alloneword » Fri Mar 16, 2018 6:51 am wrote:Rhyme, like clunky alliteration
Is literary masturbation.
*edited to add the quote for context
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alloneword » Fri Mar 16, 2018 6:51 am wrote:Rhyme, like clunky alliteration
Is literary masturbation.
peartreed » Sat Mar 10, 2018 5:05 pm wrote:If the new mods impose a limit on copied articles pasted to threads, I’ll likely look for a different forum and board to find the ongoing news coverage of subjects and stories and discussions that I follow here. I have a compulsive interest in news.
I’ve been frustrated that tv and radio news both limit coverage depth due to time, and newspapers and magazines are constrained by production delays to be timely and current. The internet offers immediate and ongoing exposure of breaking news and its follow-up discussion, but only certain sites and interactive boards like this one consolidate coverage by topics of interest into threads of in-depth content.
And this board is valuable to me largely because people like SLAD and AD maintain an effort to collect and provide a variety of topic threads and posts that maintain current coverage of themes and topics of real, vital interest to me, like Trump’s dangerous, everyday ineptitude and fascism’s evil infiltration into everyday events.
What others find as intrusive and extensive “copypasta” interrupting discussion, I find to be a very convenient, consolidated and current collection of relevant, in-depth, ongoing news from a variety of sources I’d otherwise likely not connect to. The topical discussion those posts instigate here is often of a higher quality too.
I don’t understand why those less interested, indifferent, or resentful of that volume, don’t simply bypass it, ignore it or start their own threads of topics more appealing.
If the few dissenters persuade the mods to impose an arbitrary limit on copied articles in such postings frequency or volume, content censorship or any time restrictions on copied content continuity of coverage as it develops in the news, then I’m going to find a more open and permissive place to pursue my interests.
Reverting the format of the forum back to its origins without pictures or technical editing tricks would be another regressive step into a restrictive past practice. I joined up here with my fellow countryman Jeff Wells to keep up with the times, but the negativity of the naysayers and second-guessers and, in some cases, RI reformers got to him too.
I love the debate and interplay of opinions and insights on topic, but I detest the personalized arguments and bullying and mean rhetoric.
I absolutely agree with that assertion. Rigorous intuition is just a starting point!peartreed » Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:59 pm wrote:If everyone applied more than just rigorous intuition to challenging opinions, the exchanges online might involve more enjoyable social propriety, tolerance and testing before deteriorating into derogatory derision.
I have a compulsive interest in news.
stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:57 pm wrote:Sure. But am I correct in my interpretation? Are you saying yes to my request?
stillrobertpaulsen wrote: they use the word conspis to disparage people who doubt the official story of 9/11 and the death of Princess Di, which leads me to believe this is simply a derogatory word for conspiracy theorists, which RI is a safe haven for people to post about without disparagement.
dada » Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:25 pm wrote:On compulsive newsreading: I don't share this compulsion. A compulsion, to me, is something one wants to be free of, a habit one wishes to break. Certainly not something one wears proudly like a badge of honor.
So there's a wide range of outlooks represented on this board. You might think the idea is to figure out a way to maintain that diversity. I might not. In fact, I am actively looking for the straw that will break the camel's back. Please, let me close this tab in disgust, and never look back.
A wide range of outlooks, I say.
American Dream » Wed Mar 21, 2018 8:14 pm wrote:stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:57 pm wrote:Sure. But am I correct in my interpretation? Are you saying yes to my request?
I took what you said as a recommendation and not a request because that was literally what you said. It would help to be more clear on what the phrase "an article like this" does and does not mean. I hope you'll excuse my guardedness but I'm being real. I'm holding out space for good faith in all directions.
dada » Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:27 pm wrote:The camel's back is an absurd feeling of attachment or responsibility toward this board. The straw would be the invisible cue that I'm free to go.
There's always the possibility that there is no straw. But as I'm looking for one, I will most likely find it. Otherwise I'll invent one, if need be.
Nothing to be concerned about. I'm not concerned. I'm harboring no ill will. Only sharing my speedily unraveling thought processes, here. I'm searching for an entirely subjective straw. An "it's not you, it's me" kind of thing.
dada » Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:27 pm wrote:The camel's back is an absurd feeling of attachment or responsibility toward this board. The straw would be the invisible cue that I'm free to go.
norton ash wrote:Two straws, please. I'm sharing this hemlock shake with a friend.
minime wrote:when exodus turns pilgrimage...
Blue wrote:I think you bring a refreshing vibe to RI, dada. Your posts either make me laugh or think about things in a new way or push me to try and catch up or all of the above.
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