When I started writing my post about suspensions (in further response to Narv), I found myself going off on so many tangents that I knew there was something else that I needed to write first. This post is it. You see, no matter what I wrote on that other post, I can already guarantee that some people would go "well this is not how I know it/thought of it/perceive this issue". And in truth, they'd have been right... at some point. In the past. On the plaza, as in every other ...
I wasn't asked directly, but I wanted to give my own thoughts on suspensions. Suspensions are pretty rare, I'd say. Thank goodness, too, because nobody really likes them. In my time as an admin, going back to 2008, I would guess that there have been about ten suspensions, and less than half have since asked to be reinstated; although, there were some from earlier dates that also asked, some of whom were granted reinstatement, and again a fraction of those caused no further problems. ...
In my previous blog I briefly alluded to how the Lord of the Rings and the Plaza were a big part of the person I grew up to be. This is true in many different ways, some more subtle than others. But one of the bigger things I would probably never have done if I hadn't been sucked into the fantasy genre by Tolkien, and which in big part also shaped me, is LARP. LARP stands for Live Action Role-Playing and the most basic explanation of it would be that it is quite literally what it is ...
When the Fellowship of the Rings was first released in cinemas, I refused to go. My mother begged me, but I assured her that nothing would beat Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone in my eyes. She was not amused and proceeded to buy the books for me, which I just couldn’t finish. I was then made to watch the video, about 8 months following the movie’s release, because she wouldn’t watch it alone. By the time the hobbits arrived in Rivendell my mother was asleep and I was hooked. ...
In a comment to the post I made last week, the Esteemed Narv wrote a very thoughtfull comment, which I would reiterate here: I've really liked all the other blog posts but I don't know about this one. I won't comment on the back-and-forth with the suspendee since I don't know the background and it's not my business (in fact, since nobody but the admins and the suspendee knows that background, I'm not sure how any of us are supposed to form a judgement on that). But posting emails to ...
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