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Nov 27, 2003, 1:51pm

I hope you have a good Thanksgiving day too, Mr Bruce --- with all the
trimmings!!! :o)

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Dec 1, 2003, 12:11pm

ep0ch... That was one assinine response you gave... :o(


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Dec 2, 2003, 1:05pm

Mr Bruce.. Please stop..


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Dec 17, 2003, 10:45am

Hello Ferruccio....

You write the article, take a screen capture, put them in a nice .zip file
and send it to newsletter at activeworlds.com ... That is the best way to see
what you want added to the AW Newsletter...

*hug*
Daphne


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Dec 19, 2003, 7:40pm

The bonus points feature was not meant to be used to give so very many
points to anyone finding the object they are attached to.. The points
were meant more to be a small reward for finding an object that was
well-hidding according to each participating world's specifications...
Please make note of this A1CT Command.. Thank you...


> Check out: http://www.andras.net/2003chhunt.html !!!
>
> --
> Andras
> "It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Dec 27, 2003, 5:10pm

"....we tried to tell her to stop doing the GKs job when a GK was on duty."

This program started in 1995, around June or July I believe... The GKs as
an organization didn't start till near the end of 1997... Would you like
to guess who did "the GKs job" before there were GKs???

The answer is that anyone that had the answer to a question being asked
would share it with the person asking... That person would usually pass on
the info if it was asked by someone else too.. In that way, people learned
this program...

In other words, there is NO REASON that GKs should think they have the
franchise on answering questions no matter where or when the question is
asked... Instead, they should try not being so arrogant about being a GK
and look at a non-GK helping as just that --- one person helping another...

Believe it or not, others helping out still goes on a lot, just not at the
Gate... At the Gate, the arrogant GKs in the group have threatened and
bullied people that are inclined to help into not doing so... That is sad...
I was even threatened with ejection if I didn't stop helping a person that
asked me for help at the Gate so I do know that some GKs are totally full of
themselves!!!

The Gate does NOT belong to the GKs... It belongs to AWI and through them,
their users...


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Dec 28, 2003, 2:32pm

""Then
> tell me what, exactly, are they there for? To babysit? To mindlessly post
> macros? (which totally annoys ppl, btw) Or to *try* and enforce the joke
of
> G-rated chat room guidelines????"" (from Tart Sugar)

Hello Tart Sugar...
I feel GKs are there to help Active Worlds gain more citizens and they do
that by offering newbies the basic "tools" they need to be able to use the
program... Not knowing what to do in such a strange environment (as VR is
to many people) can be quite scary and frustrating... And a scared,
frustrated newbie is a GONE one...

You have the BOLD text and that will make anything you say more noticable...
It should not bother you when others answer... If they are giving the right
answer then more power to them... You can take it easy and just listen
incase the answers given are wrong.. Then jump in with your BOLD with the
right answer if you know it...

You seem to want to do an excellent job as a GK but I think your "GK cloak"
seems to not be doing it's job well enough if your macros being repeated is
bothering you... I've always been told that imitation is the sincerest form
of flattery.. :o)

Go over the Guidelines and other tips you should have gotten during training
so that less things bother you while on the job...


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Dec 31, 2003, 5:14pm

I could probably tell you but then I'd have to kill you!!! LOL

Happy New Year, ActiveWorlds... :o)


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Jan 14, 2004, 6:31pm

...........and you too Andras... I hope you will stop and smell the roses
soon... You work entirely too hard at times!!!!! *HUGS*


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Jan 14, 2004, 6:30pm

CONGRATULATIONS AWI and friends for the good work in finally nailing this
kid even if it is through his father... I know a lot of hours went into
trying to put a stop to the type of abuses done by MATT...

I hope he gets a bit more than just his patties slapped when his Dad is made
fully aware of just what MATT's activities have brought down on him..


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Jan 18, 2004, 1:35pm

Gee,,, Are you a GK or just a wannabe? LOL


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Jan 20, 2004, 11:43am

Spoken like a person that is becoming fairly well-known to talk out of his
butt hole... How about you find that rock you just crawled out from under
and go back under it???

Listen, Drac... I think on the surface that you are a pretty nice man but
every chance you get you put America and Americans down.... Does everyone
in your country feel like you do about America??? How about you get your
government to stop accepting any money or other favors from our ignorant,
over-bearing country and then maybe you can rest easier and we can stop our
hard earned resources from going to a country that evidently hates us???


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Jan 20, 2004, 11:44am

What I said to Drac goes for you too, Rossyboy


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Jan 20, 2004, 11:45am

Amen, and thank you for that, Harvestmoon...


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Jan 21, 2004, 9:05pm

I don't agree with everything the US government is doing or has done in the
past but I still won't always sit still and watch others bash ALL of the US
based on what the politicos do... Hardly all of us agree with any one of
them 100% of the time.. We yell at them and cuss them out and give our
opinions too... Our opinions work best when ppl vote intelligently but it
seems that doesn't happen as often as it should... If it did then how could
George W. have gotten elected??? I would have thought having had his
father a president would have told the American ppl something!!! :o(

Just like other countries down through the ages, the "common" people either
believe what they are told or are just too busy putting bread on the table
to take on the whole of the political system that has evolved... Believe
me, it is now pretty far away from what our ancestors were trying to
create... BUT enough of the good we stand for does remain and is still worth
fighting for... That's why when you put the USA down you get it right back
at you...


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Jan 23, 2004, 1:01pm

[View Quote] If, in the early 1940's, America had done what you advocate in the previous
sentence, you would probably have grown up speaking German and revering
Hitler... If England and any more of Europe had fallen to the Nazis do you
think Germany would have let Finland keep it's freedom for much longer that
it already had???

I think it's safe to say that, as a people, we are a bit ashamed that it
took our government so long to do the right thing... We should have been
in there helping to stomp out the Nazi machine a few years earlier than we
were!!!

For years, Saddam Huessein has been killing with inpunity the people of the
country he seized control of... Before we move to help, how many should
die before their numbers begin to haunt us --- like the numbers of those
killed by Nazis now haunts us???

Jan 27, 2004, 11:01am

I learned a long time ago that the leadership of the GKs is nothing but a
clique.. Worship the ETLs or you are out of there.. Didn't matter if the
ETLs didn't do the job or that they completely play favorites... All that
mattered is that the rank and file GKs (and visitors to the Gate) worship
them simply because they were put in charge...

You are not allowed to pick up anything the ETLs don't want you to; such as
fallen banners... They can go build for months on end and do nothing for
the GK organization, but they will jump on your butt at the first sign of
you having any initiative... Like me, SweetSuzie learned the hard way...
"Let sleeping dogs lie" or get the hell out of the organization before they
make you crazy!!!

You'll never find me as a GK again UNLESS I'm the one in charge of all of
them... Things would definately change then.. *EG*


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Jan 31, 2004, 9:55pm

:o) Would you like one lump or two for this tempest in a tea pot?? *poke*
Crumpets, anyone???


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Jan 31, 2004, 9:56pm

That was a nice, well-meaning post...


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Feb 6, 2004, 12:15pm

My thoughts (almost) exactly, TartSugar...

The birthday builds hardly mean anything any more.. Used to be a good friend
would get a few other good friends to build a site and surprize you with it
and that meant something to the receiver... You actually had chatted with
each of the persons more than a few times and had a friendly relationship to
them...

Nowdays it's a group of mostly strangers having a building contest, without
much personal meaning behind it... They hear of a birthday and BOOM!!!
They run to a place to build a competition grounds...

You competition builders can go ahead and do your thing about birthdays but
I hope you don't mind that not everyone is one of the sheep to follow your
meaningless lead in that department...

ON DIFFERENT NOTE::
The group builds are in another catagory in my mind... They are a fairly
good thing for the Community... I can see them getting out of hand
eventually though if the movers and shakers of them don't consider the
whole...

If the ppl dreaming up these builds work to keep the non-elite buiders
involved so that a broad spectrum of styles makes up these Community builds,
then maybe they won't go the way the birthday builds have gone...




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Feb 6, 2004, 9:08pm

LNH and others... I said birthday builds aren't what they used to be... I
said nothing about memorials or get-well sites... Let's try not to roll
everything into this discussion, shall we??? :o)

Whether you are giving a heart-felt gift or competing depends on your reason
for building a BIRTHDAY build... If you don't know the person and they
don't know you then it means less to the receiver than a heart-felt one done
by a friend... That's mainly my point...

I've built at a few birthday sites and even started a few but they were only
for ppl I knew and liked... If I want to meet more ppl I know where to go
and it's not to a birthday site being built... If I want inspiration, I
visit worlds I haven't seen before...

Many of the ppl that do rush to build at every birthday site announced DO
compete whether they say they are competing or not... Are all ppl's
thoughts totally selfless while building and seeing what those around them
are building??? Somehow I doubt if all that many ppl's thoughts are
totally selfless... If you can't see some competition going on then you
probably aren't seeing quite clearly... And was there a reason for YOU to
take my post so personally that you had to fire back with a personal
remark?? :o)

Not all that build at birthday builds are "mindless competetors" (your
words, not mine)... Some do go build because they like the person or what
they stand for and want to help them celebrate their day... But there are
those that do just what I said -- rush to each site and build, build,
build - not even knowing the person they are expending the effort for!!!

""Do you realize there are 10s of people each month that these *gift
builders* waste their time competing on? Does that even make any sense
daphne???""

That is what you posted... I say that it only makes sense to me IF (and
that's a mighty big if) you know and like the person you are expending the
effort for... If you don't know them or don't like them then your gift is
hollow - it means nothing but that you were wasting your time showing off,
or shall we say, competing??? You meeting other ppl and you getting
inspiration are very SELF reasons for doing a site for anyone; not at all
selfless...

By The Way:::
You should never get reprimanded for using techniques that others have used
or using objects in a way that others came up with... This place is about
sharing... How do you think so many ppl did learn how to build if others
that had already learned didn't take the time to teach them or show them by
example??? We were all new to AW at one time or another, you know... :o)

By The Way:::
To me an ARTIST is someone that does "artistic" projects; not someone that
rushes from birthday site to birthday site to see how often they can get
their names at sites or do the most elaborate build... I didn't look artist
up in the dictionary though.. LOL

By The Way:::
The "gift" builders aren't the only outstanding ppl in our community...
Take a good look around and you just might see them at places other than
just birthday builds...

By The Way:::
Does't anyone want to come down on me for what I said about Community
Builds??? Very unlike this crowd not to find something wrong with my
thoughts on that too.. LOL


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Feb 6, 2004, 9:42pm

Speaking of the Cy Awards...

I just want to say that, in my opinion, giving a Cy for the best birthday
build is one of the most frivolous reasons for a Cy that was dreamed up...
BUT now that type of award is included, I'd like to suggest that it be
expand to reflect Community Builds, Get-Well Builds and Memorial/Condolence
builds...


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Feb 6, 2004, 10:16pm

""Whether you are giving a heart-felt gift or competing depends on your
reason
for building a BIRTHDAY build... ""

THAT is the gist of my post!!! Yes, some of the things I said are harsher
than they needed to be but then that's just me at times... :o)

Please ignore where in one post I said::: "" If you don't know them or don't
like them then your gift is hollow - it means nothing but that you were
wasting your time showing off, or shall we say, competing???"" That was
much harsher than what I actually feel about "the birthday site groupies"
and them building at each and every birthday site...

Although I work a lot at doing for others in AW, I'm not one of the Heart Of
Gold people like our Lara... :o) I'm too opinionated and voiceferous to
be a "Golden Heart"... :o) There are selfless ppl here but they aren't
all that common from what I've seen.. Lara is definately one of the
selfless and I like her a lot...

(Guess I should quit doing AW projects and come give you guys all my time
chatting and building... LOL)


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Feb 6, 2004, 10:22pm

huh???

If that was directed at me, would you care to elaborate???


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Feb 7, 2004, 10:06am

LOL Talk about vanity!!! Is this you being the center of the world
again??? :o)

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Feb 7, 2004, 12:59pm

:o) I propose that Mark Randall be consigned to a room full of middle-aged
women and see if he can keep up... LOL


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Feb 7, 2004, 4:31pm

:o) Well, I hardly meant to insult you, Lara, but you already know that..
*G*

I know that doing and teaching is a win-win situation... If I didn't get
something out of it for mysef I would not have done all the things for AW
and it's users that I have accomplished over the years...

I used to grab a tourist now and then to show them the basics of building...
I had even created a "subdivision"of sorts to take them to an area they
could learn in... I used to go to Juno Dome or the Gate and every tourist
I grabbed for a little "hands on building" ended up a citizen... :o) I took
pleasure in both the teaching and in the fact that I helped further AW's
population...

If it wasn't for The Real Pops and Andras, I might not have learned a good
deal of what I do know about building and how the browser sees what you put
down as objects... So, in my turn, I was taught also... I passed much of
that on to others even before AWSchool came into being, just like so many
before me had shared their knowledge...

How about we replace the word "selfless" with "generous"??? Would you admit
to that??? After all, your building supply yard is the most famous one in
AW and, as far as I know, you work diligently to keep it up to date.. :o)

*hugs*
Daphne

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Feb 7, 2004, 9:26pm

*G* Pipe down, young Marky, or we'll have a group sit-in ON YOU!!! LOL


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Feb 7, 2004, 9:23pm

hmmm... I don't know... Debauchery sounds pretty interesting to me!!! LOL


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Feb 15, 2004, 1:10pm

I confess... It's me... :o) And if you choose to believe that, then
I'll tell you another lie.. LOL


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