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Originally Posted by Guest
No, I am speaking about the 1920 budget, and the effects that it had back then. Sometimes common sense applies. When you have to explain everything in great detail, no one here is going to listen. Take a look at the posts. The majority are one or two sentences long. The fact of the matter here people don't want to reply only attack.
Take a look at the threads. There was a Republican debate last night, and there isn't one thread on the board about it. Any Republican on Republican disagreement is avoided at all costs here. I started a post several weeks ago when two Republicans went at each other on Meet the Press, and it died a quick death.
Anytime you try to go into great detail, you are accused of changing the subject. You may be the exception, but the others will join the conversation, and it will be brought down to the gutter in one big hurry.
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Well, I will agree with you totally on your assessment !
I have started threads on Syria, Iran, Israel, and even the budget, along with a number of others. I also always add a link to validate what I am saying so as to not be accused of simply "saying stuff". THAT to me is what a forum is about and other that I frequent ARE like that.
That does not make me anyone special by any stretch and can only offer my opinion.
I KNOW there are some very nice and intelligent liberal, Democratic posters. They were here way back when this forum began in 2007 (started actually discussing the possibility of a horse racing site here). They were smart, quick and alert and well read posters. I disagreed many times but they, and I always kept the conversation civil and based on facts and relative to the issues.
Even at the beginning of the 2008 cycle we had spirited but civil conversations.
Then a new breed came upon us, and I can only tell you that many of those liberal democratic folks that used to post have told me in emails that they got sick of the newbies. Newbies can be defined anyway you want....because I have no idea if they are or were new to The Villages, TOTV but suddenly, there was a surge of liberal posters (this does not mean by any measure that conservative posters are exempt from what I am saying at all) who for some reason came with the mentality of simply flaming and being a nuisance. (Something you would think you would not see in The Villages, because generally you are speaking to your neighbors)
I mention liberals only because the trouble makers seem to come mostly from that sphere which means nothing but random chance on this forum. They are the ones that perpetrate the myths about living in The Villages, and probably have scared a few potential neighbors away with their scary posts, which they also used to delight in posting on the main board.
So many were thrown off this board, have come back....many are on there third and fourth names here. They moved to TOPIX, and polluted that for a bit....seems maybe have settled there I hear.
These people ignored anything that required reading or being informed. Their game was to work WITH EACH OTHER to flame and insure that they polluted the moderators with complaints.
Why adults would act that way is beyond me.
I got a reputation and am still libeled on TOPIX and alluded to as a member of some gang that this group has manufactured in their head which never existed.
But in any case, there are many, many, many smart and wise liberals and many, many many smart and wise conservatives who live here and many of them used to post here.
I admittely, while my wife is recuperating, stop here a few times a day but spend most of my time reading and on other ADULT political sites where you can exchange ideas and learn
Your post, however, makes me wonder why waste my time with folks who have only an interest in what is commonly referred to as flaming
YOU ARE CORRECT...If you go into any detail, you are accused of..well, I have been accused of plagarism which is a lie (however, there are those who simply make things up...of course they have no links but just make it up...as with common courtesy the rules on copyrights and flaming are over their heads) and as you say, NEVER get a response simply a barb aimed at you or someone.
The gutter, as you call it, seems to be where most of these people want to be and thus you have inspired me to just walk away. I used to learn so much way back.....we had posters that were proficient with economics who would post and link to great sites. We had political professionals and the like but when you came on here, you would learn something. That is gone.
Thanks for your post...take care, and if everything goes as normal a few quips will land here taking me to task blaming me for anything (by the way I have never been thrown off here...changed my name once because I got some unsettling emails (because of an opinion) which bother me and the owner suggested that) and then probably on TOPIX, which is the toilet of the internet I think, there will be more mocking. Thats the game...mock, demean but whatever you do, as you correctly pointed out....ignore issues.
I did learn one thing from this group. NAMES....I have been called names that I never heard before...I have been accused of being any derisive name you can think of.
Take care...good luck