Taking itself seriously.
Not taking itself seriously enough.
I don't care, give me a cookie.
Here! http://donnasgourmetcookies.com/images/cookies.jpg
#I'm bored. that's why I made this.
#it's also a joke.
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Taking itself seriously.
Not taking itself seriously enough.
I don't care, give me a cookie.
Here! http://donnasgourmetcookies.com/images/cookies.jpg
#I'm bored. that's why I made this.
#it's also a joke.
Give me a cookie and I may answer.
I think DV is not taking itself seriously enough because we ought to realize that DV is better than cookies, we are the best thing possibly since apple pie, psychologists should routinely prescribe this site for all kinds of ailments including boredom.
I do like apple pie. and I'm sure I have apples and pie crust...
I would have added Apple Pie to the poll, but it appears I cannot edit it now.
Mmmmm..... Apple pie and ice cream. Luckily I have both
Awww I have none of these sweets...and I think I'm getting hypoglycemia.
But i think DV has found good place in between taking itself seriously and not serious enough.
Poll removed, OP, repliers, voters, and viewers all banned.
Somebody better bake me a cake or I'll smash it right in their face..
Take THAT seriously :angry:
I'd take DV over a cookie any day.
Takes itself WAY too seriously but like who is going to refuse a cookie?
Banned due to ninja campaigning for the cookie vote. Also yomi is banned for linking it chat.Quote:
Originally Posted by saltyseedog
Banned for banning everybody :>Quote:
Originally Posted by AURON
Someone is taking his role as admin way too seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by AURON
Gannon-banned?
If he was, you would be banned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yomi
And if there was a bannable offense.
And if there were no cookies. But damn, cookies and no tea? There may be a bannable offense after all. Unless there is beer. Then it's all forgiven.
And you missing a 4th option.
4. Just right.
:thumbup: I agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by gab
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Originally Posted by Yomi
I think you're thinking of OpheliaBlue, she's way serious about her job.
Can't you tell?
http://www.dreamviews.com/customavat...atar905_46.gif
Auron is an admin? When the hell did that happen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yomi
I hate when people become admins. I consider them awesome friend-like people and then they're labeled as superior and they get all cold and the power goes to their head. It happens EVERY TIME.
The staff list hasn't changed. It was merely the incorrect term. Admin instead of moderator.
Staff is a team and no one person is superior to any other. The contributions and volunteer-time of staffmembers speak for themselves. :)
I don't know about the specific mods on this forum, but it's a fact that power tends to go to people's heads, at least a bit, in general. Maybe it doesn't happen here, I have no idea. But you're definitely awesome and not like that.
But even if the power isn't going to someone's head at all (it is just an online forum :cheeky:), my reaction is the same. It's hard to feel that someone is equal and act naturally around a person if you know they have any authority over you, like the power to ban you and give you infractions and lock your threads. Maybe it's only me who feels that way, but I think it's more likely just an unavoidable part of human psychology.
Yea... just you.
Also... the fuck. this should be in senseless banter.... and then locked for being to senseless.
You're a chat mod. All the people who say it's bs seem to coincidentally be mods.
I used to feel uncomfortable around moderators when I came here because at the online forum where I came from before, threads would get closed because there was a chance of them turning ugly if they continued on current course and everyone had the worst intensions and no self restraint, and one got censored to the point where people would start self censoring with phrases like "I respectfully disagree with your opinion ...". I was made to doubt whether I am a good enough parent by the number of times the mods there reminded me that this was a general audience site and what I posted had not been appropriate, even though I had shown it to my very young kids. Etc etc
I have learned a lot while on DV, and one of the things I have been learning is to trust mods. The DV mods are ok.
Whether it's about getting people to know to practice self-restraint or encouraging they can be a bit more serious at times, it will all come down to people wanting the sporadic nature again. Especially when people notice others that get banned, only for them to actually miss that person that was banned because while they know they did some horrible things, they still find ways to justify wanting them back (because they never really bothered them).
Especially when we know about the previous occurrences in DV where we had to gather and inform members, even the ones we didn't like, to make sure their accounts and other valuable information (with the passwords and all) wouldn't be compromised. So while it feels like some sporadic battlefield, if the sporadic nature with general audience were eliminated (like with the previous event where everyone's account had the chance to be compromised), it was obvious from the start that people need other people to feed information and argue about, or just go about being gregarious in many ways.
Other than sections on DV that actually have conflict, it's made apparent that areas like Extended Discussion and such obviously have the disclaimer to expect one's views and concepts of things to be challenged (but people will obviously censor themselves with ending things as agreeing to disagree and other cop-outs). And I know there has to be some breaking point for mods take some action, but honestly, when people think those sections are like battlefields rather than for once seeing your worldview of things being broken, they would take the chance to just swallow their pride and realize they could be wrong in some things.
As for mods, it's funny how there's some people that feel they're "Nazis", especially whatever choice or judgement they decide to enforce, people will still find some way to whine and complain.
>*Mod edits pictures from sexy hawt female thread*
>>User: Omfga FDSAKLSDFA mods!
>*Mod locks senseless banter thread*
>>User: Ofmsagkjdakg they're preventing me from having incomprenhisble banter! SDAFJSKDGAJDGK!@#^
>*IRC server gets changed*
>>UseR: OFAMSG KEEBALI WTF IS THAT, G4YYYY
>>*Mod edits person's signature*
>>User: Wtf, you disabled my ability to express myself! MY LIFE IS OVER BECAUSE OF YOU
Oh, this forum is lovely.
I'm a mod.
I see no problem with this discussion.
Carry on.
:)
You know I go to more than one place right? That I don't spend all of my time in DV. I go elsewhere, and I'm not staff there. And I have no problems with mods.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dianeva
So the story I'm getting out of this is, Auron is an admin, but he's not. Also, mods hate this thread, but two of them have replied, and it seems they don't mind. Don't trust admins, because power goes to their heads. Admins also don't care about this thread. The only person who cares about this thread moderates chat. Since he moderates chat, and cares, all mods think this thread is BS even though 2 out of 3 of them didn't care.
Here are the facts I'm getting. People take me way too seriously when I say banned for x,y,z in a thread. (fun fact, mods don't announce bans in thread everyone can see, it's just poor tact.) Mel and Auron don't give a fuck, and anderj probably doesn't care because this thread isn't about bacon. Auron isn't an admin....he wants to be, but he's too evil/good to get there. No matter what nifty feedback that has been given by staff in general, no one that has authority over this thread is going to do anything about it. Sparta mods chat. So no one cares what he says unless he's in chat. And finally, those cookies need more details.
Ok ok, I feel the desire to explain what happened that night. I was at the beauty parlor, no wait, the mall, the MALL. At Dillards. No Macy's. And one of those ladies sprayed me in the face with, something. And I had a reaction.Quote:
Originally Posted by melanieb
Actually, I just wanted y'all to see what Alex really looks like.
Actually, I don't really care. People can hate me all they want. I'm here to moderate chat, and that's it. People want to hate me for that, then fine. Their problem, not mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by AURON
Correction....none of the staff gives a crap about the thread. Also, I hate you...I hate you so hard. When We finally meet in RL I'm going to poison myself, and use my last remaining strength to let you know how much I hate you. Then I'm going to haunt the shit out of you in the afterlife.
Damn, I so friggin love every single post in this retarded thread. Booyah. You know, that NSA is also paying attention to this potential threat to NS. And you say we don't care, pfff.
big brother is watching you.......Quote:
Originally Posted by gab
What are we talking about here?
spoons, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpaceCowboyDave
There is no spoon.
Dreaming is serious business.
I believe DV is doing all of the OPs suggestions.
There are some on here that treat every post very seriously.
There are others that argue at every opportunity.
Then there are the helpful ones, with polite replies to all.
There are strict moderators, and relaxed moderators. ( Not saying which )
You get the verbal type that joins because the forum exists, and they just want to chat.
The lurkers must be laughing at us, with their 'under a dozen' comments/replies.
All in all, a typical, succsessful forum, with a mixed bunch of loonies.
Where the fuck is the option for "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too seriously"?
Present. I don't even care about dreaming, I just wanna talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by TiredPhil
That would be anyone who does not get a good nights sleep, or his/her leg over to ease the stress.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesus of Suburbia
And I do agree with you 100%
There are some "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too serious people on here"
Love the afro, dude. :shadewink:
you forgot the ones who come just to post pictures and videos. (yep, that's me :D)Quote:
Originally Posted by TiredPhil
I come for the coooookies!!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1...l6nho1_500.gif
Do you think this is a fucking joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkmatters
Um... yes.
Sorry I called you an admin instead of a mod. >_>Quote:
Originally Posted by AURON
Ultra level detail cookies. Right. Speaking of bacon, I'm having some right now.
I only hate you .5% of the time, Sparta.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparta
That is some hardcore shit, sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by AURON
Um...if the staff don't care, then why is the staff posting here?
Funny Spongebob - you actually give a shit dont you
Wall of Text.Quote:
Originally Posted by Linkzelda
Quote:
Originally Posted by SpaceCowboyDave
Don't be tryin' to hijack my thread and turn it into spoons.Quote:
Originally Posted by splodeymissile
Sorry. So sorry. Didn't think of that option.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesus of Suburbia
But spoons are so great they deserve to be photographed and framed. (Bonus cookie and a modicum of sympathy for those that get the reference)
Too seriously or not seriously enough?
Hmm...
I say no.
http://i.imgur.com/lOTeS3z.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by splodeymissile
http://i.imgur.com/3zf5yQs.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/YNnwmgJ.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/srPOT0Q.jpg?3
takes itself too seriously-sigh-cant even make a thread
Dreamguide is the place to be really. Good friends with mods but still bossed around by them enough to fit it in with the general crowd :D
P.s just kidding, the mods here are great. The amount of work that goes on in the background here to keep this site perfect is phenomenal. It's a little strict sometimes but nothing we shouldn't handle. Be grateful that the mods even exist!!
They made me a mod briefly. It was actually because I was writing subversive texts that didn't conform to the agenda, so they ingested me into the system. They loaded me up on koolaid filled with psychedelics and subjected me to mesmerism and 'Identity Conformism Programming' and dissolved my personality. But it's ok - honestly I don't even miss the parts that are gone now.
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Originally Posted by Darkmatters
http://i.imgur.com/oea8dFY.png
What! I didn' get Koolaid!Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkmatters
That's what they want you to think.Quote:
Originally Posted by ♥Mark
I didn't get this thread from the beginning and still don't. Taking itself too seriously? What does that mean? Who's taking DV too seriously exactly? The people in it? Are we personifying DV itself? The owner? The admins or mods?
^^ who cares, just have a cookie and enjoy yourself.
I believe this thread started out as the original poster being bored, and posting a thread without any intention of it going the way it went. I think it is interesting the way this thread went though. It would have been a completely different thread if it had attracted the attention of people who enjoy exchanging cookie recipies and if the staff had ignored it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dianeva
What are you saying? No cookie for me?Quote:
Originally Posted by JoannaB
Your cookies have already been installed.
Joanna gives gab a virtual cookie.Quote:
Originally Posted by gab
Could I please have a cookie? I'm feeling rather peckish.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoannaB
Joanna gives a virtual cookie to splodeymissile.Quote:
Originally Posted by splodeymissile
*om nom nom* (nearly unintelligible): thank you! *nom*
This thread delivered... Sort of.
Virtual Cookies!!!! Oh crap :(Quote:
Originally Posted by JoannaB
I read 3 pages of this and just now find out the cookies may as well be in my dreams.
Link,,, What a lot of work for a joke. Thank you, I laughed my butt off.
Yeah me too - thanks for making me a star (literally!) :lol:
Wait wait wait, DV isn't a person?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dianeva
I knew it, we all got koolaided. I should have realized it after my last two trips to alternate reality, where DV was an actual person AND a building. I'm getting a feeling, that this is the alternate reality and that was the real thing. Wake up, wake up!Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick
A collective conciousness derived from a group of people, all with same mindset.
I would say D'V' is now a self aware entity.
I would be the dry sense of humor.
Whoa, damn, so the DV building and a person I visited, could have been for real, as you say, a thought form, created by minds of DV members. My mind is now boggled. It is all true.Quote:
Originally Posted by TiredPhil
The building may have been real, but the person is now a part of the DV collective.
You are also a piece in the puzzle. So saying you visited a person is like saying you visited your hand, or another part of your body.
There is now no boundary between you and the person you visited.
As with all the members, WE ARE ONE.
I saw this on either a psychadelic trip, or an eppisode of Star Trek.
Either way, I need some therapy. :panic:
Sounds more like the The Matrix. ONE = NEOQuote:
Originally Posted by TiredPhil
Why u not STOP:PANIC ?Quote:
Originally Posted by TiredPhil
DID SOMEONE SAY PANIC
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcomrltt3P1rpdosc.gif
Threads like this are why I love DV.
Apple cobbler kicks apple pie's ass any day of the week, by the way.
How can an apple pie with only the top crust, kick the ass of an apple pie that has both top and bottom crusts. This just doesn't compute.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnowyCat
Quote:
Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue
BUt wait,,, Cobblers have that sweet crumbly stuff, maybe it is some sort of ass kicking device. It does taste yummy. However, I do not get real cookies or apple pie... :(
Wait! I can just go buy cookies!!!
(runs off to the store...)
I wish I had a room full of clocks, like all the walls
clocks
everywhere
wow even the ceiling omg.
Why the hell would you wish that? I'd constantly be reminded I was running out of time and the ticking would drive anyone crazy.
True, if anything, an apple crumble comes closest to competing to an apple pie.Quote:
Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue
As do crumbles. Funny thing is cobblers, pie's and crumbles are basically all identical. A lot of people use different terms depending where you are. Traditionally only pie has a baked crust all around it, but really all of them can.Quote:
Originally Posted by sivason
My favourite would be a crumble with an all around crust, mainly because I had a delicious homemade blueberry crumble about an hour ago :D
My mother's apple pies always had awful crusts, so I guess I've been scarred.
My childhood was traumatic.
I remember I was 16 years old when I had my first chocolate chip cookie. I had just moved to the US, and a boy in my class shared one with me. So of course for the next year or year and a half I had a secret crush on this boy. :) Although part of me suspects in hindsight that he knew, because he took advantage of my crush by shamelessly copying homework from me - I was a good student, he was the class president and apparently did not see the need for doing his own homework if someone else could do it for him. Toward the end of senior year, I suspected he was gay, because he commuted home with another boy who was his best buddy, and the two of them went to the prom together. Then again, I too went with same gender friend to prom, because I was too shy and introverted and nerdish to get a date, and I am not gay. But I know this boy could easily have gotten a dozen dates if he had wanted it, then again maybe that was the problem, maybe he did not want to limit his options, and wanted to continue to give his cookies to a lot of girls. :)
SEE!!!! Not too serious at all!
42.Quote:
DV. Taking itself too seriously...or not seriously enough?
That's a big YESQuote:
DV. Taking itself too seriously...or not seriously enough?
Why can't I change my vote to pie ?
Because your soul belongs to the cookies now. Can't just start moving shit around like that.
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2...m373o1_500.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Killing
DV takes itself hilariously seriously sometimes. Those moments are what I live for.
That "..." thing the mods and admins did...December 2007? comes to mind. The user reaction was to die for. Oh god, that was great.
Haha I remember that. And someone said something like, "Why couldn't they have just let some of us know, and not others?" then someone replied "Because one's funnier"Quote:
Originally Posted by Grod
I died.
Can someone explain what the "..." thing is for those of us who weren't there?
For a joke, all the staff decided to reply with ". . ." in stead of actual words in their posts for a whole day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dianeva
Damn, I found the thread earlier but now I can't find it.
edit: found it http://www.dreamviews.com/senseless-...ight-back.html
pie is the best, it destroys cake at birthdays and pie has always been there for me. i physically and mentally want a pie right now, but i can't bake one, and the store is closed plus i have no money. if the pie button wasn't an option i would have clicked not serious enough due to the lack of pies around here. i think i have heat stroke.
Wow lol, thanks, that was hilarious. I hope you didn't do that for dream-related posts in responses to newbies though. :?Quote:
Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue
Only in offtopics. Like this one.
And yes. Pie. Lemon or lime.
Yes. I remember a thread like that. A very long time ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoannaB
I never thought this would happen. What have I done?! I've made a mistake by making a thread like this!
Ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killing
whut?Quote:
Originally Posted by Killing
DAT PIE.Quote:
Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue
//
This thread has deviated from it's original course.
You should fasten your seat belts, we're going to crash into a Wall of Randomness.
(when the hell did this thread get a Pie option?!)
Uhh, uh, ermmmmmmmm....Quote:
Originally Posted by Yomi
That would be the work of *looks around* ..... Sparta?
Kelly might be in the pie.
This thread is now about slayer.
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/phot...92-480-560.jpg
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
Tell us something serious, something non-serious, or something cookie or pie related about slayer.
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoannaB
Wait, was Slayer the one with the DJ that included the line "whenever you look at this dream journal, you lose a catgirl and I gain one" (or something to that effect)?
Perhaps it was someone else...
You're a pretty clever cat, slayer likes that.
Wait
It WAS him!?
Yay! I found something cookie related about slayer!
The following is a thread started by slayer about cookies: (it's a 2009 thread so for the love of DV, do not post in it! If you have any cookie related advice to share with slayer, post it in the current thread instead, right?)
http://www.dreamviews.com/ask-tell-m...ut-baking.html
Edit: Never mind on second thought since slayer continues to be an active poster, and undoubtedly still cares about cookies (I mean, they are cookies!) so I think it continues to be ok to post in this baking thread, if you so wish. :)
I have yet to get in trouble for something sexual related.
catgurls4lyfe
expanding on this, a ton of people were in chat going crazy, thinking it was some hacker taking over dreamviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dianeva
little did we know it was only a foreshadowing for STOP PANIC
No kidding! Five years later we got our just desserts for that little gag :|Quote:
Originally Posted by Grod
Pie?Quote:
Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue
Keeps coming back full circle, don't it.Quote:
Originally Posted by sivason
My cookies are special.
Got some natural herbs in that make you chill.
Oh yes, they got some chocolate in azwell.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
Oh man,,, Now I am picturing cookies and pies!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue
Runs off to the store....
Went to local supermarket earlier, and there were some pies on 'end of day' sale.
Reduced from full price to 1/5th of price.
Only problem was that they had to be eaten on day of purchase.
Now my problem was that they only had family sized pies left. Cherry, or Apple.
I actualy stood there for 3 min's trying to decide which to buy.
Then a greedy little voice in my head said " Buy both "
So I did.
Sorry, but they are all gone now.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........
and Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.......... again.
Well how do you feel now, Oinky McOinkerton?
Well I thought a little gardening would help me burn off a few calories.
But had trouble getting into the veg' patch.
My belly got in the way.
Wife took this picture of me.
Attachment 5364
The DV I frequented back from summer 2011, to sometime in 2012, was the perfect balance of the two. Yeah we could be serious, but just, yeah some of the shit I've seen loool. I miss the good old days, my golden days I suppose...
Fair enough....Quote:
Originally Posted by mooseantlers
Course when I was in my golden days here, you were probably still wearing diapers :P
Quote:
Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue
MAYBE, 2004 is the year I stopped wetting the bed, because I remember I was 9 :P
Quote:
Well I thought a little gardening would help me burn off a few calories.
But had trouble getting into the veg' patch.
My belly got in the way.
Wife took this picture of me.
DV. Taking itself too seriously...or not seriously enough?-fat-animal-4.jpg
not judging in any way here but just thought youd like to know...that is a veerrrry pregnant female pig... ;)
ahhh coming back to this thread to say thanks for making pie my first priority lately. i'll be having blueberry pie and vanilla ice cream tonight. thanks for all the inspiration and support.
And ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chimpertainment
Just because I am the wrong sex, and wrong species, does not take away my rights to bear, and raise piglets.
This is Dream Views, remember.
One second, somebody is at the front door.
Back in a moment.
It was some men asking me to put a jacket on.
I told them it would not fit, as the sleeves were far too long.
They tried to grab me, but I know where my property boundary starts, and threatened them with a kipper.
This soon had them running.
They left the jacket behind.
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I cant seem to get it on, as it fastens at the back. Unusual, Eh!
