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Did you say something Larry ?!?:playful:

Oh this conversation reminded me of something ! LOL and nobody on here is this by any means...but it sure is that way on other forums sometimes!!!

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Pinko Commie??!! :lofl: That makes me think of some of the conspiracy forums out there. I've also found that some of the worst out there are crime forums. I imagine that's partly because emotions are strong in the first place, and it doesn't take much to get a spat going. On some, you can't discuss family members of the victims, even if LE has them in their sights. Or, you are not allowed to be a member of any other forum discussing crime. Yeah, that makes sense. :confused:

I even found a thread on amazon.com, where members of one forum were diiscussing another forum; blasting the members there. At least here; tho we might get rather juvenile at times, :p we can discuss just about anything without getting nasty, and I really appreciate that.
 
Pappy said:
I forgot to mention the Semi Trucker Forum I use to belong to. Got so darn mad that I had to leave it.
They kept asking me "How big is your Peterbilt?"
i figured none of their dog gone business.....
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Personal, aren't they?? ;) Pappy, were you a trucker?? DH drove for 30+ years, and still misses it.
 
Hey The Guru looks like Phil.

I've never been on a Crime Forum Anne, they seem to have lots of rules!

They need a "Conan the Grammarian" and an "Archie DeBunker" on The Faces of Forums. :playful:
 
Old Hipster said:
Hey The Guru looks like Phil.
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It does, but my personality is more The Joker. :D

I've never been on a Crime Forum Anne, they seem to have lots of rules!
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Some forums it's a crime just to belong to them ...

I spent several years on a big, big forum and many of its ex-members gathered on 4chan to talk trash about all the remaining members and mods. Even years after they were booted they were ranting about the forum - I mean, c'mon now, enough is enough!

I've even forgotten what they said about me, but I know it wasn't good. :rolleyes:

They need a "Conan the Grammarian" and an "Archie DeBunker" on The Faces of Forums. :playful:
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I like those!
 
SifuPhil said:
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Some forums it's a crime just to belong to them ...

I spent several years on a big, big forum and many of its ex-members gathered on 4chan to talk trash about all the remaining members and mods. Even years after they were booted they were ranting about the forum - I mean, c'mon now, enough is enough!

I've even forgotten what they said about me, but I know it wasn't good. :rolleyes:
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Might've been the same one I was booted from, Phil. There was a couple of mass bannings; and yet the troublemakers stayed. :rolleyes:



OldHipster, it wasn't all of the forums; just one or two, and they were bad news.
 
I've checked out a few crime forums, only because I was interested in some particular crime at the time.

I am not that much of a sleuth to join any of them.
 
Maybe we all get on so well because we've done the hard yards through other forums and recognize the pitfalls. It always seems to be people new to forums who get all angsty. They don't understand the subtle difference in communication style to the way social media dialogue rolls.

Good forums have room for kidding around, for politely reasoned spats, for deep and meaningful obsessive bullsh*t, even for what we're having for dinner, without quite dropping into twitterdom or facebook traumas.

Good forums allow a little time for members to get to know each other, the styles and nuances of their thinking, and gain an appreciation of the deeper 'personality' behind the posts. Hard to do that with 2 short lines on Twitter.

Members live with variety in their lives and express a variety of moods correspondingly. Isn't that how life is? We have more than one single interest and mood or we'd be locked up. We can exchange experiences in different places that are actually of interest to someone from a different culture without it becoming a code red confrontation of the superiority of one over the other. We gain an understanding of why things are done, and thought of, differently. That is the real prize to be won from good forums. It's about learning and conversing. It isn't a status competition as Facebook can be.

How many of us only hang out with people who have exactly the same views on everything as we do? That would be a pretty boring meeting, everyone just nodding and backslapping and then gazing into space because there's nothing left to talk about.
I've seen forums die agonizing deaths because of that syndrome. Once a core of zealots have chased all dissenters from their ranks they die of boredom and drift away to start a fight somewhere else. Vive la differences!

We can talk to different groups of people in real life without haranguing them with single issues. We can discuss topics to learn about them from their input of differing opinions, not merely to push our own opinion down their throats.
We don't learn near as much through our mouths as through our ears and eyes. Good forums are like good social clubs with various personalities and opinions discussed civilly and without differing opinions busting up friendships.

Of course we're also old enough not to already know everything too, that helps.
 
Whenever I get passed by a speeding 18 wheeler I get hit with that "High wind" too..
It would not be so bad if that driver had giving me some more room when passing on the interstate.
 
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