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The less opportunity for people to be rude to one another the better.
The more opportunity for people to be rude to one another the better?I saw it as working the opposite way.
It's a bit "twittery".. But that's the way the world is going. So who am I to stand in the path of Human Devolution ???
The more opportunity for people to be rude to one another the better?
I actually had the very same thought after 3 minutes. It is too busy. It is a political message board......... Politics is complicated enough. Why mess with our forum like this. I was hoping it would not be so bad....I do not understand this change. Simple is better. The forum will lose it's soul in this.I think I need a drink and some aspirin.
I was a member of a board that did alerts, instead of the user cp with the auto subscribed threads there, easily followed.
The board subsequently died. No lie.
You have a point, and I won't deny that rep was also an opportunity for positivity. My point was that the negativity of the rep was always done in private and led to people being particularly foul in my experience. Now if people want to do that they'll have to do it in public, which I'm all for. Without rep I think we can maintain the positive aspects while hopefully minimizing the negative. That may be naive, however, but I'm happy about it regardless.No, the opposite of your premise that rep was an opportunity for negativity. If that's all it was everybody would have been in negative numbers. It was both positive and negative but the positives far outweighed the negatives and offered affirmations and invitations to connect with one's adversaries that wouldn't have been there otherwise. And aren't here now.
Not much loss there since nobody really ever read long posted quotes anyways.The 'click on the quote to read its fill text' feature is clearly designed to keep threads short, and discourage lengthy quotes.
The new software conforms to this twitter/short attention-span age.
You have a point, and I won't deny that rep was also an opportunity for positivity. My point was that the negativity of the rep was always done in private and led to people being particularly foul in my experience. Now if people want to do that they'll have to do it in public, which I'm all for. Without rep I think we can maintain the positive aspects while hopefully minimizing the negative. That may be naive, however, but I'm happy about it regardless.
No, the opposite of your premise that rep was an opportunity for negativity. If that's all it was everybody would have been in negative numbers. It was both positive and negative but the positives far outweighed the negatives and offered affirmations and invitations to connect with one's adversaries that wouldn't have been there otherwise. And aren't here now.
You have a point, and I won't deny that rep was also an opportunity for positivity. My point was that the negativity of the rep was always done in private and led to people being particularly foul in my experience. Now if people want to do that they'll have to do it in public, which I'm all for. Without rep I think we can maintain the positive aspects while hopefully minimizing the negative. That may be naive, however, but I'm happy about it regardless.
I agree its too busy. I don't like clutterI actually had the very same thought after 3 minutes. It is too busy. It is a political message board......... Politics is complicated enough. Why mess with our forum like this. I was hoping it would not be so bad....I do not understand this change. Simple is better. The forum will lose it's soul in this.
You can still connect through PM's, and if somebody is nasty in PM's you can stop them from messaging you. You could never do that with rep.You're the second poster I've read in the last few minutes opine that people got nastier in neg PMs than on the open board. That's just not my experience. Or if it is I don't remember it -- what I remember is connecting with posters of other POVs, getting to know them better, and getting a chance to offer them an occasional credit where due. I see that an an opportunity that's now lost.
