Originally posted by vivifyI'm going to do it if there is a group joining me or not.
You know what, maybe I should just drop the theist vs. non-theist contest altogether. I thought it would be kind of a fun competition, but there's not enough people (on either side) who agreed to this.
I do think it will be harder than I first thought, but I'm going to try to watch what I say to
others and keep it clean.
Originally posted by vivifyWell then I think you'll have to give up on the whole plan as it is remarkably difficult to discern motive from posts on the internet, and even harder to discern it from the absence of posts. One of my key objections when the idea was first brought up is that rudeness isn't about how many rude words you use, but rather how and why words are used - or not used. To me, the rudest person on the forum is Grampy who as far as I recall has never used a swear word. Now I really don't know for sure whether his rudeness is deliberate or he is merely a poor communicator but he comes across as rude to me.
It's all in KellyJay's motive.
I am calling out Kelly on his practice of shunning because I find that rude too. In addition, the reason he stated for shunning me was that I apparently lied about his position. But he refused to state what I lied about or even which post was the offending post. I generally take offence at people who accuse me of lying but refuse to explain what I lied about.
In summary, you can certainly decide to try and be civil yourself, but you will be unable to judge whether anyone else is trying to be civil.
Originally posted by SuzianneAugust is not a time for wussiness.
Maybe we could all sit around in a circle holding hands and sing "Kum-bai-yah". Would that work? 🙂
There is no reason that we can't be strong with our posts and yet still respect other posters.
So who's modding this? Just vivify?
Will one person be enough to mod all the posts in a whole month?
I know I would have trouble checking all posts in a month.