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That was a lot to read through.

Mods having the ability to send mass PMs is a great idea, something I think would be worthwhile implementing. It is strange that we don't have such ability as of yet but I think we should bring it up to Janis.

As for Spammers, I too was under the impression that it was a bot/computer programmed to send multiple messages to different users.

Fet-sai-mons ... am I saying it right?

you guys rock okay. x0x

C'mon Larry, let's just change the name and it will be different. Ok, here is the truth! I would respect you all much more if you just said this is the way it is..like it..or leave....
Anyway, I truly do wish all of you the best. Just because I will not kiss your ass, doesn't mean I haven't enjoyed my time on here. It's all your turn now..have fun!!

Fit-SIM-ins is how you pronounce it, I guess :)

Ok here it is: This is the way it is! Like it, [protest it,] or leave!
Will you stay now?

Make love not war my friends
larry you should work as a Politician man,
you are very persuasive indeed

Sim like the sims?

okay okay... I want a cool last name too.

I don't see anything wrong with the 10 praised comments btw -.-'

I think its fair.

OK, I'm afraid disclosure is needed. I now realize the Micks have taken over the site. Jane & Sibs outed themselves, my turn now. My mother came over from Ireland when she was sixteen. Until I left for college I never realized that guilt & Catholic were not synonymous.

No, honey, but God bless you for asking...I truly do like you, but if I was your dad..omg, i'd have to spank your ass...lol. take care people..love you all!!

And Sher's a redhead, so that's probably a given...

Well if larry's coming out I should too. haha cause not only is my mother's family irish catholic, my dad is a born again catholic and god forbid I think they may be worse. they take that stuff seriously. And everyone should know making your bed has an effect on your enteral soul...and I'm probably damned because of it.

You guys should lighten out a bit, If you really want to be able to nominate a poem, and you still can't, Just comment on some poetry for a while, 10 is still a relatively very low number, a couple of hours @ most, and 2 days if you're slacking

Robert, I do wish you'd stay on the site. I've watched you on the main boards for years and your opinion has always been valued.

My mother is Roman Catholic. Mother, catholic and guilt all go hand in hand.

Holy cow, it really is all of us. Hahaha! I thought you'd be safe, Mel!

If you're an Aussie Catholic, odds are good you're Irish

Ohhhhh nooooo, we've taken over! Haha, how did we not realize sooner?

Aussie,Catholic with a hot like mexico accent okay.

she da best.

x0x0

I don't think I even have a religion anymore,
joke wait,

If I was baptized,did my first comunion
I'm Catholic right?

My mother was born in Malta, European Catholic. Though I do love me some Irish mythology.

So wait
all of you are Originally somehow somewhat Irish?
from Ireland? man, I wish I was from there too!,

Alright, new names, everyone. I call Moira O'Flaherty.

Can we call YAne .. Mia FitSalmons. COME ON SAY YES

Irish demigod Fionn MacCumhail tasted of the Salmon of Knowledge... so I say "yes."

Oke oke

we can have Mely-Mae Cookhail for mel oke x00x

Dagda

I like Liam McClary.

I'm Russian & German. I feel so left out!

BrittUchnei Furchter Furthercchh

oh my HITLER BLOOOD...

s'snjdasjgh wow.

Aussie Dad, Maltese mum. I ended up with blue eyes and olive skin (when I tan!) Russian, any mob in your family or is Aussie TV lying to me again?

I'm quite certain I'm of boring Russian and German descent. No Hitler or mob to speak of lol

Oh please.. I'm not even ... I can't even tell a cool story

I am 100% Dominican, I live on the Paradise of Aruba
and I hate my people...

yep... yep..

BUT MY FATHA IS BLACK SO I GOT THAT SWAG...
YES.

Well brit don't feel too left out along with my irish I have polish german and a sliver of czechoslavakian. O.o I don't know how my full blooded german grandpa got with my full blooded polish grandma though..

"czechoslavakian"

that alone sounds so incredibly hot..
ugh, dem everyone with exotic cultures and extravagant mixxes and blood oke..

just a lonely Caribean Girl here... woe.

Lol except the country no longer exists it's the czech republic and slavakia now or something i think..

Yaki, you realize that "Aruba" sounds incredibly exotic to everyone else, right?

Yeah Britt, don't feel left out. You know you're my fleischkeukle soul-sister.

Well can't complain

I do have the best beaches, I have to go and take pictures again for you to see,now I gots you on facebook (:

but I'm talking blood wise,
wait I do think my mom's grand parents emigrated from Spain, those are all blue eyed and blond and so is my mom -.-'

I'm exaggerating with my dad being black he is more like Indian I would say..

well both of them being dominican and I being born there,I think I will ask my sisters about my father descent cause I don't know much about it..since I moved here, and he stayed there we barely spoke..

you all come to Aruba before I leave to holland,
I'm a kickass tour girl.

Carla Turk is Dominican (Scrubs)

Haha. I love how this became a total culture fest.

As for the upping of praised comments, I wasn't a fan of the idea. But I don't think ten is really asking for too much, to be honest. I don't comment as frequently as I probably should, and that's okay with me. I lived four years without senior status, and I'm sure I can live without it now. I came here to read poetry, not argue over votes.

As for the familial lines. I got a pretty boring set of things going on. My mother is black with a little native american thrown in there. and my dad comes from an english and german background. My last name being "Silvers" from the german "Silverstein".

booorrring.

Karla, you could have taken that time you were complainig and rather left some praise worthy comments on poems.

I wonder what makes certain ethinicities more boring than others.

I'm guessing accents.

10 praised comments is fine as a compromise. I hope it's the ONLY way to reach nominator status. (I'm glad the misleading 'senior' status is out of the picture.) The raised comments won't make much difference to the number or quality of nominations in the long run, but that's fine. Give judges a shortlisting tool and they can personally modify the list as it forms.

Also, when you leave the site, you forfeit everything. Your awards, your poems, your status. It's a decision you made. I don't think anyone here has any obligation to somehow preserve your previous status in limbo mode, unless you choose to leave in a limbo mode (keep your profile). So if you leave, that's it. If you come back, it is to a blank slate except people might still remember you. You can still do anything here that anyone else can.

All you have to do is write 10 good comments and get over yourself.

Haha. Abby, accents are definitely fun. I think it's probably just how we think that other people's backgrounds are more exotic. It's that foreign appeal

Ha. Well. I don't think of any backgrounds as particularly exotic, but I understand I'm in the minority there.

Tell me you're from Europa and things might change.