Forum Posting 101

[Chasm]

6. If you want to make sure everyone can read your posts, write them in English. Normal English. With letters, not numbers. And punctuation.

damn LoL
n the rules seemd so legit til i got 2 #6
sorry equinox

 

[Equinox]

(What's this talk about nurses now? I refuse to be sexified!)

 

[Skorian]

(What's this talk about nurses now? I refuse to be sexified!)

Why?

What is this ( )? buisness?

Are you telling me there are women who don't want to be told they are sexy or should feel sexy? Would the alternative even be healthy? Sounds pretty lonely and boring.

 

[Limlim]

[video=youtube]

 

[SophiaGrace]

limlim the voice on that video was really annoying

 

[Drama]

No thanks Ledia I'm not a tea drinker, but thanks for asking.

i have coffee too

 

[SophiaGrace]

No thanks Ledia I'm not a tea drinker, but thanks for asking.

i have coffee too

She also has LSD in case you want to take a trip

 

[Polar]

Are you telling me there are women who don't want to be told they are sexy or should feel sexy? Would the alternative even be healthy? Sounds pretty lonely and boring.

Yes/No, Black/White. Oversimplified thinking. It's all about when it's being said, how it is being said, by who it is being said and most importantly why it's being said.

Next thread: Women 101

 

[Sci-Fi]

No thanks Ledia I'm not a tea drinker, but thanks for asking.

i have coffee too

She also has LSD in case you want to take a trip

Not a coffee drinker either.

 

[Thrasymachus]

I am in a story telling mood. I remember when I was 17 my mom had me sent twice to this outpatient psych ward type place against my will. I was there for over a week each time. Once I got sent to this special room they had for some outbreak of misbehavior. It was a room that had four walls of cloth padding meant to protect the patients sent there, at least in theory. In reality the room was a disgusting purgatory, there was piss and vomit stains all over. However since it was made of cloth you could never properly clean it. Its real function more than anything was so staff could lock up non-compliant, misbehaving psychological victims there without supervision free of the potentially for them to self-harm themselves. This serves the hospital's needs more than anything, to protect them from lawsuit. Probably most the patients who took a piss in the room because they were neglected for too long, and on the side it was a good way to get back at the facility and staff. Such a technical solution after-all encourages and multiplies the already existing trend of the staff to not care anyway.

That room reminds me alot of this forum. Really the only mod a respectable person could like here is Ian Haines, he even has his profile fields filled out and is perhaps even using his real name, unlike just about everyone else. He is not some totally anonymous fake nom-de-plume like the other two. He actually says what he thinks people need to hear instead of what they want to hear. You can find wishy washy people who kiss ass or seek to please everywhere. Why just recently, someone made a funny thread in the Networking subforum, complaining that as a 24 year old in Canada, he had trouble finding fellow gamers! I laughed inside so hard when I found that thread! What a mis-depiction of reality, so I told him you can just go outside with a hypothetical set of darts and hit anyone male in your age range, chances are they would be a gamer. But the sorry mods censured me because they want an e-internet padded room. But they don't understand such places are just full of vomit and piss, and when you clean the stains they just get bigger. Even if you make this forum into a padded room, like many want it to be, what will you achieve? An online purgatory that people will have to cling to more, because by adjusting to it, they must further disembody from the actually existing social dynamics they will see outside their door or window which lurks beyond the pc.

Anyway, I get my laughs no matter what from the tragi-comic happenings here. In a way I think the people here need me, certainly much more than I need them. I could take the hypothetical darts and find just about everyone with a similar perspective that is the norm here, with however, less cowardice. As long as Ian keeps up the fight, maybe he can turn the place around, he seems to have a good perspective unlike the other two.

 

[Skorian]

Dude. Watch the venom. Too much and you will drown.

Are you offering a different perspective or oppinion? Or just spitting at people out of some bitterness?

No thanks Ledia I'm not a tea drinker, but thanks for asking.

i have coffee too

She also has LSD in case you want to take a trip

Eh. Real cute, kid.

(Note: How did I missread this as directed at me? Weird.)

 

[mintymint]

I am in a story telling mood. I remember when I was 17 my mom had me sent twice to this outpatient psych ward type place against my will. I was there for over a week each time. Once I got sent to this special room they had for some outbreak of misbehavior. It was a room that had four walls of cloth padding meant to protect the patients sent there, at least in theory. In reality the room was a disgusting purgatory, there was piss and vomit stains all over. However since it was made of cloth you could never properly clean it. Its real function more than anything was so staff could lock up non-compliant, misbehaving psychological victims there without supervision free of the potentially for them to self-harm themselves. This serves the hospital's needs more than anything, to protect them from lawsuit. Probably most the patients who took a piss in the room because they were neglected for too long, and on the side it was a good way to get back at the facility and staff. Such a technical solution after-all encourages and multiplies the already existing trend of the staff to not care anyway.

That room reminds me alot of this forum. Really the only mod a respectable person could like here is Ian Haines, he even has his profile fields filled out and is perhaps even using his real name, unlike just about everyone else. He is not some totally anonymous fake nom-de-plume like the other two. He actually says what he thinks people need to hear instead of what they want to hear. You can find wishy washy people who kiss ass or seek to please everywhere. Why just recently, someone made a funny thread in the Networking subforum, complaining that as a 24 year old in Canada, he had trouble finding fellow gamers! I laughed inside so hard when I found that thread! What a mis-depiction of reality, so I told him you can just go outside with a hypothetical set of darts and hit anyone male in your age range, chances are they would be a gamer. But the sorry mods censured me because they want an e-internet padded room. But they don't understand such places are just full of vomit and piss, and when you clean the stains they just get bigger.

Anyway, I get my laughs no matter what from the tragi-comic happenings here. In a way I think the people here need me, certainly much more than I need them. I could take the hypothetical darts and find just about everyone with a similar perspective that is the norm here, with however, less cowardice. As long as Ian keeps up the fight, maybe he can turn the place around, he seems to have a good perspective unlike the other two.

No one needs you here. You are insulting, needlessly condescending, and have an inability to comprehend things ranging from basic human behavior to appropriate social conduct. funny that you would stay here, despite disparaging our community so much. I am willing to take the chance that we can in fact survive without you. Later.

 

[Skorian]

I guess the question I would ask is why were you in a padded cell? You feel it was totally unfair? Or can you see that there might be some reason? Before you act, can you even see the other side? Or only your own? Do you have a shred of insight into people? Do you comprehend that peoples own minds haunt them, often for no reason and they can only help it to an extent? Do you feel like punishment is the be all end all answer for people who have problems?

Many things are a matter of degree's(sp). You seem to be all or nothing I am thinking atm.

Human suffering is not funny.


I disagree with this ban on the basis that this forum is already too emotional and needs some reason. Even if that reason isn't perfect. The world will not change for people who are unable to live in it. They will have to toughen a bit so they can live in the real world. It does not help people to encourage them to continue to believe that they are in the right and the world they live in, in the wrong. When you have people challenging the freedom of speach that we have because bullying can happen. That is a problem, when people won't look at all the good that comes from this freedom. Life is not all fun and games. It is not all happy feelings. It will never be and people need to learn to coap, not seek escapes.

It is wrong to have a website where you try to have people you all like. It is totally unrealistic. It prevents learning and growth. It prevents understanding. For all.

 

[Skorian]

(What's this talk about nurses now? I refuse to be sexified!)

I am curious about this.....

 

[Doubt The Rabbit]

It is wrong to have a website where you try to have people you all like. It is totally unrealistic. It prevents learning and growth. It prevents understanding. For all.

It's a privately owned website. Theoretically speaking, we can be banned for wearing the color blue if they want. That is what you agree to when you sign up (don't believe me? Read the agreement terms). Regardless of what you feel is unrealistic, we are dealing with a very diverse and sensitive crowd in this forum. Mods are working their ***** off to cut back on people being offended in a place that's supposed to be a safe haven. If there are going to be people going out of their way to be difficult, I don't see why they shouldn't be banned.
In my experience with Thrasymachus, he has been rude, difficult, and full of himself. Another part of learning and growth is knowing that everything is going to have consequences, regardless of who thinks it's fair. If he doesn't like the consequences dealt to him, he can also simply not come back.

 

[IgnoredOne]

It is wrong to have a website where you try to have people you all like. It is totally unrealistic. It prevents learning and growth. It prevents understanding. For all.

It's a privately owned website.

Word. Thrasymachus has ceased lack of learning and growth, additionally.

 

[floffyschneeman]

It has come to my attention that there are people out there who doesn't really get the basics of forum posting and interaction with other forum users. To you, I grant these tiny, simple guidelines:

1. If you don't like the forum you're on, and constantly complain about the users/topics/response, then it's probably not the right forum for you. Leave it, find another, and everyone will be much happier. Yes, that includes you.

2. If you reply to a thread, or even start one yourself, you can't reject other users' reaction to it by saying that you don't care what they think. If you're not interested in hearing other users' thoughts on a topic, then don't make a post, or just stay away from the thread. Why bother to participate in a forum dialogue if you don't care what anyone else has to say anyway?

3. Leave the "because I say so" arguments in kindergarten. They can play with the "because I'm right and you're wrong" arguments and the "I'm gonna make assumptions about your intellect, your background and your personality because it fits my argument" arguments.

4. Accept that there will always be people out there who don't agree with you, and/or feels different about stuff than you. This does not give you the right to antagonize them, mock them, talk down to them or be rude to them.

5. Generally, just don't be a dick.

6. If you want to make sure everyone can read your posts, write them in English. Normal English. With letters, not numbers. And punctuation.

If we can all stick to these steps, I'm sure this forum could become a little more pleasant.

Have a lovely weekend, everybody!

This is a very insightful list, Equinox. Thanks for sharing. This could also be applied in dealing with people in the real world and I think the general public could benefit from this if people will see it and accept it with an open mind. Sadly, some people still take offence even with the most harmless things said or done. It's hard to deal with close minded people, no matter how much you mean well with your words. They always take it as an attack and attack you back and would never hesitate to insult anyone just so they could feel better. Why can't people accept that not everything is about them and just respect everyone's views and accept that other people have minds of their own and they may know less or they may know more? *sigh*