Depends on night ..... Last night was cos tired .... This night cos I just got home from early dinner where waitress lit cheese on fire and yelled ... OPA! So now I'm a bit drunkish .... So I'm trying avoid do something stoopid .... So always for distraction... OPA! :)
Hi Element 99, Well I come here because I am intrigued by the democratic potential for the Internet. Humankind making connections like never before, helping each other learning acceptance/tolerance, learning from each other good reason and logic, how to think. Once I even made a list of great things I have seen happen, including that the Q/A sites can save people's lives, can help with raising/guiding adolescents, companionship for terminally ill/help with death and dying, on and on.
Also, we Internet-ers might be able to undercut the more predatory problems of government, and just get it all worked out ourselves, who knows? * * * In discussing all this with a couple aMuggers, one problem is that Internet could get controlled, shut down by the Powers That Be... Then another huge ongoing problem is trolls/flame warriors; just one or two can do huge damage to a site. I remember on Ask.com, I would get up really early when the trolls were out (moderation scanty); trolls would focus on questions like "I weigh 300 pounds and I don't want to live."
I would add my own softening answers, then send e-mails to moderation. Ask was difficult to moderate because they were a large site with a continual feed from their ASK.JEEVES search engine.... * * * Anyway, that is my dream for the Internet, and hey well maybe we on aMug here are the wonderful pioneers, here! Anyway, it is why I come plus I like the folks here and learn lots of stuff too.
It was :) kinda have to laugh at it , aye? I've never felt that much negativity spewed at me elsewhere...: feel sorry that person a bit cos was so uncalled for...and that site a ghost town from what I've heard since some of us left.... the drama :) lol ... To bad sooo sad :)
I do too, honesty. Had alots of anger over cos hurt my feelings. Someone old site has come here message me/ talked me through it. So no more hard feelings.
It's the only place Mrs Didge will allow me out to play with my friends. (If I disappear for a while you'll know that she read something I wrote about her and grounded me. )
I only came originally because I was offered free cookies to join, but then realized there were no cookies. So I'm just here because I am, and it's a better to way to unwind after 13 hour shift at work.
Harry 