<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-268001456448450781</id><updated>2011-07-07T21:21:03.317-07:00</updated><category term='wgt'/><title type='text'>Faterson's Trifles</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://faterson2010.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/268001456448450781/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://faterson2010.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Faterson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00161415627848095039</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-268001456448450781.post-1392426601158805538</id><published>2010-03-20T02:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-20T10:50:35.478-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wgt'/><title type='text'>BNC — Boilerplate Nonsense Challenge</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0.85em;"&gt;[First published in &lt;a href="http://www.wgt.com/user/profile.aspx?UserID=441163"&gt;Faterson's WGT blog&lt;/a&gt; on 17 Aug 2009 at 12:36 AM]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;~~~   2009/09/19 Update .... The challenger fails his own challenge with a barrage of unprovoked boilerplate replies sent to numerous quitters threads on this day. Examples: &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/forums/p/4906/28340.aspx#28340"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/forums/p/4899/28328.aspx#28328"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/forums/t/3074.aspx?PageIndex=1"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.   ~~~&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="background:gray;font-weight:bold;font-size:1.75em;color:fuchsia;"&gt;BOILERPLATE NONSENSE CHALLENGE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;em&gt;No. 1 Boilerplate Vendor&lt;/em&gt;* in &lt;a href="http://www.wgt.com/forums/"&gt;WGT's discussion forums&lt;/a&gt; came the following challenge:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;When the next "New Player" or "New Forum Participant" posts on the topic of quitting, I challenge you to ignore it.  Not answer.  Not even direct them to the Search Box on the right.  There are many many participants on these forums who can, and will, direct any new inquiries to the existing threads. If you so accept, I will not respond to any quitting post, as described above, either.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is the new &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Boilerplate Oath&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and we shall be interested to observe how long &lt;em&gt;The Boilerplate Man&lt;/em&gt;* can stick to self-inflicted silence on &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=quitters&amp;amp;a=0"&gt;one of his favourite subjects&lt;/a&gt; of repetitive elaboration.  &lt;img src="http://vdp.sk/forum/images/smiles/happy6.gif" border="0" style="max-width:550px;" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="background:fuchsia;font-size:2.0em;color:blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Boilerplate Nonsense Awards&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Thus known and adored by legions of his fans, after having &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;won all of these awards in one fell swoop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, to enumerate:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background:yellow;color:red;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;TIN BOILERPLATE AWARD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/wja15c.jpg" border="0" style="max-width:550px;" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background:brown;color:red;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;BRONZE BOILERPLATE AWARD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://i30.tinypic.com/29zo9l.gif" border="0" style="max-width:550px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background:silver;color:red;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;SILVER BOILERPLATE AWARD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://i30.tinypic.com/2ah6zjn.gif" border="0" style="max-width:550px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background:orange;color:red;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;GOLD BOILERPLATE AWARD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://i29.tinypic.com/10z6ypu.jpg" border="0" style="max-width:550px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background:blue;color:red;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;PLATINUM BOILERPLATE AWARD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/i4q0du.jpg" border="0" style="max-width:550px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background:green;color:red;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;CRYSTAL BOILERPLATE AWARD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://i29.tinypic.com/2557v43.jpg" border="0" style="max-width:550px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background:grey;color:red;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;DIAMOND BOILERPLATE AWARD&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/2cnyyc5.jpg" border="0" style="max-width:550px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="background:black;color:white;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Congratulations!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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