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- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
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- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
- Use common sense and respect personal differences in the community: sexual and other inappropriate language or imagery, political rants and belittling the opinions of others will get your posts deleted and result in warnings and/ or banning from the forum
- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
Comments
I agree 100%. I sometimes wonder why there is even a DV button. "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything" If you disagree with a post Quote and respond.
I could really care less but I’d prefer we not have UV, DV, or OT. If you want to disagree with someone quote them and tell them why. A lot of my opinions get DVs and I know I’m going to get them. Unless you’re SOFl or Tex some one like that you’re going to get DVs because you’re not the popular posters. Heaven forbid you disagree with those guys either. But I just read and post here so my opinion means exactly Richard.
BTW, there is a great Black Mirror episode on this topic. From season one, IIRC.
The uv/dv/OT are just st00pid but a part in social media.....I for one don't care enough about them to keep up with the serial dv/ot members here must less reprimand the serial immature users.......
In some ways they're
****stu.pid, but in other ways they perform an essential function. In society, some comments and behaviors are well received, some are ignored, and some are not well received. We get the same options here.An online forum is a microcosm of our society, albeit an imperfect one (i.e., there is no face-to-face interaction, no sound, no ability to detect tone, etc.). In this world, the UV's, DV's, OT's, and flags, serve as a proxy for the reactions that occur naturally in society.
I'm sure there have been extensive studies on this topic, and probably better ways to explain it, but you get my point.
Yeah numerous studies done on the internet/social media trolls.....I get your point.....my point is I babysit enuff things here, who is doing the uv/dv/ot is not going to be one of them.......
The DV's bothered me to start with, but when I finally realized, that no matter what you say, you are going to get DV'd ond OT's. Dont bother me anymore.
Betcha can't guess who DV'd you on this.......oh crap...you;re a Mod....😛
If it creates more work for you then I understand, but I tried to address that point on the front end.
@12ed would be proud
Good point. I think. Way to cerebral for me but I think I agree.
I just don’t see an issue with downvotes. I don’t like the idea of telling people how to use the DV button. If it’s a huge thing then just get rid of it. Other sites do just fine without a DV system. I’ve seen god knows how many users get on a soapbox and lecture on proper DV use, so I rarely use it now. Except when someone mentions DVs. That’s an auto DV for me.
Nope has nothing to do with work.....just don't interest me that the owners of this board, that they provide for free to give a bunch of faceless Internet trolls a tool to show how immature they are......
Oh, and with respect to Off Topic comments. I generally like how it’s handled around here and wouldn’t change much. However, I have seen several threads open up with a clear political bent that isn’t explicitly stated. When folks attempt to engage with the conversation they’re told to stop because politics are banned. All good with that, but I recommend heading it off at the beginning when an original post is clearly political to begin with and only looking for affirmation instead of conversation.
I genuinely do not care if I get a demerit. To @AnotherDawg 's post above: I am like that in "real" life, too.
If you ever want to hang out in my studio sometime we can chat about any old thing, even if I don't agree with you we can keep on chatting about it. And as we ramble along we might have occasion to go off on a tangent, but don't worry, I won't rap your knuckles for it.
The forum is so different, though. In "real" life if a random person starts yelling at me on the street I try to get away but I'll troll him on the internet until my toe tips blister. I don't like it as much as one on one, but, living 38 minutes west of Jordan Hare Stadium, I don't get face to face with many Dawgfans.