I had completely forgotten until now. :)

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 09:40 PM

That was a total accident! I had PMed Pluie something when I was extremely drunk (probably making fun of her engineering program), and whoops, I sent it through mgp2 rather than WB. That'll teach me to moderate under the influence.

She didn't blackmail me, though. I told her out of the goodness of my (somewhat intoxicated) heart.

stonemonkey

11-08-2004, 09:42 PM

Originally posted by WeirdBrake
That'll teach me to moderate under the influence.

tsk tsk, and to think that we entrust the welfare of these boards to these ppl ;)

pluie76

11-08-2004, 09:52 PM

Geeeeeeeeeeezzz WB... I thought we were having a serious conversation, and it turns out you were drunk! So typically male, I'm shocked!

Don't make fun of us engineers... :( some people like those geeky hot chicks! (And further more, you're a lawyer! No room to talk!!) hehehe...

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 09:54 PM

A lawyer can't drunkenly maneuver himself through a serious conversation?! Surely, you jest!

Don't make fun of us engineers...

Oh, don't worry, I was only joking. Don't get your cosines in an uproar. :p

stonemonkey

11-08-2004, 09:56 PM

just don't show up to trial drunk. (your lawyer won't be happy dealing with a drunk defendant)

wordsmith

11-08-2004, 10:01 PM

WB oughta TRY to claim he was drunk during circumstances leading up to my finding out mod identities...

pluie76

11-08-2004, 10:03 PM

You're right WB... keep drinking... drunk people talk too much, lawyers talk to much... I think in the end it will all work out.

And don't worry, I'm not going off on a "tangent", my cosines are all in order! :) Although if you're not too careful, I might go sinusoidal!

WeirdBrake

11-08-2004, 10:07 PM

WB oughta TRY to claim he was drunk during circumstances leading up to my finding out mod identities...

WS, I'd like to see you TRY to explain those circumstances themselves.

And don't worry, I'm not going off on a "tangent", my cosines are all in order! Although if you're not too careful, I might go sinusoidal!

I'm demurring at this point: move to dismiss your action on the basis of no genuine issue of material fact and moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.

pluie76

11-08-2004, 11:03 PM

You're killing me WB... all those big words are too much for my analytical brain...make it stop! make it stop!

pisces2473

11-09-2004, 09:57 AM

That's okay guys, there were times where I posted in the Pisces mindset, but under my MGP handle...things like, "Chris and I did this last weekend, etc." Good thing WB was there to save my ass!!!

ce607

11-09-2004, 10:08 AM

Just curious - what happened on the horrible racist day?

pisces2473

11-09-2004, 10:19 AM

Someone "innocently" posted about her job, which was a welfare to work program, and commented about certain racial groups and how they were lazy and sat around all day and didn't want to help themselves, etc. People either jumped on her for her racial comments, or they went along with her and provided more fuel to the fire. Things escalated to the point where it was a disaster.

ce607

11-09-2004, 10:23 AM

Ohhh... thanks. That must have been rough. I guess I wasn't here that day, but I do remember reading about that welfare program.

WeirdBrake

11-09-2004, 10:31 AM

Needless to say, this girl was banned, as was the other individual who went along with her on it.

pisces2473

11-09-2004, 10:33 AM

You know, I can't remember the one who went along with the original poster, lol.

Yes, the original poster was banned, and even though she tried to rejoin, she was banned again.

and1grad

11-09-2004, 02:05 PM

WB,
WHY can I always find you in the middle of someone nerding up a thread? :twisted:

coll214

11-09-2004, 04:25 PM

Originally posted by and1grad
nerding up a thread?

LOL...that had me actually laughing at my desk:p

pisces2473

11-09-2004, 04:26 PM

He's the nerderator.

WeirdBrake

11-09-2004, 04:30 PM

I am sooooooooo glad I provide you people with such endless amusement!

pisces2473

11-09-2004, 04:30 PM

Don't worry guys, he can't ban me! LOLOLOL

WeirdBrake

11-09-2004, 04:30 PM

When my rap career takes off, you're all gonna be sorry. ALL OF YOU!

pisces2473

11-09-2004, 04:32 PM

I just got this image of WB in my head...in front of the Supreme Court...RAPPING his statement.

His poor future clients.

coll214

11-09-2004, 04:33 PM

Will we at least get mentioned in your i hate these people lyrics? LOL.

maxwell78

11-09-2004, 04:37 PM

Originally posted by pisces2473
I just got this image of WB in my head...in front of the Supreme Court...RAPPING his statement.
May it please the court....uh.....holla back...

:D

Alright I'm nerding it up now. haha.

WeirdBrake

11-09-2004, 04:59 PM

Yo' judges, listen up!

This all started on a Saturday night
When my client was out there lookin' for a fight
Now granted, maybe homie aint the nicest guy
But he don't got a record and that shit don't lie

He just out there on his own, committin' the sin
Of partyin' too heavy with a darker skin
Gettin' into scrapes, now don't believe the hype
My client aint a bad guy, he just the fightin' type

Now the Constitution says cops gotta use precision
They aint allowed to use race just to up their suspicion
Gotta be some evidence he breakin' the laws
Before the dicks go and have their probable cause

But these cops go decidin' somethin' didn't smell right
And on the basis of that, they opened up their lights
Stormed into his crib and started givin' him flak
For his decked out meth lab and his vials of crack

Then they wanna go and charge my client with wrong
But no prosecutor shoulda NEVER sang that song
No one ever said my client is all wholesome and kissable
But all that drug shit they found is just flat out inadmissible

Can't enter stuff you got from violatin' his rights
A jury can't see it, no matter how much it bites
When they go in someone's home without no justified reason
The evidence is cursed with constitutional treason
And when convictions are based upon evidence cursed
Then, on appeal, my brothers: You must reverse!