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Any chance of banning hot topics
GGKoul:
Another thing about Polictial Threads.
monkeybomb:
I wrote the first post in a fit (as if it wasn't obvious). But the subsequent discussion has made my point. The everything else category has tons to offer INCLUDING ARCADE SPECIFIC TOPICS, but some aren't accessing it because of the politics.
I was definitely wrong in my fit about banning but there seems to be genuine intrest, by many, in a P&R forum. All it changes is the location of those threads, and nothing more. They would still be aloud. It would bring many back to the EE category who have left and I think make it better.
I also think the change the channel analogy is dead on. I don't watch shows I don't want to and I'm glad they are aloud to be aired. Just like the topics should be aloud. But, I view the subject title like I do commercials on a show I chose to watch. If I'm watching 'The Simpsons' and fox does their thing, showing me something completely offensive in a commercial, then I can't watch the channel at all if I am to avoid this stuff. Just like many have left the EE forum entirely.
Bones:
About 10 seconds after posting my original reply, I regretted clicking the post button. Not because I felt I had said anything wrong or offensive, but I should have chose the high ground and walked away in silence.
As it stands my post has brought offence to some and therefore my actions were wrong.
My comment "grow up or shut up" has left a bitter taste and although I used this term as a closing comment to enforce my earlier remarks, I could have worded it in a more friendly manner.
I am broadminded, from a different culture and impossible to offend, I sometimes forget that other people have different levels of sensitivities.
Hoopz:
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About 10 seconds after posting my original reply, I regretted clicking the post button. Not because I felt I had said anything wrong or offensive, but I should have chose the high ground and walked away in silence.
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What is frustrating is that some people should take the high road more often.
saint:
(saint is following this discussion and mulling it over)...
--- Quote from: Chris on April 15, 2005, 03:33:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: quarterback on April 15, 2005, 03:24:57 pm ---Particularly since, as I read it, it's not that he thinks these topics should be completely banned, it's that he'd like them to be separate from "Everything Else". Just entering the "Everything Else" forum and scanning for arcade related or generally entertaining threads can introduce inflammatory subject lines to the equation. (and, as Chris just noted, politically inflammatory sigs and avatars do that as well) It's no longer just a forum for fun, goofy, off topic discussion. It's pat that and part pointless debate between polarized groups/individuals who will never convince each other of anything.
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Perhaps a "Free-For-All" forum needs to be created as a subforum under Everything Else, then, so this content doesn't overwhelm less controversial topics that find a home in Everything Else.
--- Quote ---(You've already noted that telling someone to "grow up or shut up" isn't insulting from your perspective) And, as I've always said, what happens on this board is up to saint afaic.
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I personally found it very insulting (even though it wasn't directed at me), enough to hit "Report to Moderator". Obviously it didn't help in this case. I'm interested to see Saint's take on whether that is the kind of interaction he wants to see around here or not.
--Chris
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