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Stu Spelling Bee

Should AM enact a policy/rule against incoherent statements and questions?

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Posted - April 30, 2020
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  • 52953

      You’re trying to get me run out of town on a rail, aren’t you?  Grrrrrrrrrrr. 





      April 30, 2020 9:54 PM MDT
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  • 13260
    You weren't exactly the first person to come to my mind.
      April 30, 2020 10:16 PM MDT
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  • 52953

      Nice try. If you’re jealous of the way I throw the questions up there left and right, Pal, this isn’t going to knock me down any notches. Grrrrrr. 


      April 30, 2020 10:18 PM MDT
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  • 52953

      No, of course not. If anyone dislikes or disagrees with what you post, should the same restrictions be allowed to apply?  Just because a post is unpopular doesn’t mean it should be banned.  I post plenty of content on here that is as silly as an elementary school student’s mentality, there are people who dislike it and who object to it, and there are other people’s post to which I object. As long as neither violate the existing TOS, no harm no foul. I don’t think the TOS should be amended in the way you’ve suggested here. 
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      April 30, 2020 11:19 PM MDT
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  • 13260
    Where in the question is popularity or unpopularity mentioned? I am only asking about coherence or lack thereof, if a question or statement can be understood as meaning something as opposed to gibberish.
      May 1, 2020 4:25 AM MDT
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  • 52953

      I’m not saying you used the word popularity, I selected that word and I stand by it. The posts in question (and yes, it’s obvious to whom you are referring) don’t always meet with my approval, but then again, since when are my sandwich-related or tilde-related or womanizing-related or Vegemite-related or nipple-related or guacamole-related or mayonnaise-related posts completely coherent?  

      Stu, this is a completely open and public forum. All are welcome here, even if and even when others disagree with what’s posted. If you were to be successful in this bid today, what’s to say different criteria may be protested to tomorrow?  You’re not immune to it either, because someone could find fault with what you wrote based on his or her interpretation. Do you realize how many people have tried to get me bounced from here over my grammar-related postings? Some have left the website in frustration or anger because administration, while not specifically siding with me for what I write, defended it as free expression that falls within the stated rules.

      You’re calling for censorship, plain and simple. This isn’t the Coherency-Only Q&A website, Pal. If that’s what you seek, why not start your own separate website?

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      May 1, 2020 7:17 AM MDT
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  • What would PM do?
      April 30, 2020 11:49 PM MDT
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  • 52953
    “PM”?  Who or what is that?
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      May 1, 2020 2:16 AM MDT
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  • 5391

    Such an option would be welcome, IMO. I’m always about “raising the curve” on public discourse. 

      May 1, 2020 4:13 AM MDT
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  • 9894
    No, Stu. We'd miss you.
      May 1, 2020 5:27 AM MDT
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  • 52953

      LOL!

      ~
      May 1, 2020 6:49 AM MDT
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  • 44231
    First Amendment alert.
      May 1, 2020 8:03 AM MDT
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  • Never.  If there's not any incoherent questions/suggestions then coherent questions/suggestions would logically cease to exist. 
      May 1, 2020 8:06 AM MDT
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  • 52953

      (If there’s there are not any . . )
      May 1, 2020 8:33 AM MDT
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  • (If there’s there are not any . .  ...)
      May 1, 2020 8:36 AM MDT
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  • 44231
    Is that like saying if there is no evil, there can't be good?
      May 1, 2020 8:35 AM MDT
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  • It's what I was going for.  Which is true right?  Without two sides present I don't see how subjective opinion can even really exist. But obviously that's being a little extreme as we are talking about moderating and not erasing from existence. 
      May 1, 2020 8:38 AM MDT
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    7355
    LIKE: Stop messing with my computer!
      May 1, 2020 8:42 AM MDT
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  • 17404
    Rules:  less is more
      May 1, 2020 10:12 AM MDT
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  • 52953

      Shouldn’t that be “fewer are better”?

    :|
      May 1, 2020 11:38 AM MDT
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  • 13260
    They're both correct. Less of something can be more and fewer of some things can be better.
      May 1, 2020 11:41 AM MDT
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