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Patrick says

I think this would contribute to the problem that kills forums: personal

How so?

There would be the temptation to personally insult the person ignoring you.

Patrick says

There would be the temptation to personally insult the person ignoring you.

What's the difference between insulting someone who is ignoring you vs not?

Both are not allowed anyway.

Question: If you started a thread, is it possible for you to go back and edit the title?

Thanks.

@The_Deplorable

Sure, just click "edit" under the title. There should be an edit link for you for any threat you start.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Patrick says

There would be the temptation to personally insult the person ignoring you.

What's the difference between insulting someone who is ignoring you vs not?

Both are not allowed anyway.

My bigger question is what 10 people did I personally insult to warrant an ignore? I can tell you they just log back on under a burner or at least look at what you're posting. I know we have some religious people here and I swear a lot. I frankly don't understand how that is so offensive.

There's no way I've personally attacked 10 people on this site. Maybe 2-3 in a fit of anger. You can't change for the better if you just put blinders on and say it's my way or the highway. DOGE has pissed me off a ton. He also has good takes that I wouldn't have heard if I ignored him. Disagreement is good. There's an entire profession for it that pays well... lawyers.

There are plenty of people in the world I don't want to hear from, but even if they're right 2% of the time I want to hear it. Ignore is like TDS on steroids regardless of the topic.

"Question: If you started a thread, is it possible for you to go back and edit the title?"

Patrick says

"Sure, just click "edit" under the title. There should be an edit link for you for
any threat you start."

@Patrick: I don't see an edit under the title. What am I missing?

WookieMan says

My bigger question is what 10 people did I personally insult to warrant an ignore

No insults. They just don't want to hear your point of view.

True, that happens.

Happens to me with my own relatives sometimes.

The_Deplorable says

"Question: If you started a thread, is it possible for you to go back and edit the title?"

Patrick says

"Sure, just click "edit" under the title. There should be an edit link for you for
any threat you start."

Patrick: I don't see an edit under the title. What am I missing?

@The_Deplorable Is the post more than a week old? I have a rule in the code that a thread more than a week old cannot be edited or deleted.

Maybe I should change that.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Patrick says

There would be the temptation to personally insult the person ignoring you.

What's the difference between insulting someone who is ignoring you vs not?

Both are not allowed anyway.

I'm just saying that supplying a list of "enemies" would not be conducive to discussing points instead of insulting people.

The goal is to argue about issues we might be able to influence instead of attacking each other personally. From 20 some years of doing this, I know that personal insults are instant death for productive debate.

Patrick says

"The_Deplorable Is the post more than a week old? I have a rule in
the code that a thread more than a week old cannot be edited or deleted. Maybe I
should change that."

@Patrick: If it can be done easily then please do. This, in my thinking, could prove to
be an advantage for Patrick.net because as time goes on, topics grow and we can
make the topic of a thread more inclusive by editing the title of the thread. In other
words there is no need to start another thread with a similar topic.

Patrick says

The goal is to argue about issues we might be able to influence instead of attacking each other personally. From 20 some years of doing this, I know that personal insults are instant death for productive debate.

Yeah but they still can do a burner account and take a shit on your thread or comment under a different username. Users for sure have done that. They get to run and hide and then throw shit at us? Just talk shit to me. Why I don't like the name change thing either I've bitched about.

Not bitching at DOGE, just making an example. We've not seen eye to eye on everything. Whatever. But we're in agreement on things. That wouldn't happen if him or I just ignored each other. So NO conversation happens.

Outside of booting bots, I'm not a fan of the ignore feature. Your site, just input. I'm okay not seeing who ignored me, but maybe remove the feature though. Self ignore. I manually ignore a lot of users here. It's called being an adult and moving on from a bad take.

Patrick says

The goal is to argue about issues we might be able to influence instead of attacking each other personally. From 20 some years of doing this, I know that personal insults are instant death for productive debate.

I go after @socal2 even though I figured out he has me on ignore. I attack his bullshit, not him tho.

The_Deplorable says

Patrick says

"The_Deplorable Is the post more than a week old? I have a rule in
the code that a thread more than a week old cannot be edited or deleted. Maybe I
should change that."

Patrick: If it can be done easily then please do. This, in my thinking, could prove to
be an advantage for Patrick.net because as time goes on, topics grow and we can
make the topic of a thread more inclusive by editing the title of the thread. In other
words there is no need to start another thread with a similar topic.

@The_Deplorable OK, done.

Any thread author should now be able to edit the text of the original post at any time.

Let me know if you have any trouble editing a thread you created.

But it's still not allowed to delete a thread that is more than a week old, because people make a lot of comments, and then those comments would become very hard to find if the original thread got deleted. You'd have to look in a specific user's comments to find one from a deleted thread.

Patrick says

"Let me know if you have any trouble editing a thread you created."

Pat, It works! Thank you.

Woot! Never sure if I dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's until people start using something.

If posting this:



...somehow drives new users away. Then what the hell will pretty much everything else posted here will do?

It's fantasy delusion to think that meme will drive ppl away. Or rather, if it does, then all the rest will too. So what? Welcome to PatNet! Or any other site for that matter?

Telling new users that we will all "laugh at you" is just about the worst possible welcome imaginable.

Patrick says

Telling new users that we will all "laugh at you" is just about the worst possible welcome imaginable.

Apparently, what I see on this site is not the same as what you do.

Put yourself in the place of a new user.

Would anyone want to post anywhere he has been told he will be instantly laughed at?

Patrick says

Put yourself in the place of a new user.

Would anyone want to post anywhere he has been told he will be instantly laughed at?

I am putting myself in the place of someone who is very aware of what new users are going to see on this site sooner or later.

I am shocked that you don't.

And if they are such a snowflake where something like that will drive them away in that thread, they will be dropping off anyway.

Want me to go and cherry pick something from the Latest Images thread to make my point? I mean, c'mon. This is common sense, Patrick.

I disagree.

Being told you will be mocked is the worst possible introduction to the site.

To greet new users with insults is nothing other than actively trying to kill this site.

Don't do that. Be welcoming to the person. Then attack points, never people.

Patrick says

Being told you will be mocked is the worst possible introduction to the site.

To greet new users with insults is nothing other than actively trying to kill this site.

1) The meme is a joke.
2) This is exactly how Leftists react to memes.
3) If they can't see (1) and react to it as (2), they won't be long for this site anyway.
4) 1, 2, & 3 are just common sense derived from knowing what is on this site and what people described in 2 will react thereby.

But you're the boss, Patrick.

So, I'll skip the New Users thread from here on out. I can't guarantee how they react to what else I post. Or what Booger or Ceffer or Wookieman posts. Snowflakes are gonna flake, after all.

BlueSky comes to PatNet! But Booger said it best:

Booger says

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Or what Booger or Ceffer or Wookieman posts. Snowflakes are gonna flake, after all.

What's with me? Too much swearing or bad takes? I have no issue with feedback. I will hit submit and then I move on about my day and don't think of Patnet at all. Have to have thick skin on internet forums of any kind. I just spew a 50/50 vomit of truth and unacknowledged bull shit that I think is true.