i have another idea =o Options

[xoxoxx]

cB should have "holidays" where you can loosen up the rules just for the day. we can have a partyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
this isn't spam.

[racoons > you]

^
*sigh*

well, if you mean loosening the rules in terms of being mor elenient about spam and such, have you considered the job the mods would have clearing up afterwards?

if you mean relaxing member bashing restrictions, have you considered the inevitability that no one would let the arguments go after the holiday? i think we on CB have proven ourselves mightily incapable of just dropping things and moving on...

if you mean in terms of advertising, again consider the number of threads staff would then have to go back and close/delete.

all round, a dreadful idea

[*xcaitlinx*]

^ i agree...and i think most of the mods would too.

[*iNyCxShoRT*]

Well, thats like having a party though. It'll leave mods in charge of cleaning up. No offense, but I don't think it's such a good idea. It'll encourage spammers to spam more on the "holiday" and things could get out of hand. Such as unnessary topics, spam, member bashing.

[gelionie]

I don't support this idea.

Rules are to be followed at all times, and there should be no exception.

[ClaudelGFX]

you all thinking about yourselfs,lol, but wait, what a mod/admin should do on holidays,while they dont have any rulles? ban every1 ?:-)

[Gypsy Eyes]

I agree, i think this is a dredful idea. As James said, the cleanup afterwards would be horrible

[heyyfrankie]

i, too, concur with james. and it would be mostly peopel staff because that's where most of the spamming goes on.

[KissMe2408]

Oh my....yes, let's all have more hell on CB for a day, and then a week cleaning up the spam/vulgar topics/banning & bashing members...yada yada yada.
The definition of a "CB HOLIDAY" is if everyone actually did obey the rules and made the job of modding much easier. now, THAT would indeed be a holiday :)

[whomps]

Oh my....yes, let's all have more hell on CB for a day, and then a week cleaning up the spam/vulgar topics/banning & bashing members...yada yada yada.
The definition of a "CB HOLIDAY" is if everyone actually did obey the rules and made the job of modding much easier. now, THAT would indeed be a holiday :)

Agreed.


And no. IMO, that's a very bad idea.

[*incoherent*]

you just strive to get past the rules dont you? is it really that hard just follow them rather than trying to always get around them?

[latinprep12]

you just strive to get past the rules dont you? is it really that hard just follow them rather than trying to always get around them?

well i dont know if you noticed his post count or when he started on c.b. well the person is a newbie so yeah i think hes tryin to get past it or probably gots something in mind..i think he gots some stupid topics on mind to post..but the c.b. hoilday does sound cool to me...dats the only part

[talcumpowder]

Sunds being the key word. I like KissMe2408's idea of a CB Holiday sooo much better.
The other one would probably require every staff member to be moved over to People staff temporarily.

[*incoherent*]

well, if you mean loosening the rules in terms of being mor elenient about spam and such, have you considered the job the mods would have clearing up afterwards?

max, read that. the cleaning would be hell and post counts would go up so much. theres always the option of not counting post counts, but then nobody would post and it seems pointless.

[latinprep12]

max, read that. the cleaning would be hell and post counts would go up so much. theres always the option of not counting post counts, but then nobody would post and it seems pointless.

all im saying is that...hes probably got something planned like dumb topics and i bet people will post replies like no tommorow...well hes got <-- that in his post so thats saying hes got somthing planned and i agree with KissMe2408...her plans sounds better

[sadolakced acid]

how about a "holiday" thread where spamming (as in going off topic) (but not member bashing) is allowed for a day, then the thread is deleted?

[racoons > you]

*waves fab five flag*

although, that isnt as much fun when it's non-spontaneous

[heyyfrankie]

^i thought the fab five was over........?

[racoons > you]

it is... justin's idea of the off topic/random spam thread made me think of it...

[*disco infiltrator*]

Psh, fab five will never disband. We stand together.

[*tweeak*]

I miss William

The fab five was awesome

[sadolakced acid]

i refused to join the fab five because i didn't want to change my member title.

(are there still google ads at cB?)

[*disco infiltrator*]

Why especially for Jusun?

Where do people get these things? Stop pulling things out of your ass, people...

Jusun doesn't even moderate the forums. He'd have nothing to deal with.

[*tweeak*]

But Justin, wouldn't you have been the 6th?

[sadolakced acid]

^ yet another reason i didn't join.

changing my member title to "the sixth member of the fab five" just didn't appeal to me..

[*tweeak*]

No no, you were the top of the honorary list, though. No joining involved

[BrokenDream]

umm.. wouldn't that get just a little bit out of hand? it would be nice to double post. I personally hate that. but spamming.. no. thats just annoying.I don't really agree. sorry.

[sadolakced acid]

how about a thread with a morphing topic.

yea.

off topicness should be allowed in certain threads.

[technicolour]

morphing?

i remember when i was like in elementerary ,god i can't spell, school i used to read those animorph books. ha ha..those were weird..



off topicness/randomness all the way

[sadolakced acid]

^ oh yea those! and the series finnaly ended at like... 90.

yea... a morphing topic. so you can't really get off topic...

[*tweeak*]

I don't know how we could instate a mophing topic, but personally I don't mind when it gets off topic sometimes- especially in like the hate thread when I don't like the topic to begin with- but personally I would enjoy it. Once again, the fab five owned everything

didn't it end at like 30 something? either that or that's where i stopped reading. i don't remember. i liked them for a long time in elemntary school though. i also liked the everworld books by that author even better </off topic>

[technicolour]

I remember they kept going on and on....

i can't remember which one i stopped at though...

[*tweeak*]

I don't either really. i have some guesses, but it really depends on when they ended. i think james read them all

[technicolour]

They were good books.

That's for sure.

[sadolakced acid]

there wreew at least 70.

i read tehm all. hurray!

and i think offtopicness should be the only rule relaxed on ""holidays". which means, not really any cleanup, and not any feelings hurt...

yea.

morphing topic... like we morphed to talking about animorphs.

[*tweeak*]

54, not counting the extra book things that existed. i had to look it up . i think i stopped around 30 (Spirit Wolf is the worl'd biggest nerd)

I can't go into a topic without morphing it...

[sadolakced acid]

i loved the extra book things.

the elimist chronicles, the andalite chronicles, the harrka-bokr chronicles...

yea.

[latinprep12]

well i just figured out what you two are talking about and well i read the books and there really good...but i wish i couldve watched the show...but back then it was pass my bed time..so i couldnt

[*tweeak*]

i loved the extra book things.

the elimist chronicles, the andalite chronicles, the harrka-bokr chronicles...

yea.

yeah, i don't think i read most of them/ pretty sure i read elimist, though

i bought some book though where you have choices at the end of each chapter and decide how things will happen and end and stuff

it amsued me

[sadolakced acid]

oh yea, the tetramoph series and the mega morph series and the...
yea.

lots of spinnoffs.

[hi-C]

^^ It's Hork-Bajr (I think). I too was an Animorphs nerd. I even did a book report on the Hork-Bajr Chronicles.

[*tweeak*]

Wow, how'd you remember that? haha

James and I used to play so many animorphs based games when we were in elementary school....ahhh, the good old days

Did you ever read the Regeneration series? It was about clones. I don't know anyone else who ever read them, but the fascinated me. Unfortunately, my library stopped carrying them before they finished the series

[technicolour]

^ I think our library got in trouble for having them


Parents.

[*tweeak*]

Really? that's a shame. I enjoyed them. Maybe that's what happened to them. Suddenly they just disappeared. I hadn't know at that point it was a controversial topic, since my mom let me read them

[sadolakced acid]

oh, what was the series with the howlers and the strange things and it was the animorphs verses 7 howlers in a game set up by the elimist...

kristina, what kind of school was that?

[*tweeak*]

the ones i was talking about, or the one carrie corrected? mine wasn't related to animorphs and it was in the public library, not the school one

[technicolour]

Ha ha..

It was an elementerary..

like 3-5?

Yeah. I think some parent complained cause their kid was having nightmares.

My gosh. Stupid parents.

[*tweeak*]

this is what i was talking about

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-h...1321653-4954436

i think our elementary school eventually made us stop checking out goodbumps books. i never liked them. i wasn't at all scared, i thought they were lamely written (yeah, i was a book snob in elementary school). i thought the same thing of the lois duncan books that were popular in middle school

[technicolour]

goosebumps?

oh my gosh..

I was a book snob too!

[*tweeak*]

Hahaha! I remember being so pissed off in first grade because most of the class wasn't allowed in the chapter book section, but she let James, and I was jealous because I could read as well as him, so I boycotted the picture books and didn't read anything from the school library except Amelia Bedelia for the rest of the year

[technicolour]

^ lmao!

My teacher hated how I was so advanced. My god. Isn't that like every teachers dream?

I wish i could have boycotted. Damn AR.

[*tweeak*]

We didn't start AR until second grade. I was really into the boxcar children books that year.

My kindergarten teacher was like that. It was at a different school than I went to for the rest of the time, and the rest of the class was behind me and she kept foricing me to read BOB books, even though i could do it easily

[sadolakced acid]

whoowoo! no AR for me till i moved.

yea, i like read all the goosebumps ones too.

and then middle of 5th grade, i moved to a school with AR.

and in that half a year, i had more AR points than most everyone else. but at the end i was like... screw this, and so two people beat me.

but still... it was like... i'd check out a book, get it approved, and then an hour later i was like... can i go to the library again? it pissed off the teacher.

[technicolour]

OMG I LOVED THE BOXCAR BOOKS!

Omg. Wow i'm a dork. But seirously. I was addicted to those.

I would always go to the library when everyone else was doing like grammar. Where do you put the period. Very good. Gag me.

I've pissed off a few teachers as well...

[sadolakced acid]

ahh yess! the boxcar children! loved those.

i think the only serieses for kids i didn't read were hardy boys and american girls...

yea, we had to do a book report, and the teacher was like... pick a book from this group,but it has to challenge you.

and then she was like... you justin don't do any of these books. pick a book from these.

i picked the hobbit. man that was big. man i loved it. ( it was 3rd grade)

[technicolour]

^ lmao

Uhm. I read a few Nancy Drews...

OMG! I didn't even hear about LoTR until I was like in the 6th grade...Yesh..


We had those stupid RIF books. Where you'd get to pick a book and keep it. Well my stupid teacher made us do the reports. Oh my god. They had the crummiest books ever.

[sadolakced acid]

oh... i remember there was this thing in texas... the bluebonnet books.. every year there would be 20 selected books for kids to read. and students could read them and then take a test on them and get free stuff.

i remember i was like... the 5th person to finish them all... and the librarian was like... you're sure you're ready for the test?

man that was fun.

but they made me take speech therapy in elementary school. that annoyed me. well, i do have a lisp, but so?

[technicolour]

ohh yesh.

lisps.


my gosh. poor kids would get tormented. damn snobby kids.

I liked the bluebonnet books. Some of them were cool. I never finished them all...I can't remember why...ah -shrug-

[sadolakced acid]

^ you live in texas?

i remember having to read really girly books for the bluebonnet thing.

[technicolour]

Unfortunately..Yes I'm from Texas...

It's too hot here..

really girly?

Some of the books are. Some of them are too "guy-ish" if I may say so. Im not big on sports..and just..blah

[sadolakced acid]

ella enchanted...

and suchlike books.

[technicolour]

I READ THAT BOOK!

and then I saw the movie. Damn movies. They EFFING RUINED IT.


The book. Aww. That was a fuzzy feeling book.

Lol. Everyonce in awhile i'll venture out..and read something weird..such as that

[*tweeak*]

I never read Hardy Boys, but I did read Nancy Drew and American Girl

I actually had to take speach therapy too. Just in second grade. I was pretty pissed off. It was only for the 'sh' sound. I got out of there as quickly as possible. Between speech and focus (elementary school girfted program) I was hardly ever in normal class. Amazing I learned anything that year. Focus kicked ass, though

What are these bluebonnet books?

I read the Hobbit in 4th grade on my own, I think. It was decent, but in 7th grade we had to read it for class and I hated it. I never made it past the intro of the Fellowship

I could never just read one book at a time. I think my record was reading 7 books at once. I always finished them quickly, too, since I would read instead of paying attention to class. That pissed off my teachers, so they'd take away my books, so then I'd just doodle instead. By the end of the year, I always had to sit on the first row so i could be easily seen and yelled at

AR wasn't taken seriously in elementary school- in fact, i never had many points since I couldn't be bothered to take tests since a lot of the books i read didn't have tests until middle school for the books i read. i always got AR trophies in middle school, though

i loved ella enchanted! i read it abot 4 times. i actually did it for a book report once, too

[technicolour]

omg if you weren't doing well in AR you were like..discriminated by the teachers. they were so snobby. It all mattered how many points you have. 60? Not good enough. Yeesh.


I READ MULTIPLE BOOKS AT ONCE TOO! That was really fun.


Were american girl the ones like with the dolls? I think I read a few of those...

[hi-C]

American Girl books kicked major butt. At least in the third grade.

oh, what was the series with the howlers and the strange things and it was the animorphs verses 7 howlers in a game set up by the elimist...

That sounds like one of the Megamorphs...or maybe it was Animorphs #26...Dang it, I wish I was at home to read them.

[WindSorcerous]

The rules are there for a reason...

[*tweeak*]

yeah, they were the ones with dolls. i was obsessed with the dolls and books. i have samantha

some elementary years we practically forgot about AR altogether. i really only remember taking 1 test in second, several in third, and a few at the end of fifth. my teachers knew i read- i did too much- so they were'nt that concerned unless i tried to test on books i'd read ages ago and failed them. i think that only happened in 7th and when i was point cramming in 8th. I could read pretty much anything i wanted since my reading level usually went from 5th grade- college level. How that worked, i don't know

i never bought the animorphs or i'd check, but i always borrowed them from james or the library

[technicolour]

^ I liked the dolls. I thought those were the cutest/coolest things evah!


Lucky. Our teachers breathed AR. Apparently Texas, the state, is in this big competition with all the other states to see how many of their kids can read better.

whoop. de. do. da.

[*tweeak*]

I was so obsessed with looking at the AG catalogs. I think I mentally played with them more than I did the actually doll

AR became pretty important in middle school. In 7th grade, i had the same teacher for lit and spanish, so i had to do AR for both (since we had such a high hispanic population we had lots of spanish pre school book tests and other times we could do spanish related books- i read the old man and the sea in 2 hours once)

Georgia has terrible scores in most everything. I'm in the 'good school district' though, so we have our own stupid county tests and stuff

[william]

I miss William

i'm still here!

i love how this topic about having a day without rules has turned really off-topic itself.

[*tweeak*]

be here more often!

I know, the irony. I'm really not capable of not continuing off topic conversations. But it's fun to talk about how reading was fun back when I had time to read and a decent attention span

[william]

oh god, i know. i had to reread fahrenheit 451 today and i had to do it in 20 minute blocks.

actually i still have 40 pages... maybe i should get on that.

or not.

[*tweeak*]

I liked that book. I read it volunteerily i 8th grade when I still had the fore mentioned attention span

I'm trying to write a paper on why school should start later. I can't conentrate. I'm blaming it on school starting so damn early

[demolished]

We didn't start AR until second grade. I was really into the boxcar  children books that year.

My kindergarten teacher was like that. It was at a different school than I went to for the rest of the time, and the rest of the class was behind me and she kept foricing me to read BOB books, even though  i could do it easily

OMFG. BOXCAR. I START READING ONE OF THESE BOOKS WHEN I WAS A 4th-5th GRADER.
I FORGOT THE TITTLE OF THE BOOK THOUGH ..

They have shitload of collections.

I liked that book. I read it volunteerily i 8th grade when I still had the fore mentioned attention span

I'm trying to write a paper on why school should start later. I can't conentrate. I'm blaming it on school starting so damn early

- There are people who are afraid of waking up early in the dark morning to eat breakfast or prepare for school.

- The day before school starts at 8:00, a lot of family members makes lots of noise at night/evening while the student are still focusing doing challenging homework because it takes the whole day. (struggling)


- They end up not finishing their homework but they plan to finish their homework on the next day. When the next day happens, students do not have much time to complete their assignment. If they plan to finish their homework after school starts, it’ll affect their record. The more they are use to doing that, the school would be disappointed. More student wonder why that person did not attend school on time so they ask questions. Teacher and staff would overheard them and enforce new strict rules of attending classes late such as detention, lose privileges, lose recess, and allow you not to participate field trip for being late 10 times. (My school does that, what a f**ker.)

- Students still have enough time to finish copying answers from other students. (It’s much quicker to finish homework).

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I'm not even done with it. I didnt post it earlier because i forgot where did i store it.

All of these statement are related to each other. Most of them are from my experience.

[whomps]

What da heo..



Topic Closed 'cause obviously the answer is no.