Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
Yeah, I held a bitch session about it last week and just got called a whiner, loser, the usual. Maybe at most one or two people agreed. Whoever said people come here to bash the other side is probably right; they have fun with it.I agree. That's why I'd like to see a better option: the "Get Serious" button.E]
I hate the funny button as a dismissive, insulting comment on a serious post. I don't use it that way and it pisses me off when others do. If you aren't willing to make a comment to disagree/disapprove, just move on. You don't need to reply to it. Until we get a button that would more accurately reflect how we felt about it. The funny button should be for stuff that makes us laugh, but not in a mean way..
It would be better to leave the "funny" button to indicate that we found a posted idea amusing. But it's too late now, the "funny" button has been hijacked as a way to quickly state a negative opinion of a post. And there's nothing you and I can do to change that. Nothing, except call for a better option.
You're being mighty nice today.awesome people say idiotic things. I do it, too. We all do.Well, it's easier for you, that's for sure. You think some remarkably astute and thoughtful people are idiots and funny them on a regular basis.Hitting the funny button is better than replying "you idiot" 98 times a day, isnt it?We know.I like my multi-function funny button!
My birthday was saturday. My old age is calming me downYou're being mighty nice today.awesome people say idiotic things. I do it, too. We all do.Well, it's easier for you, that's for sure. You think some remarkably astute and thoughtful people are idiots and funny them on a regular basis.Hitting the funny button is better than replying "you idiot" 98 times a day, isnt it?We know.I like my multi-function funny button!
Yeah, we now have a million emojies to choose from, and they give a wider choice of expressions. But posting a new message then going to the smiley face to open the emoji window, then going through all the choices and finally settling on one particularly fitting emoji is just too clumsy and time consuming when one only wants to send a quick, snarky, silly, message. I think that's why so many members hit the "funny" button instead.We've got the little Smiley Face that links us to a lot of them and I suspect most of us find them too difficult to locate and use.
Happy Birthday!!!My birthday was saturday. My old age is calming me downYou're being mighty nice today.awesome people say idiotic things. I do it, too. We all do.Well, it's easier for you, that's for sure. You think some remarkably astute and thoughtful people are idiots and funny them on a regular basis.Hitting the funny button is better than replying "you idiot" 98 times a day, isnt it?We know.
If i funny your post, its because you make me laugh. You are good at blasting our peaches-in-chief AKA amnesty don.Yeah, we now have a million emojies to choose from, and they give a wider choice of expressions. But posting a new message then going to the smiley face to open the emoji window, then going through all the choices and finally settling on one particularly fitting emoji is just too clumsy and time consuming when one only wants to send a quick, snarky, silly, message. I think that's why so many members hit the "funny" button instead.We've got the little Smiley Face that links us to a lot of them and I suspect most of us find them too difficult to locate and use.
I wouldn't let the Thumbs Down button stop me from reading any post.What might seem nonsense to you may seem perfectly honest and reasonable to someone else. I agree it would be great to have a thumbs down button to "disagree" with, but I wouldn't necessarily let other posters' ratings cause me to "skip" reading a post or a thread.
Thank you!Happy Birthday!!!My birthday was saturday. My old age is calming me downYou're being mighty nice today.awesome people say idiotic things. I do it, too. We all do.Well, it's easier for you, that's for sure. You think some remarkably astute and thoughtful people are idiots and funny them on a regular basis.Hitting the funny button is better than replying "you idiot" 98 times a day, isnt it?
No, never! Give us a STFU! rating, there's so much scope for it here...
So, folks, if all your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you go along?
It does seem strange that a political message board doesn't have a single "disagree" button. As if posters will all have rosy thoughts about each other. Maybe it was too debated a topic if a "disagree" should not count in the ratings or should subtract one from the total, like I hear the old rating system did. I'd be in the hole, for sure.
No, sorry, that was just a quick example. And not a clear one.One question: If a poster makes a comment that doesn't make their political leanings obvious, why do you need to dig further to try and find it out? Would you be embarrassed to hit agree on a post from someone who is on "the other side?"I agree.I hate the funny button as a dismissive, insulting comment on a serious post. I don't use it that way and it pisses me off when others do. If you aren't willing to make a comment to disagree/disapprove, just move on. You don't need to reply to it. Until we get a button that would more accurately reflect how we felt about it. The funny button should be for stuff that makes us laugh, but not in a mean way.
But many members are now using the "funny" button as an insult. Saying, in effect, "your post is pure crap". And they're doing it because it's a simple, quick way to show their disagreement with a posted comment. Because it's being widely used (and understood) in that way I find myself sometimes using it that way, too. So the "funny" button has become a point of confusion.
For instance, when I read a post by a member whose political leanings are not known to me, and the post has several "funny" ratings, I now have to click the 'list' button next to the "funny" emoji in order to see who clicked the "funny" button — that's the only way to understand what they meant when they clicked the "funny" button. Only by comparing the political slant of the post to the names in the list who clicked "funny" can one finally understand the clickers' meaning.
Now, if we had the "Get Serious" button I'm suggesting, it would be a simple matter to look at the number of members who used it to get some guage of how the opposition feels about that particular post. Granted it wouldn't be very accurate, but using the "funny" button to show disagreement is ridiculous (but we can't stop people from doing it). Then the "funny" button could go back to being used only to indicate that someone found the post amusing.
It doesn't seem like this issue would be worth all this effort and time, but right now the "funny" button is confusing rather than helpful. Not good for a forum built to discuss politics.
Just curious.
I just wish mine still worked just as well as it did when I was 20.I like my multi-function funny button!
It probably quit working because it could smell that rotten corncob up your ass. Its repulsiveI just wish mine still worked just as well as it did when I was 20.I like my multi-function funny button!
My birthday was saturday. My old age is calming me downYou're being mighty nice today.awesome people say idiotic things. I do it, too. We all do.Well, it's easier for you, that's for sure. You think some remarkably astute and thoughtful people are idiots and funny them on a regular basis.Hitting the funny button is better than replying "you idiot" 98 times a day, isnt it?We know.
It probably quit working because it could smell that rotten corncob up your ass. Its repulsiveI just wish mine still worked just as well as it did when I was 20.I like my multi-function funny button!
