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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 1:16 am
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(May 7, 2018 at 12:10 am)Shell B Wrote: People were never allowed to post the type of material that area 69 allows on the regular forum. Nothing changed outside of it.
I'm relatively new here (class of 2014), so A69 was always there as far as I remember. And I was banned once for a little while for posting inappropriate content in the regular sections, so yep, you have a point.
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 3:16 am
This topic needs little bit of Harlan Ellison
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 10:20 am
(May 4, 2018 at 3:53 pm)Joods Wrote: Fair enough, but if this is the case, then another subforum isn't really going to curb that. It's just going to cause more work for the staff. Why not just enforce the quoting members, flaming and trolling rules we already have now? I mean, the PD was put in place for a reason. How about we enforce that instead of making yet another place where people are only going to purposefully break or skirt the rules?
Think about it. Huggy violated the misquoting rule at least three times in one thread, to three different people, myself included. Moderators have posted in that thread and could easily see that he did it, yet he's still around. If the rules aren't going to be enforced in the regular sections of this place, what makes a new section any better? And again, who's to decide what's off topic what isn't? There are tons of threads now, where we've gotten very off topic and violated the PD all over the place but nothing's being done to enforce that rule so why even bother? *emphasis mine*
Oh so Judy's resorting to bald faced lies now? I quoted you VERBATIM, if you think you have evidence that I changed the wording of your post in anyway, then provide it.
Making false reports is abuse of the reporting system.
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 10:25 am
She didn’t use the report system.
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 10:48 am
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Ok, it's just that what she said implied otherwise.
(May 4, 2018 at 5:14 pm)Joods Wrote: I've stated the same thing a few times now about the misquoting rule and it's gone completely ignored. Some people here just continuously get away with stuff that it's completely frustrating. She clearly believes a rule is being broken.
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 10:52 am
She's talking about it, but she never reported it, if I recall correctly. She specifically stated that she didn't bother, but that could have been about something else.
If you misquote, you are breaking the rules. If you didn't, you didn't.
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 10:54 am
Do what I do sometimes: just don't quote anyone. Makes it much simpler for people who want to whine about the quoting system.
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 10:57 am
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(May 6, 2018 at 5:21 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: I have strong objections on the idea, personally.
Such section would make the rest of the forums "look like a joke"; in other words if you posted outside the "serious section" then you have posted a "shit post/ a not serious post".
That limits the precious freedom we have here in my opinion.
When you reverse my comment; you get the "Riyah" sub-section.
Well in a sense people would vote with their participation as to which format that preferred. That could result in some of the people you want to interact with not choosing the same arena as you. You'd then have to decide if you want to diversify your own participation, perhaps becoming more adept at switching modes of expression in the process?
(May 6, 2018 at 8:20 pm)Shell B Wrote: (May 6, 2018 at 6:51 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: If Neo's bile is going to pass as civil, the subsection is already doomed.
Oh, it won't. If this sub-forum goes live, you know it will be a great opportunity to call believers out on the uncivil behaviors that some of them often pass off as faith (you're going to hell, etc.). They'll have to behave as well as the atheists, if not better. When you consider they'll have more eyes on them, you have to wonder how soon the cries of persecution will set in.
Hey. Shell's user name just turned green. All those in favor, say aye.
AYE!
May I just say in advance, thank you for your service. Hope it doesn't put a damper on your writing career.
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 11:02 am
Nah, we're just going to have to spring for a house cleaner.
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RE: Civility subsection suggestion
May 7, 2018 at 1:51 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2018 at 1:53 pm by Joods.)
(May 7, 2018 at 10:20 am)Huggy74 Wrote: (May 4, 2018 at 3:53 pm)Joods Wrote: Fair enough, but if this is the case, then another subforum isn't really going to curb that. It's just going to cause more work for the staff. Why not just enforce the quoting members, flaming and trolling rules we already have now? I mean, the PD was put in place for a reason. How about we enforce that instead of making yet another place where people are only going to purposefully break or skirt the rules?
Think about it. Huggy violated the misquoting rule at least three times in one thread, to three different people, myself included. Moderators have posted in that thread and could easily see that he did it, yet he's still around. If the rules aren't going to be enforced in the regular sections of this place, what makes a new section any better? And again, who's to decide what's off topic what isn't? There are tons of threads now, where we've gotten very off topic and violated the PD all over the place but nothing's being done to enforce that rule so why even bother? *emphasis mine*
Oh so Judy's resorting to bald faced lies now? I quoted you VERBATIM, if you think you have evidence that I changed the wording of your post in anyway, then provide it.
Making false reports is abuse of the reporting system.
You intentionally took my quote out of context and used it for your own purposes. THAT is a violation of the rules.
Besides - you are presuming to know what I've done. I didn't use the reporting system.
So you don't know squat.
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