I have found your posts to be not only useful but an asset to the forum. Here are twoexamples that have helped me.
Hope you stick around,
Durak
Thanks for the appreciation. I've been around here for about 6 years now (perhaps even longer, I've had one other account previously but that was at the time when I didn't have internet connection at home so I only showed up sporadically to download some replays) so I believe that I'll be able to stick around some more
I have also noticed the gathering crescendo of pornography, and in that connection, I do not know whether idolatry of the flesh is more disturbing than the idolatry of ugliness (let us admit that most "photogenic" strumpets are transparently ugly people.) I think it is up to the moderators to draw a line on this issue and take certain preventive measures to reinforce that self-governing moderation which I trust is the creed of the majority.
As for your complaint that intellect is met with ingratitude, ignorance and ignominy, I do not think one should idealize the off-line world by drawing any stark contrast. Indeed, in one respect we have the advantage: here all words have an equal prayer; in cyberspace no one can drown out reason with loud interjection or artful histrionics. I do not think a nerd will find better circumstances to voice himself than in the video-gaming forum (I would recommend Parisian salons of bygone days, but there one required esprit even more than reason.) Indeed, the lack of wit is something most forum-goers need to be self-conscious about. Absurd verbal juxapositions popularized by Family Guy skits are not funny. There is such a thing as a tedious absurdism, and if I had to write a book on that very modern social phenomenon, I should like to use the humour of this website as a primary reference.
All this goes back to your original complaint: true wit, by offering an original and eccentric perspective, ought to enrich any worthy discussion. I propose frequent injunctions by a squadron of civic-minded tl.netters, a humour-police, reminding stupid people how unfunny they are. By this infallible critique one saves much time and effort. Tell a person that he is stupid, he will have a thousand repartees. Tell a person that he is dull, every defense becomes a witness for the prosecution.
As for the matter of expanding membership, I think that there is some truth in this, and I agree that the role-model element, is missing. There is no visible Optimate group in tl.net any longer. In this connection one questions whether Rekrul's Jacobinism was not preferable to Drone's extreme Scandinavian liberality. However I relate these reflections to you as questions, not as suppositions.
T_T I made contributions to TL for a year and kept my posts clean but got banned when the Automated Ban list started growing significantly. Extremely sorry TL, I still feel really bad about it.
This new wave makes me wonder if it is time to create a new 10 commandments.
On March 19 2010 06:55 MoltkeWarding wrote: Indeed, in one respect we have the advantage: here all words have an equal prayer; in cyberspace no one can drown out reason with loud interjection or artful histrionics.
Complete bullshit. And you write so verbosely for no reason whatsoever.
On March 19 2010 06:55 MoltkeWarding wrote: Indeed, in one respect we have the advantage: here all words have an equal prayer; in cyberspace no one can drown out reason with loud interjection or artful histrionics.
Complete bullshit. And you write so verbosely for no reason whatsoever.
Uh reason? He has to maintain character sir.. there IS a reason.
On March 19 2010 06:55 MoltkeWarding wrote: Indeed, in one respect we have the advantage: here all words have an equal prayer; in cyberspace no one can drown out reason with loud interjection or artful histrionics.
Complete bullshit. And you write so verbosely for no reason whatsoever.
At first I was puzzled by your complaint, then I realized that you are probably of that critical sect whose profound contemplations on structural determinants have led them to abandon the philistine pleasures of mere reading. Indeed, only a member of such a sect could wrathfully inveigh against an innocent phenomenon which dares to occur "for no reason whatsoever."
The philistine reader would call such phenoema "poetic," for him, everything which is without reason is above reason. How much happier you would be, my friend, if you abandoned your pessimistic religion, and became a free reader, like the rest of us!
I came here to rant about the degradation of the strategy forums, but after thinking about it for a while longer, the strategy forum was always home to really bad threads and posters (ie. AzureEye and his alternate accounts).
On March 19 2010 06:55 MoltkeWarding wrote: Indeed, in one respect we have the advantage: here all words have an equal prayer; in cyberspace no one can drown out reason with loud interjection or artful histrionics.
Complete bullshit. And you write so verbosely for no reason whatsoever.
At first I was puzzled by your complaint, then I realized that you are probably of that critical sect whose profound contemplations on structural determinants have led them to abandon the philistine pleasures of mere reading. Indeed, only a member of such a sect could wrathfully inveigh against an innocent phenomenon which dares to occur "for no reason whatsoever."
The philistine reader would call such phenoema "poetic," for him, everything which is without reason is above reason. How much happier you would be, my friend, if you abandoned your pessimistic religion, and became a free reader, like the rest of us!
On March 19 2010 06:55 MoltkeWarding wrote: Indeed, in one respect we have the advantage: here all words have an equal prayer; in cyberspace no one can drown out reason with loud interjection or artful histrionics.
Complete bullshit. And you write so verbosely for no reason whatsoever.
At first I was puzzled by your complaint, then I realized that you are probably of that critical sect whose profound contemplations on structural determinants have led them to abandon the philistine pleasures of mere reading. Indeed, only a member of such a sect could wrathfully inveigh against an innocent phenomenon which dares to occur "for no reason whatsoever."
The philistine reader would call such phenoema "poetic," for him, everything which is without reason is above reason. How much happier you would be, my friend, if you abandoned your pessimistic religion, and became a free reader, like the rest of us!
EPT
