Epif
Armadillo Pup
Count the shadows...
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Post by Epif on Jun 1, 2011 10:58:56 GMT -5
Touchy subject is touchy.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 1, 2011 11:07:14 GMT -5
There are so many words I can say right now on this "touchy subject", but I won't because it won't end well. So instead you get Pinkie Pie.  |
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Post by Olive on Jun 1, 2011 11:07:58 GMT -5
Thanks for not getting too heated about this, guys. Although that... pony? says a thousand words, heh.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 1, 2011 11:49:24 GMT -5
There are a thousand words I could say. I just like this place too much to get banned.  |
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Post by Olive on Jun 1, 2011 11:52:49 GMT -5
You'd probably just get a slap on the wrist first... unless all thousand words are really that bad 0.o
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callmeishmael
Young Armadillo
Believe it or not, I use this username on other forums as well.
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Post by callmeishmael on Jun 1, 2011 18:13:34 GMT -5
New topic! What exactly do the "exalt" and "smite" buttons do? I feel as if they're too powerful to touch, given such diction. I honestly have resisted every urge to click them.
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Post by Olive on Jun 1, 2011 18:18:34 GMT -5
New topic! What exactly do the "exalt" and "smite" buttons do? I feel as if they're too powerful to touch, given such diction. I honestly have resisted every urge to click them. They contribute to the "karma" rating of a member. Just a little rating system, like "Oh hey, this person is super helpful!" or "Hey, this person is trolling!" type-thingy. Although I do like how bloody powerful the buttons sound, considering they basically equal "thumbs up" or "thumbs down." |
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callmeishmael
Young Armadillo
Believe it or not, I use this username on other forums as well.
Posts: 66
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Post by callmeishmael on Jun 1, 2011 18:39:23 GMT -5
Well I feel like I would just exalt someone every time they post something I enjoy. I feel like the karma points would lose their magic.
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Post by Silva on Jun 1, 2011 18:50:40 GMT -5
Just a random question. What would you think of a chat-box? We wouldn't have to talk about literature in it. We could just talk about our lives and leave the literature in the actual forum threads.
Saying this, I have no idea how to put one in if you guys decide it's a good idea.
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Post by mrodigga on Jun 1, 2011 21:17:12 GMT -5
Although I do like how bloody powerful the buttons sound... Couldn't agree with this more. ;D |
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callmeishmael
Young Armadillo
Believe it or not, I use this username on other forums as well.
Posts: 66
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Post by callmeishmael on Jun 1, 2011 21:35:23 GMT -5
I feel like the divisions of the forum are a bit too black and white, and we are in quite the need of a gray/grey area.
As in, there's the English section, divided into lit, works, quirks, and grammar, and the everything else, non-fez section.
I feel like there needs to be a English Lounge division, where an armadillo could just post and start threads pertaining to English, but not necessarily fall into those categories. For example: If I wanted to write a post about how I feel like smiting anyone who makes a negative comment regarding Hemingway, where would I put that? It seems too trivial to be placed in Literature, while being English enough to stay within the fez.
Opinions?
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 1, 2011 22:55:00 GMT -5
There are so many words I can say right now on this "touchy subject", but I won't because it won't end well. So instead you get Pinkie Pie. Actually, I think we would do well to have a place to discuss these "touchy subjects" -- someplace for our more heated debates (those not related to literature), and by this I mean a forum under "Life Outside the Fez" specifically for things that might offend people but that we will work hard not to be personally offended by because we are mature people who can acknowledge that other people have opinions even when we believe (or know) those opinions to be wrong. A "safe space," so to speak. PS: Does anyone else's college have those little "safe space" rainbow triangles all over the place? Does anyone else know what I mean by "safe space"? |
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Epif
Armadillo Pup
Count the shadows...
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Post by Epif on Jun 2, 2011 8:41:19 GMT -5
Actually, I think we would do well to have a place to discuss these "touchy subjects" -- someplace for our more heated debates (those not related to literature), and by this I mean a forum under "Life Outside the Fez" specifically for things that might offend people but that we will work hard not to be personally offended by because we are mature people who can acknowledge that other people have opinions even when we believe (or know) those opinions to be wrong. A "safe space," so to speak. You mean like a forum for "General Discussion" and a sub-forum for "Intelligent Discussion"? Or just one for intellectual discussion/debate? I think I've heard of those. Aren't they related to anti-homophobic things? |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 2, 2011 15:59:33 GMT -5
Actually, I think we would do well to have a place to discuss these "touchy subjects" -- someplace for our more heated debates (those not related to literature), and by this I mean a forum under "Life Outside the Fez" specifically for things that might offend people but that we will work hard not to be personally offended by because we are mature people who can acknowledge that other people have opinions even when we believe (or know) those opinions to be wrong. A "safe space," so to speak. You mean like a forum for "General Discussion" and a sub-forum for "Intelligent Discussion"? Or just one for intellectual discussion/debate? I think I've heard of those. Aren't they related to anti-homophobic things? Not "Intelligent Discussion" (though, I'd hope, that as well), but more "Heated Scary Offensive Touchy Discussion" -- Big Issues like gender identity or abortion rights or racial profiling, things that are likely to offend people on a more personal level than, say, the Oxford Comma Debate. More emotional than intellectual (though we like to think that our emotions are informed by the facts as well). Safe Spaces are popularized by LGBTQ issues, yes, but they're much more general than that -- basically, it's a place where you can reveal brutally honest secrets or opinions where you can trust the listeners to a) not judge you based on these secrets or opinions and b) hold them in confidence, never mentioning them outside of the Safe Space (while discussing them freely within). At my college, RAs' rooms were required to be Safe Spaces, but the signs were available for the general public to take for their dorm room doors, and just about everyone did. Most professors' offices were Safe Spaces, too. It's kind of a big deal, and does a lot to open up a community and make it feel more like a, well, community. |
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Post by mrodigga on Jun 3, 2011 10:33:21 GMT -5
So I don't know if this is possible with the forum software as it is, but is there anyway for us to be notified somehow if we are quoted in a thread? I know that on a forum I moderate, we haven't been able to implement a feature like that because we quote the things people say in our behind the scenes discussions, and that could become problematic no matter how we implement the system, so I know there are a lot of reasons why it couldn't be implemented, but I figure it's worth asking.
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