xtc wrote:Whilst I agree about the current thread, I can see purpose in having such a category.
At the minute, though, certain remarks are not adding to what should be the feelgood atmosphere of the site.
I am torn but I shall be interested in the response to your poll. Unfortunately, polls don't usually glean enough responses to be significant.
chadmc90 wrote:xtc wrote:Whilst I agree about the current thread, I can see purpose in having such a category.
At the minute, though, certain remarks are not adding to what should be the feelgood atmosphere of the site.
I am torn but I shall be interested in the response to your poll. Unfortunately, polls don't usually glean enough responses to be significant.
I see where you're coming from. The section should be a place where people can debate with civility. But unfortunately certian individuals have turned to flaming and downright insulting one another. If it was kept to debating then fine. But it's not that way right now sadly.
TiedDancer wrote:AlexUSA wrote:In the same vein, there should be total destruction of the "Last Person to Post on This Thread Wins" as it, too, has been misused as a chatroom for many users to just artificially drive up their post counts. The thread should be nuked when you have people who have 300-600 posts just in that thread, but only 400-700 posts in total. People see high post counts as experienced posters, but they will be getting rude surprises.
I agree with this. Granted forums are meant to be places of mass discussion, but regardless of the community post counts are seen as matters of seniority and experience. If most of the posts are garbage then the user is even less knowledgable about the topic at hand and is just attempting to garner status from spam. Polite discussion of topics in Jump in the Fire have become few and far in between. Frankly, if we really want to keep a forum like that, I would rather be unsubscribed to it. Same goes for any threads that exist just for the sake of posting.
That being said, I wonder if there would be such a call for censorship, had the controversial topic been one that most liberals agreed with.
NemesisPrime wrote:Honestly, what spawned this whole idea is misguided. I see nothing wrong with the section itself it's the users posting to that section like Drawscore's latest thread in there. It is what I classify as a "shitpost" because it doesn't add to a debate or challenge views, just flinging metaphorical mud at others while being unintelligent and lowbrow.
I say the section is fine but needs to be more tightly moderated.
I also subscribe to the attitude that if you don't like something, avoid it.
I am reminded of a quote. I can't remember whose quote, but it went "Sir, I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death, your right to say it."
skybird137 wrote:I also subscribe to the attitude that if you don't like something, avoid it.
Well then, we should have the chance to avoid it. Give us the option so that the topic area does NOT show up on the man page and that we do NOT have it showing up on new posts. Otherwise saying avoid it is a bit silly at best.