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[AlohaDawg]

Oh for shits sake, people. Are your lives so wretched?

[lprkn]

In a word... yes.

[wombat]

Now we finally understand why AlohaDawg doesn't get it.  The more power to him and his non-wretched life.

[AlohaDawg]

Praise be to me in all my non-wretchedness.

Confidential to those who care: PoundPuppy #3 is a girl.

[wombat]

Praise be to me in all my non-wretchedness.

Confidential to those who care: PoundPuppy #3 is a girl.

Does she have a name yet?

[misterqueue]

Does she have a name yet?

I'm betting it's not Tiny Can.



*Runs*

[AlohaDawg]

No.

Ass.

[V-Adore]

If that's serving as the official announcement -- congrats to you, Dawg, and to Mrs. Dawg. May blessings continue to rain down upon your house.

Just to get pretentious for a moment about why I care about the tiny cans: in my mind, the tiny-can system is the best indicator of how, in general, you are doing as a board member. This, I assume, is why these boards have a Karma system in the first place. I put stock in it in that, if I suddenly lose a lot of cans, I assume I really misstepped; it makes me consider my behavior and be more attentive to possible public opinions. (Of course, this all gets thrown out the window when you consider thrill-decanning and whatnot, but work with me here.) If I get distraught about losing cans, it's not some sort of "oh, no, the number on my profile bar got arbitrarily smaller!" thing but a fear that I'm doing something wrong, getting people upset, or otherwise not doing right by a community I care about it.

I may still be pitiful and wretched, but I'd like to think I have a reason.

[Nabubrush]

V, when you've been a part of the community as long as we have, you don't have to care.

[V-Adore]

V, when you've been a part of the community as long as we have, you don't have to care.

Yes, but I would rather care. That's all.

[lprkn]

V: The Girl Who Would Rather Care

[Nabubrush]

Yes, but I would rather care. That's all.

From here on out, you get all the cans I can give you.

Edit: Wow, nearly 4000 posts - you've been busy. Or not busy at all, as the case may be.

[V-Adore]

From here on out, you get all the cans I can give you.

Edit: Wow, nearly 4000 posts - you've been busy. Or not busy at all, as the case may be.

Thanks. And in my own defense, I will point out that those cans have been spaced out over almost three years, with varying degrees of "busy-ness" throughout (ranging from the summer of 2003, during which I played lots of solitaire and spent a lot of company time on the Interwebs, to now, when life is a hurricane of terrible obligation). So, y'know, it evens out.

[Tangle]

Just to get pretentious for a moment about why I care about the tiny cans: in my mind, the tiny-can system is the best indicator of how, in general, you are doing as a board member. This, I assume, is why these boards have a Karma system in the first place. I put stock in it in that, if I suddenly lose a lot of cans, I assume I really misstepped; it makes me consider my behavior and be more attentive to possible public opinions. (Of course, this all gets thrown out the window when you consider thrill-decanning and whatnot, but work with me here.) If I get distraught about losing cans, it's not some sort of "oh, no, the number on my profile bar got arbitrarily smaller!" thing but a fear that I'm doing something wrong, getting people upset, or otherwise not doing right by a community I care about it.

I may still be pitiful and wretched, but I'd like to think I have a reason.

Pretentious or not, thank you for putting it into words so well. Basically, in what little time I've spent here, I've had this idea of "if you're OK, people award you cans - if you're a Crap Dude, they take them away". So naturally when I see my cans (oo-er!) vanish, the first thought in my mind is "who did I piss off now, and how?"

[Doc]

those cans have been spaced out over almost three year

While I am not fussed about how much a person may love or despise cans when the word starts inserting itself into your sentences where it does not belong we may have a problem.