Hello, fellow miscreants. I’m sorry I haven’t been around lately; got myself into a bit of trouble recently and it took fucking forever to orchestrate the jailbreak. I hear sirens in the background, so I can’t be long.

Hello Fellow Odeckers! Apologies I haven’t been around lately; I went on a spiritual journey of self-discovery last year in order to re-find what is important in life, and by the gods, I found it!

Hey folks. As the title says, this is your daily morning open thread. Talk about whatever. Also, a quick housekeeping PSA, which you can probably glean from the title as well.

I haven’t actually done one of these in probably three and a half Ice Ages, and I feel a bit bad about that. Here’s today’s morning open thread. I took last Thursday/Friday off and pretty much stayed off of most of the Internet the entire time, and for some reason I feel completely decompressed and relaxed.

Hi. I’m cras- goddamnit the title of the post already said that. For those that don’t know, I’m the current moderatowner of the Observeration Deck, and also currently kind of drunk. I missed the chance to do an AMA the last time someone suggested it, so let’s make up for lost time.

It’s that time of the time period again, where we actually remember to post a call to audition to post because it’s been like, fifty years since the last one. If you want posting privs, reply with a few links to what you’ve written and we’ll consider. Recommendations by regulars and mindflayers are a huge plus. As…

Oh shit, I just realized there’s a shared post with this. Sigh. Well, this time I’m too tired to care. Let’s talk. Let’s talk about trust. *Vin Diesel voice* Let’s talk about family and community. But first, a PSA: Mad Max is the fucking best. Holy shit. Like, if you love explosions, kickass women and men, and metal…

I was going to post this earlier in the week, but, work called. If you want authorship, reply with stuff that you’ve written that you think is ODeck relevant. On that note, if we don’t remember seeing you around in the community, and if your stuff is meant to be portfolio fodder, we will be that much more hesitant to…

Updated 8/6/2015: Point 5 really needs to be reiterated: More meat before the break. There have been an awful lot of stub posts lately.

Whoo boy. It’s been kind of crazy these last few weeks around here. Some behind the scenes stuff, some more public stuff, but you know what? It’s all good. We have quite a few newcomers coming in, and for them and those that aren’t here all that often, things can get kind of confusing and hectic. With that said, I…

I could watch this forever, I really could. But let’s not veer off the subject (bans self). Let’s talk about mainpaging again.

Hi folks. This is your local friendly moderatowner speaking. This is a call to audition to post, so, as usual, reply with some topical samples of what you’ have written and we’ll consider you for authorization. Also, if we (ok, mostly I) have deauthorized you in the past, by all means, respond with some stuff you’ve…

It must be Friday if I'm doing another call to post so soon after the last one. This time, though, I'm reiterating some of the rules that we have here. Like, there aren't many. And most of you have been around long enough to know them by now.

Yeah I really should do these more often again. It's been yet another two months since the last call to post, so, if you want authorship on the ODeck, comment below with a few links to what you've written and if the dominoes fall right, and the stars align properly, and the monkey hits the correct numbers on the…

Hi, this is your local moderator speaking. In the past we've had a number of kind-hearted souls create open forum posts for people to vent, go off-topic, and post cupcake recipes. As people came and went the open forums tapered off, and I think that's a shame. As I'm personally sort of busy with work and 99% likely to…

It's been about 2ish months since the last Call to Audition to Post, so here we go again. If you want to be added as an author to the ODeck, link to some stuff that you've posted on your personal Kinja and/or some Top Quality Comments and we'll consider you for authorship. Remember, you, too, can be linked to by…

Hey all. It's been only a month since our last call to audition but eh, why not. Request and link to some of the stuff you've written in the past and we'll look over/add you as an author on the ODeck if you want.

It's been... ok, wow, like five months since the last formal call to post, so it's about time we did another one, albeit in a different incarnation. Yes, we are changing things up a little bit. Well, we have changed things up a bit, but due to Real World(r) things we haven't been maintaining upkeep as much as we…