Food For Thought Update

[Zam-Zam]

Take a look at the threads on the first page of your forum and ask yourself this:

How many of them are little more than a rant about how awful, or stupid, or evil, etc., someone else is? How many are race-baiting? How many are self-pitying?

And how many are about actual issues, and what policy should be.

It is fair to ask what the raison d'etre is for the existence of this forum is....

This is not a complaint...It is simply an observation. If people want this forum to be about insults, name-calling and whining, so be it. I believe in freedom of choice.

Let me know what you think, I'm curious.

 

[Spamature]

Not directly.

Really they are about the awful, or stupid, or evil, etc., things and people others support.

Whether that is a reflection on those who support the object of derision is up to the person taking it in.

 

[Zam-Zam]

Not directly.

Really they are about the awful, or stupid, or evil, etc., things and people others support.

Whether that is a reflection on those who support the object of derision is up to the person taking it in.

I'll have to agree to disagree on that one. However, if that's your take, I'm fine with it.

 

[Michigander]

Take a look at the threads on the first page of your forum and ask yourself this:

How many of them are little more than a rant about how awful, or stupid, or evil, etc., someone else is? How many are race-baiting? How many are self-pitying?

And how many are about actual issues, and what policy should be.

It is fair to ask what the raison d'etre is for the existence of this forum is....

This is not a complaint...It is simply an observation. If people want this forum to be about insults, name-calling and whining, so be it. I believe in freedom of choice.

Let me know what you think, I'm curious.

Right. So it is exactly like every other forum, blog, comment section on the internet. Obviously if you are expecting to be able to have a coherent, adult conversation with anyone about anything, the internet is not the place. It is unfortunate.

Actually, this forum is not as interesting or entertaining as (for example) Topix was. Because at least there, the conversation was not confined to politics, which is already the most boring, bigoted and divisive topic for discussion. Add to that the petty and vindictive disposition of at least one of the mods and the value becomes almost nil.

 

[Drumcollie]

Not directly.

Really they are about the awful, or stupid, or evil, etc., things and people others support.

Whether that is a reflection on those who support the object of derision is up to the person taking it in.

He was talking directly about your threads. If you don't agree tell us what the issue is in a NinaS thread .

 

[Drumcollie]

Right. So it is exactly like every other forum, blog, comment section on the internet. Obviously if you are expecting to be able to have a coherent, adult conversation with anyone about anything, the internet is not the place. It is unfortunate.

Actually, this forum is not as interesting or entertaining as (for example) Topix was. Because at least there, the conversation was not confined to politics, which is already the most boring, bigoted and divisive topic for discussion. Add to that the petty and vindictive disposition of at least one of the mods and the value becomes almost nil.

Topix...Was?

No wonder you are here.

 

[Michigander]

Topix...Was?

No wonder you are here.

Yes, discussion on Topix was universally disrupted by the type of trolling that you and others disrupt discussion on this forum with. It's a shame that adults cannot have normal adult conversations without that type of juvenile interference.

 

[Spamature]

He was talking directly about your threads. If you don't agree tell us what the issue is in a NinaS thread .

If you feel like a victim because you can't refute the truths I tell you about the evil you support, then that's on you.

What thread are you talking about ?

 

[Zam-Zam]

He was talking directly about your threads. If you don't agree tell us what the issue is in a NinaS thread .

Please don't misunderstand - I am not pointing a finger at anyone here. We all, at one time or another, have engaged is less-than-wonderful posting etiquette.

I'm just wondering what people think about it, and if that's the way we want it to be.

 

[ObamacareForever]

Please don't misunderstand - I am not pointing a finger at anyone here. We all, at one time or another, have engaged is less-than-wonderful posting etiquette.

I'm just wondering what people think about it, and if that's the way we want it to be.

It's a cesspool and it will always be a cesspool. It's too much work to clean it up.

 

[Dr. Steven Brule]

This is not a complaint...It is simply an observation. If people want this forum to be about insults, name-calling and whining, so be it. I believe in freedom of choice.

Let me know what you think, I'm curious.

That's exactly what this place is. It's laughable that some of its main offenders think otherwise.

I applaud your efforts to clean the place a bit but it's going to be a tough row to hoe as long as the moderation resides at the same level.

I'm part of another politics forum that is far more civil and could use a few more reasonable conservative voices. PM me if you're interested in the details.

 

[Zam-Zam]

That's exactly what this place is. It's laughable that some of its main offenders think otherwise.

I applaud your efforts to clean the place a bit but it's going to be a tough row to hoe as long as the moderation resides at the same level.

I'm part of another politics forum that is far more civil and could use a few more reasonable conservative voices. PM me if you're interested in the details.

I suppose none of us thinks of ourselves as "the main offenders", but we've all been less-than-perfect at times in contributing to the overall rancor so prominent here. It's unfortunate, and will not change unless people want it to. None of us can control the conduct of others, but each of us has it within us to set the bar a little higher by being cognizant of our own temperament while posting.

Better to light one small candle that to curse the darkness, and all that.

My unsolicited two cents.