the comm torch_wood

I saw something interesting and (I thought) appropriate.

I joined the group.

I posted.

NOBODY but the mod complained that it was "not appropriately on topic".

Nobody.  Everybody who replied (12 total) seemed to love what I posted.

It got deleted by the mod for totally arbitrary reasons that I can't fathom because it wasn't against any rules I read.

I left.

Not going back.

Ever.

I'm too fucking old for this shit.

UPDATE: the mod said there were "complaints" sent to them.

RIGHT.

nobody in that comm (supposedly 6000) has the fucking guts to tell me personally they thought it was off topic?  As I wrote:

do you really want to be running a comm full of "mommy, mommy, he' posted something that's, well, ALMOST off-topic"?

really?  is that the attitude you want to foster?

Not expecting a reply, and couldn't care anymore.  I'm too damn old and have been on the 'net too damn long to put up with yet another overly-judgmental usenet group of self-proclaimed experts of attitude idiocy.

glad i'm not on time-warner cable...

'Colbert,' 'SpongeBob' may go dark on Time Warner - Yahoo! News:

Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark on Time Warner Cable Inc. at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal is not agreed upon by then.

The impasse over carriage fee hikes would mean "SpongeBob" and other popular shows like Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" will be cut off to 13 million subscribers, said spokesman Alex Dudley, a vice president at Time Warner Cable. The nation's second-largest cable operator primarily serves customers in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas.

Viacom has asked for fee increases of between 22 percent and 36 percent per channel, an amount that could increase customers' cable bills, Dudley said. Viacom spokeswoman Kelly McAndrew said the requested increase was in the very low double-digit percentage range.

"The issue is that they have asked for an exorbitant increase in their carriage fees and their network ratings are sagging," he said. "Basically we're trying to hold the line for our customer."

Viacom said the increases would cost an extra 23 cents a month per subscriber — which works out to $35.9 million more in total. It said that Americans spend a fifth of their TV time watching Viacom shows but its fees make up less than 2.5 percent of the Time Warner cable bill.

Though admittedly, this can and will hit all the others as their respective contracts run out...

movies this year?

I saw two in theaters.  That's it.  Tied a record that's happened two other times since I got married.  Those two?  The Disney animated pic of the year and the Pixar pic of the year.  Oddly, the exact same two categories of films one of those other two times.

how the hell...

...can every Best Buy in the region be sold out of Dark Knight on dvd?

bastards.  i'm sitting on a $30 gift card and nothing to use it on...