I’m created a waiver. This waiver can be copied and filled out by any member of ILP. It essentially waives the member’s right to not be trolled, insulted, or psychoanalyzed by other members. For example, if someone starts using ad homs against you in an argument. Normally, the forum rules would warrant that the offending party gets a warning, or if they have been warned several times, a temporary or permanent ban.
So WTF, gib, you’re saying. Why the hell would anybody wanna waive their right to not be trolled, insulted, or psychoanalyzed? Well, sometime it goes both ways. Sometimes when a person is trolling you, you’re really trolling each other, and you don’t want to stop. Just the other day, for example, Biggy and I were going at it and Mags stepped in to tell us to stop psychoanalyzing each other (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=194274&start=100#p2712916). Godamit, I thought, I rather enjoyed psychoanalyzing Biggy as I’m sure he did me. Then I replied asking if it would be ok if both Biggy and I agreed to be ok with psychoanalyzing each other. I promised I’d keep it just between Biggy and I and I’d keep it in the context of the thread. ← So yeah, there you go. Sometimes you wanna troll a person, and it’s well worth the price of allowing them to troll you in turn.
So I give you this waiver. Just quote it in this thread, fill it out, and provide a link to it wherever you’d like to waive your right to not be trolled, insulted, or psychoanalyzed (or any other variant thereof… you can tweak it to suit your needs).
Now, of course, there is no guarantee any of the mods are going to respect or recognize the legitimacy of this waiver. I’m not working in cahoots with them. They may just say: What? gib said you could sign this waiver? I don’t give a fuck what gib says, the forum rules and the forum rules. And, well, you’d probably best respect that. On the other hand, if the mods see this as reasonable, it may come in handy on the occasions when you have a hankering for trolling and don’t mind being trolled as a small price to pay.
So as an example, I will be the first to fill out my own waiver. I’ll do it in the next post.