:lol:

Keep up your good work. — Protagoras

Thanks. Will do.

E.g. This kind of thing belongs in kindergarten not a philosophy forum.

That's what you just did baby troll!

BTW, ever thought about changing your icon-emoji thingie!

Otherwise, stay out of this grown-up talk!!!

LOL — 3017amen

If you want to ad hom, try a simple "fuck off" and then be done with it. I can respect that at least.

Banned @3017amen for disruption, trolling, and ignoring warnings.

Already regretting my promise not to talk smack about our dear departed members.

E.g.

"In light of globalisation, race mixing between Caucasian and non-Causcasian groups is increasingly encouraged. The mixing of historically distant racial groups is considered beautiful, especially when viewed through a postmodernist lens where it is thought of as a necessary genetic ‘purification’ to rid the underclass of their genetic inadequacies inside those complex societies. But, science tells us that the offspring of this racial mixing process are likely to have different set of strengths and weaknesses relative to their native ancestors, with a high degree of creative intelligence not being one of them."

...

"Academia is an example of where such changes are occurring because it is realised that this new population will not be able to participate in it at the rate of their forefathers because they will not possess the historic level of intelligence required to 'achieve' in the historic sense."

:vomit:

The whole thing.



There was a racial element to it and not going to give oxygen to banned racists.

Banned @JohnLocke for racism, pertaining primarily to an OP he wrote on "the problem of racial mixing" in society.

Vodka, probably.

I meant by humans, bruv.

I've suggested end of July and New Year for this in the mod forum. As long as there are no objections, expect an official thread in the lounge soon.

To quote Rick Perry: Oops!. :lol:

Banned @Nelson E Garcia for PMed advertisements of his website. If anyone receives any kind of spammy PMs, always report them, please. Offenders will be instabanned.

@Todd Martin :chin:

but Baden is his manservant and will be happy to assist you with whatever you need. — Hanover

Correction. Personservant.

I'm open to other suggestions as long as they're workable. I'm conscious though that most posters probably won't want to do much more than read and choose a favorite. If we make the voting process too cumbersome, we'll get less participation.

Because it has to be anonymous. There's no point knowing who wrote what or it could turn into a popularity contest.

Just thought there might be some introductory guide-lines — Amity

Ah, ok, well there will be when the time comes.

So, we just vote on what pleases us, no other standards ?
Or is it like a questionnaire, rating 0 -10 on various aspects ?
9m — Amity

You'll just vote for your favorite. The winner is whichever one gets the most votes

There is a standard structure to short stories but this is a lounge thing and all in fun. I don't want to be too prescriptive about it. Besides, there are much better resources than me readily available on this subject.

Sounds good. I won't put an exact date on it yet. But as long as it's all good with the rest of the mod team, I'll get the ball rolling soon.

How about providing a quick and basic 'How to...' or an example, as a way to encourage those not already identified as 'good writers' ? — Amity

Write whatever comes into your head and keep changing it until it doesn't look like shit.

How many pages is a short story? I — Hanover

In your case, let's make it zero.

:up: Try not to give anything away though. The entries really have to be untraceable to other posters for the voting to work fairly. Hence, I censored your post, Tim. If anyone's not sure if their idea is acceptable, PM me.

Twice a year is cool by me. Don't see why the winner can't be allowed win again too. I mean, I'm ready to kick your ass this time bro'. Don't be afraid you going to be dominating this shit. :naughty:

I shan't participate and accordingly abstain from voting. — tim wood

Funny, I put the "what" there for people who really don't give a shit but who can't abstain from anything, especially a clicky poll button. You passed the test. :100:

But the truth is that I was so charmed by Baden's "if we all agree" that I felt an irresistible impulse to reply. — tim wood

Why thank you kind, sir. I meant collective rather than unanimous agreement though.

Didn't have time to say much more about this yesterday, but we had this on the old PF annually around Christmas and it was good fun. Anyone could enter, entries were anonymous, and anyone could vote on winners or comment on stories. If we all agree on going ahead, I'd probably set it up similarly to that. Anyhow, my vote is a yes.

I either do things in 2 hours or 2 years. Just that kinda guy. :wink:

One fine day I'll get you to swap identifies with me and you can have the pleasure of being the woke stalinist anti-feminist monster that cleans the dunnies round here.



We should. Maybe I'll do a poll on the idea. Cheers for the reminder anyhow. :up:

Even better. :party:

Ooh, insta consensus. I like it.

No.

The quote is a good example of her low quality content too. She was simply asked to entertain a philosophical thought experiment and acted as if the whole idea was outrageous. Not the type of thing you want on a philosophy forum.

That is ridicules and very highly offensive to me.
So now I have - as you show no respect towards me being the women I am - reached the point when I have had enough of this sort of offense. — Iris0

Definitely did, but I thought maybe you knew something I didn't.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Tiff. Do feel free to smack us into line though as you see fit.



Fair enough. I thought she (?) indicated she was. Any reason for your opinion on this?

In case anyone is still wondering, transphobia wasn't a consideration at all here, nor was it raised in the mod forum re Iris. I don't have any particular position on her positions. I don't even know what they are really behind the bluster, which is partially illustrative of why she was banned.

The bad grammar didn't help but the deciding factor was low quality lazy posts with little or no attempt to address arguments put to her and some bizarre efforts at taking offence. I'm not going to pretend we can achieve absolute consistency here, so you might be right that posters who use better grammar and punctuation or post less frequently, but equally lack substance, more easily fly under the radar.

He's just trying to provoke a response. The idea that Iris was banned because she's a feminist is one of the stupidest things I've heard claimed on this thread.

Sure, he wasn't banned for low quality.

Christ, let's not have a witch hunt over it. I, for one, am sorry I said anything. There is a fair point in there actually.

Just for clarification, before PMs, I had spent a significant amount of time trying to convince @Foghorn in-thread to stay on topic and had to delete a bunch of his posts.