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I like the ignore feature myself.
Being moderator must be more difficult. I guess you'd just have to practice restraint.
Somebody has to work really hard, good or bad, to get me to fixate on them for longer than a week or two...And three years?
That's a long time. If I haven't seen you in three years, I'll probably have forgotten who you are, much less still be mad.
I guess I wonder what Spurious did that was so aggravating...
(thinks silently to self...I've seen Varda's picture, she could rough me up a bit...)
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I was a mod when all those people were banned [except xerxes who I don't recall] and it didn't bother me none.
Why take exception to an opinion?
And there is still:
which I consider very unprofessional behaviour for an admin
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well there are opinions and then there are....opinions.
perhaps there is some relevance in krugman.....
logic and reason does prevail here for the most part
for the remainder, i guess one can raise bloody hell
the dynamics could be different for james. maybe sci is his baby, you just a noob.
oh cmon
i use that line a lot and i can barely keep a straight face. i mean... an unpaid volunteer in some obscure forum?
perhaps there is some relevance in krugman.....
News reports portray the parties as equally intransigent; pundits fantasize about some kind of "centrist" uprising, as if the problem was too much partisanship on both sides. Some of us have long complained about the cult of "balance," the insistence on portraying both parties as equally wrong and equally at fault on any issue, never mind the facts. I joked long ago that if one party declared that the earth was flat, the headlines would read, "Views Differ on Shape of Planet." But would that cult still rule in a situation as stark as the one we now face, in which one party is clearly engaged in blackmail and the other is dickering over the size of the ransom? The answer, it turns out, is yes. And this is no laughing matter: The cult of balance has played an important role in bringing us to the edge of disaster. For when reporting on political disputes always implies that both sides are to blame, there is no penalty for extremism.
here in sci, i expect us to be fiercely prejudiced against unsupportable opinions and they should be penalized in some shape or form if maintainedlogic and reason does prevail here for the most part
for the remainder, i guess one can raise bloody hell
the dynamics could be different for james. maybe sci is his baby, you just a noob.
oh cmon
i use that line a lot and i can barely keep a straight face. i mean... an unpaid volunteer in some obscure forum?
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Does it? I guess we do differ in our perspectives, I find the arbiters of logic and reason to be few and even those rarely surface to make a point unless they are personally motivated for subjective reasons. The vast majority of posts seems to be dedicated to issues which can be prefaced by the undebatable "why do you believe...?"
I also think people should not be threatened/punished for having an unpopular opinion. The overt aggression expressed against people with a different perspective is not conducive to an atmosphere of civil debate.
If he is going to take any opinions assigned to all mods personally, this is his problem.
its in the little things that people give themselves away.
feeling better?
oh yes
Surely admins are paid.
A "civil debate" is a contradiction in terms. There is no "peaceful war" either.
According to Lakoff and Johnson, the metaphor that guides the way we approach communication is "argument is war", so is "rational argument is war".
A Google search even provides a link to a thread here at SF.
That was no little thing.
I find this place just like any school yard with a few dominant bullies and cowards trying to make the lives of others a more of a trial than they already are.
For the (sorry a bit broken by now) record, when my step father had cancer a couple of years ago some people at another forum helped me get through each trying day.
You know when someone you love and respect slowly disintegrates before your eyes until there's nothing left but a yellowing husk that has to wear a nappy to protect the mattress upon which they sleep from getting stained with urine and excrement (sorry James there I go mentioning 'poo' again)? When another person you love is losing the person that she loves and all that entails. And all of that is just the tip of a much larger iceberg.
Well for that 'getting through' reason alone I would regard that forum homey.
So if I went there and exchanged my 'cunt' with a few people and laughed at a few poo jokes, well hey, I reserve the right to do so. I don't like to imagine what the alternative might have been for me but it would probably have involved waysides and falling.
So whatever it was that happened between you and spurious and here and there believe me, then or now, I was not involved and so it really is YOUR problem! I think you may have forgotten a conversation we had once upon a time which was very similar to one I had with spuriousmonkey but hey you're just hell bent aren't you?
So, yes, I respect spuriousmonkey and TDI and killjoy and Oli and spudemperor and maguyver and SAM and Kira and oneraven and (even) greenberg and wanderer and Misterhamtastic and Tazer and Nickelodean and geoffp and xev (and sorry if I've forgotten anyone) in a way that that has nothing at all to do with you and this forum.
Crystal?
With each exchange you and I have what respect I ever may have had for you diminishes. I expect that feeling may be mutual.
Thank goodness for juries then when there's a hanging judge presiding.
James. Have you ever been in a room full of black people calling each other nigger? Or a room full of homosexuals calling each other queer? Think as HARD as you can around the subject you sad, vegetarian, arsehole.
The finding is mutual.
To you it would which is why I posted a qualifier. Of course that whole post has been removed so I guess people will have to accept your version and interpretation.
Oh I know exactly what standards apply here. No less a little boys club than anywhere else that stands accused thusly.
I doubt very much you are mentioned over a thousand times anywhere but in your own mind.
Don't worry I tread very carefully and for that reason tend to avoid stepping into poo. However, when it is flung directly AT me it's an issue I have to dodge or deal with. No prizes for guessing which I chose in this instance.
$h!t.Hope there was lots of opiates and :m: involved on his part...After my arm got bolted back together I was on morphine for a bit...it is good stuff.
If I get cancer I want to be high as an eagle's bunghole for the duration.
(Spud and I have been swapping punnishments...)
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Yes, absolutely. Hence the overwhelming response to the topic of disagreement!
But he is "an unpaid volunteer in some obscure forum"!
And others -
Perhaps everyone at this forum should take a conflict-resolution course.
Perhaps nobody is actually ill-intended, or small-minded, as such, but simply operates with inefficient conflict-resolution skills, which then leads to prolonged but futile attempts at resolution which generate even more bad blood, general dissatisfaction and the lowering of posting quality.
Sciforums doesn't make enough money to pay people.
The owner is making a few shillings, but I doubt he/she is planning buying a ranch in California on the proceeds.
See here.
About sciforums.com Traffic, Website value, estimated worth and domain stats
http://www.findwebstats.com/sciforums.comOnly the owner of the site can tell us that. Not some web based guess-o-meter.
Irony noted.
Scenario:
"The Russians are coming the Russians are coming!"
"Hell! Let's go and bash some Buddhists that'll show 'em!"
"No the buddhists are way too far over there by the time we've bashed them the Ruskies will be here raping and pillaging."
"Hmm yeah. I know why don't we just whack this tramp who just wandered into our path. That'll show them Ruskies!"
"Great idea!"
Thwack. Thwack. Thwack.
Tramp stands up after the bashing. Shakes head in bewilderment, notices a gang of vegetarians with their fists all balled up and pulls a large fly swat from his greatcoat. Chases the vegetarians all around the field screaming loudly.
"Shit!" Shouts a vegetarian
"Oops I pooped." Cries another.
Eventually the vegetarians run away and make a comforting pot of dumpling soup to cry into.
The tramp puts away his trusty fly swat and keeps on walking."
The Ruskies never did show up.
Conflict resolved.
In matters of conflict think yourself lucky that the lowering of posting quality is all you have to worry about.
But hey. I'm all for resolutions.
Don't you pooh pooh my website link!
The owner of this site will never communicate with such as you and I.
Sciforums Owner:
"Kwarp!"
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Heh Heh
That's better than mine.
That's better than mine.
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