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| How shall we deal with religious threads in the future? |
| Ban them, too many already |
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| Give them their own space so others dont have to see them |
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| leave them where they are |
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| this poll is not H-MES compliant! (haven't seen one of those for a while) |
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cokey
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 Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject: Should we ban religious threads |
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These constant religious threads are getting boring. Everyone saying the same old things and no-one coming up with something new.
I say we should either stop the threads or have a seperate place where people can argue the same points over and over again... | Quote: | | "Religious Topics Go Here" |
People can then say how shit Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Sikhism Wikka et al is in a seperate place to their hearst content
Your views please...
Personally i dont like the idea of censorship too much here so i would go for a seperate forum place.
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Trevoke
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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I know I'm a n00b, but what's H-MES ?
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skyfolly
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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just leave it as it is. if you ban it, then people would suggest politics next, then might end up the whole OTW.
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Personally I'd like to see OTW banned. |
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RdsArts
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Ban them now, and they will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. |
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Moloch
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Give them a seperate area.
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Cintra
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In our profiles it should be possible to select forum posts we want to see when doing 'view posts since last visit' .. for me that would be bliss.
mvh
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Bob P
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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the religious and political threads are boring enough that i don't click on them. its not as if any of the posts say anything that hasn't been said before, so i just avoid them by not clicking on them. bypassing them is easy enough, so i don't see a need to isolate them from OTW.
what does bother me, though, is that some people try to inject these topics into threads that aren't about religion or politics, trolling for a sucker to help them hijack the thread. that kind of subject creep is a PITA. |
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stormcrowley
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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They're like bad car accidents - you just can't help but watch. Or participate.
The OTW forums here are very much a quantum singularity. |
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Tun
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Location: Stockport, England
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Leave them as they are, people on here will slowly have to realise there's no point in adding to them. You're not going convince a believer to become a non-believer or vice-versa.
a23whatever used to wind me up something chronic at times, redseal just makes me chuckle. |
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nighty
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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ban them and you ban redseal. i like his bablings, they enrich my vocabulary and give me a good laugh  |
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tumbak
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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leave them, I'm learning about other religions.
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Trevoke
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Religions are like Linux : its most outspoken defenders are usually dumbfucks.
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Bob P
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Trevoke wrote: | | Religions are like Linux : its most outspoken defenders are usually dumbfucks. |
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skyfolly
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Trevoke wrote: | | Religions are like Linux : its most outspoken defenders are usually dumbfucks. |
 
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tumbak
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Trevoke wrote: | | Religions are like Linux : its most outspoken defenders are usually dumbfucks. |
thats just stupid, for both parts. 
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vonhelmet
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| tumbak wrote: | | Trevoke wrote: | | Religions are like Linux : its most outspoken defenders are usually dumbfucks. |
thats just stupid, for both parts. |
Actually, it's fairly true.
It's the maniacs on street corners (religion) and the idiots on slashdot (linux) that give each a bad reputation.
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Vanquirius
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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A thread that discusses the possibility of having religious threads or not is a religious thread itself.
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Das Damen
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| All religious and non-religious threads should be banned |
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gowator
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Bob P wrote: | the religious and political threads are boring enough that i don't click on them. its not as if any of the posts say anything that hasn't been said before, so i just avoid them by not clicking on them. bypassing them is easy enough, so i don't see a need to isolate them from OTW.
what does bother me, though, is that some people try to inject these topics into threads that aren't about religion or politics, trolling for a sucker to help them hijack the thread. that kind of subject creep is a PITA. |
Thats a fair point....
In the end people will respond to what they want to repond to. Religion bores the backside off me .. but every so often I learn somnething interesting. |
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Wicked Wesley
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Yeah send them to some other forum, we don't want them here!  Ah well doesn't matter what happens, just don't ban it at all. Dump it at another forum would be great! Like a religous-polical forum! We might get some gods to sign up at the forums and let them flame each other!
Wesley
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Ari Rahikkala
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Let the forum become enlightened enough to stop caring about religion. It happens sooner or later. Politics will be discussed forever, but at some part people will simply learn to ignore both religionist and atheist trolls. I've seen it happen at http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=147 , and I expect to see it happen here... even if it might take years...
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bos_mindwarp
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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This is fucking discriminating! Religious this, religious that, what about atheist threads?  |
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skyfolly
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| bos_mindwarp wrote: | | This is fucking discriminating! Religious this, religious that, what about atheist threads? |
oh yeah, perhaps atheist is a religion itself? 
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Clete2
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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I vote for banning USA bashing (or any other country such as France, for that matter) threads. Too many, too many idiots who are biased against the USA. Keep your mouths shut.
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