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Originally posted by Mason Jenard:
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
I also agree that this is no place for personal attacks. So, can this be a place where heated debates rage? Can it also be a place where the 'ragees' respect each other? If so, it will be a truly great forum, and an asset to JR.
Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
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Is not it ironic don't you think?
MD is so boring ....QB]
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Too boring without Jaosn, Map , Shura , ME, TP......
Looks like now they dont have anything to say
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Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
Yeah, now MD is truly meaningless. It used to have great intellectual discussions, now it is just plain politically correct small talk.
Something like this:
Poster 1: Yesterday I farted in a restaurant.
Poster 2: Ha ha ha.
Poster 3: Yeah, that's a great joke, I do it all the time.
Poster 4: I luv Nancy. Anyone from San Diego?
Poster 5: From AL, but I used to live in WA and I miss the apples from the local marketplace.
Poster 6: Happy mother's day!
Poster 7: .
Poster 8: 50 reasons to drive SUV [long list follows]
These down to earth, friendly, non-political discussions make me feel like vomiting.
Eugene.
[ March 27, 2003: Message edited by: Eugene Kononov ]
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
These down to earth, friendly, non-political, non-offensive, non-confrontational, no-substance discussions make me feel like vomiting.
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Maybe you moderators/sherrif's, or whoever's in charge should create a new forum, "Politics", to include all the "hot" war discussions.
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
Eugene - that one sounds more iffy, to me anyway. I doubt we'd want to have anything totally unmoderated under the "JavaRanch" banner. Too much opportunity for ugliness that we'd get blamed for, and hurt feelings that would damage people's perception of the rest of the ranch. We've got enough of that now, I think. Though we could point people toward some other site for such discussions.
One of the basic problems here is that among ranchers, there's a wide continuum of different tolerance levels for different types of "unfriendliness". I for example have little interest in participating in a totally unmoderated forum (due to a probable excess of infantile name-calling such as we occasionally see here, especially recently), but I enjoy many of the other more serious discussions in MD. Others would prefer not to see such discussions at all. And I suspect that there will be a lot of variation in where exactly people think the boundaries should lie between the various categories we might try to assign discussions to. Also there seems to be a lot of variation in what people consider an "insult" or "unfriendly" - I'm thinking that whatever we do, it would help to have some more written guidelines and examples so people know what we mean. I think it's probably impossible to make absolute rules about a lot of it, which is why we haven't done so previously. And a lot of our policies evolve over time, based on what did or did not work well in the past, etc. But I think we can provide more in the way of published guidelines than we have - if we can agree first on what they should be.
[ March 27, 2003: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]
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