Ultimate thread closing

**TosaInu** · 10-26-2005, 21:15

Good points.

When is it fun and when does it stop being fun?

In a way, internet discussion boards are pretty poor communication tools, while the social requirements are much higher in discussions, as you talk to the whole world.

**edyzmedieval** · 10-26-2005, 21:36

How come it's a poor communication tool?! It's a very good one, I can talk with somebody about modding and girls.

I like the BKS Kingdom of Peace and Love. Long live the kingdom!

**Beirut** · 10-26-2005, 23:12

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

I like the BKS Kingdom of Peace and Love. Long live the kingdom!

Damn straight!

**GoreBag** · 10-27-2005, 03:08

Couldn't it just be moved to the backroom? I'd like some threads in there that are mindless entertainment rather than mindless bickering.

**English assassin** · 10-27-2005, 10:31

Originally Posted by NeonGod

Couldn't it just be moved to the backroom? I'd like some threads in there that are mindless entertainment rather than mindless bickering.

Well, part of the reason for my question was that I don't want to see the Kingdom of Peace and Love without much content. (On that topic, I wonder if we could try posting a few less contentious backroom topics in the frontroom? The human evolution thread, for instance, has been perfectly civil and non-political. Its a risk I know. Or is the Kingdom best kept only for humourous or lightweight stuff? And babes, obviously, which are a deadly serious matter, fair play to the Kingdom.)

Anyway I'm not sure if it would help since a genuinely offensive joke ought not to be in the backroom either.

It is very tricky. For instance, although I genuinely felt that scousers would not be upset by the scouse jokes (still less blondes by the blonde jokes), I would never dream of posting a "joke" that relied on the old English stereotype that the Irish are not that clever. And I would report such a joke if someone else posted it. I'm not sure why scousers being scallies seems OK and Irish being not very bright is obviously not OK but there you go.

Oh well, let common sense be our guide I guess. Anyway, here is a non-offensive joke to be going on with:

A Duck walks into a pub at lunchtime, and asks for a pint. "You're a Duck" says the barman. "That's right," says the Duck, "now, what about that pint?" "But you can talk", says the barman. "Nothing wrong with your ears," says the Duck, "I'm working on that building site accross the road this week, and I'll be coming in every lunchtime for a pint or two, so, can I have my pint now please?" And the barman pours him a pint, still marvelling at the talking Duck.

The week passes, and every lunchtime the Duck comes in and has a few pints, and maybe a nice pie and chips, before going back to his job on the building site.

On friday, the barman is very excited. "I had a world with the circus that's in town," he tells the Duck, "and they are very interested in you" "Really", says the Duck. "Oh yes," says the barman, "in fact the circus wants to give you a job."

"The circus wants to give me a job?" asks the Duck.

"Oh yes", says the barman.

"This circus, its in a big tent, and all of that?" asks the Duck.

"yes yes," says the barman, "its in the big top, of course"

The Duck looks puzzled and says "then what the [ ] do they want with a plasterer?"

**Mikeus Caesar** · 10-27-2005, 11:28

Most of my family are scousers, including me (lived there for half my life) and i don't take offence in the jokes about scousers. Me and most of my family usually spend our time telling each other bad jokes about scousers, so surely we must be offended. Wrong. Only someone who has trouble keeping their emotions in place due to a mental disorder (*cough* Clayton...) would take insult from the scouser jokes that were posted in the chicken thread.

**Beirut** · 10-27-2005, 11:50

Originally Posted by English assassin

Well, part of the reason for my question was that I don't want to see the Kingdom of Peace and Love without much content.

Neither do I. But it's up to the members to keep it interesting. Granted, a locked thread here and there may interrupt the content, but it also has to be mentioned that some of the content posted is the intellectual equivalent of cold Kraft Dinner.

The forum is open to such topics as literature, music, movies, games, sports, astronomy, science, personal history and experiences, women!, beer, whiskey, flashlights

,more beer, food, cars, motorcycles, TV shows, art, travel, pets, the weather, and a million other subjects not involving politics or religion.

Yet day after day threads are posted with titles like "What's your favorite thread closing post" or "Which Org. member would you like to beat up?" or "What's your favorite soup spoon... RIGHT NOW!!! YES, RIGHT NOW!!!!!"

I mean, c'mon...

It isn't the staff who make or keep this place interesting - it's the members.

**Ja'chyra** · 10-27-2005, 16:28

You spelt whisky wrong

I agree with most people here, the humour that is fine in everyday life is easily misconstrued for the simple reason that you can't hear or see the person making the joke. A smilie isn't the same as making a joke with a smile.

**Adrian II** · 10-26-2005, 21:54

Originally Posted by TosaInu

In a way, internet discussion boards are pretty poor communication tools, while the social requirements are much higher in discussions, as you talk to the whole world.

That is why roughly half the exchanges on the WWW are about the WWW itself, about its uses, its limits and its technicalities, about the misunderstandings and reduncancies that result from the lack of analogous communication, and about the values and rules that should guide behaviour and exchange on the WWW. In many ways the WWW is self-reflective.

The other half of WWW exchanges is all about games...

There is probably a good reason for that. Maybe games are the closest thing to analogous communication on the WWW, because they involve cooperation, shared experiences and (sometimes intense) emotional involvement.