Forum Etiquette
Topic started by critic (@ ss04.ny.us.ibm.com) on Thu Jul 13 12:07:35 .
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Most of the threads in this forum end in either personal abuse or sarcastic remarks.. Its well known that most arguments are inconclusive but still during the process we have a lot to learn.. It is that knowledge we acquire is what we need most and not whether the other person has accepted our version of the argument..
Why are we spending this much of time in this forum? What is the motivation that lies behind? Is the time we spend here is well-utilised? or do we come here just to pass our time?
Please post your thoughts about the purpose of our contributions to this forum.. think it will make a big difference when everybody knows what others expect/get from this forum..
Responses:
- From: Ramji (@ 205.177.170.131)
on: Thu Jul 13 13:21:01 EDT 2000
I have personally benefitted from various threads here and am wiser to the extent of the exposure to divergent views, ideas, perceptions and perspectives. The secret is to ignore or grin and bear the verbal abuses and hatred generated. It saddens me to see that there is so much of anger at the root of this. Some times, the anger reflects nothing but a personal prejudice. At other times, it seems to be rooted in present or past injustice. I try to ignore the former and empathize with the latter.
- From: gd (@ mail.smart20.com)
on: Thu Jul 13 16:28:05 EDT 2000
As one of the user of sarcasm, I feel obligated to Critics request. Here in these discussions , I dont quite often get angry except when I face arrogance. Arrogance breeds every negative aspects of the human beings and all the injustices happening now and then are/were based on one or other forms of arrogance. In my opinion even the very high virtue human beings can have arrogance and mostly that arrogance is more harmful and irreversible than from lesser mortals. And I do agree mostly, I encounter arrogance with arrogance only. But never initiated any discussions/fights with arrogance and I am pretty confident of that. Enough for the self explanation. I hope critic and others can understand my explanation
Also I am not treating the forum kind of meeting places as a source for my knowledge thirst alone but a window to get back to my school/college years atmosphere (except the class rooms :-) ) , which I yearn for every now then. We had these kind of discussions quite often of cource with lot of sarcasm and anger exhibited then and there. It was not at all a big deal, since we used to forget those nasty fights within a couple of days and start over from where we left off. I am sure if I am staying in India and with the same group of friends I had there earlier, now also, I wouldnt visit these "net" places.
And my sincere request is let us not try to make these meeting places too formal with lot etiquette, censors and moral blackmails. Let it remain as "colorful" as possible.
In Tamil now,
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Ģ ɢ š ӨȸǢ . 측 Ǣ š쨸¢, Ģ, ġ ¡. Ȣ šú ! Ŧġ ãǢ, ɢ Ӹ ƢҸǢ Ƣ ɢ ɢ¡ . ã վ â šŢĢ ܼ 측, ȡ Ҹ, , , Ģ Ţ Ģ ɢ, Ӹ ƢҸ ( sorry, I dont get the word for "formal" in tamil now) ġ θ. Ƣ ýм formal . ɢ š쨸, Ƣ š쨸 â Ţ. ( ý 츢 )
츧, Ģ ǡ. Ȣ Ȣ Ţ ̾. :-) ġŢ, ç¡ 쨸 . "Ǣ" Ģ .
- From: Babu (@ ac99b064.ipt.aol.com)
on: Thu Jul 13 18:43:17 EDT 2000
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- From: Raja (@ spider-tp071.proxy.aol.com)
on: Thu Jul 13 21:00:18 EDT 2000
I was a late comer to the forum.I feel that most of the participants are using proper gentlemanly language except in case of points relating to aryan-dravidian or tamil-sanskrit conflicts. This is very unfortunate and difficult to grin and bear it.Let us get wiser, let us know the view points of others and let us not hurt each other
- From: KK (@ 192.148.141.70)
on: Thu Jul 13 21:38:40 EDT 2000
The easy and anonymous nature of postings allow people to say what they think ..there is no need for them to worry about etiquette ... this leads to a very interesting situation of allowing people to do what ever they like in this forum .It has become more or less like a "stress ball".There is nothing wrong about it.
People are ready to ask questions not worried about answers , give answers for imaginary questions , write kavithai if fed up write stories or discuss how cute Ajit is .
The point is this is informal fun for most of the people but the there are still some people who take things too seriously with what they post and what they read their expectation on the quality of posts is high and some
reluctant to jump in for the fear of flames.. just watching .
We should encourage more interaction or participation but i dont think any sort of etiquette or moderation could improve it only individual responsibility can do it.
- From: bb (@ charger.crhc.uiuc.edu)
on: Thu Jul 13 21:39:44 EDT 2000
babu, to answer ur question, i personally know many who write in hub, and except for a few cases, the reasons for their disappearance from the hub are purely personal. please don't read too much into it. we have grown as a forum and it is only natural that there are more newcomers to the forum.
- From: bb (@ charger.crhc.uiuc.edu)
on: Thu Jul 13 21:41:18 EDT 2000
and babu, r u the one whom i think u are? if so, please get in touch with me:-)
- From: jai (@ news.ntu.edu.sg)
on: Fri Jul 14 10:24:11 EDT 2000
If Forumhub lacks in etiquette, then which forum does'nt? Out of all the (unmoderated) forums I had the chance to explore, this is the place where there is hardly any abuse. Of course there will be the odd lunatic who resorts to filth, but they are a microscopic minority. These days I hardly visit SCT where there is so much filth written (mostly) by certain Sinhalese elements. In SCI there is absolutely nothing except the slanging match between Hindutvadis and Pakistanis. The way they degrade each others religion makes it hard to believe that man has come a long way from the paleolithic age. I would say that at Forumhub we are doing a much better job.
I don't see anything wrong in the usage of a little sarcasm as long as there is no vulgarity. It happens when a discussion becomes completely polarized and a deadlock is reached when both sides know that there is no chance of making the other side to see reason. The topics which Raja mentioned are highly polarizing in nature where everbody takes sides, not by choice but because of what they are. It is inevitable that some sarcasm creeps in. If I were very sensitive about the sarcastic comments thrown at me, I would probably stay away from such bipolar discussions.
- From: Ramji (@ 205.177.170.137)
on: Fri Jul 14 21:27:55 EDT 2000
The whole charm of this free forum will be lost if we were to follow a set pattern of etiquette. Etiquette is not as important as the spirit of
" Say and let say".
- From: br (@ 134.216.26.8)
on: Tue Aug 15 18:16:20 EDT 2000
I have seen this forum for the first time today,
I felt the messages and the comments passed in this forum is much more educative, emotional, easy going than many other forums. And also, the person who introduced me to this forum made it a point that I don't need to have any restrictions while passing my comments in this forum.
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