Best Post Contest! $$

[Yurt]

I get enough exposure to that as it is, don't need no fancy book learning for that!

As you are the most keen and "naturally" intelligent person I have ever met, I will give you a signed copy for the best price of



One Billion Dollars

[jimnyc]

Only 24 more hours left! If I was eligible, I would set aside about 30-45mins and write an awesome post about the temperature of todays politics and how it's been affected by the war on terror... just sayin! ...

One more day, one post is all it takes, and the $50 prize can be yours!

[hjmick]

Only 24 more hours left! If I was eligible, I would set aside about 30-45mins and write an awesome post about the temperature of todays politics and how it's been affected by the war on terror... just sayin! ...

One more day, one post is all it takes, and the $50 prize can be yours!

If I were so inclined, I would address the complete and total lack of civility exhibited by some members of our community, we all know the politics in this country suck, we all know that the war on terrorism is being used as a wedge by both sides of the aisle, there is little to nothing that we can do about that.

On the other hand, we as a cyber community, might be able to come together and do something about the the valuable bandwidth being used for personal attacks, vendettas, sniping, bickering, and back biting.

It wouldn't take much. We all know who the actors are. If we all made a effort to ignore the trolls in question, if we refused to take the bait, if we didn't respond to their meaningless, mind numbing, useless threads, they would eventually get the message and move along.

I understand that we will have disagreements from time to time, that's natural and to be expected. You can't talk politics and/or religion without disagreements, that would be rather boring. But the personal attacks and vitriol are growing to be a distraction I think we could all do without.

The majority of the members here are adults, and most of us behave as such. It's a shame that the rest of us don't follow suit.

[No1tovote4]

So... You're saying I didn't win with this post then?

[Kathianne]

I think hjmick is referring to those flaming. Now on the other hand, my view is that our political discussions could use less, "liberals=communists" and "conservatives want war" and more conversation. Then again, since Washington has lost it, even in the Senate, why wouldn't that be reflective of those of us hiding behind a computer.

We're all the worse for it though. Singularly and collectively.

[Sertes]

If I were so inclined, I would address the complete and total lack of civility exhibited by some members of our community, we all know the politics in this country suck, we all know that the war on terrorism is being used as a wedge by both sides of the aisle, there is little to nothing that we can do about that.

On the other hand, we as a cyber community, might be able to come together and do something about the the valuable bandwidth being used for personal attacks, vendettas, sniping, bickering, and back biting.

It wouldn't take much. We all know who the actors are. If we all made a effort to ignore the trolls in question, if we refused to take the bait, if we didn't respond to their meaningless, mind numbing, useless threads, they would eventually get the message and move along.

I understand that we will have disagreements from time to time, that's natural and to be expected. You can't talk politics and/or religion without disagreements, that would be rather boring. But the personal attacks and vitriol are growing to be a distraction I think we could all do without.

The majority of the members here are adults, and most of us behave as such. It's a shame that the rest of us don't follow suit.

Many other forums I read use the rule: "discuss the topic, not the member". You get one warning from a moderator, then you're game.

Same goes, to a lesser degree, for off topics and hijacking threads, since anyone can open a new thread if you don't want to stick to the topic at hand, then you're kindly asked to open a new one.

I find really amusing when someone insults me like "are you some sort of black/muslim/gay/communist/weirdo?"
"yes, all of them. Does it lower the value of me as a person, or the value of my opinions? Wanna discuss the topic, now?"

See, it's easy as this, if you don't want insults you simply don't throw them for starters, kids will go away looking for fun somewhere else.

And if someone really insults you bad, just tell the moderators

[pegwinn]

I wanna nominate this post as least likely to win the bux and most likely to be misunderstood and draw fire.

[nevadamedic]

I should have won just out of principal