User talk:BlueSprite

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Hi there BlueSprite , welcome to the warmly uptight peanut of teh internetz! - User $\scriptstyle -i\ln(-1)$ 02:47, 1 December 2008 (EST)

Message from the RationalWiki Ministry of Demotion and Personal Impediment

Dear BlueSprite, We regret to inform you that you have been demoted to the rank of sysop. You are requested to report to a bureaucrat, at your nearest possible convenience, to be assigned a mop and bucket for the purposes of cleaning up the mess around here. If you have any further questions please refer to the enclosed pamphlet So you are now a sysop. Your Sincerely, Sir Reginald Albert Humfildink-Hollingsworth the Third, Under-secretary of the Chief-secretary of the Personal-secretary of the Minister.

??? Any particular reason? BlueSprite 23:21, 2 December 2008 (EST)

Maybe you were sysoped too soon you seem to be having acclimatisation problems. Sysop are lowly janitors near gods who rule over wikis. You have the power to block and unblock users, protect and unprotect pages, and delete and restore pages. You seem harmless enough and interested in this project, so you are now a sysop. - User $\scriptstyle -i\ln(-1)$ 23:26, 2 December 2008 (EST)

I appreciate the vote of confidence. I'm not sure I know how to janitor particularly well, but I'll try not to screw anything up. Or at least, I'll try and make it funny if I do. BlueSprite 23:33, 2 December 2008 (EST)

My apologies

I can be a bit dense at times--it took me until now to realize that you're a parodist, doing a dead-on impersonation of a soulless Neocon/Libertarian. The initials should've been a give-away. While I maintan that my Poe Detector is mostly burned-out from Conservapedia's insanity, I have to say, well played, and I hope you're active on CP. They NEED more parodists like you there. --Gulik 17:33, 9 December 2008 (EST)

While I appreciate the solicitude, I'm afraid you've missed my intentions again. I'm not a parodist, but intent forcing liberal points of view to argue carefully. If I come off as soulless, perhaps that is because I make arguments you don't like from a point of view of calculation. I do feel, but feelings are never part of an argument for me, only a motive to examine the situation. BlueSprite 12:05, 11 December 2008 (EST)

I do plan to be active on CP, and it's clear we have very different points of view. I hope we can have interesting arguments together. Please know that I never intend personal insult from my arguments, and while I can get a little hot under the collar sometimes, calling me on it combined with little courtesy usually leads me back into the realm of reasonableness.

In any case, if my points of view seem insane rather than simply based on assumptions you don't agree with, then clearly I have a lot of work to do either to make my cases or to revise them. I look forward to seeing you in the debates. BlueSprite 12:05, 11 December 2008 (EST)