[HimandMe]

Originally Posted by goodtimesintv

I would attach a Like and Dislike button under each post.

That way, people can express their disagreement or even outrage with a single post, without writing insults and tirades that drive newer or meeker people out.

A Big like or dislike buttom...perhaps a huge happy face or a frown. Too many forums end up a place to gripe or the negative loonies and fear mongers take over and we all stop visiting them. Perhaps a column for those who like the darker side could be added but not pop up automatically and those who like to stew can visit together.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by HimandMe

A big like or dislike button ...perhaps a huge happy face or a frown.

You mean like this happy?

Or this frown?

Or madder?

Or madder yet?

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P.S. And yes, I will miss Wayne Dyer.

[TNLAKEPANDA]

Sometimes I read stuff on this forum and shake my head... sometimes I laugh and sometimes I wonder if I have moved to a psych ward community. The good the bad and the ugly it's all here. Enjoy.

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by Polar Bear

Where do we find those??!!??

Best question of the day

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by billethkid

I would allow the political forum to be open like it used to be using our regular screen names.
I would warn all, when opting in on the political forum;

if you do not like the content do not opt in.

If you do opt in you agree not to criticize the content in other forums.

And just like today when political content is obvious....take the easiest cure of all....DO NOT OPEN IT!!

Please remember the real negative and the percieved negative issues with the political forum were and are still the result of less than a handful of participants.

As a result of the few the political forum gets undue bashing .....in the regular forums.

And that is my $3.357284 worth (2 cents with inflation)

Why not have all forums require we use our real names? If people feel strongly about a post they should own it and take the anonymous strength shield away.

[MDLNB]

Originally Posted by goodtimesintv

I would attach a Like and Dislike button under each post.

That way, people can express their disagreement or even outrage with a single symbol, without writing insults and tirades that drive newer or meeker people out.

[ScorpioSquared]

I would have the temperment of a saint. So that's not happening anytime soon.

[tcxr750]

Freedom and speech and the courage to admit it.

[Uberschaf]

I'm afraid to say anything.I might not be politically correct.

[goodtimesintv]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Why not have all forums require we use our real names? If people feel strongly about a post they should own it and take the anonymous strength shield away.

Obviously you haven't seen/read the Topix pages of comments on The Villages, where slander, libel and character assassination is done to people who expose themselves with their real names here, and the ruination is done by the same weirdos using what looks like 56 other screen names.

Most of it sounds like it's coming out of a prison psych ward somewhere. There is endangerment by exposing one's identity on internet, even when saying only happy horse-s**t and drivel.

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

Remember that song by Olive Oyle, Popeye's girlfriend, "If I were president?"
I'm just offering the topic, in case anybody's been thinking about it and wants to post.

I wouldn't care for the job myself, I imagine you have to read too much of this stuff, referee , and make a judgment about who needs thumping, banning or time out, and the worst of it is when everybody wants to be the moderator and do the thumping themselves.

Levity, please. Did two beers Get banned?? Anybody know?

Any bets on how long this thread survives? Pass the popcorn, barefoot.

I do not always agree when a moderator deletes one of most posts but I always respect their opinion. As many of you recall there was an expression in the corporate would "its easy to manage from beneath" conducting personal evaluations is a very difficult task. It requires careful and objective analysis of the work product, the circumstances surrounding, the training education ,etc. sometimes you find an employee fails the company and sometimes you discover the company failed the employee

I suspect a moderator looks at the overall view of posters comments, the number of posts accumulated, the intent of the post, the poster's past behaviors to make such deletions. However, it also can be as simple as off topic.

I could be a moderator because I have always been interested in the way individuals think and relate to the world along with their life long experiences. People are truly fascinating creatures and if one remains objective despite the bad, the beautiful and the ugly you find some interesting stories. Now how can one get bored with that result? Isn't that one of the reasons why we all post here on this forum?

[graciegirl]

I get posts deleted regularly, as they should be, but not all of them as some of the folks who dislike me very much wish.


I was devastated with the first few deletes, and badly hurt by the hatred but I think I am getting more tough skinned like the real journalist in my family.


I know that posting here is an obsession, but I so enjoy the back and forth. So many times a person can't hear what folks are saying when we are out in restaurants with music playing. And like most, I am braver here, simi concealed behind this computer, although I do know and am blessed with the friendship of many people who post.


I keep trying to quit, and someday I will. I enjoy this forum very much.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I get posts deleted regularly, as they should be, but not all of them as some of the folks who dislike me very much wish.


I was devastated with the first few deletes, and badly hurt by the hatred but I think I am getting more tough skinned like the real journalist in my family.


I know that posting here is an obsession, but I so enjoy the back and forth. So many times a person can't hear what folks are saying when we are out in restaurants with music playing. And like most, I am braver here, simi concealed behind this computer, although I do know and am blessed with the friendship of many people who post.


I keep trying to quit, and someday I will. I enjoy this forum very much.

Do not let the Yahoos here and elsewhere get you down graciegirl. I was treated terribly at first on Findlaw's message boards starting in 2001 or so by a relentless, very clever, and very dishonest cybersmearer/cyberstalker/cyberbully. This went on until 2006 or so but must have given the Findlaw Moderators quite a headache as both this man and I would change Avatars (screen names) constantly with him pretending to be me. I also believe he was a contributing factor to the suicide of a army sergeant's-- or something like that-- very beautiful but very mentally ill girlfriend back around 2004. She drove her car into oncoming traffic near a military base near the TN/KY border. The soldier was trying to get her mental health help and I tried to get them information but my cybersmearer/cyberstalker kept saying I was a paranoid schizophrenic whom no one should believe. My trying to silence this cyberstalker/cyberbully drove the soldier off the board in frustration especially when he also pretended to be me. I mean that the cyberbully would use my name as well. I had no idea who this man was either and was getting a little paranoid trying to figure out who had all this hatred for me. It turned out he was some guy I was e-mailing trying to help him with his white collar criminal defense in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He pretended to be a friend with one persona on Findlaw, while making my life miserable through his hundreds of aliases on Findlaw's message boards.

The moderators here do a great job IMHO. Topix.com is still the wild wild west but it seems no one takes that seriously. People took Findlaw very seriously.

As to my tormentor on Findlaw of about 5 years I have not seen him posting anywhere on the Internet since 2008 or so. I had contacted the Chesterfield County Sheriff, VA about him as well as the Pinellas County Sheriff, FL and the FBI as well. They could not do anything. I did start writing my Federal Representative in Congress as well as the FL Senators and I did seem to be making some progress.

Findlaw changed a great deal after that. I jumped ship off of Findlaw and came onto Talk of the Villages in July 2007. Mainly as some friendly place unlike Findlaw to push my 224 613 Project but try to be a lot more patient with it. I have a lot more interests than the 224 613 Project but it is a real passion of mine. I found Facebook which turned out to be the perfect way to get my 224 613 Project much more broadly known but you do need to post with your real name and a lot of very personal information on there. I could post all my supporting documentation of Facebook too which I had tried in 2001 on Facebook but these were soon deleted from there even though the Findlaw System Operator had initially told me that Findlaw was the perfect place for showing all those documents. A lot of people on Findlaw did not like what I was trying to do with empowering victims/survivors of crimes with access to practical information. You would have more people asking intelligent questions in the legal system.

[dewilson58]

How many moderators are there???............appears to be 24/7.

[golfing eagles]

amazing----your own personal cyberstalker on a legal site---seems like kind of an oxymoron. No one would have blamed you if you hunted him down and introduced him to Mr. 12 gauge (actually, they would), but you understand the concept.