On 6 Sep 2002 at 8:58, elvensage wrote:
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> [Hermit 5] Joe Dees' behaviors, which, in my opinion should, ideally,
> be improved, would include:
>
>
> Stopping flooding. Perhaps by consolidating posts (although the
> posting of URLs is a massive improvement on c&p articles).
>
I am posting URL's now, and you have no further bitch.
>
> Posting replies to the thread they came in, on instead of starting
> multiple new threads a day on topics that have run for months.
>
I post rerplies to the threads that come in, and i also reserve the right to
innovate, as does anyone here.
>
> Starting to "justify" assertions with arguments. Gratuitous insults
> are not arguments.
>
This request contradicts your 'flooding' request, as the production of
sources for my informational assertions is indeed the posting of articles or
their URL's.
>
> Stop calling fellow members names without good reason. Disagreement of
> interpretation is not a good reason.
>
Your list actions have been good reason.
>
> Learning that it is possible to disagree without making an
> interminable issue about it (and that it is not always necessary to
> have the last three dozen words).
>
This is a lesson you would do well to learn yourself.
>
> Learning that repetition is not persuasion.
>
I simply reinforce my assertions, which have not been refuted onlist. Truths
which are politically unpalatable to some tastes do not cease being true
because of the gustatory objections.
>
> Stopping the attempt to swamp others with replays of opinions –
> especially opinion by proxy.
>
Like you do by posting interminable articles by your favorite opinion clones
the Guardian and the Progressive and the Yellow News?
>
> Learning that when others continue to disagree after Joe has
> pronounced on something, it is not a capital offense.
>
No, but since I defend my assertions, others should do the same.
>
> E§
> As I agree with all of these. We especially need to get him to stop
> flooding for forums. I have found myself getting really annoyed by
> having to find my way through all the bullshit that he posts.
>
It's only bullshit for those who prefer to hide in their miasmic wallows of
benighted ignorance and animus, like infected mushrooms. There is no way
that people can maintain that the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Foreign
Policy are not credible sources, however much they contradict such
people's prepackaged antiamerican views.
>
> I agree with you on your opposing politcal views when up against Joe
> Dees. As you have said, he fails to justify what he beleives. When
> he has been confronted all he can do is copy and paste articles, and
> throw insults. This in itself is enough to doubt his opinions.
>
In other words, all I can do is support my assertions with published facts,
and draw out the logical contradictions and evidentiary absences in
opposing positions - hmmm, seems eminently reasonable to me.
>
> Has anyone discussed placing a temp ban on people who flood the board
> and such? Banning someone fully would be a bit harsh, and I think
> that is something most of us here beleive. But there has to be some
> kind of punishment for mis-use of the forum. I do not mind seeing a
> few posts a day of his crap. I can live with that, ya know? But when
> I log on and all I see is his name, I become a bit annoyed. So I
> think it would be appropriate to come up with a punishment for
> spamming the boards and enforce it when it is nessicary.
>
Fuck you and your newbie annoyance. And learn to spell.
>
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