What is one thing you do not like about the forums and can do without?
I have the forum filter and block certain forums. I also block specific threads from forums I can see, if they get too obnoxious, which recently have been a few.
Forums attract many kinds of people. I don't spend as much time here as before because of other priorities. The biggest thing that causes me to block a thread is arrogance, the 'know it all's. Everyone has an opinion, and however long someone has been here doesn't give them special privilege to be rude, or to expect a special voice in the forums. But I don't let it bother me, it's human nature. I just ignore it or block it or say what I want to say.
What is the one thing you do not like about the forums and can do without? People starting threads like this would be nice to see go.
It insinuates that there is something wrong with the forums, yet there isn't anything wrong with them to begin with.
Political and Religion debates and arguing has last centuries. Why? Because both are used to control the masses, while others do as they please.
Politics is hypocritical. Religion is a dictatorship under the guise of a mythical unproven god.
Both are damaging to society and the overall survival of the human species.
I don't find anything wrong with the forums as they are. You are welcome to any thread you choose to engage in. You have your right to voice your opinions about anything you like. Just like you have in this thread, to begin with. Yes, it would be nice if things didn't result in insults, but an insult itself is subjective to the individual.
Almost anyone can find and rationalize being offended, even if it was true to begin with, especially in an online forum.
The only way to find out if someone is truthful, is to engage them in conversation and remember the conversation had, so you can use their own words against them, to prove a point. In some cases, people will evaluate what happened later and actually see that they were wrong in that specific instant. It happens, I know, I've lived through it and experience others who have come back to me to apologize.
Either way, good luck with your thread.
I pretty much don't mind much of anything that goes on. Some stuff I like better than other, but I see it all as just part of the deal with forums. I could do without the unrelenting parade of new religious threads, and once in a while I get kind of irked to see yet more - but getting irked is going to happen.
In a way, I'd like to see more people have more to say (but say it in the spirit of having a conversation/discussion). It's sometimes so clear that because people have different personalities and preferences, there's a lot of misinterpreting one thing or another that goes on. You'll have one person who enjoys "healthy debate" (I'm that one), but then someone else may see debate as "arguing" or "negativity". You'll have one person who'd like to have a real conversation get going, but then someone else will think "real discussions" should be reserved for Hub-writing. It's kind of funny (but also not funny) that pretty much whoever does/says whatever is going to irk someone else. 
Julie2, I think this is a good conversation/thread to start. One thing I like about the forums is getting the chance to see how differently everyone can think about things, or approach things. I'd like to see another hundred thousand (or however many) Hubbers start participating in the forums (but only if they try not to be rude
). They'd be so much more interesting. That is the point I was trying to make Lisa. I love healthy debate as much as the next person. Its when the name calling comes into play that I think it gets out of hand. I would love for the rudeness to be brought down a few levels. Sometimes I feel like I'm in High School all over again with the things I see people write to each other.
Oh my goodness, I think I sound like a flower child!
Julie,
Hope you stick around. You are one of the few that makes the forums interesting.
- Onusonusposted 12 years ago
0Thank you!
We have had a few disagreements, and flat out don't agree on religion, but like a few others I disagree with here, you are not a bad guy either. I see through beliefs to the person behind them as you do.
I have seen your good side on many threads.
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