Hans tries to control
Telling people not to post
A true hypocrite.
I'll get to the mojo service later.
The words I chose in my uncharacteristically brief post that set this discussion in motion were intended to make fun of somebody else, by making fun of myself. "Please" was the 'tell.'
FTR,
@HooperScooper played it straight with a purely educational 'correction,' which I noted with appreciation.
Within the haiku threads, my goal throughout is improved fan performance in support of Husky victories. I'm a cheerleader. My commitment to counting is very easy to make fun of, and the physical act of counting 5-7-5 is often more stressful than gratifying. Nonetheless, it's a responsibility I've taken on in accordance with the saying, "If you think it affects the mojo, then it affects the mojo."
I'm eager to read your thoughts on mojo.
As a term, "haiku police" strikes me as a derisive slap that muddies the water; if you have a genuine grievance you want to communicate, I prefera straighter path. But I'm disinclined to try to control you or imagine I can do so.
That said, snarky complaining about efforts to uphold certain accepted standards, formal rules, traditions and such are about on par with and as absurd as, for example, slurring basketball referees as "rules police" whenever they make a call after a player shuffles his feet, sets a moving screen, or steps on the end line. "Hey rules boy, you must think you're so cool with your striped shirt & whistle..."
I've seen dozens of ways that people's Boneyard errors are interpreted, criticized, lampooned, etc. You chose exasperated sarcasm to register distaste that would have added up to, "Not funny," if you'd recognized the joke for what it was. But hey, elsewhere in this thread, somebody offered some Clingan language tips and something else label "pretty basic," and earned a "NERD" gif that got Likes & Laughs for their effort. Some thanks.
In your favor, you didn't call people who were amused by someone absent-mindedly writing that "Bristol chomp" was 2 syllables "number Nazis."
Extra-tiresome bonus: there is a decent body of opinion that it is bad mojo to write haiku outside of the Game Day Haiku Thread. Not all agree. I've evolved to where I nearly always contain my haiku within designated threads; otherwise, I'd have likely replied here in 3 lines.