Topazz; Free Urqers----what hit us? We need half-life data before we can safely emerge aboveground.

Tag, I guess you're it.....

Now even she is gone, my one link to those terrible events. Am I even now certain they transpired at all?

Topazz appears to be the latest self-immolating Buddhist.

Good thing we got our priorities straight around here. That girl was nothing but trouble. Glad she's gone. Things'll be more orderly now. Whew, what a relief.

Was she ever even on our side? Is she hero, martyr, double agent, dupe, or quisling?

I'm very glad you're here, thanks.

Her post was deleted, sure - but was she actually banned?

Absofuckinglutely bizarre.

Meanwhile, that guy who posted the expose on Archaeopteryx - the personal information that, though personally identifying, identified some other poor schmuck - he's still posting unimpeded?

Look, I understand we all have priorities and all, but they're easier to respect if they make some sort of logical sense. I mean, thank God they dealt with a couple incorrigible troublemakers like you and Topazz, right?

WTF?

FB, keep the subject-lines on (off) topic here, please?

It remains to be seen. The "logic" is the logic of the hornet's nest, once aroused.

Fuck! Go away for a few days and everything goes tits up! WTF?

Any explanation for Urk being banned? Topazz?

Like you said, all this after allowing the shit that CD was posting, including publication of (incorrect) personal identifying information about Arch!

If there is any logic behind this, it sure as fuck eludes me!

She may also have simply deleted her reply to this thread before it was replied to.

An official press release has not been issued; just an opaque warning on tags and ratings generally, above.

How's that?

BOTF is often-enough bizzaroworld these days. We need to retain all of the sane people* we can.

*I recognize this category may not include the brain-damaged, such as myself, but the point still stands. Perhaps I could get credit as a half-sane person - sort of like a Florida delegate.

I completely agree, FB---there are many, many other worthy targets for editorial discipline, even among those who also contribute good material here. Well, we invaded Iraq.

Maybe the best trope is the periodic awakenings of a Godzilla or a Gamera ("Gamera doesn't mean to step on people---he's just lonely"). Even though some innocents or relative innocents are lost once the beast is roused from his slumbers, the resultant rampage is distributively just nonetheless because of humanity's ill-use of the ecosystem. All have fallen short of the glory of Tags.

I understand - it's the logic of the apocalyptic Christian.

See? Everything really is turning out like they said it would in the bible.

Just a couple of rough beasts, slouching off to Best of the Fray to be banned.

Shall we start taking nominations for the part of Mothra?

What burns me most of all is your disenfranchisement. The votes of you and countless others (well, 15) were cast aside by a petty bureaucrat, and what sort of democracy is that?

I'm told by back-channel dealings with Urquhart that he is willing to forego tags, if the deputy sub-editor is willing to leave BOTF the hell alone and let someone with a rudimentary sense of humor handle it.

Then again, he fired off another insulting (though undeniably accurate) email to the deputy sub-editor lately. Happens every time Topazz gets banned. Sort of a reflex. So rapproachement seems ever more distant.

Hell. We expect it. But Urq? I shake my head in disbelief.

So, does this mean the folks who were tagging catnapping for all that time have been banned too? Or is the protest parody is somehow more offensive than the primary offense?

I guess sarcasm is now a bannable offense.

My new tag for posts pertaining to presidential campaigns: Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

Hey - it's topical and relevant.

Is she really banned, then? And you played Abelard to her Heloise? Luckily, there are many more options than existed in his day, technologically speaking....