I have to say that I'm surprised it wasn't a rule to begin with.
I figured it would have been standard with any forum.
I do have to say that I've been impressed with the civility (despite even heated arguements) in this forum but trolls will still come and go just like this Edward and his sockpuppet accounts and others like him in the future.
Now, I'm not the sort of person who easily takes offense at anything, but people who do come here and violates that particular rule usually doesn't seem to contribute to any discussion in a meaningful way.
I can also understand the removal of the negative reps, but I'm neutral toward the idea.
As I said on chat at one point, I can understand the reason for removing it - so we can reward the people who contribute meaningfully and ignore the ones who don't - as opposed to using negative reps like some kind of weapon.
I can honestly see a troll at some point in time wiling away his hours just handing out negative reps to people who annoyed him on his main account with a 'give me negative reputation, why don't you, well, take THIS! nya!'
So I can see the arguement from that standpoint, but at the same time, some people do really deserve to have a bad reputation at times so the community can point out to others that this person isn't the greatest use of your time to have a meaningful discussion with.
Anywho... I suppose that's my input on this matter.
I figured it would have been standard with any forum.
I do have to say that I've been impressed with the civility (despite even heated arguements) in this forum but trolls will still come and go just like this Edward and his sockpuppet accounts and others like him in the future.
Now, I'm not the sort of person who easily takes offense at anything, but people who do come here and violates that particular rule usually doesn't seem to contribute to any discussion in a meaningful way.
I can also understand the removal of the negative reps, but I'm neutral toward the idea.
As I said on chat at one point, I can understand the reason for removing it - so we can reward the people who contribute meaningfully and ignore the ones who don't - as opposed to using negative reps like some kind of weapon.
I can honestly see a troll at some point in time wiling away his hours just handing out negative reps to people who annoyed him on his main account with a 'give me negative reputation, why don't you, well, take THIS! nya!'
So I can see the arguement from that standpoint, but at the same time, some people do really deserve to have a bad reputation at times so the community can point out to others that this person isn't the greatest use of your time to have a meaningful discussion with.
Anywho... I suppose that's my input on this matter.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
