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Re: Politics
« Reply #1044 on: March 25, 2021, 01:02:55 pm »
We have seen that that does not work when dealing with trolls.
If you really want to hurt their feelers, don't even acknowledge their existence.
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Re: Politics
« Reply #1045 on: March 25, 2021, 01:07:28 pm »
I'm sure we'll all stay on topic here.
Guess we'll find out.

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1046 on: March 25, 2021, 01:08:05 pm »
If you really want to hurt their feelers, don't even acknowledge their existence.
That actually negates the problem.

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1047 on: March 25, 2021, 01:09:47 pm »
We have seen that that does not work when dealing with trolls.

Being nice to each other singing Kumbaya and such all the time kills forums like this as well. There is a reason many eyeballs exist in here.

I aint complaining at all from my perspective.....
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Re: Politics
« Reply #1048 on: March 25, 2021, 01:11:54 pm »
Being nice to each other singing Kumbaya and such all the time kills forums like this as well. There is a reason many eyeballs exist in here.

I aint complaining at all from my perspective.....
I don't run the forum. I try to exist within it. But it's getting harder.
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Re: Politics
« Reply #1049 on: March 25, 2021, 01:12:28 pm »
Being nice to each other singing Kumbaya and such all the time kills forums like this as well. There is a reason many eyeballs exist in here.

I aint complaining at all from my perspective.....
Yeah. But you know what I'm saying. We could all do without the trolls plastering their childish garbage all over the place all the time.

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1050 on: March 25, 2021, 01:12:39 pm »
Being nice to each other singing Kumbaya and such all the time kills forums like this as well. There is a reason many eyeballs exist in here.

I aint complaining at all from my perspective.....
Page after page of two ass holes saying I know you are but what am I isn't good for a forum either. might be best to cut the cancer out.

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1051 on: March 25, 2021, 01:14:00 pm »
Reddit is too large and disorganized. I've got a Quora account but they're weird.

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1052 on: March 25, 2021, 01:15:18 pm »
I don't run the forum. I try to exist within it. But it's getting harder.

That is what I do but this is the type of environment I have been used to for a couple decades. I never existed on a board where everyone agreed with each other to my knowledge. That leads to trash talking but I can dish it out as well as take it....

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« Reply #1053 on: March 25, 2021, 01:15:25 pm »
I don't run the forum. I try to exist within it. But it's getting harder.
I have raised the issue about the trolling many times, to no avail.

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« Reply #1054 on: March 25, 2021, 01:16:14 pm »
That is what I do but this is the type of environment I have been used to for a couple decades. I never existed on a board where everyone agreed with each other to my knowledge. That leads to trash talking but I can dish it out as well as take it....
Yeah, but wouldn't it be better if we all just acted like grown ups and didn't have to dish or take? It's fckng stupid.

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1055 on: March 25, 2021, 01:16:42 pm »
Reddit is too large and disorganized. I've got a Quora account but they're weird.
I am not on any social media except I guess this thread now.

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1056 on: March 25, 2021, 01:18:53 pm »
That actually negates the problem.
Plus you usually get to watch them flame out.
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Re: Politics
« Reply #1057 on: March 25, 2021, 01:20:11 pm »
Old Topix could have been the best social media site ever. It could have been better than Twitter, Instagram...whatever.  But it was completely ruined by trolls.  I was on my thread there for years talking to the same group of people. But it was non-stop trolling, sock puppets, spoofing other people's screen names.  It ruined it for everyone. I will never understand what motivates a person to be a troll. It's not like they are children. They are grown  men (usually).

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1058 on: March 25, 2021, 01:20:26 pm »
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Re: Politics
« Reply #1059 on: March 25, 2021, 01:28:53 pm »
Yeah, but wouldn't it be better if we all just acted like grown ups and didn't have to dish or take? It's fckng stupid.

Controversial subjects leads to such behavior, not just here. Human nature. One problem gets solved there comes another afterwards and can be different dynamics. I just go with the flow myself, I am not a mod and I have had posts deleted, it ain't personal to me..

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Re: Politics
« Reply #1060 on: March 25, 2021, 01:29:00 pm »
Page after page of two ass holes saying I know you are but what am I isn't good for a forum either. might be best to cut the cancer out.

I don't know who's reporting who. There's a lot of stuff that is posted that we sometimes have to wade through. I think the block function is great. I used it for a while and it helped. Whoever is being offended should block the posts. We all have to exist amongst objectionable stuff. Right now I'm dealing with this IRL. I know 3 people that were killed at King Soopers. We have to live our lives knowing there are insane people out there that can have access to guns that go in and shoot innocent people in a grocery store. When we come to this forum we know there's going to be stuff we don't agree with - just how it is.

Ultimately, it's your forum Pete and you get to do what you want to do.
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Re: Politics
« Reply #1061 on: March 25, 2021, 01:32:51 pm »
Controversial subjects leads to such behavior, not just here. Human nature. One problem gets solved there comes another afterwards and can be different dynamics. I just go with the flow myself, I am not a mod and I have had posts deleted, it ain't personal to me..
Yeah. But let's get real here.  Me and Waco or me and Mark don't always agree on everything, but it doesn't matter because we're all sane adults and it doesn't matter.  That is what separates grown ups from the trolls.
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