Notices by Purple Tinker (purpletinker), page 17
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@redenchilada Jimbo's a she, and I'm not sure moderating someone simply for being part of an argument is a good idea.
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@starlightbolt She was involved in building the pony community before G4 even existed. And she was a wonderful auctioneer at BroNYCon June, and did a great job helping me make back some of the many hundreds of dollars I lost on the con (even with admission fees).
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@redenchilada Don't silence Jimbo. Jimbo is a good friend, and has done an awful lot more good for the community than you can imagine.
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Whomever just silenced jimbo... don't do that again. Jimbo is a good friend, and has done an awful lot more good for the community than you can imagine.
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Man, I'm hungry. Participating in flamewars doesn't leave me time to make dinner.
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@redenchilada Thanks, but s'not the point. Point is, we aren't in this fandom to bask in the glowing admiration of a bunch of Internet trolls. We're here because MLP:FiM is a fun show and we like it. We aren't going to turn away a source of positive publicity because of the possibility that some time, in the hypothetical future, an asstard on /co might mock a fat brony because of it.
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@cabal Making money off of memes isn't evil. It is, in fact, the foundation of all art. Every painting of a naked lady, or a bowl of fruit, or a nobleman on horseback, done by a painter in the Renaissance was done for money, and it was based off of earlier ideas-- memes-- that spread through society even in those days. (They just spread a lot slower.) Protesting KYM for making ad revenue through their site chronicling memes is even more ludicrous than protesting Disney for making money repackaging Brothers Grimm fables and ancient fairy tales as profitable cartoons. As for Anonymous, they are far from heroes. They have done some good things, and they have done some horrible things.
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@ponybis It hurts when someone gets insulted. It hurts when I get insulted too. It isn't going to stop me from enjoying myself. I know I'm not pretty. I'm not in this to look pretty. I'm in this because I like this show.
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@ponybis Yes, we've dealt with "fat bronies" type appearance-based attacks before. There's nothing we can do. If a bunch of Internet teenagers want to attack con attendees for not being pretty, that's their prerogative.
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@ponybis *shrug* I'm in it because I like pony. Anything that exposes more potential fans to pony, I'm all for. Case closed.
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@cabal I don't like Sony either. But I buy their products, and I have no problems with allowing groups that accept ad revenue from them into my con. Idealism has its place, but you have to pick your battles. It's an imperfect world, and if you only want to deal with perfect people, you'll find your life very lonely indeed.
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@starlightbolt I'd only withdraw the invitation if I thought it was what a majority (or even a significant minority!) of con attendees wanted. So far, the only complainer was Cabal. Cabal has complained of anticipated Anonymous invasions of our events before. He's ... a little paranoid. Mind you, I like Cabal a lot, and I have the deepest respect for what he's done for the community, but he is definitely paranoid.
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@dezzierose Perfect example here. You heard about bronies because of KYM and their ilk. We NEED good press.
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@ponybis Gotta disagree with you on that too. Nobody at KYM is putting a gun to peoples' heads and saying "READ OUR WEBSITE, LEARN ABOUT BRONIES" (or any other meme or subculture). Look, you wanna dislike KYM, dislike KYM. I'm all for anything that gives bronies positive press. Positive press is way better than negative press. Put simply: Would you rather KYM give us good writeups, or Fox News post more stories about how we're all a bunch of sexually deviant manchildren?
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@ponybis I have to disagree. KYM has done nothing but good for the brony community. Even Sethisto agrees.
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@cabal I know about GeoHot. But if I boycott everyone who does business with Sony, or Best Buy, or Microsoft or IBM or the country of Germany or any other organisation that has ever done anything evil, I'd be left unable to conduct business with ANYONE AT ALL. There is no such thing as an organisation with clean hooves, and there is no such thing as a person who has never done business with an organisation with unclean hooves.
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@cabal KYM represented us positively in the past. They ASKED to attend. After they gave us POSITIVE news coverage in the past, we would be insane to turn them away.
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@moonprincess It's not that I don't have time to click the 'subscribe' button. It's that I don't have time to read everypony's dashes.
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@nvrrmbr Don't you get into a game of lowlier-than-thou with me!
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@nvrrmbr I'm just another geek. But I am a very BUSY geek.
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@derpy Starshine chose to leave. I didn't throw her off.
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@derpy I don't have time to subscribe to you. If my own mother used RDN, I wouldn't have time to subscribe to her either.
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@pinhooves It wasn't. Neither was the school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.
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@zach121k I used to have Saturday school. Hebrew school!
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Every time someone tells me they can't make BroNYCon because they have school/work on Friday, or on Sunday, I want to put my head through a window. BroNYCon is SATURDAY.
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@miloth More likely the latter.
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@miloth Oh yeah. And I welcome that too! The more the mare-ier!
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@miloth I welcome them! They did a well-received bit about brony culture. Even Equestria Daily liked it. See http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/know-your-meme-video-report-on-fim.html
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Three guys from KnowYourMeme will be present at BroNYCon doing research.
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@sparklepeep RarityQuest?
