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A Public Service Announcement

Pursuant to our awareness that the membership agreement/community guidelines do not always appear as prominently as we would like when new users from outside SBN join Lookout Landing, I have added them permanently to the sidebar. They are visible beneath the divisional standings, which is as elevated as is allowed. We are going to (continue to) be strict in enforcing these rules. Ignorance of them is no longer a viable excuse.

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Is it possible to move them up even higher?

Like below the disclaimer on game threads? Even if not, it’s good to finally have these visible.

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They are visible beneath the divisional standings, which is as elevated as is allowed.
I didn't realize "as is allowed" meant by SBN at first reading
Any way to put it right underneath the Narrow/Wide links?
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They are visible beneath the divisional standings, which is as elevated as is allowed.
Does this mean we can't discuss this?
Does this mean Mark Lowe can start at 3rd base?
It would be a blow to the defense, but it would be worth it.
So your saying that raising them higher than the standings is out of the question?
You're.
I think you're mistaken
You should find a way to integrate the guidelines into the Lexus ads
God those are dumb.

If your in wide mode you can’t see them at all.

In wide mode, can see then
I wish that was true, Scruffy
I'm in wide mode on a standard 4:3 type monitor

I can barely see the edges of them, which makes them that much more annoying

It takes 5 minutes for the lexus ads to show up before I can start using C-Z to skip thru messages

It reallys sucks. But I want to own one now.

Boy two years ago I bet you never thought you'd be posting this.
I'm the newest kid on the block, so this is exremely conveinient.

I love this place, and i’m never leaving.

Crap...

*Extremely

Please use proper spelling around these parts :P
I assume smileys are a no-no?
Yes, no chatspeak.
I thought smilies were ok within context

Don’t abuse them, but they can have their place. At least that’s what I’ve been led to believe

Preferred emoticons are:

:P or >:(

):<
Hat and mustache man!
Makes me think of one of the mythbusters... I think it's Jaime.
the authors and many regular commenters use smileys all the time
Smileys are OK

chatspeak is a no-no

all things in moderation
and by all things I meant smileys and not chatspeak which is never OK
Okay good to know
And all rules are subject to change

When a joke gets old, or something becomes annoying, it will be labeled a “dead meme” and you’ll be ridiculed for continuing to use it.

On a more serious note, though

I do wonder if there is a way to put them on the right sidebar. I say this because the guidelines don’t appear to be showing up inside of a thread. This could be helpful because some people may get directly into threads via RSS or Yahoo links

Listen to this man, he is wise

(this is a worded way of saying +1)

I think you mean rec'd
We should take a picture of them and use them as the logo
I am surprised Lexus hasn't bought out the logo space yet.
Or you could rename the site Don't Be A Douchebag Around Here

that’d be good for traffic.

Or you could rename the site hotchickswithdouchebags.com

and post pictures of hot chicks with douchey looking guys

Attractive girls in Red Sox hats?
It's not that bad if they're navy blue hats with red lettering
If it's an attractive girl who gives a damn what color her hat is?
Listen to this man, he is wise.
(this is a worded way of saying +1)
Clothes matter.

Pink hats are terrible.

You can thank

Alyssa Milano for that one.

That's not the only thing she's been transmitting amongst baseball players
If you're alluding to STDs, I find it appalling.

It’s beneath this site’s standards.

He meant whooping cough from all the shared charity functions.

The fact that you would insult Alyssa Milano, Fine Upstanding Citizen, in that way is disgraceful.

I know, right? Waaaay out of line.
Well, actually, no.

Cutesy t-shirts, yes, but the pink hats have been attributed by some to … the M’s.

Sigh. from the PI back in 2004:

“After joining the Mariners in 2000, director of merchandise Julie McGillivray wanted to offer a baseball hat in pink, which she thought would sell well among women. The manufacturers she approached, however, initially couldn’t produce that shade. “They were shocked,” said McGillivray, who used to be a buyer for Bon-Macy’s.

A pink hat debuted in 2001, followed by a tank top with pink straps and a T-shirt with the Mariners name in pink. Now such non-traditional colors are common; some items are even sold in competing team colors."

Gag.

From my observation, the girls I meet and know who are donning baby pink M’s gear are usually the ones who cried the day Jeremy Reed went away.

I have never, ever, head of anyone lamenting the loss of Jeremy Reed.

Besides, the trade that sent Reed to the Mets helped us get Franklin Gutierrez, People’s Sexiest Man of the Century.

But now that all our problems would be solved by a left-handed bat

Don’t you wish you had sexpot Jeremy back in M’s gear?

I never considered him sexpot.
Which is one of the unpublished reasons he left.
Maybe I'm in the minority.

But, I just don’t see it.

Then again, my taste in dudes is often questioned..

HERESY!

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTCCCHHHH!!!!!!!

You wouldn't be the first

To say that.

Jeremy Reed

Always looks kinda greasy to me. I can’t decide if that’s hot or not…

As voted on by men
Gotcha.

I totally respect man-crushes.

That doesn't invalidate your opinion of, say, King Felix, does it?
Felix is a mastodon
Last I saw Felix was in no way extinct or in the process of becoming a tar pit
Felix is the bomb.

But pitching prowess aside, meh.

Let the stoning begin…

His pitching prowess makes him hot.

He could look like Jason Vargas and we’d still find him dreamy.

Felix, Gutz, etc. are sexy because of what they DO more so than because of what they look like.
Well this comment was poorly thought-out.
I agree.

If only I could yell out, ’You’re SO SEXY!‘, after say a Felix K or a Gutz hit without having parents frown upon me. That’d be the life.

Well, with Lookout Landing,

it looks like you’ve found the proper kind of outlet for your emotions.

Thank goodness.

I can now rest in peace.

And NOLA.

She’s the one who Christened Gutz with the name “Sex in Midair.”

Nola's a girl?
Not a question.

NOLA is a girl and a fine one at that.

Well that came out a bit stronger then I intended.
Way to go now everybody knows your true feelings
Especially since she's you stepmom
That's because you used a period at the end of your sentence.
Pffft

There’s no girls on the internet

I'm alive

And breathing.

Well I'll be dipped

(and in case it’s being questioned, I was being about as tongue in cheek as I can be with my comment)

Poochie, you are one outrageous dude.
I miss him because he is crazier than a shithouse rat.
To me, how she dresses makes up a large portion of whether or not she is attractive.
It's easily 40-50%.
I agree for the most part

but I have never cared about things like hat color when considering how a woman dresses.

Girls aren't attractive in Red Sox hats.
Kind of reminds me of that movie, Anger Management

I am not sure if posting the picture would be appropriate, though.

Girls aren't attractive in hats period.
Except Jeff's special lady friend of course.
And any other regulars that I haven't seen pics of them wearing hats.

They are attractive as well.

This turned into a Corco subthread real quick
Is this a comment about my butt kissing abilities?
More about replying to yourself.

Repeatedly.

What's the record for most replies to self in one thread?

And would we call this phenomenon “Corcoing?”

Let this not be construed as an attempt for anyone to set said record please
Good call. Should've added that disclaimer.

Come to think of it, it might be what Corco pulled off in the Hitler Mustache/War of 1812/“Getting to 100 one post at a time” thread.

Coach can be silly sometimes.
I wish Coach would hang out here more often.

He hasn’t been around much since I joined.

Can't blame him with the way he's usually treated though

Even when he’s acting fairly normal people still twist his words and don’t take him seriously

He is legendary and has massive amounts of seniority over me.

I would treat him as a god.

I'll pass that along to him if he doesn't see it while reading up on stuff
Maybe he should have avoided continually being a flaming retard for most of his career then
He lurks frequently.
Coach is generally awesome and once he develops a thicker skin he'll be even more so
This might be interpreted as me being needy, but I'm genuinely curious.

Do you all see a noticeable improvement in my and Coach’s posting? I’ve certainly been trying to be more conscious of when to not hit “post.”

You're getting better, yes.

Don’t stop working on it though.

I have noticed an improvement

you’re much better when you have something to contribute though – posts that say just “YES” or the equivalent don’t add much. But yeah, keep working on it and you’ll do fine.

Coach sucks and he isn't even entertaining anymore
The proper term for this is "Dola"
Really?

That’s not going to stop me from wearing mine.

From a female perspective, I love it when dudes sport caps, with the exception of NY caps.

I know my view on the subject is the minority.

I just never liked a girl wearing a ball cap. Unless its while watching a football/baseball game. I don’t mind the wearing of ball caps for the purpose of team-spirit.

I second this whole-heartedly.

Baseball caps always remind me of really trashy women for some reason. Other types of hats are alright though.Team-spirit is always acceptable.

Good to know.

I will take all of this into consideration before I purchase another cap.

Bah baseball caps on girls are awesome.
I wish

There was a ‘thumbs up’ button somewhere for this.

There is. Click the "actions" button and then click "recommend" to give me a "rec."

We will all sell our souls to get these.

Ah.

Awesome. Thanks for the heads up, I’m such a noob.

Rec begging is a both pathetic and a dead meme
Somebody is jealous.
Robert probably has several thousand times as many recs as I do.

But yes, I suppose rec begging is was dead memed a while ago.

I don't think Robert is jealous of anyone's recs

a 150 rec+ and 50,000 recs will do that for you

I am not jealous but my people have been persecuted off the once fertile land

: _(

Trashy, huh.

I better toss all my caps.

Don't you dare.
I'm going to start wearing picture hats.

Really large picture hats that will impede the view of most of the row behind me.

Girls in hats are awesome

As are girls in jerseys. Really, just girls with a good knowledge of baseball. That’s flat-out sexy.

A better way of phrasing this:

I don’t find any girls attractive in hats period.

I comma, myself comma, think there are circumstances in which girls wearing hats are quite cute peroid.
Hats bring joy.
Is this a topic worth pursuing?
I am trying to reduce the amount of declaratory statements made because they increase the amount of clutter

when people respond to question said declaratory statements. Plus, it’s just better form.

Yeah

I just get an uneasy feeling whenever da boys of LL start waxing on about what and who they find sexually appealing.

I miss Librocrat.

Note – I don’t miss that.

Am I being scrutinized for my improper sentance structure?

Or for not liking girls in hats? I’m lost..

Matthew's trying to get you to use "I think" instead of "Girls aren't"

In other words, make opinions, not statements of fact.

One implies just your opinion

the other implies that plus that everyone else’s standards a wrong

In this subthread; the former.
I assumed that it would be clear that it was simply my opinion.
Assumptions are not as foolproof as properly phrasing your sentences.
Whatever dude,

I stopped doing that before SBN 2.0

Certainly not Michiganders, amirite?
Remind me to tell you about the summer of lesbians with Chelseas some time.
Ahhhh. The Chelsea.
What if they are wearing only hats?
TOO FAR.
Not really.
This was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
This raises a valid point
Indeed.
I wish I knew girls Matthew found attractive.

Bet we could find some shots of them looking lovely in hats.

There are like three of them on the entire planet.
The truth is

Matthew is a robot with no reproductive organs.

You are the second person to take my comment this way, so I will clarify because I do not want people to think incorrectly of me.

I was not offering my opinion on the subject of women wearing hats. I was simply saying the d0nkey should have phrased it as an opinion rather than as a statement of fact.

Oooh linguistic pet peeve time!

The use of the word “period” for emphasis is redundant, because of that little dot at the end of the sentence. That one’s always bugged me, even more so than “ATM Machine”.

But a standard period conveys no sense of definitiveness or finality.

I think “period” is a perfectly acceptable, as long it isn’t overused. What’s your objection, aside from pet peevedness?

Redundancy.

A standard period is a perfectly emphatic way to end a sentence.
A standard period is a perfectly emphatic way to end a sentence. Period.

There’s no added heft to that second sentence. Saying “period” at the end doesn’t really add any emphasis that using the punctuation mark alone doesn’t already apply.

I would disagree.

I feel it does add weight.

Although that weight is better used when speaking it

Doesn’t carry the same emphasis when typed out

I think that it started as a spoken thing, where you can't see the period at the end of someone's sentence.

It’s like when I’ve seen people type “quote-unquote” when they can just use quotation marks.

I've never seen that.

And I hope I don’t because you will not find the body of anyone who types that to me.

I think it was in one of the articles

FJM did. I almost shit my pants when I read it.

Or UPC Code
Unless the sale of UPC stripes has its own separate code

which would just be confusing.

PIN number gets me.
I see the value in that only because the word PIN in itself is something else.
It keeps people from trying to make needlepoint of ATM machines.
There's a machine for that?
So much for an "I see what you did there"
Just start saying PI number

and then make the number 3142

Thanks to one of my math teachers in high schoo, I'd need a ~20 digit PIN.

God.

Me too, except I was a dork and just figured it out on my own

These days I’m good for about 10-15 or so

I remember the number of the library card I had from 3rd grade to 5th grade.

My brain works in mysterious ways.

I still remember my employee number from Best Buy

Though I worked there 7 years ago. I also remember every address I have lived at (6 now), starting with my first home that we left when I was 7

LCD display?
I hear VIN number daily in my line of work

And it was the same while selling cars. That kind of redundancy drives me nuts

I wouldn't say period

but often a hat makes a girl less attractive

There needs to be a term for doucebags of the female gender.
I took 'with douchebags'

to mean ‘attached to the Boston Red Sox’

Don't rule out the girls who like Yankee fans.
The Yankees are so 90s.
Their douchebaggery is eternal
They're just douchers..
Welcome to LL.
It's his welcome-to-the-big-leagues moment!
Bleeth
Not a fan of 'ol Yasmine, eh?
Well no, but it is actually a term.
Well, doucebag means 'sweet bag', so that's a bit feminine...
Bleeth

When a chick goes straight up Paris Hilton. I saw quite a few of them Friday and Saturday night down by the Bullpen Market…

I thought it meant "cleansing bag," since "to shower" in French is "doucher"
Well, yes, when it is spelled douche, and not douce...
Curse you and your conscientious ways.
Damn English majors.
Little Douche Coup
"UNINTENTIONAL WALKS DRAWN"

Hahahaha. Brilliant.

You're just noticing this now?
How long's it been there for?
At least three weeks
...

On May 4th.

We need the Yuni monkey gif sidebarred.
Yuni headbanging in a Lexus.
Ah.
...and now you may read the LORE OF THE PANTER!!!
Has there been any consideration made in replacing this?
“By reading a game thread of your own volition you agree to accept all liability for any and all damage done to your delicate sensibilities.”

Or at least swapping it with the current location of the Membership agreement? Seems like this would be a more important thing to emphasize than warning people about the nature of game threads. If it’s possible, of course.

People do also need a fair warning on GT conduct.
I still think the game thread warning has merit though

having a game thread be one’s first exposure to LL would be a rather jarring experience, I would think.

All game threads are jarring experiences and I've been through plenty of them
But if that were the first thing you ever saw at LL it might not be the welcome-to-LL moment that the mods would like

so at least with the warning up there people know what they’re getting into.

This is what got me hooked!
I mean this in the nicest of ways, but please go seek help.

See if Johnbai has an opening in his schedule.

I am a functioning addict.
I can't help you if you insist on remaining in denial

At least take stock of the cost of your addiction. Have you lost friends? Are you less productive? Has it threatened your job, your family or your health? When you’re ready to admit the sad answers to these questions… then you’ll be ready to take the first step of the rest of your life.

All of these things are true since the summer of 2007 when I joined LL.

What is the cure?

???


Click for full size.

As any addict will tell you

there is no “cure”. You will always be an addict. You have to manage each day one at a time. You cannot control the past or the future… you only have today… and today you must choose whether to use or not to use.

If you are asking what strategies can help you manage your addiction, that is another question entirely.

My first LL GDT had that little red furball gif and Benny Hill music synced with 9/11 footage.

I turned out fine.

Ahhh, those were the good times.

Now all you have is softcore and/or furrie gifs.

And FiddleCat
Little known fact - Muppets are just midget furries.
Don't mess up Muppets for me.
Yea, but what about swapping them?

Is it more problematic that people are shell shocked when they go into a game thread or when people are freely using chatspeak, no capitalizing words, no subject line, etc. in any thread?

Bah.
Huh?
You expect someone who advertises their love of the Oklahoma City Thunder to make sense?
Holy shit. There are other Thunder fans here?

I was afraid of coming out. I can’t quit Durant.

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

Sonics fans automatically became hijack city fans if the user didn’t manually change their SBN profile. This was not a very smart admission, I’m afraid

I set it up, you spike it over the net!
The PRC and NPE governments are collaborating?

whaaaaa???

Oceania is at war with Eurasia.

We have always been allied with East Asia!

Four legs good, two legs bad

oh wait

zomg no allegory!
Oh. Shit. Well, then.

I guess it’s out now. Sorry, but I can’t not root for that team. I tried not looking up their box scores everyday, I really did.

I obviously loathe Clay Bennett. I wouldn’t be caught dead in a Thunder jersey and would never fork over money to the franchise. Even the games I do watch are streamed online for free. But I never had any problems with the team from Sam Presti on down. They’re just trying to win basketball games.

Did they?

I could’ve sworn it just took my NBA fandom away, which is exactly what happened when the Sonics died.

As a non-basketball fan,

I couldn’t really start the OKC bombing jokes.

But as a fan of OKC bombing jokes, I’m sorry they never took off here.

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