My Soap Box, Please Read

[shrewsbury]

I am unsure what is going on around here lately. I love our little forum area and take pride as a mod. I invest a lot of time here and have some plans in the works. I am not going to let stuff get all crazy with long posts with nothing but arguing with each other. I hate closing threads, I feel the only reason to close one is because something has gone wrong, which should not happen.

We are discussing topics that easily lead to harsh words, hurt feelings, and in person can result in physical altercations and broken relationships. All of you that post on here are intelligent and have something to offer of value.

We can get off topic, we can get frustrated, we can debate back and forth, and we can believe with all our knowledge the other person/persons are wrong. we all have legit ideas and we all have our own experiences to bring here and all of us can learn something, even if it is of no real value to us, you can learn facts and opinions that you did not know.

if needed I can close threads that turn to arguments, I can monitor everything everyone is saying or we can all be adults and think twice and reread three times before we hit the submit button. no this is not a threat or an attack on anyone.

don't expect me or anyone else to buy what you are saying with hook line and sinker, we may need a lot more proof in a lot of areas. be prepared to be questioned beyond what you may be prepared to answer. best of all you don't have to answer anything, it is your choice, but don't go in thinking everybody thinks like you do. I don't agree with most of you most of the time and I can't tell you all the stuff I have picked up along the way arguing with all of you.

lets move forward from here with all our posts, all of the time.

[centrehice]

There is a fine line between Discussion, Banter, Debate, Arguing, Conjecture, Disdain, and then Brawling.

I think we all do a pretty good job on here, and you at least allow us some leeway. Other forums don't even get rolling because certain Mods are either on power-trips, or love blowing their whistle for no apparent reason.

We should have a set of adjectives that can be seen in decent arguments, that aren't offensive, but still maintain their effectiveness. I like these:

Poop-Head
Half-Wit
Numb-Skull
Richard Noggin
Nonce
Bell-End
Mong


Effective, yet not crass.

[Wickabee]

Word or attitudes...?

[centrehice]

When we used to have "Rock-Fights" as kids, we would have longed for words instead. Lol.

[ajcorleone]

Rock fights are a lost art do kids even do that anymore?

When we used to have "Rock-Fights" as kids, we would have longed for words instead. Lol.

[centrehice]

Kids only break their arms nowadays, by falling when their ankles collapse from eating too many pies.

[ajcorleone]

That is why i am glad sports are still around basketball,baseball,football,soccer in between keeps my kids busy and out exercising and away from the tube and computers

Kids only break their arms nowadays, by falling when their ankles collapse from eating too many pies.

[shrewsbury]

we use to have some serious rock fights down on the railroad tracks.

[centrehice]

I got me some stitches from a rock-fight once - 3 of them, but the guy who gave me them, got a concussion. He decided to leave the safety of his slit-trench without the realization that we had begun a barrage of 88mm Rock-Artillery.

[Star_Cards]

We had crab apple and apples trees in my yard or in the neighbors. That's what we used. Never threw rocks in a legit fight.

As for the original post, I get tired of reading through a thread to catch up and comment the topic and after reading four pages, three of those pages are two guys arguing back and forth. I get that we all comment on many topics and that history overlaps into every discussion, but when it dominates a thread it get's old.