In the Foolish Four debate I was certainly persistent, but often would deteriorate into meaningless and well-calculated rhetoric. It was tough fighting the crowd but clearly I became a master-whiner. I do believe, however, some good research was performed and published on both sides - there's no doubt in my mind the foolish four was rubbish and that the Bros refused to recognize as much even when seeing the pathetic evidence.
If I was seeing a psychiatrist she would tell me no doubt that this occurred at a time in my life where tragedy meant that I needed something to keep me standing but it doesn't matter. I would never consider a project like that again, and wouldn't even have started if I knew what it entailed. In a similar vein I like what Hocus brought into the debate of SWRs as practiced as TMF. As he knows and has expressed I don't agree with everything he writes, certainly don't always read it, but respect the effort. It always was and is my opinion that the internet media is sufficiently flexible to allow people to not read all threads on a message board if they don't want to. Some people at TMF would lobby for so-called "negative recommendations" but I believe in both the extreme positive and negative count which is lost on the average.
On censorship I have a board that discusses all kinds of things and currently deals mostly with political issues. It contains a nice bunch of participants and although opinions are diverse, we don't censor which is remarkable considering that I granted 25 people the right to delete posts including Bogey and Eswan. When people (on both sides) can censor I find that they typically don't.
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- Tue Jun 29, 2004 7:33 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: Congratulations
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- Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:56 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: Congratulations
- Replies: 63
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Congratulations
ES, First congratulations for letting Hocus back in. Second, I still think that censorship as still practised here is bad. Third, remember I was talking about group-think? It appears the group has left and I am disappointed because I really like Ataloss, Wanderer, and the like. Finally, one person t...
- Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:30 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: So there was this post on another board...
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- Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:09 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: What happened?
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- Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:07 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: What happened?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 33165
All I can say to Datasnooper (and I am a recent addition to NFS) is that hocus said things about people that would be really hard to put up with. In discussions elsewhere I have said things about people that would be really hard to put up with. I have behaved like a child, whining. I have attacked ...
- Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:42 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: What happened?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 33165
- Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:34 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: What happened?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 33165
actually people at tmf seem to be pretty satisfied without ykw My point was more general. If I participated at TMF my experience would be improved with the presence of hocus. I am sure other people feel the same way. None of of this of course is a contradiction of your statement that people at TMF,...
- Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:56 am
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: What happened?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 33165
Again, I feel ES did an outstanding job trying to get everyone to behave rationally while keeping all posters. That's a slippery slope to say the least. All that has been tried at the Fool before anddit didn't work for everybody. Although I think ES made a big mistake here it's probably true, howev...
- Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:51 pm
- Forum: Town Center
- Topic: What happened?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 33165
What happened?
Hi all I checked out the site and it appears there was some controversy regarding hocus. I'm surprised to learn this. Can somebody please point to some conversations where the issues arose? Email if it is too sensitive to see the light of day again. I am serious but not here to make an issue of it a...