I sincerely don't understand this phenomenon that folks like @MARIS61 kvetch about - having their threads locked and moved. In a decade here, it's never happened to me, or really, any folks I know. It also has nothing to do with Denny (or whatever his name is now) being gone. The mods here are fair -- IF you play by the rules. Actually, they are always fair. They are great. The problem is that some people here don't like playing by the rules, so they violate them, then predictably they get their wrist slapped, and then they get to cry even more about how they are a victim. The problem with the OT, at least for me, is that it has become boring. Same folks making the same arguments, including me. I won't debate anything anymore with Marzy or Maris for example because it just goes nowhere, or maybe downhill. Sorry, it's true. Its masturbatory as folks really don't want to learn anything new or revise their thinking, so what is the point of debating? And plenty here just don't know how to debate in good fun. Look at @barfo - he gets it; it's just a friggin Internet board people. LIGHTEN UP. Have some fun. The only OT threads that are fun any more are the non-political ones -- best movies, TV shows, first cars, etc. And it's too bad we can't talk politics civilly, well, not we, but some of you. You spoil it for the rest of us.
Politics are fun if your side is winning. Look at how engaged the Kavanaugh hearings thread was. After confirmation, not as interesting. Left leaners were downright giddy with the prospect of Mueller putting Donnie and Donnie Jr in jail. That was also misguided, so we have threads like this again.
I would like this post except that I don't believe the mods do anything because of their political views. I see them as acting because of the forum rules.
It seems to me that people all over the internet have forgotten what manners are. I also think many have forgotten that here in America, due to freedom of speech, we all have the right to our own opinion. Your opinion is worth no more than any other American's opinion is. If you believe otherwise, than maybe you should rethink what country you should be supporting. When you attack another American for their opinion, it is an attack on freedom. It is this freedom that allows all of us to freely debate our opinions in the first place. So let's not attack the very foundation of what truly makes America great, our freedom of speech. Sorry to not include any foreigners, but American politics has really become quite childish. I don't know if we will ever grow up.
I have a coworker who likes to say, "People never 'grow up'; they just learn how to act in public." Since we access the internet from the privacy of our own computers/phones, those same public decency filters tend to be subconsciously set aside. I don't think people on the internet have forgotten what manners are; I think many just don't care.
It can't be fixed until the "president" is voted out or impeached and his supporters apologize to the rest of us for being dimwits. Am I helping?
I understand people thinking that my proposal isn’t needed, or wouldn’t work. I haven’t seen any arguments as to why it’s not worth trying. Nothing is being censored, all the topics people wish to discuss will still be here, just one more tap or click away. If it doesn’t work, change it back after a couple of months, no harm no foul. The main posters I see having a problem with it, are the mods, as it creates extra work for them.
OT..Barfo fixed it, then people kept coming in and breaking it everyday....he's still hanging in there..so far many have tried to take Denny's old role but not risen to the challenge.
Well, Sly has kept his 50 dollar payola at 50 bucks as long as I can remember.....shit he must be a communist!
