Re: Re: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night?

To put my comment about "denying the gods their power" a bit into perspective, I mostly offered this as an interpretation to placate Intrepids view of the world (and the gods). If you perceive XP and reputation as an addiction/detractive to you, all respect to you for recognizing it and taking the steps to eliminate that influence !

I thought that your step was somewhat of an outcry to be noticed in general, but as you say, if you want to remove the game aspect from your posts and your presence on this site, your steps are most certainly steps in the right direction, although I would have simply taken the approach of petitioning the gods directly.

I hope you'll stay with the monastery and still find it a place to share knowledge.

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Re^3: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night? by Coruscate (Sexton) on Feb 04, 2004 at 22:29 UTC
I hope you'll stay with the monastery and still find it a place to share knowledge. Oh, no need to worry about that. I've taken the route (twice, unfortunately) of saying I was leaving and then found it so very difficult to not come back. There is a lot to be learned here, regardless of those elements which any particular person could find unpleasant. As for my method of doing what I did, I agree I could probably have turned to the gods and outright asked for it to be done. Would have had the same functional outcome, but may have sidestepped such heavy discussion over it (and saved the site a good number of http hits).	[reply]
Re: Re^3: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 05, 2004 at 01:35 UTC
mt2k Last here: Jan 03, 2003 at 10:29 UTC (57 weeks ago) Coruscate User since: Jan 03, 2003 at 09:08 UTC Hmmm? Oh, no need to worry about that. I've taken the route (twice, unfortunately) of saying I was leaving and then found it so very difficult to not come back. Kinda like crack eh? As for the local moderation system, it's needed. It may be poorly implemented, but an "online community" cannot survive without one. I'm sure it's a nice thought that it would work fine if people just stopped paying attention to it, but that's incredibly naive. As any site grows you require a filter to improve the signal to noise ratio.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re^3: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 05, 2004 at 02:17 UTC
I think respecting people's privacy when they choose to change user names or use multiple accounts is important. But then, I would think that...	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re^3: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night? by Anomynous Monk (Scribe) on Feb 05, 2004 at 04:03 UTC


go ahead... be a heretic
	PerlMonks