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Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
(1) I have never regarded ATS as "passive" - but I have regarded certain behavior by people who decline to be courteous to other members in completing a basic search or in getting a simple grip on the discussion in a topic - as being "ovine"
(2) This is rich, coming from someone whose custom title reads " That Others May Live Go Newt Gingrich!"
I think ATS could be a better medium for 'mutual' education if the information here was always easy for any member to find. But that's a tough ask.
Originally posted by Seekerof
as psoted by soficrow
We can't hold people accountable for not having skills they never had the opportunity to learn.
And let me guess here and correct me if I am wrong: you feel that it is up to this site, ATS, to "educate" and teach people the skills for which you have indicated or are insinuating? So instead of a passive discussion forum, you want us to become teacher's and educational guru's and then test each member based on those subjective/objective teachings?
Is this the intended purpose of ATS? Is ATS to be held accountable for not only content, but now, the proper education of its members? What ever happened to self-discovery and self-determination?
Originally posted by Seekerof
Your use of "ovine" is to relay what, MaskedAvatar? That I am a sheepherder? Your monitoring of "behavior," in respect to being "courteous," is as vague as your typical encryptic writings. Care to be more descriptive?
Originally posted by Seekerof
Errm, since when does a members custom title have anything to do with discussions or the merit of what one has to provide in a discussion?
Originally posted by Seekerof
Your solution to the problem(s) is what?
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
The only way to "end the dark days" is to realize that by engaging in stereotype-laden divisive debate, you're playing their game. If we are to acknowledge that the polarization of issues has been a systematic strategy, we have to learn to stop the knee-jerk reactions to "the other side".
This is a far deeper issue than any feature or posting strategy can solve here on ATS.
Originally posted by soficrow
True. But mandating compliance hasn't worked.
Originally posted by Banshee
Right now there are only problems.
The solutions are there, people just refuse to see them.
Originally posted by JoeDoaks
I don't like this 'teach debate' one bit. 'level the playing field' ...Debates may win arguments but they have NEVER led to the truth. ...That's what debate is. It is a skill-set to manipulate others.
Hogwash I say.
Questions lead to the truth.
This is what you seem to be getting at sofi and I disagree with it.
I have read juvenile gibberish on this board that held a pearl of enlightenment. I have also read well versed rhetoric that was nothing more than propaganda.
Who wins? Truth surely doesn't under your view. Now granted i may have misread you- as I often do, but from where I'm at now on your plan.
I would rather read junk with a little meat than dine on 5 star tofu.
Re: Jo Stalin and voting
sofi says: Don't see how you draw that parallel. It's not about voting
BUT it is. Approvals are voting by another name. When we discriminate against the unlearned we have assumed not only arrogance but are dancing with the bride of ignorance. Who decides? Is there a grade level? How about non-English speakers that struggle just to post:
'das nut su- t gormnt - - -'
Who speaks up for these people? Who translates so they can 'debate' better?
Much of what goes on is not 'debate.' Much is more like mini-position statements. Lots of the time new information is shared and new thought emerges, but debates? There is a forum just for debating.
Finally- from two threads the truth emerges pregnant in its understatement:
SO says:
If we are to acknowledge that the polarization of issues has been a systematic strategy, we have to learn to stop the knee-jerk reactions to "the other side".
This is a far deeper issue than any feature or posting strategy can solve here on ATS
Talk conspiracy (and this guy doesn't believe in space aliens, hah). This is believable. I have no doubt and don't require proof. Sometimes life provide enough.
Don't forget linguistic manipulation.
Originally posted by Gazrok
I'm still finding it difficult to see how people can be so partisan when BOTH sides are so completely wrong...
Originally posted by LazarusTheLong
Cant we all just get along?
we have actually had the Doc and Sofi agreeing on something so anything can truely happen...
come on MA, come on Seekerof, everyone... Lets all have a big GROUP HUG!
ok who was pinching me?
Originally posted by JoeDoaks
sofi said:
IMO - The manipulations work because people don't recognize the tricks and don't have the skills to 'block' the blows. Which is why I recommend teaching 'intellectual self-defense.' The first part of self-defense is knowing the moves - else how can you block them?
damnit sofi
*whip me MODs*
WE can NOT be in agreement! Sigh- (sound of being had) props to you EXCEPT the titles- I don't like titles and this is NOT a teaching forum.
sign me up for ATS kung-fu-ko 102