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musefan wrote: initial rule that politics is not suitable conversatio
A place with less rules, but with some more rules?
Politics may not interest you and those discussions tend to lead nowhere, but at least they are contained in a place where you can easily ignore them. Simply taking away the place for these things and proclaiming how strictly you want to enforce the rules from now on simply leads to having these things all over the place in sometimes funny or more often strange ways to wiggle around those rules. Elephants and sunshines, anyone?
And, last, this kind of situation draws one of the lowest forms of life to the scene: The lawyer. On both sides of the argument you will suddently have lots of people arguing over why or why not someone has broken the rules in each particular case. Is that what you want to have here?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Is that what you want to have here?
No, I wan't to have the old soapbox, where people didn't spam it with arguments.
I would prefer there didn't have to be extra rules in place, but if people are abusing it then what other option is there? Either leave it closed, or re-open with a different approach to what is acceptable. Which do you prefer?
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It's not a nice comparison, but you need a toilet. That's where the smelly stuff goes, and not in every corner they feel like. It never was a bad idea to have several different toilets with so many people around.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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musefan wrote: initial rule that politics is not suitable conversation.
Then why have the soapbox? 99.99999999% of the discussions there, were political. Gobal Warming is political, etc. EVERYTHING comes back to politics, even religion is political at its core.
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But there is a difference between talking about a topic, and having pages of endless arguments about the same thing, where nobody is ever going to change their viewpoint to agree with the other person. It's just senseless.
Personally I have no problem if people want to talk about politics, or global warming, or even if the earth is flat or not. Just try to keep it rational and avoid arguing just for the sake of it. It doesn't help that most OP's set up their opening message to incite arguments, rather than with the intention of actually caring about other people opinions, and more importantly accepting that they are allowed to be different.
Perhaps CP could do with a design overall with regarding to how posts are displayed. Rather than having every single comment and sub-comment visible, just have the root post visible and then it doesn't matter if a topic has 1 reply or 1000 replies, people can easily skip over and ignore the crap that they don't care about and find the posts that do actually interest them.
EDIT: Just seen I guess that is basically "thread view".
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musefan wrote: Just try to keep it rational and avoid arguing just for the sake of it.
and how do you plan to make that comment a reality? This is a tech site, not a free for all opinion forum. What you are proposing would take moderators to enforce. Who gets to be the moderator. Will the moderator be fair and just with peoples comments, etc? No, they won't.
It would snowball into a chaotic cluster-F sandwich. No thank you.
I loved the Soapbox, but I also get why Chris closed it down.
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Politics is religious at its core.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: Politics is religious at its core.
The famous French anthropologist Louis Dumont had an interesting way of comparing modal western culture and Indian culture: he used a diagram:
India
religion
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politics
West
politics
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religionWhere the top category represented the liminal content of cultural dialogue, and the bottom category reflected the subliminal content. it's been 44 years since my 1 year fellowship to India, during which i read Dumont's work [^], and this metaphor was not intended as a reductionist simplification. How Dumont's work (from the educated before WWII generation of anthropologists) would be received today, after the "triumph" of deconstructionism (Derrida, et. al.) in French social sciences, and many other countries' academia ... I don't know.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Slacker007 wrote: Then why have the soapbox? 99.99999999% of the discussions there, were political. Gobal Warming is political, etc. EVERYTHING comes back to politics, even religion is political at its core.
I don't think so... 99.99999999% of discussions were just trolling.
There were very few real conversations, the biggest part of the posts were not debates but verbal fights, and for one post per page that really was interesting... you had to read a big amount of crap surrounding it.
And please note: I was usual of the soapbox (at least the last months) and a part of me would like to have it back, but let's be honest... as it was, it was not working
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you want an argument, join Twitter or just about any Facebook group you can think of.
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As I said, I usually don't. However, I think that someone called me a hypocrite just this morning. I would like to answer him without too much constraint. Not to cause a drama, but I would be interested in an answer thats also clear and direct.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: I think that someone called me a hypocrite just this morning
There are other ways you could interpret my comment [^] ... if you care to do so 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I did, but it also got me thinking about where I'm headed. As always, not where the rest of the world is going.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Speech control is mind control.
You seen the posting-rules for the lounge? That's action-control, because one can't give an anonymous public unlimited freedom.
Each time your parents told you not to curse, they were excercising mind-control (called good parenting in that case).
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Each time your parents told you not to curse, they were excercising mind-control (called good parenting in that case).
I have officially been declared to be uncontrollable by my mother and any other female that ever tried. More successful always were those who tried it with reasoning.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: … any other female that ever tried. More successful always were those who tried it with reasoning.
Any women who tried that were aiming much too high 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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What shall I say now that would not upset some kid sisters...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Quote: Did Chris act lawfully when he prorogued the soapbox?
He use admin "Ownership" power to remove the SoapBox. "Is that lawful or not" I'm not sure though.
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and no doubt that field will one day flourish into a beautiful motorway, parking lot, or housing estate.
Life lesson: crush your own dreams early on, before someone else does it for you 
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musefan wrote: parking lot
They all end up as a parking lot. 
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I prefer my job as a grave digger, I have lots of people under me. Better than when I was a scarecrow I suppose, but back then I was outstanding in my field.
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Were you there when a helicopter crashed at that graveyard? it was still too early to say how many died in that crash, but rescuers reported already having found hundreds of bodies.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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