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Average Betty - so bad, it's .... oh, forget it!

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:43:55 UT

For more or to return to your ring
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Would-be blog post to Yahoo Mash blog

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:41:16 UT

To see if I've written more about this or return to your ring
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I just got censored on Tripod - Can you say "arbitrary"?

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:37:28 UT

For more about this subject or to return to your ring
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Blog Comment Re: Ma.gnolia Outage / The Matrix Files

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:19:03 UT

A comment that I submitted to a blog entitled "The Matrix Files", on a
post entitled "Oh Where, Oh Where Can My Bookmarks Be? Magnolia
Suffers Huge Outage!" follows. The article was at

thematrixfiles dot net/blog/magnolia-outage/

I'm declining to give that site a linkback for reasons which should

Re: Wikicafe: Let's see if this blog comment gets approved

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:06:57 UT

I've mentioned this post on Monday Never Comes,

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Wikicafe: Let's see if this blog comment gets approved

joe.dun...@gmail.com (Joe Dunphy) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:21:23 UT

Metacafe recently unveiled "wikicafe", a feature that will ultimately
allow its users to edit the titles, descriptions and tags of videos
uploaded by other users.

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If the users don't like the changes, that's no big deal, Metacafe
argues, because they can always edit the changes back. After which the

Re: Telling Yahoo what it does not want to hear

joe.dun...@gmail.com (Joe Dunphy) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:15:05 UT

If there are any followups to this post, you'll be able to find them
through this page

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Telling Yahoo what it does not want to hear

joe.dun...@gmail.com (Joe Dunphy) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:10:56 UT

Undiplomatic (but honest) remarks posted to this thread on the Jumpcut
suggestion board at Yahoo:

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See for yourself if it stays posted. If you're reading this ages after
the fact, like next year or something, know that at the time I wrote

Re: StumbleUpon and Chimpzilla: Just how stupid will this get, I wonder?

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:38:18 UT

That was a pleasant hike, once the wind died down, and I'm glad to say
that the temperature has risen above zero (Farenheit) again. Not much
more to be said about this: in response to emortis9's decision to go
trolling on the review page for my StumbleUpon blog and tell a few
lies, I went onto the review page for his and told the truth.

Re: StumbleUpon and Chimpzilla: Just how stupid will this get, I wonder?

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:11:43 UT

I'm burning daylight right now, so I think I'll take a break for a few
hours and go out to enjoy what is, in Chicago, a sunny and beautiful,
if fairly cold, midwinter day.

Re: StumbleUpon and Chimpzilla: Just how stupid will this get, I wonder?

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:10:03 UT

How about "what lies at the center of the discussion in any culture
even remotely worthy of respect"? If one looks at the Halls of Eternal
Disbelief, assembled with a great deal of labor on my part during the
bad old days of the Politically Correct 1990s, one sees what came out
of the need to deal with fashionable willingness to lie about what was

Re: StumbleUpon and Chimpzilla: Just how stupid will this get, I wonder?

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:20:01 UT

Naturally, I voiced an objection in the group the moment I saw what
the moderator had done, which is what the post you just saw a link to
came in response to, and got to see the usual intriguing ethics out of
one of the group's me-toos. Perhaps I'd better post what is up before
the moderator has a chance to get back to his usual tricks.

Re: StumbleUpon and Chimpzilla: Just how stupid will this get, I wonder?

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:41:56 UT

The moderator deleted almost every post in the thread, yanking my post
out of the context in which it had originally appeared, creating the
illusion that I was replying to something other than what I had
replied to. It was, and please forgive the cliche, a new low - as low
as I have seen moderators go, I had never seen one, anywhere, sink to

Re: StumbleUpon and Chimpzilla: Just how stupid will this get, I wonder?

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:53:25 UT

As is so often the case with online incidents, I never saw what hit
me. Stumbleupon has a number of discussion groups. "And you posted to
one of them?" Indeed, but I would point out that I've found social
networking sites to generally be far more civil than Usenet or its
latter day successors. This was going to be one of the exceptions.

StumbleUpon and Chimpzilla: Just how stupid will this get, I wonder?

commonsense666atl...@yahoo.com (Joseph Dunphy) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:13:09 UT

Old Popular Hypothesis about the Internet: Today's moderators are
yesterday's trolls ...

Dunphy's Disclaimer: ... but that doesn't mean that they can't be
today's trolls as well.

Fairly recently (Nov.23), I became a user of a site called
"StumbleUpon". You can find a link to my blog at Stumbleupon here