Things that are pissing me off today:
Posted by erin at March 19, 2003 12:20 PMMouse-over for links and links:
1. The loss of all my data and emails from the past two years, work-related and personal.
2. Rampant bigotry on jerksquad, followed by my over-reaction, followed by readers' over-reaction to me.
3. A year's worth of debate about war and heightened security.
4. The death of Yo-Yo Club.
5. Adan pussying out of his fight.
6. N.'s dismissal of my complaints about jerksquad, because anything involving a
community so obviously turns into a "river of shit" sooner or later.
7. Jason's near non-stop mockery of my diet (although his mockings have subsided recently).
8. The constant nagging worry about my dad having lost his job / my mom's worrying about the college restructuring and her getting new titles that are fishy at best.
9. That crazy list on Sam's blog.
10. The loss of comments on AK's blog.By "pissing off" I guess I more or less mean, "saddened" and "these events wear down on my soul."
For your amusement, I have put together a list of Flaky/Reliable, Crazy/Normal rankings as determined by averages from the ratings in Sam's comments. I gave all zero ratings a negative one score, and then determined averages. I left out Hal-specific people who were only voted on once. Here you can see first the average, then the name, then the individual votes:
Crazy
8.3 Kerry 8, 11, 10, 7, 6, 8
8.3 Rick 11, 9, 11, 10, 8, 1
7.8 AK 9, 6, 12, 3, 9
7.6 Dave 10, 5, 8
7.57 Hal 4, 12, 9, 7, 9, 13, -1,
7.3 Marxgirl 11, 4, 7
7.2 Maggie 9, 11, 6, 5, 5
6.2 Erin 6, 10, 3, 8, 4
4.25 Kari 7, 4, 2, 4
4.2 Noah 8, 5, -1, 2, 7
4 Evonne 7, 1, 5, 4, 3
3.75 Adan 5, 1, 6, 3
3 Sam 3, -1, 2, -1
2.75 Tim 6, 2, 2, 1
0.75 Dan -1, -1, 2, 3Normal
Flaky
10.25 Maggie 11, 12, 10, 8
6.5 Adan 5, 8
6.3 Evonne 1, 11, 7
6 A.K. 6, 9, 3
5.5 Sam 3, 10, 5, 4
5 Erin 10, 3, 6, 1
5 Tim 6, 7, 2, 5
4.6 Rick 9, 1, 4,
4.3 Kari 7, 4, 2
4.2 Kerry 8, 5, 3, 6, -1
2.3 Dan -1, 9, -1
1 Noah 2, 2, -1
0.25 Hal 4, -1, -1, -1Reliable
Comments Individual Archive Index
March 19, 2003 02:33 PM, Sam said:
Oh, how awful for you that the list on my blog is "wearing down" your "soul." The most obvious solution for that would be, of course, perpetuating the lists by making averages. I mean, that's *definitely* going to help.
March 19, 2003 02:39 PM, Maggie said:
As far as Jerk Squad!! goes, I've been getting complaints from other writers (e.g. you guys) and random users (mail sent to spam@jerksquad) regarding specific writers that people don't find funny. This is pissing me off too, 'cause everyone seems to want me to take charge in fixing this problem as if I can just delete someone's account and everything will be good - all of you guilt-free and poor me having to deal with the guilt of barring friends from the fun and joy that is jerksquad.
As a result, I propose that we vote on kicking out some writers as a whole and those writers that are kicked out either are never again allowed to write on jerksquad or they have to promise to be funny or something.
In version two (which IS on the way), you'll be able to restrict which writers you're allowing to follow-up on threads, but that's sometime in the summer, and I think a quicker solution is necessary, especially regarding the "rampant bigotry" as Erin put it.
The people I've been getting complaints about (or rather person) is Dave for being unfunny. And over the past day or so I got about 5 e-mails regarding pretty politically incorrect jokes that just weren't funny (so whoever's responsible, please step up). Jerksquad was supposed to be funny, but now it's just lame.
Personally, I feel like I should be a total jerk and just allow Hal, AK, Erin, Tomer and Ken to respond to jerksquad questions ('cause their responses I find funniest). Maybe later we can give other people access if they behave.
March 19, 2003 02:39 PM, Maggie said:
Wow, Sam, just read your comment. That's really mean.
March 19, 2003 02:55 PM, Maggie said:
Like, Rick mean.
March 19, 2003 03:23 PM, Erin said:
Maggie's right, that is pretty mean, Sam.
I thought your list was un-called-for, but my response is largely due to uncontrollable OCD.
Mostly it's a combination of everything on the my posted shit-list pissing me off, in combination. Your crazy list is #9, well below actual important things like my computer being stolen, a freakin' war making everyone nuts, and my dad losing his job.
In the end, there's almost nothing I can do to *help* anything on the list, as most of the items are totally out of my control.
March 19, 2003 03:36 PM, said:
OCD = Office of Career development?
March 19, 2003 05:16 PM, Erin said:
Ho ho! A funny one, anonymous poster.
Occasionally Confused & Distressed!
This is my blog, and I will throw a pity-party as I so choose. Tomorrow's post will be more positive.
March 19, 2003 07:45 PM, Kerry said:
Everyone should note that I am probably much much less crazy now. Or something.
March 19, 2003 09:28 PM, Agnieszka said:
I keep saying the same thing but no one believes me either. I think it takes a long time to undo a bad reputation.
March 20, 2003 03:17 AM, Maggie said:
Yeah, like my flakiness.
Happy wedding, Kerry!
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