Hey, we want to be part of the hate!
POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 02:14
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Signym,
Good points all. You're wasting your time talking to the propaganda machines, they never intend to admit that the opponent is human, so there's really no point.
Yes, apparently in this case the opponent is a crocodile...or a scorpion...or a "diaper-head" (whatever the hell that is)... but definitely not human, because we all know that people with more melanin who believe in different gods CAN'T be human like us!
(Hopefully you'll recognize the obvious blatant sarcasm in this post...)
Mike
"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Fascism is running high on the board. I probably should have left earlier. I hate to leave on a sour note, but this has become a hate site.
Granted, I'm not around much, but didn't you already start a thread about how you were leaving this board?
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Originally posted by swish:Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Fascism is running high on the board. I probably should have left earlier. I hate to leave on a sour note, but this has become a hate site.
Granted, I'm not around much, but didn't you already start a thread about how you were leaving this board?
As the new self appointed moderator of civility, I wonder if you would describe your state of mind when you responded to Dreamtrove. Were you hostile, sarcastic, hateful, or (fill in the blank). In the interest in maintaining civility could everyone just describe their attitude and intended tone before posting. I don't know how I'll fairly administer disciplinary action if I don't know whether or not you intended to insult, offend, flame, or abuse ahead of time. Maybe you could just use the code word Nazi or Fascist in your first line to give me a clue as to your intent.
Thanks for your cooperation,
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Originally posted by Kirkules:Quote:
Originally posted by swish:Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Fascism is running high on the board. I probably should have left earlier. I hate to leave on a sour note, but this has become a hate site.
Granted, I'm not around much, but didn't you already start a thread about how you were leaving this board?
As the new self appointed moderator of civility, I wonder if you would describe your state of mind when you responded to Dreamtrove. Were you hostile, sarcastic, hateful, or (fill in the blank). In the interest in maintaining civility could everyone just describe their attitude and intended tone before posting. I don't know how I'll fairly administer disciplinary action if I don't know whether or not you intended to insult, offend, flame, or abuse ahead of time. Maybe you could just use the code word Nazi or Fascist in your first line to give me a clue as to your intent.
Thanks for your cooperation,
Summary: Bad Person (Not quite Nazi level)
State of mind: Amused
Intention: To mock the schmoe for whom one self-absorbed attention-seeking tantrum wasn't enough.
I will now sit in the corner with the Official RWED Bad Person hat on.
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Originally posted by swish:
I will now sit in the corner with the Official RWED Bad Person hat on.
Wow, this is the easiest job I've ever had.
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I'd rather have free debate than arbitrary civility.
One of the things I *like* about this place is that you HAVE to argue your position, and effectively, instead of running to a friendly mod and silencing the opposition.
95% of "debate" on other boards seems to various factions trying to bait each other into being banned so that the "winners" don't actually have to argue their positions, and it demolishes the entire purpose of said boards in my opinion.
So I accept the lack of civility, even and especially when it's thrown at me, Kirk's pointed out before I got no issue with takin a couple servings of what I dish out, long as the topic at hand is thrashed out in a useful and informative fashion.
I'd rather have an uncivil argument that actually resolves or clarifies something rather than one so bound in PC politeness that I can't even make sense out of the positions, much less what's being argued.
-Frem
*steals the bad person hat and runs around smacking people as the jester-herald of our glorious imperial mistress, TWG*
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Kwicko
That was sarcasm overdose, but I understand the difficulty of expressing sarcasm online. There should be a convention for it.
Swish,
I've left this board many times over the years. It's like a gravity well. If you orbit it, you might fall in and then it's difficult to leave.
Kirkules,
The moderation of civility was proposed as a democracy, not a dictatorship. This doesn't mean that we should all jump on whozit over the bagel thing, but that if people feel the bagel thing is inapproriate, or in this case, just plain boring, then he should give, unless there's a strong maturpasty-ater contingent arriving.
Secondly, since everything you say is sarcasm, it's hard to see why you're here, ditto for whozit, but I'll ignore that. Just saying that sarcasm has its place, but like anything, when overused, loses any meaning at all.
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I'd rather have free debate than arbitrary civility.
But, Frem they're talking a Dictatorship of the Majority, what could be fairer than that.
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Originally posted by rue:
DreamTrove
These are the people I have been arguing against during the the last two years you've been gone. They ARE filled wih hate and prejudice, along with deception.
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Silence is consent.
I'd replace deception with delusion
they are true believers
Lets party like its 1939
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Kwicko
That was sarcasm overdose, but I understand the difficulty of expressing sarcasm online. There should be a convention for it.
In the past, I've tried using brackets like the ones used for quotes, italics, and such. [sarcasm]mumblemumblemumble[/sarcasm].
Maybe it could be shortened to [s]...[/s]?
Anyhoo, I'm all for a clear indicator of sarcasm. I do tend to use it as my go-to, probably more than I should. But some of the things posted here really are so bizarre that a sarcastic "Really? D'ya think?" is all that captures the essence of my disgust. Plus, I'm just a natural-born smartass to boot.
Mike
"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."
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