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« Thread Started on Dec 30, 2008, 9:07am » | |
I'm feeling mild apprehension as I create this board, because the moment the word "culture jamming" is heard, the evil clown brigade usually gathers, wrongly imagining that it has been invited to come and play. To avoid any misunderstandings, I'll now belabor the obvious.
Vandalism is not culture jamming. If you drop by a wedding and pretending that the bride is a former prostitute, pose as her former pimp, you're not a culture jammer, you're a jerk. Culture jamming is not about giving grief to people who've done nothing to deserve that, and then whining about their missing senses of humor when they object. It's about sharing a funny, mind expanding expanding experience with somebody who will laugh about it later, having been left with a story to share.
Online trolling makes for stories that become incredibly boring after the first five seconds . This is an administrative board, purely created for the management of a ring, so no game playing here. Be straightforward, do what you were supposed to come here to do, and then clear out. If that makes me sound like a stuffy old admin, quite the contrary. I'm somebody who makes a point of spending as little time doing administrative work as he can, because he doesn't want to become that guy, but if I'm left constantly cleaning up messes others leave behind because they think doing so is funny, then I'm going to get stuck here so long that I really will turn into that cheerless admin.
There has to be a time and a place for everything, or first I'll stop having fun, and then, eventually, nobody else will be having fun, either, and I think that's a steep price for everybody present to pay, just so a few users can be inconsiderate without being asked to leave. So, if you're on the storytelling board or somewhere like that, be your own strange self, but if you're somewhere where we need to get things done, like here, behave or be gone. Understood?
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