Friday Thought - The Other Side of "This Forum is a..." (1 Viewer)

[KarmaPolice]

For sure @KarmaPolice   I was thinking about the other day with @Dentist way over the line post that GM called him on.  There's no way in the world he'd remotely have posted something like that on a public forum with his real name. But he thought it was ok here. And even chided GM saying the FFA had passed him by. 

So you're right, people say things here with a screen name they'd never say in real life. And that can be a negative. There's also of course some positives with screen names as people can be more honest with personal stuff. So it's a balance. 

But to your point, I agree fully. This medium is pretty terrible for understanding nuance and giving people the benefit of the doubt. Not sure we can do anything about it but try our best. 

All this, but the PF is also a different beast than the FFA too.  I am reminded of the good people we have in this community almost daily over there as we deal with real life issues and people offering help, phone numbers, etc.  

 

[jon_mx]

Friday thought. And naive but I'll try anyway:

Let's try to post more well reasoned opinions backed up with why we think what we think and less complaining about platform used to discuss the opinions.

We get it. Some people don't like the forum / moderation / available emojis and more. Those are pretty much what they are.

What we can affect is the quality of discussion going forward. Can we try that? 

The #1 issue is most comments are directed at the person instead of the point they are making.  That is the root cause of 90 percent of the downhill discussions on this forum, but of course it is 'complaining' to point that out. 

 

[Joe Bryant]

The #1 issue is most comments are directed at the person instead of the point they are making.  




 

Absolutely. 

Things will be way better if the talk is way more on the issues and way less on taking jabs at the other people. 

 

[lazyike]

I'm going to go ahead and say this isn't really true.

The division is between people who want accountability, integrity, and decency from their elected leaders (or at least honest  honest attempts at those things) and people that don't care as long as "their guy" won and the other side "lost".

Look around here.  There are plenty of people that 4 or 5 years ago were solid GOP/conservatives that are now very anti-Trump.  

This...and when pressed on 60 minutes on how Trump mocked Ford his answer was "it doesn't matter, we won"