The last few days, any better?

akilina wrote:

Blazer Bob wrote: Just curious, is closing an on line account a physiological equivalent of an ejaculation?

When I stop using a web site, I simply don't go there. There have gotta be at least a hundred.

Didn't the owner mention something about not knowing about any who have left the site or didn't like it?

I admire her for making an effort to tell why she is closing it and to even make a suggestion to fix the abuse.

ACTUALLY, a MORE admirable action would have been to volunteer to assist in the suggestion.........EASY to complain,NOT so easy
to actually attempt to improve something. JMO

homeagain wrote:

akilina wrote:

Blazer Bob wrote: Just curious, is closing an on line account a physiological equivalent of an ejaculation?

When I stop using a web site, I simply don't go there. There have gotta be at least a hundred.

Didn't the owner mention something about not knowing about any who have left the site or didn't like it?

I admire her for making an effort to tell why she is closing it and to even make a suggestion to fix the abuse.

ACTUALLY, a MORE admirable action would have been to volunteer to assist in the suggestion.........EASY to complain,NOT so easy
to actually attempt to improve something. JMO

Have to agree it would be better to volunteer. But like me she volunteers in another country for extensive periods of time, hers much longer than mine.

appleannie wrote:

Blazer Bob wrote: Just curious, is closing an on line account a physiological equivalent of an ejaculation?

When I stop using a web site, I simply don't go there. There have gotta be at least a hundred.

Well, sure but some people prefer to throw faeces on their way out the door.

And some like to make some suggestions and appears to be speaking as bluntly as the owner did. Did you notice the recommendation?

Your post clearly spells out vulgar.

FredHayek wrote: [
All she is doing is revealing she doesn't know how to actually argue out an issue, all she can do is insult the poster rather than support her own radical views.

I agree. I used to try and encourage her. I thought the more she displays the cesspool of bile, hate and bitterness that seems to represent a progressive out look the more sane people would be revolted by the sick perverted house the left has built.

I was wrong and preferring a high signal to noise ratio, I now ignore her.

It is ironic or perhaps tragic that if in the above you substituted Bearmtnhib for LJ folks like archer would endorse it 101%.

What exactly would I endorse? Please enlighten me.

archer wrote: What exactly would I endorse? Please enlighten me.

Sorry grasshopper. Look not to me for enlightenment, look inward.

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I understand....that was a throw away line that you didn't expect to have to explain, that's OK, you and Fred do that a lot. Sorry I asked and forced you to make up some exuse.

As long as everyone blames everyone else and declares themselves blameless, nothing will change.m stop talking about what others should do and talk about what you will do. That is the only way things will change.

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I appreciate everyone responding and discussing my inquiry. Perhaps I was a little optimistic. I still feel like there is an air of a tone where folks were thinking just a little more about what they were saying.

But in reading the last few pages, I have a new question, it comes after reading MtnTrecker's post, which I have a response for below.

I think the reason I posted all this stuff recently about discussing how we discuss, I did not communicate clearly what I wanted from this business and perhaps if I state it better, I may get it. I would like a forum where people that are very curious about the political and social systems can gather and discuss such things. Still with the understanding that we are all biased, I would like a place where those that are both curious about the perspectives of both those that share their convictions and those that do not. This is a place that people go to ask questions and try and influence people.

I think I may be asking for another forum, we can call it the River Camp. In this forum we have the decorum of a typical well run high school or college classroom where many perspectives may be allowed. Anyone can be the teacher/professor or the student looking for a teacher/professor. This is polysci and econ class.

I suggest this to be added on top of the current forums which seem to well defined themes that SC and the crew have formed and allowed to mature into their own. The Ring seems to be a place for extremes, the poop jokes and the extra threats. The courthouse is where there is going to be heated arguments, insults, facts mixed with strong opinion and regret. I suggest the rivercamp (because I came up with the idea) and this is the place for well informed or educational discussions on political science and economic. I feel that there may be enough demand and many posters from the courthouse could perhaps have their finest moments in such a forum. I suggest that this is a forum you can be banned from temporarily for a month based on one request and a 285bound crew agreement. I would also be fine fielding those requests as to have the forum self moderate, but with time outs determined by one or a number of people or a rotating moderator. I realize this is just another layer, but any thoughts, no one has to give up anything in the courthouse to make this happen. I will repost this in its own thread, this posts comes from page 5 of "The last few days, any better?"

In the end I often have legitimate questions about how society is functioning or ideas about what I think we could do and I am looking for a place to discuss that. I ask for it here, because despite all that we see in the courthouse, we have a reasonable group of people that has even bothered to think about this stuff. I may not agree, but I find that your comments can open my mind even further, help me refine thoughts or plant seeds for new ideas. I am saying I have seen enough passionate banter on here, that I value some alternative perspectives. So thanks, and I am curious if anyone else feels similar.

I could then be an ass in the courthouse and a nerd in rivercamp. Feel free to come up with a better name.

I have not given up yet, there is a solution.

To Mtntrekker.

I don't think when accounts are free and open access that one needs to worry about closing an account, One can just leave and not log on again. If your request is to have your posts deleted or to have your persona profile restricted, that may be something that you should ask directly of 285 staff....just something tells me that that may be less receptive than they would have been prior to your post...but what am I saying, you are gone.....but you will be back, at least to lurk.