Saving Chats for Combat

Wednesday, 3-9-2006 (454 words)

http://www.sfwest.com/ Click on Boston Tea Party
Join us there for lively chat in real time. Not a message board.

Chatteristi
The Good: Belladonna, Doss, Fenryr, Jajski, Prometheus, Unsoma , Vanax.
The Bad: Crosseyedmary, Heyheyjulia, Yabutt.

Note: Doss/Natchez is credited with the innovation of archiving posts and then reposting them to the chatter who originally posted them. He does this whenever he sees a chatter saying something different and then points out inconsistencies. It’s a slap in the face and a poke in the eye approach to chat combat. I believe he first introduced it when our chat community was in WBS Chat. Its use was, and continues to be, ridiculed by those afraid to be held accountable for what they previously said.
Copying and pasting a chatter’s post (here edited out for brevity) is also a helpful way to indicate the post being addressed.

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Prometheus: Heyheyjulia, no offence...but I think that saving posts from people made months or even years ago is just as much an indictment on the mentality of the saver as what the re-posting of if intends to demonstrate in the author of the original post...that would have to be bordering on an unhealthy obsession of hatred of that person surely.

Heyheyjulia: Prometheus, yeah but when a couple people constantly get orgasmic over old posts it can be fun once in awhile to dust off one of theirs

CrossEyedMary: Natchez, I dont save posts like an imbecile.

Vanax: Crosseyedmary, then you do indeed save posts, just not like an imbecile. So what's the difference in method between your saving posts intelligently and saving them as if you were an imbecile?

Fenryr, Tao, fuck chat posts, who needs to save THAT crap? It would take too much space in my iPod. *l*

Yabutt: Fen u can save chat posts to a 4 gig dvd and have one hell of a file *L*

Jajski: *cannot fathom why anyone would save chat posts*

Fenryr: Fuck savin' CHAT posts. *g*

Doss: Jajski, I use it (saving and reposting chats) to expose liars and hypocrites, of course.

Unsoma: Some (of those who save chat posts) need memories-- HA

Jajski: Doss, *cannot fathom why anyone would save chat posts*

Belladonna: Jajski, they save them (posts) to use them to belittle others, or to hold someone accountible for what they post in a chat room.. *lmao*

Doss: Julia isn't so hot on us exposing liars and hypocrites3.

Doss: Heyheyjulia: Yeah, expose them in a CHAT ROOM.

Crosseyedmary: Ann Marie, you dont save posts, do you?

Unsoma: And hi julia--you holding people accountable and keeping them honest?

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