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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2018, 09:00:41 AM »
It is interesting to me that the place has not attracted any "typical posters" for more than a day or three.  I have seen a few drive by and make the usual comment about how slow the Big Ten is, and then they move on, usually after receiving some unexpected responses.

Folks here are pretty good at "unexpected responses", like "no beans in chili" etc.

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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2018, 10:02:03 AM »
Quote from: Drew4UTk on November 07, 2018, 08:30:14 AM
i've seen @OrangeAfroMan and @mcwterps1 venture in there and get flamed w/o mercy or regard, but it's because they're 'outsiders'.  that place is clannish. 
hah, those two get flamed here w/o mercy or regard as well
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2018, 10:05:58 AM »
I ventured over to the UNC a few years back when they were about to play UGA just to get a sense of how they were feeling about their team (optimistic, and it was a decent team).  I dipped a few toes into their politics forum and after a month or so ended up banned.  I've never been banned before.  The reason given was "for the good of the board", not that I had infracted a rule.

Fine, their choice, I didn't mind.  I mostly asked questions and that was not apparently received well.  I got called all kinds of names, which were infractions, and I was banned.  
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2018, 10:10:47 AM »
clannish
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2018, 10:12:17 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 07, 2018, 10:05:58 AM
I ventured over to the UNC a few years back when they were about to play UGA just to get a sense of how they were feeling about their team (optimistic, and it was a decent team).  I dipped a few toes into their politics forum and after a month or so ended up banned.  I've never been banned before.  The reason given was "for the good of the board", not that I had infracted a rule.

Fine, their choice, I didn't mind.  I mostly asked questions and that was not apparently received well.  I got called all kinds of names, which were infractions, and I was banned.  
i've held my nose and stepped away many times in the A51 board both here and when it lived on scout.  i've come really close to lighting some people up, and i've come mighty close to issuing bans, if only temporary.  but.... i won't.  i dive into the conversations too, which renders any punitive action on my part biased beyond any defense.  so..... i just leave it alone.   
one of the most intriguing and profound realizations i've ever encountered derived from a quote.  "Give a man a mask and see his true face".   
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2018, 11:18:23 AM »
I only now realized that the A51 place exists.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2018, 11:26:20 AM »
I don't need the aggravation
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2018, 11:30:39 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 07, 2018, 11:18:23 AM
I only now realized that the A51 place exists.
it accounts for a fluctuating 57~61% of the sites traffic. 
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2018, 12:20:28 PM »
Who has time for that?
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2018, 12:59:16 PM »
I have time for about anything.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #24 on: November 07, 2018, 01:01:54 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on November 07, 2018, 08:16:47 AM
And what tongue was that Polynesian?Northern Cheyenne?
Plain ol' Spanish. The wife is a professor of hispanic linguistics**, so I picked up a couple things. I used to say "Palabra a tu madre," but apparently "tu madre" is kind of an "[expletive] your mother" way to curse, so I switched it to be friendly, which is the point.
**(a scientist studying how words are used, how that changes over time, or when different languages meet, and what that says of the brain)
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2018, 01:51:28 PM »
I've heard languages, on average, change 19% per 1,000 years.  Sticklers to language are silly, because they're fluid.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2018, 01:58:50 PM »
I suspect they change faster than that.  None of us could understand Olde English.

I have "heard" that the British spoke with an "American accent" in 1800, it was they who changed more than we, and that Quebequois is more similar to 1800s French than Parisian French.

German of course has changed massively since 1870.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2018, 02:03:11 PM »
Quote from: Anonymous Coward on November 07, 2018, 01:01:54 PM
Plain ol' Spanish. The wife is a professor of hispanic linguistics**, so I picked up a couple things. I used to say "Palabra a tu madre," but apparently "tu madre" is kind of an "[expletive] your mother" way to curse, so I switched it to be friendly, which is the point.
**(a scientist studying how words are used, how that changes over time, or when different languages meet, and what that says of the brain)
"Tu madre" is a slang shortened version of "chinga tu madre" which translates directly to "f*ck your mother."  
Definitely don't go around saying "tu madre" to native Spanish speakers, at least not Mexican ones.  Not sure if that slang carries over to other Latin American cultures or not.
And "palabra a tu madre" is a literal translation, which might or might not have a contextual translation in Spanish.  I'd have to consult some of my Mexican-American friends and lean on their memories of late 80s/early 90s hip hop slang, juxtaposed with the Spanish language, to know for sure. :)
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