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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30684 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Or worse, bug Ageless on the Boinc boards :-) Come on over. Love to have more posters! http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=9707 http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8105 Moderation there is more about free speech as long as you aren't spamvertising or using 7 dirty words. I actually wonder if the topicality policing here actually creates strife? Too many people each with a slightly different idea of what is acceptable? Anyway, see you on the Dev Board! |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Moderation there is more about free speech as long as you aren't spamvertising or using 7 dirty words. It so easy to solve the problem with profane language. In all computer languages there is already ways to replace Words to Another Word. Pseudo code For every obscene Words in Message Replace Word to "******" Next |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Or mis-spell it like the O/P does often enough, for example: - "Bollix" At least here in Britain on this board we can actually use the correct term as we have a politician of that name... ...poor devil :-) |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 |
Can I add my two pennies worth? Minor point but can you reduce this post to 50 words? I thought so. Some post on politics are hard work. I open up the text editor and spend several days on a single post before posting sometimes. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Or mis-spell it like the O/P does often enough, for example: - Yes typos can be dangerous:) The best way to read foul and obscene text in English is to let Goggle translate it into Swedish, danish, norweigian and Icelandic:) All obscene text are subsituted to religous foul Words:):):)) |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Or mis-spell it like the O/P does often enough, for example: - DROP IT CHRIS S!!!! Its Sunday afternoon for heavens sake! |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
.. An unintended but neverthe less interesting psychological exercise :-) yes. It certainly was. Do you feel better now? Reality Internet Personality |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 |
Minor point but can you reduce this post to 50 words? I thought so. Some post on politics are hard work. I open up the text editor and spend several days on a single post before posting sometimes. I am not complaining but having worked tech support I have gripes with short messages. The shorter the message the more likely you are to be misunderstood. Text messages are the worst followed by chat messages. Email is better but still subject to problems. Phone calls work most of the time and give you the real time feed back so you know when you lost the customer. Face to face is best but I was only able to do that with very few customers. Any idea takes a certain number of words to express it. The more complex the idea, the more words that are required. For some ideas, 50 words would be overkill and others may require many more. Express any of Shakespeare's works in 50 words. You now see the problem. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
No, do you? You've certainly been active this weekend. I'm going to assume this was aimed at me, because I cannot see the connection with Dena's post. What I see is someone who wasn't doing very well in the politics forum and decided not only to pick up the ball and go home, but to burn down the pitch on their way out as well. Considering how many bun fights and petty name calling you have got yourself involved in here I am baffled that you are pointing the finger outside yourself. Reality Internet Personality |
Akio Send message Joined: 18 May 11 Posts: 375 Credit: 32,129,242 RAC: 0 |
There's one thing I know for sure: for every opinion I have, there is at least one other. It's one thing to have a discussion on opinions or ideas as long as it's done in a civilized manor, possibly even conducive to concord (although, not always achievable). Disagreement is one thing, and it's a natural thing. It's another thing to retort on someone's opinions or ideas in the form of a personal verbal attack. I said it earlier, but I don't think it's good seeing people here fight and argue over things when we're all in this project for the same purposes. It is HARD to discuss/debate on some things that you have a personal attachment to and dislike seeing others not "get it" or agree with it; I certainly am not impervious to this at all, and I don't think there's many out there that has something they wouldn't get mad about at some point or another during discussions. But devoting an entire forum that is a place to vent has it's merits...it does keep it out of the other forums like some pointed out earlier on this thread. But it's also a specifically set-up location devoted to allow people to argue over things. It may start out healthy, but a lot of times it turns into negative comments and anger between posters in threads. In the end, I don't really know what the ramifications would be in the forums if the Political Forum was shut down. But I really don't like seeing Seti@HOME people fighting with each other. We're all in this together, and we all have our differences in life and differences in opinion. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
And that is the most opportune moment to lock it down - for another year at least :-) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30684 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
No, do you? You've certainly been active this weekend. +1 |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
All views are welcome. Does that apply to the politics board as well? |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
All views are welcome. No. |
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Politics Reflect Life. We are NOT All in 'This' Together. We Do NOT All, Like Each Other. 'Crunching' S E T I at Home, Work or In A Parallel Universe does NOT make us, United In Spirit. I Like Seeing People Lose Control. Why? Because People Lose Control. The One Poster stating All These 'Rules' To Post By, 'is' Not Politics. Politics in US of A, UK, EU, and Anywhere Else, runs Under The Sham of Rules and Procedures and 'is' Anything But. So, Let's Get a Stick About. Huh? May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Even better, turn it into a 5000 piece jigsaw - should keep you busy for a while :-) |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Ain't gonna happen. I have it on good authority that nobody is gonna be messing with the forums or much else anytime soon. You can quote the kittyman on that one. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
To limit the channels available to the 'airing' of political views will inevitably result in their appearance in other threads. To shut it down would be a mistake and possibly an act of censorship. Freedom of thought and expression is a basic tenet of science and one of the foundations of SETI. I am guilty of allowing my conservative views to creep into other threads and in future will express them in the more appropriate venue. I have said before that sometimes the Politics thread is like wading through a sewer to find a pearl, but the reason for doing it is you do find some. As to resources, is there a way to enlarge the moderator staff by asking for QUALIFIED and VETTED volunteers? For these reasons I have voted no. "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
.. as far as I am aware, Fred is happy with the current team. I am not sure what qualifications there are for moderators, so you will have to explain what that would look like. Reality Internet Personality |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
.. I was a mod once... Imagine that again in this day and age... Oh, boy. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
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