Political Rhetoric: Gone Fascist?

[Dylflon]

O'Reilly has to be the single most condescending person alive.

Professor S is a close second.

[Dylflon]

Shooop.

[thatmariolover]

Frankly, I'd rather have the headache than moderation in this case (particularly since we aren't allowed to ignore Professor S ourselves since he has admin priviledges).

Also, how can you moderate if you're allowed to ignore people? Seems to defeat the purpose.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Frankly, I'd rather have the headache than moderation in this case (particularly since we aren't allowed to ignore Professor S ourselves since he has admin priviledges).

Also, how can you moderate if you're allowed to ignore people? Seems to defeat the purpose.

The conversation doesn't need to go the way of personal attacks.
What good will come of it? Really.

I edited it because it's pointless. We all know who does and doesn't like eachother.
There's no point to bring it up again.

[thatmariolover]

It's not a matter of liking each other, it's a matter of respecting other people on the board. It's about trying to have a civil debate. If you guys would take care of the problem Dylfon wouldn't have had to have spoken out in the first place. We don't magically become exempt to the rules when we have access to the admin forum.

Regardless, this stuff never ends well for the forum so I'll just stop there.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

It's not a matter of liking each other, it's a matter of respecting other people on the board. It's about trying to have a civil debate. If you guys would take care of the problem Dylfon wouldn't have had to have spoken out in the first place. We don't magically become exempt to the rules when we have access to the admin forum.

Regardless, this stuff never ends well for the forum so I'll just stop there.

What he said wouldn't have gone the way of "civil debate".

Believe me, it was a complete and outright attack at him. There was no room for being civil in it. It would have blown up within 4 posts.

Neither of them have posted yet, and look how far it's gotten already.

The reason I deleted it was because of respecting people on the board.

Allowing blatent personal attacks to begin, and most likely continue, would not have gotten anyone any sort of respect.

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by Professor S

You attract more bees with honey than vinegar.

I never got that saying. Don't the bees make the honey? Would they really buy back their own product?



There's another forum I belong to where the topics of politics and religion aren't allowed to be discussed. Nice and peaceful there. Just saying...

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

I never got that saying. Don't the bees make the honey? Would they really buy back their own product?



There's another forum I belong to where the topics of politics and religion aren't allowed to be discussed. Nice and peaceful there. Just saying...

Actually had a similar discussion with my friend yesterday

I mean attracting bees with honey would be like forcing a cow to drink milk I would think.

[Teuthida]

Well only the calves drink the milk but all bees do eat honey. But it's the honey they make. They'd have no means to carry back honey found elsewhere. Would they even eat honey not from their hive? Someone needs to solve this, stat!

Of course, honey is regurgitated pollen, so perhaps a better comparison would be if a bird would eat random vomit.

[TheGame]

As I've said before, I have no issue with Prof S ignoring me. It in no way stops me from voicing my opinion on any given subject. If he would like to be closed minded and not even have a debate, and let all my points stand with no defense of his own.. that's his own loss.

Prof feels that I created my "own version of reality", and to be honest I think he's done the same for himself. Unfortunately that's part of our human nature.. to read the same thing two different ways. Perception. *shrug*

[Bond]

I'm going to step in and close this thread for now, which is something I do not like doing.

I do want to say, however, that I think Typhoid made the right decision in editing Dylflon's post, as it was a personal attack, which is against our forum rules, and would not have resulted in a constructive addition to the discussion.

I understand this conversation, in general, aggravated some long-standing issues that I have been aware of for a while. I'm looking into these issues.

[Professor S]

Wow, I must have missed something good!