freebfrost said:
I prefer to have relevant and mature discussions about gaming here, TB. This is not something political, religious, or raunchy - so why do we need to take it there?
Because it's not a "civil" discussion. EN World's FAQ has, as rule #1 "keep it civil" and the original poster engaged in blanket generalizations about groups and, indeed individuals on the board.
Members of those groups (and individuals) took exception an it got their blood up...which is to say they wanted to respond
in kind. If the original poster gave offense without meaning to (which I beleive is the case), well, it's not up to you and I to tell people how to take offense to comments from folks who give it.
It's also interesting to note the number of dual board posters who continuously offer to take the discussion there, but I've yet to see one take it from CM to here...
I'll just say right off, I think you are trying too hard to be clever.
Here is why no one offers to take discussions from CM to EN world:
there is no topic of discussion that you can have at EN World that you can't have at CM...and at CM you don't need to constatnly self-censor.
The same is not true here. There are
myriad topics that are verboten, and you do need to be fairly careful about how your message is delivered.
The only reason I could think that someone would want to bring a topic to EN World
from CM was if they wanted the people they were discussing things with to not have the ability to call them out on the cheap ploys that are part-and-parcel of getting around the rules at EN World (Passive-Aggressiveness being only the most complained about)
The other has no value in this discussion.
Well, it clearly does to those who are actually
having the discussion.
No value to you? That I can accept.
This is a new ENWorld poster talking about her perceptions of gaming and how to make it a better place- not to get beat down by the CM "rules of order" crew.
Really? Because from where I sit this is a poster obliquely claiming that one segment of the gaming community is inherently better, unfairly overlooked, and deserves more recognition that the masses.
And as for a "CM Rules of Order" crew, that's just an offensive shot.
No one was getting a "beat down", they were being taken to task for their offensive comments.
And I thought that politeness and non-offensiveneness were what you valued here...why lower yourself?
Each system has its own merits, but don't go pretending CM is needed to help the OP find her place on ENWorld.
I said nothing or the sort, pretending or otherwise.
I said that the value lay in--with a Mod telling everyone to dial it down (Rel, back in post #119)--that there was somewhere where the discussion could continue unabated.
(Honest Question) You
do know that CM is a n EN World entity right?
Both are owned by Morrus, both are hosted on Morrus' server and that CM is the EN World pressure valve
by design don't you?
I really don't have any concern one way or the other whether a New Poster Finds Her Place at EN World.
Really, none.
She either will or won't based on stuff far beyond my ability to control.
What
does[ concern me is that the original poster decided that her inaugural thread to "Find Her place" by...
- Ridiculing members of the board over their shirt choices
- Take offense for an entire gender over issues not common to the entire gender
- Lecture
But I think you might've missed the point entirely.
No one asked the original poster to take the discussion to CM
They asked
you.
And here you sit, passive aggressively taking shots, and claiming that you are above it all.
Enjoy EN World man.
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