john eden
male pale and stale
Hmm I don't think so. I saw that someone had posted recently on the drugs thread a few days ago.
Thank you for noticing that.
Hmm I don't think so. I saw that someone had posted recently on the drugs thread a few days ago.
If somebody finds offense at the original post of the grime thread, will you also delete the whole thread
Would it be best to take them down, though, if we're going to take down other confessional threads?
I honestly don't see how talking about enjoying a drug experience with others who have also had similar (or different) experience is problematic at all, or any different from people talking to each other about why they like x band or y genre of music. Ditto with sex.
I think the real problem here--and the reason why these things seem to come to a head--runs deeper. It must, because there are constant inuendos made by mods about how many people just hate any thread that is not some sort of bickering argument about microgenres of music. Constant allusions to the fact that older posters don't like the style of posting that some newer posters use, to the glory days of dissensus, whatever those were.
But of course it will continue to go unacknowledged, so why bother?
It sounds like you're being perverse and enjoying all of this, though, in which case--you got what you wished for.
you are wrong.
All the voices in my head are telling me to erase myself as they were last night as I lay awake. I will not post here for a long time, and the 'problem' will not go away.
I've seen more hate in a christian prayer group.
What the mods did is like having a fly coming in the room while you are eating and then throwing the food away just in case it lands on the food. or a better analogy.
I briefly scanned the board and posted where I thought matched the post. blah. big deal.
Goodbye.
when memory serves me right you have to be talking about eiter of these posts on the deleted thread:
somebody said he didnt like iraqis
mistersloane offered to blow somebody
zhao said he hated the lying in africa
are you callin zhao a racist, or mistersloane a homophobe?
i do not want to know about people's drug histories, their mental illnesses, true life confessions, their sex lives or anything like that, really, and i doub't i'm alone in this. there are other boards to talk about that kind of stuff on.
Now if we only erased threads that were *actually* chock full of literal racist, homophobic, and sexist posts, we'd be doing some important business.
As it is this place just gets sadder all the time, and not because the "intelligence-level" of the posts has changed one bit. I've been reading dissensus for a few years and I don't think the general tenor has changed at all. It's just that some people (like Stelfox) now get called out on shit and don't like some of the new posters, so they bitch and whine about it (apparently) to mods all the time (GROW UP.)
I happen to like when people drag the political down to that horrible pedestrian level of the personal (oh god, someone related something to their personal experience? my discourselevelometer is going off like crazy). Personally, I find nothing more tedious than people arguing at fucking length about whether "dubstep is it" or some of what passes for "music discussion." To me, those are some of the lamest, most absolutely tedious watching-paint-dry waste of times online. Not the threads where people share personal experiences and compare theirs with others. That's called not being an autistic dork who spends 100% of their time locked up at home counting their vinyl.
It's the fucking internet. If you don't like something don't click on it.
Hey, sorry - I realised that may have been phrased badly - I meant it sounded a little snooty of the people you were referring to, not a lot snooty of you. Like people were sulking about a lack of high mindedness or whatever. That's great of course but can get tiresome, there's a social element to the jokes - just friendliness and idling like mistersloane said. I do understand there are reasons why people might not feel like posting but as someone said above if things aren't the way you would prefer then make a contribution that helps to nudge discussion in that direction, maybe. Not having a go at anyone anyway.Given the actual reason for the Confessions thread being deleted, I don't see how this is a relevant comment. Not to mention that polz and noel emits have been members since 2004.
@ noel emits
I'm still not sure how pointing out that people have left the forum over perceived intolerance makes me into a snooty elitist. First you agreed with the decision to delete the thread and then had a go at me for explaining the reasons.
If you mean this...The other bit I'm not sure I understand if it is in reference to nomad talking about people complaining about the tone of board changing. I hope I haven't done that, I think it's fine.
...that stems from the confusion you and I just cleared up. Nomad was claiming that the deleted thread was further evidence of older members ganging up on newer members. So I pointed to you and polz as examples of members from start who in fact opposed the stance of the mods in this case. Except now I realize I'd misinterpreted your position.nomos said:Given the actual reason for the Confessions thread being deleted, I don't see how this is a relevant comment. Not to mention that polz and noel emits have been members since 2004.