Fibsie awards

[burper]

Given to the individual or group (or bot) who has made outstanding contributations to the FIBS community. Each month a nomination process will be opened, and closed half way through the month. At this point, a poll will be constructed and voting will commence until the end of the month when the winner is determined. This month's nominations will close on midnight (UTC) on the 19th.

As a first, I would like to nominate Andreas (marvin) Schneider, who originally wrote the FIBS server. All this would not be possible without his obviously outstanding contribution.

[alef]

This will be like the Oscars, a group of people awarding themselves! A little navel gazing isn't terrible, but every month? Are you just trying to be sure that RepBot wins within a year?  

I nominate Tomawaky whose tournaments and leagues have been a wonderful central feature of the FIBS community for quite a few years now. (For newbies, he's the creator of FibsLeaGammon.)

And if we can nominate more than one person, then I'd also like to nominate cyan. She added so much fun and life to the shouts that she deserves major recognition. Also she designed the orange and blue smiling dice FIBS logo as seen above.  

[burper]

No, I just think there are so many people to acknowledge that it'll take years to get around to them all!

[Tomawaky]

What an honor alef and what can I say....
Very thanks

Webrunner for sur

Alef and Cyan, yes for the new very good looking of the website that is always up to date and very helpfull.

Burper Madmatt for their Bot

Socksey Diane jinnate and the other TDs

Kari cht tryout houtx and all the people that have help me on the FibsLeaGammon

Not sur to know all of their names but all the people that have made clients to play on fibs.

Kit Patti and I certainly forget some names, please forgive me  

[webrunner]

Thanks for the compliment Tomawaky but i agree with Burper:
there is only one person that deserves the first Fibsie award :
Andreas (marvin) Schneider, the creator of FIBS.

There shouldn't even be a vote on that in my opinion.  

[Tomawaky]

Sorry but I am not agree.
It's right that Andreas has got a great idea in creating Fibs but I think is not enough. And it's now far away from us.

For me, animate and improve it is more valuable and I am not sur that I still would be there if Fibs was just that thing that Andreas Created.

I find that all that have been added these last times keep me enjoying it, and hope it will last for long.

I guess that old fibsters find actual Fibs different from the one they play some years ago ?
But I maybe wrong so if there's some of these old fibsters, thanks to bring your point of view there and tell me if Fibs in 1992 is the same as actually ?

[resh_lakish]

I nominate myself.

[webrunner]

on what grounds resh?

[rdd]

I nominate the guy from australia who sometimes went by Dr Mengele
I loved that guy he cracked me up

[resh_lakish]

I apologize to diane.

[souptree]

I nominate monitor for that one day where ole_salt tried logging in 50 times in a row and was immediately kicked off 50 times in a row.    

[jinnate]

I apologize to diane.

resh, are you out to ruin fibsboard?    

[socksey]

Well, I wasn't here in the beginning, but I think Andreas deserves the first vote.  He was the creator, after all.  If it were not for him, none of us would be here.  ))

socksey




"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." - A. A. Milne

[burper]

Okay socksey, so go ahead and vote here:
voting page

and anyone else that happens along this path...

Let's get marvin out of the way so we can move on to Kit, and Patti, and alef (sorry, just had to put Patti and laef in the same sentence), and Tomawaky, and webrunner, and MadMatt, and fergy etc... I'm sure we'll get around to votin resh_lakish in sooner or later.

Hmmm, new rule: you can't nominate or vote for anyone that has already earned a Fibsie. This is sort of a FIBS hall of fame.

Just making the rules up as I go along,
burper

[DelGato]

Congratulations to Webrunner for saying that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. That surely wins the prize for being the most malign and barbaric thing I've ever heard. To begin with, it's a pity that two thousand years after Christ, the voices of squalid, inane sluggards like him can still be heard, worse still that they're listened to, and worst of all that anyone believes them. It is imperative that all of us in this community act as a positive role model for younger people. This cannot occur unless there is a true spirit of respect and an appreciation of differences. Would he like it if I were iconoclastic and sordid, too? I don't think so. Is Webrunner's head really buried too deep in the sand to know that I sincerely have no sympathy for him? If I'm not mistaken, there's a painfully simple answer. It regards the way that if he bites me, I will doubtlessly bite back. Now, more than ever, we must see through the haze of post-structuralism.

Lest you think that I'm talking out of my hat here, I should point out that someone has to be willing to comment on a phenomenon that has and will continue to let what I call irritable, unimaginative brutes serve as our overlords. Even if it's not polite to do so. Even if it hurts a lot of people's feelings. Even if everyone else is pretending that those of us who oppose Webrunner would rather run than fight. We need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with him. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that even when the facts don't fit, he sometimes tries to use them anyway. He still maintains, for instance, that boosterism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions. Given the amount of misinformation that Webrunner is circulating, I must decidedly point out that the sesquipedalianism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, unprincipled attack on progressive ideas. I could substantiate what I'm saying about despicable, self-pitying polemics, but I don't feel that that's necessary, since we all know what they're like. Let us now join hands, hearts, and minds to supply the missing ingredient that could stop the worldwide slide into nativism.

What we have been imparting to Webrunner -- or what he has been eliciting from us -- is a half-submerged, barely intended logic, contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge. Even though his standard operating procedure is to destabilize society, this does not negate the fact that he is frightened that we might fight the good fight. That's why he's trying so hard to prevent whistleblowers from reporting that he has been known to say that there is something intellectually provocative in the tired rehashing of predaceous stereotypes. That notion is so stubborn, I hardly know where to begin refuting it. Even Webrunner's pals are afraid that Webrunner will utilize legal, above-ground organizing in combination with illegal, underground tactics to revive the ruinous excess of a bygone era to bounce and blow amidst the ruinous excess of the present era some day. I have seen their fear manifested over and over again, and it is further evidence that the final product of Webrunner's philippics will be a dysfunctional society, wherein every natural self-defense mechanism has been short-circuited in some wishy-washy effort to gain short-term financial benefits. That conclusion is not based on some sort of counter-productive, bad-tempered philosophy or on Webrunner-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that some of us have an opportunity to come in contact with ethically bankrupt buffoons on a regular basis at work or in school. We, therefore, may be able to gain some insight into the way they think, into their values; we may be able to understand why they want to tear down everything that can possibly be regarded as a support of cultural elevation. Impolitic losers serve as the priests in Webrunner's cult of scabrous ageism. These "priests" spend their days basking in Webrunner's reflected glory, pausing only when Webrunner instructs them to deny both our individual and collective responsibility to live in harmony with each other and the world. What could be more nutty? To rephrase that question, what is his secret agenda? The answer is obvious if you understand that I plan to enhance people's curiosity, critical acumen, and aesthetic sensitivity. This is a choice I have made; your choice is up to you. But let me remind you that Webrunner ignores a breathtaking number of facts, most notably:

Fact: Webrunner's shills must be exposed and neutralized wherever they lurk.

Fact: Webrunner governs his thralls with a dictatorial and brutal fist, forcing them to undermine the current world order.

Fact: He, like many other capricious, childish nutters, has joined in with the chorus of furies who have been tearing away at the remains of rationality since the dawn of Derrida.

In addition, one can consecrate one's life to the service of a noble idea or a glorious ideology. Webrunner, however, is more likely to sell us fibs and fear, mixed with a generous dollop of fanaticism.

There's a lot of talk nowadays about Webrunner's brown-nosing announcements, but not much action. Webrunner is reluctant to resolve problems. He always just looks the other way and hopes no one will notice that mankind needs to do more to shelter initially unpopular truths from suppression, enabling them to ultimately win out through competition in the marketplace of ideas. Understand, I am not condemning mankind for not doing enough; I am merely stating that if the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to build a society in which people have a sense of permanence and stability, not chaos and uncertainty. And if you think that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior, then you aren't thinking very clearly. If it weren't for socially inept couch potatoes, Webrunner would have no friends. Although some treacherous, domineering louts concede that I find his failed attempts to support hostile governments known for human rights abuses, wrongful imprisonment, and slavery mildly amusing, they invariably deny that he has been offering temperamental fanatics a lot of money to deface property with racially and sexually derogatory epithets and offensive symbols. This is blood money, plain and simple. Anyone thinking of accepting it should realize that Webrunner never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. He presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, he seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that someone once said to me, "Yellow-bellied, caustic neocolonialism is one of the most effective tools of tyranny." This phrase struck me so forcefully that I have often used it since.

Webrunner operates on an international scale to give rise to craven ivory-tower academics. It's only fitting, therefore, that we, too, work on an international scale, but to introduce an important, but underrepresented, angle on Webrunner's disgusting deeds. If you agree, read on. What unrealistic thing is he going to do next? Don the mantel of terrorism and jawbone aimlessly? Acquire power and use it to indoctrinate invidious ruffians? Sell quack pharmaceutical supplies (and you should be suspicious whenever you hear such tell-tale words and phrases as "breakthrough", "miracle", "secret remedy", "exclusive", and "clinical studies prove that...")? In any case, I apologize for giving Webrunner these ideas, but his eccentricity is surpassed only by his vanity. And Webrunner's vanity is surpassed only by his empty theorizing. (Remember his theory that all it takes to solve our social woes are shotgun marriages, heavy-handed divorce laws, and a return to some mythical 1950s Shangri-la?)

This point is so important that it deserves a separate discussion, which I'll provide in a moment. But first, let me just say that Webrunner's primary motivation is self-enrichment at our expense. And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to advocate concrete action and specific quantifiable goals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that if he thinks that he can make me have a nervous breakdown, then he's barking up the wrong tree. Let's just ignore Webrunner and see what he does. An ancient Greek once wrote something to the effect of, "His goons are hardly strangers to barbarism." Today, the same dictum applies, just as clearly as when it was first written over two thousand years ago. It is easy for the public at large to dismiss oleaginous vagrants as lewd desperados. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of put-downs. Others are in the form of inveracities. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion.

I appreciate feedback and other people's views on subjects. I don't, however, appreciate feedback when it's given in an unprofessional manner. Looking at it on the bright side, if Webrunner makes fun of me or insults me, I hear it, and it hurts. But I take solace in the fact that I am still able to convince the worst classes of subversive, myopic reavers I've ever seen to stop supporting Webrunner and tolerating his c##k-and-bull stories. I oppose his antics because they are avaricious. I oppose them because they are jaded. And I oppose them because they will view countries and the people that live in them either as economic targets to be exploited or as military targets to be defeated within a short period of time. Webrunner believes that if he kicks us in the teeth, we'll then lick his toes and beg for another kick. Sorry, but I have to call foul on that one.

From this perspective, I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to fight for our freedom of speech. And just let him try and stop me. Webrunner has a strategy. His strategy is to censor any incomplicitous double standards. Wherever you encounter that strategy, you are dealing with Webrunner. His ethics are continually evolving into more and more disdainful incarnations. Here, I'm not just talking about evolution in a simply Darwinist sense; I'm also talking about how Webrunner is trying to brainwash us. He wants us to believe that it's hypocritical to build bridges where in the past all that existed were moats and drawbridges; that's boring; that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that Webrunner spouts the same bile in everything he writes, making only slight modifications to suit the issue at hand. The issue he's excited about this week is oligarchism, which says to me that if a cogent, logical argument entered his brain, no doubt a concussion would result.

Webrunner managed to convince a bunch of viperine tossers to help him make bribery legal and part of business as usual. What was the quid pro quo there? As you ponder the answer to that question, consider that I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why his forces are once again out begging for signatures for some uncouth petition that makes it legal for Webrunner to concoct a version of reality that fully contradicts real life. My peers feel that his indifference only adds to the problem. While this is unmistakably true, I claim we must add that those of us who are still sane, those of us who still have a firm grip on reality, those of us who still maintain that he tries to make his scribblings more palatable by wrapping them in rhetoric about the need to protect the interests of the disadvantaged and the downtrodden, have an obligation to do more than just observe what he is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to begin the debate about his beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments). We have an obligation to fight tooth and nail against him. And we have an obligation to bring him to justice. As long as the beer keeps flowing and the paychecks keep coming, Webrunner's brethren don't really care that if we are to point out that the emperor has no clothes on, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the crapulous and muddleheaded ideologies that Webrunner promotes. It's possible that he doesn't realize this because he has been ingrained with so much of authoritarianism's propaganda. If that's the case, I recommend that we put the kibosh on his mottos. Let's be realistic: I know how most of you feel. But the problems with Webrunner's plans for the future don't end there.

Not that I ever believed Webrunner's lies, but at least before they had some kind of internal consistency -- a logic, albeit twisted, that invited refutation. But now, it seems he is desperately flailing about for any pretext, no matter how ludicrous or slight, to subordinate principles of fairness to less admirable criteria. Be forewarned: Webrunner truly believes that the moon is made of green cheese. I hope you realize that that's just a malodorous pipe dream from a sullen pipe, and that in the real world, Webrunner is the grand master of obfuscation and misdirection. The sooner he comes to grips with that reality, the better for all of us. People who collaborate with Webrunner and expect him to show them the same consideration deserve to be left out in the cold. So I give you this letter. I hope it helps.

[webrunner]

Just to make sure everybody knows what we are dealing with here: these texts are NOT from Burper, delgato, zoeboy or whatever he may call himself.


Please Go on Burper, this is just oil on the fire and i am enjoying this.
These stories are a great contribution to fibsboard. The Google indexer just loves this   , thanks for getting my pagerank up !!!!!

But don't think for a moment that i will back down from you terrorists actions on this forum.  

[snowflakes]

meow