Wa'happa? Political Forum?

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:59 pm

Seems to be Locked. I was reading the "Why do you Serve?" topic, waiting for all the juicy insensitivity to kick in...

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:04 pm

I think C&F could use one of those little "report post" buttons that you see on other forums. That way, a post could be dealt with faster than having to find a moderator's name and click on it and send a PM.

On one forum I belong to, right beside the "quote" and "edit" boxes is a "report this post" box and it sends a little note directly to the moderator(s) when you click it.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:04 pm

Moderator's note says it's on cool-down March 7-14.
Well-deserved, I believe.

Susan

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:06 pm

susnfx wrote:Moderator's note says it's on cool-down March 7-14.
Well-deserved, I believe.

Susan

I believe so, too.

If people would just stop attacking each other (or in this case, talking and acting as if they're going to), the whole world would be more pleasant.

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:29 pm

What we had was a failure to communicate, without acrimony. But don't ask me, I'm just a lurker, really.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:43 pm

I have to say that I found that forum to be so increasingly embarrassing that I rarely peeked in, and then with unease.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:52 pm

Funny. Shouldn't barroom brawls take place in the pub? I guess the hotbed forum is a backroom to the pub of sorts.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:58 pm

I post in there quite a bit and I enjoy it - a lot of the time. I just have big opinions though, and I don't have the energy to do the research into a lot of the issues that some of the dedicatees do, and I'm often grateful for the education that they can provide. But, like when you read newspapers, which are often owned by big business and/or are blighted by poor journalism, you have to retain a degree of scepticism about what you read in a lot of the posts, even those coming from people you imagine yourself to be on the side of. If that scepticism then spurs you on to find out more for yourself then that is a positive thing in my view. The bottom line for me though (sorry - I'm too bloody knackered tonight to bother to avoid cliches!) is that I want to think that whoever I've done battle with with I could, theoretically, meet in a pub afterwards and have a cordial pint or six with. Or even a good few slugs of vermouth!

Steve

missy · Post by **missy** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:02 pm

hey Steve - you can sing "Kumbaya" with fiddler and me!!!!

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:09 pm

missy wrote:hey Steve - you can sing "Kumbaya" with fiddler and me!!!!

Any time! Yer knows I loves yer both!

Steve

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:56 pm

I miss it already. There is a charming little thing in discourse theory called performative contradiction, which occurs when the fact of participation in discourse places the speaker into contradiction with the content of the statement he or she is making. It's hard to find clinical examples, but they abound in wonderful, copious profligacy in the political forum. Oh, blessed pleonasm.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:59 pm

Bloomfield wrote:There is a charming little thing in discourse theory called performative contradiction, which occurs when the fact of participation in discourse places the speaker into contradiction with the content of the statement he or she is making.

Yep. I've been there before.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:00 pm

Bloomfield wrote:I miss it already. There is a charming little thing in discourse theory called performative contradiction, which occurs when the fact of participation in discourse places the speaker into contradiction with the content of the statement he or she is making.

Is that the same as hypocrisy?

Susan

rh · Post by rh » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:02 pm

Bloomfield wrote:Oh, blessed pleonasm.

i had a pleonasm once, but a quick visit to the surgeon took care of it.

errr... wait... maybe that was a neoplasm....

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:14 pm

susnfx wrote:
Bloomfield wrote:I miss it already. There is a charming little thing in discourse theory called performative contradiction, which occurs when the fact of participation in discourse places the speaker into contradiction with the content of the statement he or she is making.
Is that the same as hypocrisy?

Susan

Not really.

Here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_contradiction