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Old 09-14-2020, 11:45 PM   #16
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I guess I'm an ingrate cause I don't see that as being true at all. The moderators seem all too ready to intervene or remove a post for something as innocent as using the word fuck as simple expletive emphasis.
Yours and mine still exist so far. I've made the point many times that it is childish and actually prejudiced to imagine that "garbage" is somehow more offensive than gar-'bage
(soft "g") or there is any difference between "shit", "shite", "crap" and "manure". Anyone 8 years old has heard the words and knows what they mean, the same thing. By age 12 they also know the choice is one of context and emphasis. If any such words are censored afaik it is only because of some childish tattletale that never grew up or is way too concerned with pointing fingers at others than policing self... IMHO, of course

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And regulars, rather than ignore trolls, will whine to moderators to deal with them. And neither is the moderation the useful kind that usenet moderated groups had, where a person involved in the particular subject of the group fully tends the group so that most of the posts are substantive and worth reading.
On this we disagree now. I used to think trolls should be ignored but the way The Webz have evolved it seems ignoring them means that after awhile tyheirs are the only or a very large proportion of The Conversation. For a few years now I've come to think trolls must be opposed with evidence and a clear head and just not rise to the flame bait by getting triggered. In fact, I think learning to stay calm in the face of provocation is a potent effect possible by acting in this manner... actually good for humankind.

That web forums are the primary communications vehicle is one of the few turn offs for me about Slackware.

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I guess I should just shutup and stick to reading the news group. It's low traffic, but is that a bad thing?
Not that it matters much what I think, but I think you should strive to stay engaged.
 
Old 09-15-2020, 05:50 AM   #17
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The "Change in the Weather" thread was purposely placed in the Slackware forum.
Someone asked the other day if was actually a weather thread or slackware development related.
After reading this board for years, there has, in the past, on occasion, been times when the development "weather" "feels" there is about to be a change. For example, right now neither kde5, multilib or Xfce-4.14 have been updated in the last six weeks and a new LTS kernel is just a few weeks away. That use to mean something, or at least I use to think that meant something was about to happen.
Not anymore.
I've given up waiting, hoping and/or predicting a new stable release and the weather thread has become pleasant converstion thread.
Let it remain as such and it should stay in the Slackware forum.
Just shared my opinion, after reading page 2 of weather thread.
That is what I think belongs in general forum, 1st post is really just one line, not long enough to decide if the thread's offtopic or not.
It could be relevant to recent development, or it might not be, it's not very clear until you confirm or deny is it?
 
Old 09-15-2020, 01:42 PM   #18
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Hold the phone. There's a Slackware IRC? I haven't been on IRC since college. Good times.
 
Old 09-15-2020, 01:47 PM   #19
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Hold the phone. There's a Slackware IRC? I haven't been on IRC since college. Good times.
Absolutely!! We're on freenode on IRC. Look for ##slackware.
 
Old 09-15-2020, 01:53 PM   #20
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Absolutely!! We're on freenode on IRC. Look for ##slackware.
Woohoo! Found it! All I need now is some cold pizza from the night before to create the ambiance. Then again back in the day we didn't have graphical programs for irc. Nosiree. We had to walk uphill in the snow both ways, too.
 
Old 09-15-2020, 07:49 PM   #21
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Not that it matters much what I think, but I think you should strive to stay engaged.
Thanks for the encouragement, but I'm not happy with a lot of what I write on here and especially with how much time I spend here lately. I'll tune in but I'm going to try to do it more on a weekly basis instead of daily and to only post when I believe I have something uniquely useful to say, which if I'm honest with myself should be practically never.

I've been too down on the forums. There is entertaining and useful writing here, so thank you all for that.
 
Old 09-15-2020, 07:52 PM   #22
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Well I guess the good news is, we are finding where to lurk lol. :P Whether here or IRC.
 
Old 09-15-2020, 08:05 PM   #23
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Well I guess the good news is, we are finding where to lurk lol. :P Whether here or IRC.
Don't neglect the usenet group. There are still some excellent posts there from time to time. That form of media continues to have certain advantages.
 
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