Originally posted by SantaClaus
Example... Some old guy is walking around town telling people that trees are the overseers of humanity...(snip)..this is the guy who think trees are
watching me eat my snickers with envy.
I just think random words are nothing more than graffiti.. They might say something important, but without the owner being around, I can't question
the motive....
Get my drift?
I see we have different views on Graffiti too but hey...maybe you wanna track the artist down and grill them on specifics but to me that isn't
necessary. Most of it is pretty obvious in its meaning if you've been around (from juvenile ego trips, to political statements) but hey I live in
the city and see it all the time.
I get your point, however you are leaving out the part where the comment about "Tree overlords" is scrutinized and approved or rejected before
mentioned from the lips of the old man by a group of professionals that have so far shown nothing but a practical common sense approach to almost
every topic I've seen so far. Meaning something nonsensical such as that would not be given a soapbox unless that person DID take ownership.
Who are you to declare what are random words anyway?
I've come across various Anon posts and none so far have been absurd or even incomprehensible. It is just a person expressing an opinion to a topic.
Not unlike what you and I have done here. It doesn't matter to me whether you are a member or not and for an Anon, those words are reviewed and
deemed contributory BEFORE being posted. You have less freedoms to reply in the same way you did to my post.
I believe you could just address the point in the thread to the members participating and not just focus solely on the poster of the point. We should
be doing this to some degree anyway and not looking for a specific back-and-forth. It is easy to do this. In fact if anything it is too easy as there
is little chance for rebuttal from an Anon in a specific way since they aren't members. All the more reason why they probably would want to join.
An Anon is in ownership of their words. I look at each Anon post as a new Anon post.
Are you worried about being made a fool of by anonymous posters in some way you won't recognize? Can you show me an example of an Anon posted an
"outrageous" statement as compared to the example you made?
Can Anon's start threads?
If so...then yeah I think THAT would be too far.
The length of my membership has nothing to do with anything. I'm a member just like you. There is no such thing as seniority here unless
you're an amigo, mod, or maybe an expert.
I hear you. I believe that most Mods were members that have been here for some length of time though but in any case it just would seem odd if someone
signed up for one week and started complaining about changes to the site without much of a lengthy point of reference.
That's just me I suppose.
- Lee
