Should Funta be Banned from TR?

Many here may not care for the way you express your ideas, and even more may agree with the id10t error.

I think you would find a suprisingly small group that would think anyone that isn't out-right abusive should be removed or banned.

We believe everyone has freedom of speech, even id10t's.

I saw you as put your foot in your mouth, and then just kept digging deeper with each post. Hey, it happens.

Welcome to the real world. Not everyone will like you. That is their freedom. But don't look for marterdom from the masses.

You can learn the politics and rules of conduct anytime you enter a new group and try to "fit in".

You can ignore the politics and rules of conduct anytime you enter a new group and say "oh well".

You can take your ball and go home.

Your choice either way. No one will "BAN" you for any of your posts you have done to this point.

No, we won't "ban" you, but you can certainly leave if you don't like it.

I gotta admit that your "Asian guru" topic was a bit off-the-wall. It's generated a lot of discussion, however, so I guess it was a "good" topic. But if you've been a victim of racism and bigotry, why in the world would you start a discussion like that??

In my opinion, the only reason anyone should get banned would be for a few obvious reasoons: collecting email addresses for spamming, inciting violence, etc. But it would be hard to keep anyone away. You could just come back using a different registration. Regardless, I don't think it would be up to TR members to have someone banned. Maybe if we paid dues and were "owners" I could see that as a possibility.

Speaking one's mind certainly is not a reason to ban anyone, though. Your opinions may conflict with this clique you speak of or with the majority or with 99.9% of TR members. Whoopee-doo. jd said "welcome to the real world". This is far from the real world. Quite often an innocen comment can be taken the wrong way. It seems people often tend to be much more prone to speaking their mind, are more judgmental and are much, much more prone jump to conclusions here than in person. People tend to be much less respectful of others here, too. In the real world, if you pi$$ someone off or if someone doesn't like you, they'll typically ignore you. Online they feel compelled to blast the hell out of you. I've been guilty of it too. If we stoped to think how we'd react in the real world, there'd be much less petty arguing going on. You'd think, because we do have time to think while we write, that the responses would be much more measured than they often are. I'm sure psychologists are busy studying this behaviorial dichotomy.

Another thing to be mindful of, people here are very competitive and frequently try to one-up each other. Write something off-hand like "I finished reading a book yesterday" and I can guarantee that you'll have a response like "I finished reading TWO books yesterday." That's actually kind of a hysterical phenomena. It's hard not to get caught up in these kinds of one-upmanship games. So be prepared to get reamed for anything you write and don't wear your heart on your sleeve (or whatever the saying is).

So, long story short, be very, very careful how you word anything you write. I have yet to figure out if it's best to be general or specific in postings.

Well, that's my 2 cents.

P.S. I wonder if I will get blasted for saying it's a free world because it shows I'm insensitive to those people in oppressed countries? ;)

will go out of their way to find something they can argue could be the least bit offensive. Then they amplify it by deliberately bringing it to the attention of someone they know will be offended by it. (I wonder "Who is the real offender here"?)

The result is a kind of self-imposed victimhood that some people apparently see as advantageous in their social circles.

Little do they realize that all they are accomplishing is the creation of a desensitization to the real and serious instances of bigotry and discrimination (the "Little Boy who Cried 'Wolf'" syndrome), thereby prolonging the sufferring of the very group they are claiming to represent.

Personally, I wouldn't dignify the ravings of such people with an acknowledgement, let alone a response.

out for beer.

Oh, sod it! I'm going for a beer anyway.

Neil

Memo to self: Add funta to list of posters who I can't be bothered to read. Ah, He's already on it.

This world is anything but free... we live under a conspiracy prone, paranoid government that taxes the crap out of all but the elite, supports opportunists like Sharpton and Jackson, squanders the natural resources for the benefit of large corpoarate profits, and, and... what was your point again? :^O

that last post of mine was supposed to go as a reply to yours

Am I the only one who's titles are disappearing, and all my replys go to the root of the thread instead of the level where I put them?

:D

where did it go

I put the title as "This is a reply to niel's "yes""

WTF? :^O

Bouced windoze... maybe that will fix it

????

nope #@*@&#(*&$

no time soon! B-)

though she's beginning to wonder...

:D

of course she is going to lie to you!

maybe funta sabotaged me for flaming him :^O

ban him...and ban me too.

It'd make me more productive.

My boss will love you all for it, even though I'm ahead of schedule on everything.

It'd mean I'd sit around more! woo....hoo....

Wild

this is the only thread I'm having this problem with... :^O

Opera

but the problem is ONLY with this discussion !!!

Using AOL is as bad as being 39 yrs old and moving in with your mom! ;) haha

AOL?

If it takes the rest of my life (or the rest of yours as its's likely to be shorter).

If you get anything in the post that looks like a chocolate-covered handgrenade, it's for [b]you[/b] and not the twins. Let them watch from a safe distance and they can have the chocolate afterwards.

I think TR changed something

any posts that are new, I'm having this problem with, the ones older than today, work fine

Actually JD

I'm glad you found some humor in it... laughter is the best medicine for someone who isn't getting ANY !!!!!

BWAAAAHHH (sorry, that was low) :^O

I don't mind being laughed at...

I've found that IE works OK, so TR must have made an "improvement" that used one of the Micro$oft proprietary extensions that firefox and Opera can't deal with (I try to stay away from IE because of it's frequent security compromises)...

FYI: both Opera and Firefox have the problem, but not IE

Well, I was....

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Since what you have written is neither obscene, nor vicios, nor dangerous you should be welcome to continue to participate in this forum of free speech. Just realize that all of us who post to this forum have every right to do the same. Healthy disagreement is important to growth. If I don't want to communicate with you, I'll stop responding! Heck, sometimes it's funta razz someone with whom I disagree. On the other hand, the fact that I continue to read your posts indicates that I am interested in what you have to say, and in what other TR members have to say in response. Please continue to exercise the First Amendment Rights that are extended to all TR members, regardless of what country they are posting from.

For being terminally immature.

You're just wasting everyone's time with puerile, self-serving drivel. I don't know if you're actually a racist or an idiot, but I do know you're an instigator. You make provocative comments designed not to stimulate intelligent discussion but merely to generate a response, any kind of response. It's the same thought process as children who hack into large corporate systems simply to see how many different components of the news media will report on their exploits.

Has anyone else noticed that this person started a thread about himself and then has stepped completely away from it? What does that tell everyone?

Boys will be boys, I guess.

Stick around and piss them off...it's more fun!

Why do u think so?
just ignore people who discriminated you sometime they don't even better than you, keep contribute here. Btw are u come from asia? where exactly is your location?

It works :^O

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

No, I should learn to ignore all postings in the Miscellaneous topic.
This is a public forum, and we all know about opinions. You have as much right to be here as anyone, but you should expect to continue to catch hell for the way you've chosen to exercise that right.

I wonder why you chose to join this particular site when you never seem to participate in any technical topic. You seem to be here just to start arguments on non-technical subjects. I'm sure there are sites better suited to the topics you want to discuss. I'm not suggesting you leave, just that there are places on the web where you may be more welcome.

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Stick around a while. I've been called all those and more!

I really was trying to be polite. I honestly want to know what motivates the guy. Written communication doesn't convey voice tone at all.

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just the last few times (yours from the other day, and this one) were way beyond the boundries I normally wallow in....

Showing some restraint. Not sure just why the posts have been going off wilder than usual. But the would not fly, on this board in or a corporate e-mail account.... ]:)

take my pony out for drinks before taking it for a ride! hee hee.

What I MEANT, is the poster was hoping on the wrong train without looking where it was going or where it had been?

"is that alright"? ;\

"Just a little bit longer" :-)

(one for the Earwig discussion)

Yes, Funta, please stay. TR would be boring if it was not controversial (at least in the Misc discussions). Just like Max said, he has been called the same things you have been. You don't see him and jck quitting, they just go at it even more at each other.

I try my best to keep things derailed :^O

Thanks JD...

I try to keep things derailed occasionally

:^O

There's no lifeguard on duty.

I concur! Brought me much amusement yesterday, and I still smile when I look back at it.

Others misery is always reminds me to be happy it isn't happening to me!

Not to mention Surf, EVERYONE figured it had to be you and you knew this, adding to your torment, adding to my glee! :^)

Glad your doing well, my friend.

What else are we talking about?

although as far as smacking goes, there is a difference between tough love and sadistic behavior. :)

No, I don't think you're any of those things you say you've been called, based upon my reading of your posts out of context with the entire thread.

My question is, would you say those things if the discussion had been with a group of people face to face instead of in a forum? If the answer is no, then you should never have said them in a forum either.

I think your first post (concerning women) shows a little bit of inexperience with social interaction and a little bit of insensitivity. When people react, it doesn't hurt to reflect and consider that you may have said something inapropriate, or even have been completly misunderstood. Treat such instances as a learning experience to improve social skills or communication skills.

I think your last post was interesting, though again you posted your question rather bluntly - and left it very wide open to interpretation. You wondererd why a certain phenomenon was so common in a certain location - but it came out sounding like you were pointing a finger at a certain ethnic group. It doesn't hurt to look over a post before hitting submit, or to think about what you're going to say before it crosses your lips. This is also very true in the US, where we tend to be very sensative about stepping on someone's toes, or hurting someone's feelings. In the US one must strive to be perfectly clear when they reference race, gender or religion.

George

After several posts (a dozen or so), but it only occured in threads that had been started since last Thursday...

This morning, opera worked fine until I tried to post in the "what's goin on in France", and then it started again...

Mozilla works fine though (at least up to this point) :^O

how can one afford to keep this mea culpa attitude in this field...

Not unless you are promoting violence/hatred. Personally I cannot tolerate intolerant people, but does that statement alone in fact make me intolerant? Speaking of which, not sure if the Carolina Panther organization is now considered intolerant, or perhaps sexist, for firing those two cheerleaders for what they did on their own time. That was just plain wrong, in my opinion.