+ADKcachers Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 Do our individual warn levels decrease? Do we have to be super nice to someone to make them go down? Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 What did you do to make them go up? MarcB Quote Link to comment
+ADKcachers Posted April 5, 2004 Author Share Posted April 5, 2004 (edited) I flamed someone on one thread and posted an (mildly) offensive image on another. Edited to make sense. Edited April 5, 2004 by adirondackcache Quote Link to comment
+rusty_tlc Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 (edited) Hee Hee, no, I want mine to go down. Yea, but how did it get up in the first place? edited because adirondackcache edited his post and mine no longer made sense. "Mildy offensive" is a pretty subjective concept. Edited April 5, 2004 by rusty_tlc Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 I flamed someone on one thread and posted an (mildly) offensive image on another. Edited to make sense. You should have thought about that ahead of time. Quote Link to comment
+ADKcachers Posted April 5, 2004 Author Share Posted April 5, 2004 That's a big help. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 Doom on you! Doom on you! Doom on you! Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Doom on you!Doom on you! Doom on you! You are in rare form today. On topic. Yes you can get them to go down though the process is somewhat chaotic and random. If you do sometthing nice that catches a mods attention they might lower it. If you say something funny they might lower it. If you just wait long enough someone might look at your warning and see that it's been there a long time and lower it. There is no hard fast rule, it's like trying to figure out the magic WOW factor on a virtual cache. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Doom on you!Doom on you! Doom on you! You are in rare form today. Funny...the wife says the same thing Quote Link to comment
+woof n lulu Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Doom on you!Doom on you! Doom on you! You are in rare form today. Funny...the wife says the same thing Akkkkkkk way to much information !!! Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Doom on you!Doom on you! Doom on you! You are in rare form today. Funny...the wife says the same thing Akkkkkkk way to much information !!! The wife used the term "ornery"...whatever that means. I was hoping to find a picture of the dodo-birds from "Ice Age" but google didn't have any good pictures. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 What you need to do is post.... I'm sorry for what I did. I understand how important it is to play well with others and I will forever respect the community. Post that 25 times and maybe...just maybe they will give you a second chance. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 What you need to do is post.... I'm sorry for what I did. I understand how important it is to play well with others and I will forever respect the community. Post that 25 times and maybe...just maybe they will give you a second chance. El Diablo No, I'd rather the wife call me ornery. Oh...you meant the thread starter... Quote Link to comment
+Red Clover Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Gee I can already see the requests for Revlon's Butt kissing brown lipstick skyrocketing. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Keystone's Tips for Lowering Your Warn Meter DO: 1. Be helpful to newbies and answer questions from other cachers in an intelligent way. 2. Contribute thoughtful ideas to a serious forum topic. 3. Demonstrate a good-natured sense of humor in a lighthearted forum topic. 4. Follow the forum guidelines in all your posts. DON'T: 1. Start a thread begging and pleading for your warn meter to be lowered (NOTE: this thread is not such a thread -- the question was asked in a serious and respectful manner.) 2. Flame the forum moderators for being members of a right-wing movement which rose to power in the 1930's. 3. Use a saxophone in your avatar. 4. Violate the forum guidelines in your posts. Quote Link to comment
+The Cheeseheads Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 (edited) DON'T: 3. Use a saxophone in your avatar. Uh oh Smurf-boy... you may be in perpetual trouble here... Edited April 6, 2004 by The Cheeseheads Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Gee I can already see the requests for Revlon's Butt kissing brown lipstick skyrocketing. Actually it's a light shade of red. I have plenty...you want some? El Diablo Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Keystone's Tips for Lowering Your Warn Meter DON'T: 2. Flame the forum moderators for being members of a right-wing movement which rose to power in the 1930's. you mean the National Association of Zebra Impressionist's? Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Keystone's Tips for Lowering Your Warn Meter DO: 3. Demonstrate a good-natured sense of humor in a lighthearted forum topic. DON'T: 3. Use a saxophone in your avatar. Do these cancel each other out? Quote Link to comment
+Red Clover Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 as a red head I cant wear Red lipstick well.. but man those umm earthy colors work wonders.. thanks for the offer.. Gee tonight I've seen men defend the way they look in high heels.. and now El D is admitting to having lipstick.. what is the world comming too Quote Link to comment
+Spzzmoose Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 3. "Use a saxophone in your avatar". Quote Link to comment
mishapman Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Doom on you!Doom on you! Doom on you! Isn't that the American spelling of the Vietnamese "Du ma nhieu"? Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 3. "Use a saxophone in your avatar". I'll remember that.... Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 3. "Use a saxophone in your avatar". I'll remember that.... maybe we should all have sax'es in our avatars tomorrow. keep those approvers jumpin'. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 3. "Use a saxophone in your avatar". I'll remember that.... maybe we should all have sax'es in our avatars tomorrow. keep those approvers jumpin'. Thanks Uper, for the show of support Quote Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 You can have my avatar when you pull it's copyright from my cold, dead fingers! Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 You can have my avatar when you pull it's copyright from my cold, dead fingers! just put a sax in that cat's hand. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 You can have my avatar when you pull it's copyright from my cold, dead fingers! just put a sax in that cat's hand. Like this? Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Do follow FCC guidlines for broadcast standards. Do recognize that the moderators are not as liberal as the FCC. Life doesn't end with a warning. It doesn't begin with one either. If you are going to get a warning be sure it's an act of creative self expression and not just a pathetic cry for attention. Don't derail threads without good cause. If the stats topis is spinning out of control, start another one to help keep it on topic. You can critize this site but when you do keep in mind the second sentance and pull back from what would be allowable in a good joke. Speaking of jokes. This prizoner is about to be put to death. The guard askes. Any last requets? No sais the prisoner. Any last meal? No. Last words? "Yes I'd like to sing my favorite song from beginning to end without interuption." Ok says the guard and the guy starts up. "one billion bottles of beer on the wall..." If you have taken a post off topic always appologize. Sorry. Quote Link to comment
+Blind Avocado Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 maybe we should all have sax'es in our avatars tomorrow. keep those approvers jumpin'. I've played a little sax myself! Quote Link to comment
+cache_us_if_you_can Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 (edited) DON'T:...3. Use a saxophone in your avatar. You mean like this? Or did you mean something like this? Edited April 6, 2004 by cache_us_if_you_can Quote Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Team GPSaxophone That's MY avatar, you! Get your copyright infringing paws offa it!!! MRRROOOWWWRRRR!!! PHIIST! PHISST! Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Team GPSaxophone That's MY avatar, you! Get your copyright infringing paws offa it!!! MRRROOOWWWRRRR!!! PHIIST! PHISST! Sorry...just had to do it Here it is for forum posterity, I'm going to change it to something else: Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 What does a saxaphone look like? Quote Link to comment
+Imajika Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Carleen it's amazing your current avatar can hold that saxophone with no hands. I am impressed. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 (edited) Carleen it's amazing your current avatar can hold that saxophone with no hands. I am impressed. Yes, she is very talented! Actually, I think the saxaphone has a belt strap. New feature on saxaphones these days. Edited April 6, 2004 by carleenp Quote Link to comment
+rusty_tlc Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Carleen it's amazing your current avatar can hold that saxophone with no hands. I am impressed. You think thats good? I can balance a Sax on the hood of my Land Cruiser; Quote Link to comment
+hedberg Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 (edited) FCC?? I'm Swedish and that means, it is okay to say everything on the radio and so on... But I discovered that it wasn't okay to say some words on this forum.. Actually, I miss my 10% warning level, I really liked the idea of being a rebel and lone star... But after being nice for a while, it dropped down to 0%.. And I feel like a regular person, living in a villa, with a nice family, labrador, station wagon and so on... I want to be bad to the bone... I wanna have a Harley and leatherjacket... Can't you give me 10% warning just for a day again?!? My personal opinion is that peopled get warning for some really strange things sometimes, also that people get upset by some strange things sometimes. I remember in a thread where people were upset that I as a familyfather could write a word that ends with the three letters UCK. A word that isn't offensive in my homecountry, (One of the most popular songs right now are a song by a man called "Eamon" and it has the *UCK word mentioned about 30-40 times in the lyrics ) but this words seems to be very "offensive" in the US. Sometimes it seems like we forget that Geocaching is a global sport, it means that there is people from all over the world at this forum. In some countries can you say whatever you want without anyone getting upset/cares, but in some countries you can't do that. It seems also, that some Americans forget that there is people from the rest of the world at this forum, and not everybody in the world don't like what the US does in Iraq. (I don't want to start a discussion about that, I'm just mentioning it!!!!) For example, if I wrote in a log, that I saw a cow on a field and then added "Cow - yummy - they taste good"... The most people would perhaps laugh at that, but what about the people in for example India.. How would they feel about that? Or pigs for muslims, dogs, snakes and so on... We are all different, but this forum requires us to follow american guidelines. Shouldn't it be INTERNATIONAL guidelines!? With that do I mean, that we should think about what other people in other countries/parts of the world would react to the text? But at the same time, if I write something in Swedish in the Nordic Countries forum here at GC forums, a single word might mean something totally different in an another language. I might write an offensive word.. I can't be aware of that.. So my opinion is a little bit split... I think that we should think a little bit more about the rest of the world before we write, but if we write in our local language, we might upset someone that speaks an another language.. Words can have different meanings in different languages, but THAT can't we control. Edited April 6, 2004 by hedberg Quote Link to comment
+Divine Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 if I write something in Swedish in the Nordic Countries forum here at GC forums, a single word might mean something totally different in an another language. Umm...you mean like suck or fartkontroll? Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Hedberg, if you say DUCK one more time, your warn meter will be right back at 10%. NM Quote Link to comment
+hedberg Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Hedberg, if you say DUCK one more time, your warn meter will be right back at 10%. NM LUCKy me... Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 if I write something in Swedish in the Nordic Countries forum here at GC forums, a single word might mean something totally different in an another language. Umm...you mean like suck or fartkontroll? :D I thought fartontrolls meant the same in every language Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 if I write something in Swedish in the Nordic Countries forum here at GC forums, a single word might mean something totally different in an another language. Umm...you mean like suck or fartkontroll? I thought fartontrolls meant the same in every language doesn't it have something to do with volkswagons? Quote Link to comment
+hedberg Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Fartkontroll means "speed control" in Swedish, you know, the automatic cruise control in a car... What did you think it meant!? BTW, this might give me the 10% level, but I just got this in my inbox, and while talking about different meaning of words in different languages.. Check this out: Link It's not my page, and I don't want to start some kind of politic war here, just a funny tag... I think it might be offensive for the people who like Bush.. Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Oh, I thought it had something to do with Beano! Quote Link to comment
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