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Originally Posted by well named
I was going to go back and see if there was anyone I owed a reply to but it doesn't really look like it? I was certain there was, but I've forgotten what and it's not obvious on skim. So, ask again if I missed something.
Also looks like I've missed some super high quality posting :P
One thing that's not a response to any question but which I was thinking about last night, or previously, by way of ideas for the forum: at one point in RGT we had a couple of "formal" one-on-one debates, one of which I participated in. It actually didn't really work out that well, but I was pondering the idea of something similar. Probably still one-on-one but probably less "formal". So imagine a couple folks could sign up for a one-on-one debate which would take place between the two participants in one thread. No one else can post in that thread, but there would also be a somewhat-more-LC kibitzing thread for people who were interested. Maybe even some kind of poll to pick a winner. A debate thread would have somewhat more defined rules about citations and providing evidence than a normal thread. Stupid idea?
I like the idea although I have no idea how successful it would be.
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Originally Posted by well named
Also, if you get bored with the usual bickering I would be interested in people posting reactions to the poll results. One of the questions/persistent complaints about the idea of a new forum was that there was no demand for it beyond a handful of bad exiled posters. Do the results support that view or challenge it iyo?
Challenge it. For sure, there is demand from the exiled posters but there are also a bunch of non-exiled posters who voted yes. I think the history of PU/P7 also proves that a bunch of the "Hell no!" people will post there too.
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Originally Posted by well named
Or, from another angle, I think the number of "hell no" votes, alongside a lot of the posting in this thread, definitely suggests another challenge, which is whether a forum can succeed, even though it has enough of its own posters, if there's a large group of non-posters who really want it to fail?
Sure it can. I think that exiling posters who are clearly trying to cause the forum to fail is a good idea. It is not what ultimately caused P7's demise, but a big problem with P7 was the volume of posters who posted just to ***** about the existence of the forum itself or how much they didn't like chezlaw.
Note that doesn't mean someone couldn't post there if they didn't think the forum should exist. Just if they are actually trying to get the forum shut down.
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Originally Posted by well named
I don't know how to weight the yes votes against the no votes. When I suggested a poll I hadn't worked out in advance exactly what I wanted to see. I sort of expected to see a lot of no and little yes, and if it was too lopsided that way I wouldn't have to think about it. Now I have to think about it...
I think the "no" votes should be given basically no weight at all, unless you actually agree with their reasoning. I think pretty much all of their problems could be solved by just not going into the new forum.
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Originally Posted by Howard Beale
So I'd say you can call him a racist w/o having caused the profanity filter to fire.
Are you really triggered by censored profanity?
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Given that this is allegedly the entire raison d'etre for you inflicting another chezzfront re-boot on us, it's rather surprising that you keep ducking the question.
Just don't read the forum, idiot. Then it isn't inflicted on you.