I'm reading messages backwards (as is my custom), but I really do look forward to gamma-hood.
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:59 AM, ATMunn <iamingodsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/27/2017 7:54 PM, VJ Rada wrote: > >> Correct, it's not a report per precedent (grossly negligent and not useful >> enough to be a report). I can't, therefore, claim a reward for it. >> >> I did work on referee quite genuinely (which is why I was sad to lose it) >> and I never scammed w/ any previous offices (the most recent one was a >> spur-of-the-moment idea and I even attempted to award myself 3,000 cards >> to >> punish me for it, and will be carded for pledge-breaking), but yes, I take >> your point entirely (and personally don't mind the swearing). >> >> The deputisation was because I have a large quantity of balloons, the >> election will soon be completed, and that seemed like a good opportunity >> to >> use the hard-to-use resource for personal gain where usually little can be >> found. I agree, though, that perhaps I shouldn't have done it. I tend to >> act and speak very fast, which is fine on an internet forum in which >> discussion happens, but not fine in a place where speech is also >> technically actions. >> >> Despite the horrific disgrace of a report I attempted to file, Herald is >> not that hard of a position recordkeeping. Obviously I made a mess of >> recordkeeping ADoP but those mistakes are easy to avoid. >> > Yes, yes you did. I forgive you, though. :P I've recovered from your mess, > and I'm actually a little bit glad I had to do all that instead of getting > an easy job, it really introduced me to the hard work that is sometimes > required in this game. > > Herald is an >> interesting position, I suppose, for memorializing the history of the >> game, >> so it requires its holder to award titles when something suitably >> historical happens. I don't think it's a wide-ranging policy role as >> referee is, and I don't think it's scammable. >> >> However I take your point, I do take it. I shouldn't have done it, >> probably. I do take your point. I know the way I take this game is less >> than serious, which can be at times a slap in the face to those who >> recognize the decades-long history of the game with a lot of weight. I >> don't mean to shit all over everything, and that's a tough line to >> navigate >> with the other ways that I've played this game. >> >> I've got 13 messages in the last 10 minutes. I dread them, rather. >> > It's alright, we all make mistakes. I think we all have acted too fast > before, and honestly I think we all might have just done that with the > amount of Notices of Honour that were just made. > -- >From V.J. Rada
