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CodeWraith wrote:
The problem is that we all already have a hall where we can go ...
How is that a problem?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke! Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
These guys have been in that business for thousands of years. They are a tough competition.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote:
Is that what you want to have here?
No, I wan't to have the old soapbox, where people didn't spam it with arguments. I would prefer there didn't have to be extra rules in place, but if people are abusing it then what other option is there? Either leave it closed, or re-open with a different approach to what is acceptable. Which do you prefer?
It's not a nice comparison, but you need a toilet. That's where the smelly stuff goes, and not in every corner they feel like. It never was a bad idea to have several different toilets with so many people around.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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These guys have been in that business for thousands of years. They are a tough competition.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I agree there should be a place to say things that are not appropriate for the lounge, but I found the soapbox recently was just a place to go argue with somebody else about political views. Anything not related to politics was quickly swept onto page 423 and never seen by most people, so kind of makes it pointless when it's like that. The only people it was useful for is people that want to argue for the sake of arguing. If those people actually gave a crap about what they were arguing about then they would actually go do something about it, rather than just voicing their opinions on a site that is dedicated to programming. Perhaps the soapbox could come back but with an initial rule that politics is not suitable conversation. At least until people can learn to mix up their conversational topics a bit.
musefan wrote:
initial rule that politics is not suitable conversation.
Then why have the soapbox? 99.99999999% of the discussions there, were political. Gobal Warming is political, etc. EVERYTHING comes back to politics, even religion is political at its core.
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No one is infringing your freedom of speech. However, if you want to make a speech - rent a hall. This one has been rented by Chris.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
This one has been rented by Chris.
and most complainers don't get this, even after you explain it to them. Same people that need to see the lable "Caution: this cup of coffee is extremely hot!"
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A tough competition for which purpose?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke! Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
Ok. This joke failed. I just wanted to say that if I need higher approval and want to sing the traditional prayers in perfect unity with all others, I will go to a church and not to CP.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Did Chris act lawfully when he prorogued the soapbox? Edit : was actually hoping for a discussion on bojo - but obvs my attempt at circumventing the no politics in lounge was missed
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Did Chris act lawfully when he prorogued the soapbox?
He use admin "Ownership" power to remove the SoapBox. "Is that lawful or not" I'm not sure though.
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No one is infringing your freedom of speech. However, if you want to make a speech - rent a hall. This one has been rented by Chris.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
"rent a hall" This is B.S. He want to express his feeling through writing on a forum like a SoapBox,Tw*tter... As the world does these days.
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musefan wrote:
initial rule that politics is not suitable conversation.
Then why have the soapbox? 99.99999999% of the discussions there, were political. Gobal Warming is political, etc. EVERYTHING comes back to politics, even religion is political at its core.
But there is a difference between talking about a topic, and having pages of endless arguments about the same thing, where nobody is ever going to change their viewpoint to agree with the other person. It's just senseless. Personally I have no problem if people want to talk about politics, or global warming, or even if the earth is flat or not. Just try to keep it rational and avoid arguing just for the sake of it. It doesn't help that most OP's set up their opening message to incite arguments, rather than with the intention of actually caring about other people opinions, and more importantly accepting that they are allowed to be different. Perhaps CP could do with a design overall with regarding to how posts are displayed. Rather than having every single comment and sub-comment visible, just have the root post visible and then it doesn't matter if a topic has 1 reply or 1000 replies, people can easily skip over and ignore the crap that they don't care about and find the posts that do actually interest them. EDIT: Just seen I guess that is basically "thread view".
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Each time your parents told you not to curse, they were excercising mind-control (called good parenting in that case).
I have officially been declared to be uncontrollable by my mother and any other female that ever tried. More successful always were those who tried it with reasoning.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
CodeWraith wrote:
… any other female that ever tried. More successful always were those who tried it with reasoning.
Any women who tried that were aiming much too high :-\
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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musefan wrote:
initial rule that politics is not suitable conversation.
Then why have the soapbox? 99.99999999% of the discussions there, were political. Gobal Warming is political, etc. EVERYTHING comes back to politics, even religion is political at its core.
Politics is religious at its core.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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CodeWraith wrote:
… any other female that ever tried. More successful always were those who tried it with reasoning.
Any women who tried that were aiming much too high :-\
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
What shall I say now that would not upset some kid sisters...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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But there is a difference between talking about a topic, and having pages of endless arguments about the same thing, where nobody is ever going to change their viewpoint to agree with the other person. It's just senseless. Personally I have no problem if people want to talk about politics, or global warming, or even if the earth is flat or not. Just try to keep it rational and avoid arguing just for the sake of it. It doesn't help that most OP's set up their opening message to incite arguments, rather than with the intention of actually caring about other people opinions, and more importantly accepting that they are allowed to be different. Perhaps CP could do with a design overall with regarding to how posts are displayed. Rather than having every single comment and sub-comment visible, just have the root post visible and then it doesn't matter if a topic has 1 reply or 1000 replies, people can easily skip over and ignore the crap that they don't care about and find the posts that do actually interest them. EDIT: Just seen I guess that is basically "thread view".
musefan wrote:
Just try to keep it rational and avoid arguing just for the sake of it.
and how do you plan to make that comment a reality? This is a tech site, not a free for all opinion forum. What you are proposing would take moderators to enforce. Who gets to be the moderator. Will the moderator be fair and just with peoples comments, etc? No, they won't. It would snowball into a chaotic cluster-F sandwich. No thank you. I loved the Soapbox, but I also get why Chris closed it down.
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No one is infringing your freedom of speech. However, if you want to make a speech - rent a hall. This one has been rented by Chris.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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musefan wrote:
initial rule that politics is not suitable conversatio
A place with less rules, but with some more rules? Politics may not interest you and those discussions tend to lead nowhere, but at least they are contained in a place where you can easily ignore them. Simply taking away the place for these things and proclaiming how strictly you want to enforce the rules from now on simply leads to having these things all over the place in sometimes funny or more often strange ways to wiggle around those rules. Elephants and sunshines, anyone? And, last, this kind of situation draws one of the lowest forms of life to the scene: The lawyer. On both sides of the argument you will suddently have lots of people arguing over why or why not someone has broken the rules in each particular case. Is that what you want to have here?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Politics is religious at its core.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote:
Politics is religious at its core.
The famous French anthropologist Louis Dumont had an interesting way of comparing modal western culture and Indian culture: he used a diagram:
India
religion
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politicsWest
politics
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religionWhere the top category represented the liminal content of cultural dialogue, and the bottom category reflected the subliminal content. it's been 44 years since my 1 year fellowship to India, during which i read Dumont's work [^], and this metaphor was not intended as a reductionist simplification. How Dumont's work (from the educated before WWII generation of anthropologists) would be received today, after the "triumph" of deconstructionism (Derrida, et. al.) in French social sciences, and many other countries' academia ... I don't know.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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"rent a hall" This is B.S. He want to express his feeling through writing on a forum like a SoapBox,Tw*tter... As the world does these days.
Norman Landing wrote:
writing on a forum like a SoapBox,Tw*tter... As the world does these days.
If there are easy alternatives... where is the problem with a closed soapbox?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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musefan wrote:
initial rule that politics is not suitable conversation.
Then why have the soapbox? 99.99999999% of the discussions there, were political. Gobal Warming is political, etc. EVERYTHING comes back to politics, even religion is political at its core.
Slacker007 wrote:
Then why have the soapbox? 99.99999999% of the discussions there, were political. Gobal Warming is political, etc. EVERYTHING comes back to politics, even religion is political at its core.
I don't think so... 99.99999999% of discussions were just trolling. There were very few real conversations, the biggest part of the posts were not debates but verbal fights, and for one post per page that really was interesting... you had to read a big amount of crap surrounding it. And please note: I was usual of the soapbox (at least the last months) and a part of me would like to have it back, but let's be honest... as it was, it was not working
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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As I said, I usually don't. However, I think that someone called me a hypocrite just this morning. I would like to answer him without too much constraint. Not to cause a drama, but I would be interested in an answer thats also clear and direct.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
CodeWraith wrote:
I think that someone called me a hypocrite just this morning
There are other ways you could interpret my comment [^] ... if you care to do so :)
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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CodeWraith wrote:
I think that someone called me a hypocrite just this morning
There are other ways you could interpret my comment [^] ... if you care to do so :)
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
I did, but it also got me thinking about where I'm headed. As always, not where the rest of the world is going. :-)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.