Apropos of nothing in particular except idle curiousity, can anyone explain to me the monikers these Elm Diseased Ones use? Case in point, Sneetch, and I know there are others.
This is a great and ridiculous story, not quite up there with Black Box Voting but a good one just the same.
Some time ago, Elspeth (who I believe was a fugitive from DU) asked what the titles below the names meant. She was told they meant nothing but, because her threads kept getting moved to what the mods thought were more appropriate forums, Elspeth had some problems believing this simple tale.
This went on for DAYS, post after post, forum after forum, category after category. Almost every resident tried explanations, threats, cajoling, and similar rhetorical niceties to get Elspeth to stop asking these question. I'm not exaggerating (much). There must have been three or four threads focused on this issue or some variant on the theme.
Finally, one of the mods (Andrea maybe) threw her hands up in disgust and declared everyone to be a sneetch, whether they liked it or not - not very democratic but there it is. Andrea is also, I believe, the one who declared that Elspeth suffers from mental illness on the sooooooper seeekrit OET pizza forums. Of course, this is the same forum that chased off one of the co-founders because he was a little too radical or (in reality) not doing what Andrea was telling him to do.
It's a very grumpy place but, because it moves in slow motion, it seems more pleasant than it really is.
