[user104658]

I actually think it could be fair enough/interesting to allow thread-starters to set official parameters for threads. It would have to be an "official rule" though and I doubt we have the moderation capacity for it these days.

I'd also stipulate that in SD's it couldn't include restricting alternate GENUINE opinion, no to echo chambers , but I do think "no just spamming images", "no just posting links without comment to go with it", "no replying just to the poster above", "decent length responses only" (or even "keep responses succinct and don't meander off into random allegories"... if one was so inclined... ...) could be fair enough requests when starting a thread.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I actually think it could be fair enough/interesting to allow thread-starters to set official parameters for threads. It would have to be an "official rule" though and I doubt we have the moderation capacity for it these days.

I'd also stipulate that in SD's it couldn't include restricting alternate GENUINE opinion, no to echo chambers , but I do think "no just spamming images", "no just posting links without comment to go with it", "no replying just to the poster above", "decent length responses only" (or even "keep responses succinct and don't meander off into random allegories"... if one was so inclined... ...) could be fair enough requests when starting a thread.

Let Vicky live!!!

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Let Vicky live!!!

And Ammi!

like I enjoy peoples different posting styles

not sure what the problem is tbh

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie

And Ammi!

like I enjoy peoples different posting styles

not sure what the problem is tbh

It's not about posting styles because we all have our own versions. I just wanted a good faith discussion for once. Nowhere in the OP does it say anything about ellipses and Ammi or nonsense and Annie, all it says is that I want peoples opinions. Why that should be controversial or fought against in SD is truly bizarre.

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

It's not about posting styles because we all have our own versions. I just wanted a good faith discussion for once. Nowhere in the OP does it say anything about ellipses and Ammi or nonsense and Annie, all it says is that I want peoples opinions. Why that should be controversial or fought against in SD is truly bizarre.

You're probably wasting your time.

I think TiBB is the wrong forum for deep debate.

Too many on here have lived very sheltered lives, which is fine, we all have different circumstances.

Thankfully, I was banned for well over a decade so I was able to venture out and experience life etc. Life experience helps develop debate and wisdom.

Alternatively, people just want to have fun and not be serious.

I think it's such a shame DS has closed a lot of their main forums because if you wanted a debate you sure could get it there. Their traffic was immense whereas TiBB is on a very slow trajectory into the sea. This place has got so quiet you struggle to even gather enough members to have a good debate.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

And Ammi!

like I enjoy peoples different posting styles

not sure what the problem is tbh

restricting freedoms is restricting freedoms

its woke and its negative

[thesheriff443]

Why would you want to keep spending hours and hours on here arguing a point of view on a subject that you can’t do anything about or change the opinion of someone else who doesn’t agree with you.

Intelligence tells me it’s a waste of time

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Why would you want to keep spending hours and hours on here arguing a point of view on a subject that you can’t do anything about or change the opinion of someone else who doesn’t agree with you.

Intelligence tells me it’s a waste of time

Why do you feel the need to enter any debate topic and tell the people who take part how superior you are because you don't wish to take part, except when you do.

Intelligence tells me you're a fake.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Why do you feel the need to enter any debate topic and tell the people who take part how superior you are because you don't wish to take part, except when you do.

Intelligence tells me you're a fake.

Your lack of intelligence tells me I’m right
Stay pressed.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Your lack of intelligence tells me I’m right
Stay pressed.

Nothing to say? Thought so. Stick to the insults.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Why would you want to keep spending hours and hours on here arguing a point of view on a subject that you can’t do anything about or change the opinion of someone else who doesn’t agree with you.

Intelligence tells me it’s a waste of time

A good debate is as much (for me personally, moreso) about examining, challenging and refining your own thoughts on the debate topic as it is about “changing other people’s minds”.

As for whether or not TiBB is the right place for it, often the answer is no, but there’s also a different type of discussion to be had between a smaller group of people that has a long-term measure of each other than there is just having robust standalone debates with strangers. There are plenty of places on the internet you can go for that.

[Parmy]

I dont understand these words.

Can someone make a list of all these words, with their meanings, and make a sticky thread please.

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by parmnion

I dont understand these words.

Can someone make a list of all these words, with their meanings, and make a sticky thread please.

Google helps

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by ThomasC

Google helps

You used to have an answer to a question within minutes on tibb in the past.

Before all these new words came along things were fine.

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by parmnion

You used to have an answer to a question within minutes on tibb in the past.

Before all these new words came along things were fine.

Viewing figures dramatically dropped when I LEFT.

I fear that there is no return.

I do apologise.

[Parmy]

I'm confused, is marsh now woke?

[ThomasC]

I think we all need to sit back and calm down.

ORDER, ORDER, ORDER. Your Queen has spoken.

Yours faithfully,

Thomas

[Mystic Mock]

I can't be woke because I'm too busy being sleep.

[arista]

[BBC TEXT
Daily Star leads on a story that "idiot flakes"
want to cancel children's cartoon Paw Patrol
for brainwashing children into liking police officers.
"You paw deluded fools" is the headline.]

[Mystic Mock]

Some people want to ban Paw Patrol?

Jfc and I thought that I needed to get a life lol.

[user104658]

The “paw patrol” thing is ancient news…

[arista]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The “paw patrol” thing is ancient news…

Well
The Star has dug it up
to sell their cheeky paper.

[Ammi]

…’14yr old kids walked out’….one child walked out of class according to reports…

..’just for teaching kids how to pronounce a word’….but ‘it was probably a mistake to use it in any context’….a complete contradiction…obviously it would be looked into why indeed it was used as it wasn’t a wise choice to use it…


….so the word was used and Andrew Neil in his own words said that he didn’t feel as though it was wise to use the word in any context, leading to the school looking into why it was used…and without that context yet given in explanation…OUTRAGE/WOKENeSs etc is being screamed anyway…let’s not wait for the context that was important to have but the word wasn’t necessary to be used in any context according to this discussion…they sound a little confused…silly OUTRAGE culture….


…through time if there are any thoughts of concern with a school…(…or other areas…)…then raising those concerns is what has always been encouraged…and when that happens, WOKE is now screamed in accusation….which effectively is a silencing cancel culture being promoted…calling the investigation of the context and reasoning for using it isn’t a ‘disciplinary investigation’ either….just all emotive and misleading…

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Only just seen this, but i'm sure I've spoken abut picnics on here before. It's actually 2 issues at play here. First off, the association of picnics, including cannibalistic and trophy collection from black lynchings, but it's also coupled with a bit of a myth that popped up within former slaves, and it's been passed on down their descendants. Namely that the word picnic is derived from "pick a n*****"

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[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

what kind of weird moderation is going on in this thread?

all sorts of legit content is being deleted

slim can post this inaccurate stuff:

Only just seen this, but i'm sure I've spoken abut picnics on here before. It's actually 2 issues at play here. First off, the association of picnics, including cannibalistic and trophy collection from black lynchings, but it's also coupled with a bit of a myth that popped up within former slaves, and it's been passed on down their descendants. Namely that the word picnic is derived from "pick a n*****"

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I post a Reuters fact check proving that Picnic has nothing to do with race and its gets deleted

wtf

what is the agenda here???
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What he said isn't inaccurate to be fair - he did say that the "pick-a" etymology of picnic is "a myth"/misconception that's been handed down generationally. That is accurate. I think the disagreement would be around whether or not it's sensible to ban a word "with innocent origins" based on the offense it might cause due to those misconceptions.