I never thought the WP'ers were mean, exactly, and when they were, I chalked it up to undue stress. Mostly, I just thought the threads were lame- here there's more of a chance for meaningful discussion that doesn't devolve into random gush. It IS a tad more conservative here, but that just gives a fire-breathing lefty like me more opportunity to sharpen my arguments. Bring it on!
I've never been there; have no interest, very comfy here
As much as I like AFF, I often feel like I am too stupid to contribute to some topics and I'm scared I'll embarrass myself.
Aliengirl, what would help you most here? What could any of us do here to make it easier for you - any ideas? I enjoy reading your posts and I do think you have a lot to add to things. I'm also sad that you were attacked on WP.
Aliengirl:
Don't let preconcieved notions of 'intelligence' stop you from putting in your 2 cents. Intelligent debate isn't something that is reserved only for certain individuals, or certain 'prototypes'. If you want my 2 pence re your WP post, I thought it was articulate and well reasoned: you highlighted a segment of the article that you disagreed with and explained why
you did. Not for anything else. If anything, the response you got was childish and incoherent, without actually stating why they disagreed with you. I would have given far more kudos to your comment, not the reply you got.
You find that people who resort to swearing and name-calling are the ones that have lost the argument. Its the internet equivalent of raising your shoulders to make yourself look bigger in face to face confrontation
We're SO going to start a war against WP here.
no, not advisable, but likely.
this is a thread that would get taken over to WP, and then we would become further embroiled in conflict
at least it's not I2
now that would one heck of a war
or is WP just as bad???
regardless I only go there because I have a friend and WP is the only way I can contact him.
although I did put a "I am new" thread there and the welcomes were quite friendly some of them funny but I have never found anything I wanted to post in
AFF's good enough for me!
yeah, the colour scheme was one of the things that drove me off. makes it too damn hard to read anything.
As for wrongplanet, don't take it to heart, I joined WP the other day, made a brief introductory post, under a different name (tsathoggua) in case of any partisan bullshit arising, posted one or two other posts, went out to the shop, and got promptly banned, with no explanation.
!!!!!!!!!
Thats just......Wow :O
The peeps from zOMG weren't the first to revolt from WP. I remember there was a mass revolt of long time regulars in about march 2006 (long story, lotsa mass bannings and more people got banned for talking about the bannings, blah blah). Most went to I.2 and this place: On The Spectrum, which is dead and rotting in the sun nowdays.
I would like to repeat my above statement;
Popcorn, anyone?
I would like to repeat my above statement;
Popcorn, anyone?
is it toffee?
and Lestat thats pretty much what I wanted to say to Ian
@pikajedi4: You made me laugh that picture is brilliant. I love funny pictures.
hehe.
Pictures can say a thousand words; in this case, that I was going to find this...barny...entertaining.
of course, I also use them for snark
¬_¬
NO NEED TO SHOUT!
OK! I KNOW BETTER NEXT TIME!
ALRIGHT! JUST SO YOU KNOW!
Being new here and having no mental space to seek out more than one aspie site, I have no idea what the hell you all are yammering on about, but it's hysterical. After days on some moribund thread with the word "abuse" all over it, this was great fun. You Brits cuss way better than us Yanks or Americans or whatever you call us.
*bows*
why, thank you
when I'm being rude, I try to be amusing, or, in this case, just plain amusing
also, we have more to swear about; the weather, the gov'ment, the people, the weather, the TV, the...need I go on?
