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Re: dig banned again?*

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Mon, 27 Aug 12 9:28 PM | 74 view(s)
Boardmark this board | The Trust Matrix 		Msg. 09615 of 54959
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Yes. But it isn't all snackman. His population - the group he likes and sympathises with - only really wants confirmation of an optimistic message. He reflects the wishes of his kind of people: the sort who say - thanks so much for keeping me in this stock, which otherwise I would have sold [at a much higher price]; and, please keep on telling me all about how the technology will inevitably succeed one day [no timeline required].

This is a characteristic of people who are not very curious about other possibilities. The odd thing about awk is that he is smart enough to know how an interesting conversation ought to look. And it doesn't look like the conversation on that thar "dd" board. And yet he seems to prefer to be the king of that turtle stack, rather than an equal contributor with useful specialist knowledge in an open-ended discussion. As if enforcing orthodoxy and excluding heretics has ever been a successful policy (witness history of Catholicism). In his shoes, I'd want to just say - look, technology is one influence and I think it is an important one, but I know there are others and I don't really know how they will play out and I am happy to concede this. The determination to seem absolutely certain and avoid any admission of doubt and to disappear from conversations which aren't going your way and to excoriate those with whom you disagree is, I think, the root of the issue. It speaks to me of a lack of confidence, rather than of comfort in one's philosophy.


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Re: dig banned again?*
By: DigSpace in ALEA
Mon, 27 Aug 12 8:28 PM 		Msg. 09614 of 54959

It is about appropriateness,
I think the scars, consequences and circumstances of violent rape are things that folks need to consider, and talk about.

But not in kindergarten.

WAVX DD is like that, there are important and sensible things to be considered, but not there ... not in kindergarten.

I know this sounds condescending, perhaps it is, but it is simply the case.

The moderator comes up with all sorts of fig leafs, but truth is uncomfortable topics are not allowed. Fair enough, I do not want in depth exploration of violent rape in kindergarten.

That WAVX DD pretends to be all grown up is just and anecdote. It is not, it has no obligation to be.

Talking about SKS' IMO rather sophomore efforts at what was billed as being a really big cool thing is just too uncomfortable for some.

The moderator might well be served to migrate to topic banning instead of messenger banning.

"SKS' half-fluent mangled presentation makes me uncomfortable, I ban this topic."

.... as opposed to telling me, 24601 or whoever that they need a break. It is not that, it is simply that certain truths are too uncomfortable and not fit for a certain forum. Violent rape in kindergarten. SKS' miserable content at WAVX DD.

So it goes.

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