The Little Coffee Shop Options

[Rane]

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We had intended the coffee shop to be a nice place where people could talk about their daily activities and such, kinda like the Lurkers Lair on the Official Forums.
It didn't quite turn out that way though, people have been taking advantage of their freedoms in here, there has been a lot of spamming and even some flaming. We will not tolerate that any longer.
So unfortunately we've had to decide to increase the rules for this thread. Of course the normal forum rules still apply, but we'll elaborate here.:
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We consider double posting and posting posts with only a few words to be spam. If you do that your post will be deleter or moved, do it too often and you might receive a warning for it.
We also consider chit-chat spam. This forum has a special chat channel for chatting, you're welcome to go there, and chat with other members or with the staff as we're always there, doing it in here is not allowed.
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[Lord Revan]

Well, another reason for some turbulence between us and them, is because people tend to judge things from a sentient point of view. And of course, they forget that animals aren't sentient.

Anyway, sharks think differently then we do. And they don't regard the ocean like their property (like we consider cities and livestock to be ours). But then certain species of shark are more aggresive then others, for instance: Hammerheads almost never attack humans (and they don't have much of a rep), Bull sharks are incredibly aggresive (they attack nearly anything at the least amount of provocation), and Great whites have a bad rep because most shark attacks (that get reported to the public) are theirs.

So some sharks actually attack people for little reason, but there are times where attacks are really misunderstandings. For starters, great whites attack from below and that means they look up at their prey (the common "seal" mistake). Another reason, GW sharks don't have hands and fingers, so they use their mouths to identify things (they bite things that are unknown to them). Of course this exploratory bite is just as dangerous for the creature in question as it would be an actual one.

And things like splashing the surface and making disturbances in the water can entice them into come close. In fact, back in WW2 naval personel were told to splash about and make lots of fluctuations in the water to ward away sharks (because not much was known about sharks at the time).

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I think when I'm older (and move out) I'll get a cat (a black one I hope).

This post has been edited by Lord Revan: Dec 3 2006, 02:20 AM

[Pisces]

In fact, back in WW2 naval personel were told to splash about and make lots of fluctuations in the water to ward away sharks (because not much was known about sharks at the time).

*Remembers the warnings of man eating plants which soldiers were told watch out for in rainforests during WW2*

Its funny that they could say so much with absolutely no basis for it.