To Bitch or not to Bitch.
YOu know, it’s threads like this that make me feel that all is right with the world [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
No. I swear, I’m not being sarcastic. Good points from Rag and ADM. I have ;lots to agree and dissagree with but they were well put and interesting.
Completely in the wrong place and moved elloquently to the right one by FX.
Ok, that asside, for goodness sake please post angst stuff and dissagree! It’s ok. It’s [b]not[/b] ok to get too personal (I don’t think we can avoid getting a little personal when we dissagree with someone).
I am absolutely opposed to censorship for someone dissing a show in the forum a forum set up for that show – PROVIDED that they are not trolls!
Trolls are a blast (if you are troll) but a pain in the neck if you aren’t. This is not a board for trolls and they are not tollerated under any circumstances.
FYI a troll is someone who posts an inflamatory topic simply to inflame and not as a contribution to an argument.
Unfortuantely (I and I know a few others) can get a little heated in our chats and exaggerate a little) – this isn’t troll behaviour but it can come close. It’s a fine line between winding a community up for the sake of it and being involved in a heated argument with someone that you dissagree with.
But lets face it, how is all this defferent from real life?
If we were all in the pub and one of us said something really silly, he/she’d be jumped on and verbally chastised and at worst thumped. You’ll get that here but you wont be thumped you’d be bumped (edited) or banned (just as bad in my opinion).
So, all in all, I think we have a happy balance. You can be assured that mistakes and the odd personal comment will be tollerated provided you demonstrate that you are not a troll or that you are being perposfully antagonistic or writing a post solely to inflame the emotions of other posters.
Moderators are posters just like you and me and they also have the responcibility of moving threads if they are in the wrong place and editing texts that are bad or maliciaous.
As a result, I think we have one of the best sci fi boards on the net. I am continually surprised at the level of knowledge and the passion that some of the posters have for the shows that interest them. I like to see their opinions about stuff in the pub and see their fave jokes in the laughterhouse-5 forum. Sometimes that works against me (ie I don’t have the nerve to contribute because I might say something stupid) but on the whole I think we have got it right.