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[mamselle]

If it's the thread I'm thinking of, it's also been added to my "ignore" pile.

At least we can talk about the weather, our research, and our cats without too much angst.

M.

[mahagonny]

does your computer have a feature where a thing pops out now and then to tell you how many minutes per day you spend ignoring people?

[mamselle]

Nope, I just count it productive time gained.

M.

[mahagonny]

For others, too.

[aside]

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Indeed, no point in engaging certain posters, really.  Nothing changes except one's blood pressure.

[mahagonny]

Of course, how stupid of me! That's not what a terrorist is. A terrorist is a person who's upset because the school board and teachers' union think her son needs to perform oral sex on older men. Thank you, progressives, for helping my understand what progress is.

[apl68]

The latest unpleasantness on the "Remembrance" thread is discouraging, but I had already been discouraged from posting on it by a certain poster's using it as an opportunity to dance on the grave of a public figure he didn't like.  It's a little ironic that that pot is now calling the kettle black, however accurate that particular observation may be.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

The latest unpleasantness on the "Remembrance" thread is discouraging, but I had already been discouraged from posting on it by a certain poster's using it as an opportunity to dance on the grave of a public figure he didn't like.  It's a little ironic that that pot is now calling the kettle black, however accurate that particular observation may be.

This shit pisses me off too. Sorry, I'm feeling a little crass this morning. I have a wake and funeral to attend of a 24 year old young man. :(

[Parasaurolophus]

I wouldn't have said I'd danced, but hey. It pisses me off when we sanitize someone's reputation post-mortem when they're responsible for mass deaths and other crimes against humanity.

But FWIW, my recent intervention was in my moderator's capacity, at the request of a few members. Sometimes the things I do as an individual are inconsistent with the things I have to do as a mod. Them's the breaks.

I could strive for greater consistency, but not unless we rethink our free-for-all posting guidelines. I generally hold myself to a pretty high standard, but I'm only human.

[mahagonny]

Let the record show that Para, the most openly far-left reader of the forum, is also a moderator.

ETA: Probably why it's upheld by the moderator that it's OK for someone to deny that an obviously terrorist act, allegedly carried out by a member of a group with permanent generalized victim status (according to the left) was an of terrorism, and then declare the discussion is over.

[little bongo]

Let the record show that Para, the most openly far-left reader of the forum, is also a moderator.

ETA: Probably why it's upheld by the moderator that it's OK for someone to deny that an obviously terrorist act, allegedly carried out by a member of a group with permanent generalized victim status (according to the left) was an of terrorism, and then declare the discussion is over.

The thread. The thread is over. The discussion doesn't have to be--put it in a different thread, or create a new one. Tu connais la musique.

[mahagonny]

I can't start a thread like 'what is a terrorist' because spork and mamselle will firebomb it. They know that. So, not to be contrary, but I fear you are incorrect. The discussion was intentionally effectively stopped.

[Parasaurolophus]

I can't start a thread like 'what is a terrorist' because spork and mamselle will firebomb it. They know that. So, not to be contrary, but I fear you are incorrect. The discussion was intentionally effectively stopped.

When I was in high school, Gwynne Dyer came to give a talk on what terrorism is. I schooled him in the Q&A, and shortly after he wrote a column making the points I'd made against him (without attribution, of course). So there.

[apl68]

I can't start a thread like 'what is a terrorist' because spork and mamselle will firebomb it. They know that. So, not to be contrary, but I fear you are incorrect. The discussion was intentionally effectively stopped.

When I was in high school, Gwynne Dyer came to give a talk on what terrorism is. I schooled him in the Q&A, and shortly after he wrote a column making the points I'd made against him (without attribution, of course). So there.

I read some articles by Gwynne Dyer years ago.  I didn't realize that he was still active.

[mamselle]

I think the original (CHE-based) RIP thread had a specific delineation for that thread, having to do with using it only for posting information, not opinions, and for not continuing broad conversations on it, as I recall.

It was a bit like rules for the HOF thread: no analysis, just the post being HOF'd.

The CHE having taken down all vestiges of the old forum, I can't confirm that, but it runs in my mind that something similar might need to be worked out; maybe a pinned entry can be located at the head of the thread, or something could be included in the Fora House Rules.

It just seems hugely disrespectful to start nattering on about ones pet peeves on a thread meant to maintain more dignity around the end of a life.

And there are a number of threads where those pet peeves get aired on a daily, even hourly, even minute-by-minute basis: Take them there, if you really need to air them yet again.

I will say that I take seeing my name linked with Spork's as a compliment.

Thanks.

M.