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  1. Madelaine McMasters
    Glad to meetcha! 'names "Maddy". That's mmmm, ay, double dee, why. Hoo hoo hoo hoo!
  2. Madelaine McMasters
    ...sets you on fire.
  3. Madelaine McMasters
    I can place people in a defensive position without using trigger words. I can place people in a comfortable position while using trigger words. I can make people smile by setting them on fire. Communicating is a skill I like to practice.
  4. Madelaine McMasters
    I'm a very privileged white female. Who amongst you feels triggered by that?
  5. Madelaine McMasters
    This sounds like a dare, Caribou.
  6. Madelaine McMasters
    I apologize for putting you through that, both retrospectively and in advance.
  7. Madelaine McMasters
    One needn't be a forum insider to be knowing and wise. Many (most?) of us recognize heightened potential for disaster in varied social situations, online and face-to-face. We recognize various kinds of personalities from our experiences elsewhere, and bring that discriminating ability here, where we fine tune it. I'm pretty sure there are people in this forum that understand what kinds of topics will pull me in and bore them to tears. I know what kinds of threads will generate IBTL comments, and who's most likely to make them. I wouldn't telegraph my AR activity by posting IBTL and then thanking moderators for closing threads. I don't get the sense anyone else here would, either. Yelling IBTL might be a status thing, but it's so common I don't think about it. My knowledge of people in general and here in particular makes it difficult to see a conspiracy afoot to silence anyone. I suspect there are people who attempt to use AR to achieve their goals and I'm just not smart (or interested) enough to suss them out or imagine they're in a cabal. We're all just being ourselves. Back to another aspect of AR driven moderation, during my tenure as a forum moderator, though the squeaky wheels (those who DMed to report naughty posts/posters) got my attention, the squeakiest sometimes got the boot. That's a risk one takes when trying to use a moderator. Like you, I think we're doing an okay job self policing. I've rarely been wrist slapped, so that shouldn't be surprising.
  8. Madelaine McMasters
    And once again, because I’m most of the people here, I’m my own worst enemy.
  9. Madelaine McMasters
    I've been a major participant in threads that were closed, earning the mods numerous "Thanks" for the closure. In the temporal vicinity of those closures, peeves were posted regarding the tedium of such threads, by people who'd thanked the mods. It seems unlikely that people who tire of such threads would take the time to scour them for AR-able content. They would, however, notice and appreciate the cessation of the tedious activity. Many of the people here in the forum do not care to dive as deeply into things as I often do. I make no judgment about whether I sometimes get cut off because people don't agree with me, are are just tired of the discussion taking up space on their screens. It's their pool too.
  10. Madelaine McMasters
    Completely reasonable moderators need not be completely aware. To the extent we make them so via ARs, we end up right back here...
  11. Madelaine McMasters
    When I was a forum moderator, reports were in the forms of DMs. There was no specific abuse reporting mechanism. I did not respond to those reports, other than to determine if there was merit in them, and act accordingly. I had neither the time nor the inclination to police the forum. The only feedback I ever gave was in the way the mods do here. I'd post a message in the contentious thread, warning EVERYBODY to be nice. I rarely had to do that. Boilerplate warnings are best, I think. The moment we think we can engage the moderators, we'll try to engage the moderators. They have better things to do.
  12. Madelaine McMasters
    I'm lazy and find B easier than B&W...
  13. Madelaine McMasters
    I have no idea what your 549 references are, but I get the gist of your peeve. I grew up without TV. I got my pop culture from my parents, effectively making me a child of the 1940s. Though I know I miss pop culture references in modern movies and shows, I think I also catch some references that my contemporaries (and younger) miss.
  14. Madelaine McMasters
    As I recall his story, he was cruising down a road through Horicon Marsh when a goose took flight across the road in front of him. He swerved toward the shoulder to avoid it, but got hit hard enough it took him out of the seat. He skidded into the weeds and the bike went down the road a bit before doing the same. He was able to get up, recover the bike, and continue on his way. He didn't break anything, nor did he find the goose. But, to emphasize the severity of his injuries he did say "I hurt so bad I called in sick to work the next day." He was the sort of guy who'd go to work on one lung (and sorta did, he was a prodigious smoker). Let's be happy with our bug stories.
  15. Madelaine McMasters
    My worst encounter was with that Mayfly swarm on the way home from the airport. They just went on forever. You can only hold your breath, or turn your head, for so long.
  16. Madelaine McMasters
    My late uncle would scoff at bug stories. He had an encounter with a goose.* *To be clear, that's not what made him late.
  17. Madelaine McMasters
    After decades away from motorcycling, I recently took one for a two hour ride on I-43. I do not recommend finger-less bicycle gloves for such trips. I can be such an idiot.
  18. Madelaine McMasters
    The durability of bugs constantly amazes me. An hour after combing out my hair after a ride, I'd still sometimes feel something hiking across my scalp, sending me to the shower. Imagine being out for a lazy afternoon flight, and being struck by forested planet going a bazillion miles per hour. Next thing you know, you're in the woods enduring a hurricane. After the calm comes a giant dethatcher, taking away almost everything that's not rooted in the ground, leaving you all alone to climb your way out as a soapy monsoon approaches. Respect.
  19. Madelaine McMasters
    While out on a solo flight during the summer I learned to fly, I encountered a swarm of Mayflies over the marsh on the downwind leg of my landing approach. By the time I got through it, I could barely see out the windshield. I had to open the door and peer out the side window to line myself up for final approach. I encountered the same swarm on the motorcycle on the way home from the airport.
  20. Madelaine McMasters
    I mostly remembered. Ptooey!
  21. Madelaine McMasters
    I never tethered a June bug, but I did make quite a few housefly aeroplanes. Mom wasn't terribly happy about finding "engines" in the freezer, but they're a lot easier to glue down when they're stiff.
  22. Madelaine McMasters
    The more I learn about ecosystems, the less I know about ecosystems.
  23. Madelaine McMasters
    Combing those little rascals out of your ponytail is no fun either. The aerodynamics of that still baffles me.
  24. Madelaine McMasters
    Dad once gave me a little crockery jar labeled "Dead Flies", to keep things in. Years later, one of my colleagues spotted the jar in my office and opened it. "Jesus Maddy, this jar is full of dead flies!" I really gotta wonder about some people.
  25. Madelaine McMasters
    They are large and you can actually feel them if they fly in to you -- and the way they crunch under your feet. Makes me cringe just thinking about them. I am sooooooooo glad we don't have them here in Colorado. You people. Mac has four bug zappers hanging his cavernous garage. June bugs are too big for the zappers to vaporize, so they spiral to the ground with their wings on fire, reminiscent of old Movietone newsreels of WWII. Last week, his vent fan pinned a moth to the intake grill that would have been a match for the hummingbirds that routinely get lured into his skylights. He has a jug of hummingbird nectar and a "rescue dish" he puts the exhausted birds in once they drift down from the ceiling. We watch their tiny tongues lap up the calories, see the life come back into them, and watch them dart off. Nature puts on quite a show.
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