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Post by wizer on Mar 20, 2008 9:39:15 GMT -5
(This is me, ignoring the garbage on this thread and continuing on) Garbage? You are calling my underwear GARBAGE?! That hurts.
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Post by prairienomad on Mar 20, 2008 10:35:48 GMT -5
Exactly. I have found that OJAR and now Hugthat are absolutely incompatible with trying to have an earnest, philosophical or spiritual discussion. Not because there aren't a lot of people that might enjoy it, and contribute to it, but because the few that only want to mock it, make it seem futile to even try. I find it too exhausting to try to read, or worse yet, contribute to, the discussions where an intelligent, sincere question such as this is asked, and it always inevitably highjacked by wisecracks and disrespectful stories. Oh well, it is the loss of the board, but such is life. That is just my two cents.
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Post by sheyd on Mar 20, 2008 10:41:07 GMT -5
My idea is simply to respond to the respectful answers, and ignore the others. Pretend they don't exist - or if you MUST respond, respond via pm. Boredom will chase away trolling, it is the response that keeps them. Plus, intelligent conversation can go around the noise. Like... a little kid interupting and you pretend you can't hear them until they speak respectfully. If they get loud enough, I'm sure Mod-Kermie will spank them! Shey
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Post by prairienomad on Mar 20, 2008 11:09:35 GMT -5
I hope so!!
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Post by Chaos40 on Mar 20, 2008 12:32:45 GMT -5
I'm pretending this thread doesn't exist which is why I'm not posting in in.
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Post by Jaded on Mar 20, 2008 13:59:13 GMT -5
The thing with forums is that you have people from all over the world with very DIFFERENT personality types coming together...thus, you have to have an internal moderator in your brain to skip over that which you find offensive. If it remains on the forum that means it is not going to be deleted therefore you have to self moderate. Some people might find the idocsteve posts much needed comic relief in a world that is too seirous. Others will be aggravated...i just skip over stuff I don't like.
I have been on forums that makes this one look like a walk in the park. LOL Seriously.
Chaos who in the world is that girl in your siggy who keeps falling? LMAO...i see her out of the corner of my eye as i type this. Hilarious.
Okay that was just my two cents. Don't worry i'll probably need change.
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Post by Dave on Mar 20, 2008 15:43:47 GMT -5
The thing with forums is that you have people from all over the world with very DIFFERENT personality types coming together...thus, you have to have an internal moderator in your brain to skip over that which you find offensive. If it remains on the forum that means it is not going to be deleted therefore you have to self moderate. Some people might find the idocsteve posts much needed comic relief in a world that is too seirous. Others will be aggravated...i just skip over stuff I don't like. I have been on forums that makes this one look like a walk in the park. LOL Seriously. Chaos who in the world is that girl in your siggy who keeps falling? LMAO...i see her out of the corner of my eye as i type this. Hilarious. Okay that was just my two cents. Don't worry i'll probably need change. 1. it's not idoc's idiocy that bothers me. i expect it, but when even three or four posters hijack a thread with some weak attempt at humor and an ensueing one sentence post after one sentence post in a "serious" thread it derails the entire conversation. if you need to massage your own ego so much, can't you at least do through pm? 2. i'm not offended. i teach in a public school. i witness more in a morning of classes than HT can ever bring to the table. that's not it.
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Post by Jaded on Mar 20, 2008 15:46:14 GMT -5
See fRe that is where it is all in the mind of the beholder...some of those sidebar things in threads to me add character and life to the forum. Doesn't bother me at all...but I do agree there is a fine line and maybe on a sensitive thread less applauded. However, so many people find religion a joke all its own so those who interject that here might be doing it because they don't find it a plausible or serious topic...
There is no way to please everyone on a forum. Too many different personalities.
Sorry for the sidebar.
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Post by wizer on Mar 20, 2008 15:48:50 GMT -5
1. it's not idoc's idiocy that bothers me. i expect it, Blow me Fre. I am not gay I just want to see if you can do a better job than your mommy did. From what I have seen, she should be easy to beat.
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Post by lumpy on Mar 20, 2008 15:49:09 GMT -5
1. it's not idoc's idiocy that bothers me. i expect it, but when even three or four posters hijack a thread with some weak attempt at humor and an ensueing one sentence post after one sentence post in a "serious" thread it derails the entire conversation. if you need to massage your own ego so much, can't you at least do through pm? Seeing how it is your thread, I'd suggest asking Kermie to nuke the stuff that you feel is taking away from the topic. He's pretty cool like that.
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Post by Jaded on Mar 20, 2008 15:56:11 GMT -5
Probably the best suggestion I have seen on the thread lumpy. Usually a PM to a moderator that is written with a level head explaining why they feel somethign should be deleted will be honored of the request is reasonable.
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Post by Dave on Mar 20, 2008 15:56:33 GMT -5
1. it's not idoc's idiocy that bothers me. i expect it, Blow me Fre. I am not gay I just want to see if you can do a better job than your mommy did. From what I have seen, she should be easy to beat. Wow. That is five sentences if you count the run-on. Good work Steven. A+ Star!!
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Post by wizer on Mar 20, 2008 16:03:37 GMT -5
Blow me Fre. I am not gay I just want to see if you can do a better job than your mommy did. From what I have seen, she should be easy to beat. Wow. That is five sentences if you count the run-on. Good work Steven. A+ Star!! I gave your mommy a star too, Fre. Only because she swallowed every drop. She really didn't deserve it though. I guess it's the effort that counts, huh?
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Post by Dave on Mar 20, 2008 16:09:27 GMT -5
my mother is a seventy-five-year-old fundementalist christian who gave birth to, and nursed, eleven children over the course of twenty-two years. Her personal claim to fame is that her stew and bread recipe , along with her picture, were publised in Taste of Home. when she found a used condom in my sister's room she insisted that they (my tenth grade sister and her 24 year old boyfriend) get married. If you have sexual fantasies that involve her, you have deeper issues than I previously thought.
get some help.
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Post by wizer on Mar 20, 2008 16:16:42 GMT -5
Fre,
I am sorry to say your mommy didn't learn all that much in her 75 years of fucking and sucking and blowing out 11 kids.
So you got some sisters? Good, I want to test my theory further...
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