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Tech: people who post

04 May 06 - 05:13 PM (#1733201)
Subject: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST,leeneia

I was going to make this a BS post, but then I decided that it is more than mere BS.

As you may have noticed there is a fierce debate on censorship going on below the line. Insults are flying and italics are being deployed. However, there is something for the neophyte to keep in mind about thread such as this. That something is this:

I have a friend who plays poker and likes to visit the blackjack sites. (The name Stanford Wong comes to mind.) Sometimes a thread will start on one of those sites. A person - let's call him A - posts something. B and C respond. Then X comes along and insults A, B or C. Z comes along and supports X. Flames flicker, innocent bystanders get upset. yada yada yada

Suddenly a message from management appears, something to the effect of "We have determined that messages in this thread from A,B,X and Z are all coming from the same computer. This thread is out of here."

See what happened? Some troublemaker who enjoys upsetting other people has posted phoney attacks on himself. Strange,eh what?

Keep this in mind as you surf the net.


04 May 06 - 05:18 PM (#1733204)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Noreen

It is BS because it is not a music thread. This is a music site.


04 May 06 - 05:31 PM (#1733214)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: John MacKenzie

Tech, is one of the non BS categories listed by the management, and as BS is only the correct categorisation for posts below the line, then in theory Tech is an above the line category.
However as the post was not a technical query then it has ended up in the right place.
Doesn't help though to make superior remarks about it does it?
Giok


04 May 06 - 05:40 PM (#1733219)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Noreen

I find it does :0)

It was a mere statement of the case- the division was made to keep everything non-music away from the music posts, for those who come to the site for music.


04 May 06 - 05:52 PM (#1733232)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Greg F.

The division is a convenience for those that don't have the critical acumen and/or the cognitive or reading skills to be able to read a thread title and realize what the subject under discussion actually is.


04 May 06 - 06:00 PM (#1733238)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: John MacKenzie

But still come below the line to check on the effect of their supercilious posts?
G..


04 May 06 - 06:04 PM (#1733241)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: LilyFestre

I find that people on this forum will fuss about almost everything as clearly noted above.

Michelle


04 May 06 - 06:10 PM (#1733246)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: The Fooles Troupe

Who? not moi!!!


04 May 06 - 06:42 PM (#1733254)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: mack/misophist

Toi!



...et
sometimes, though not often, moi.


04 May 06 - 07:07 PM (#1733270)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Bee-dubya-ell

I find that people on this forum will sometimes have intelligent, thoughtful discussions regarding the merits of various barnyard animals as potential life partners.


04 May 06 - 07:08 PM (#1733272)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Sorcha

Oh good grief.


04 May 06 - 07:12 PM (#1733274)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST

Forget that BWL...I've already been married to several jackasses!


04 May 06 - 07:23 PM (#1733280)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: The Fooles Troupe

I find that people on this forum will sometimes have intelligent, thoughtful discussions regarding the merits of various barnyard behaviours as potential life philsophies.


04 May 06 - 09:02 PM (#1733340)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: number 6

"Oh good grief."

Sorcha .... I fully agree with your statement

sIx


05 May 06 - 08:31 PM (#1733685)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: The Fooles Troupe

Charlie Brown has left the building!


05 May 06 - 11:38 PM (#1733802)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Peace

Where'd he leave it?


06 May 06 - 03:12 AM (#1733873)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: John MacKenzie

Just behind that pile of bricks and mortar mate!
G ☻


06 May 06 - 08:00 AM (#1733941)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: The Fooles Troupe

Which is why Paddy won't be at work today!


06 May 06 - 08:38 AM (#1733958)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Ron Davies

People in the UK who post may well get something posted back. In the US we just get mail.


06 May 06 - 08:51 AM (#1733963)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Big Mick

Seems to me that a statement about being married to several jackasses says more about the poster than the "jackasses". Just an observation.

I'll get me cap.

Mick


06 May 06 - 08:48 PM (#1734216)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST

"...italics are being deployed."

I love that. You better keep your head down when combatants resort to italics


06 May 06 - 08:49 PM (#1734217)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST,John O'L

Sorry that was me


06 May 06 - 10:43 PM (#1734288)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Peace

Where's yer cookie? (That's not on the quiz.)


06 May 06 - 10:56 PM (#1734303)
Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST,leeneia

Thanks, John. I'm glad somebody's awake around here.

Sometimes they try to crush the enemy with bold print, too.