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Indiginous said
Untested ideas are blather. You mutts should be thanking me and occasionally might even experience momentary sentientence.
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What is sentientence?
Is that some sort of spanglish slang, referring to syntax sentience?
Patrick said
how to deal with that without censoring anyone?
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Prohibiting people from yelling fire in a crowded movie theater, is not censorship
Prohibiting trolls from shitting up the forum is not censorship either
Dan8267
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2015 May 18, 9:59am
Prohibiting people from yelling fire in a crowded movie theater, is not censorship
It is, but it is a justified form of censorship (assuming there is no fire). Essentially it's prohibiting falsely reporting emergencies. Justifiable forms of censorship include, and probably are limited to,
1. Threats of violence.
2. Threats of extortion.
3. Falsely reporting emergencies.
4. False testimony in law.
5. False disparaging statements of fact (libel and slander).
The First Amendment should be rewritten to include an explicit list of exceptions, and anything not on that list is protected speech. The problem with the First Amendment now is that since an explicit exception list is not given, the state includes things as not protected that should be. Better to say "all speech except for the following is protected" rather than "most speech is protected, but the state can decide what is as it sees fit".
I doubt it would devolve to just conservatives voting against liberals
Conservatives?
Liberals?
Where are these Bigfoot?
Can you define what makes a liberal a liberal, and a conservative, a conservative, and then maybe list some posters that fall into these camps?
Tenpoundbass
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2015 May 18, 8:25pm
A good foundation and solid prep work up front, the rest of the bullshit practically shits its self.
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So since the whole deletion of the real estate forum my number of posts has lessened from hundreds of posts a year to about 10 per 365 days. I can only guess that the deletion happened because the bubble popped and the recovery happened, and Patrick sees the whole situation as resolved and not relevant anymore but i digress. Housing is like a bad soap opera in the fact that its terrible and you want it to end but it never does. I'm not sure on the actual forum number of posts, but I have noticed that misc is the new housing forum, which is a lesser space since it has to be shared with nutjob political posts and conspiracy theories. Which is quite off putting because we all registered for an account here because we all wanted to talk about housing at a certain point. I understand many have moved on from that, but it is very clear that many have not, and that it remains a big topic for this website. I would have emailed Patrick directly stating my concern , but I think that a forum topic would be better because he can realize the community behind the housing forum.
Thanks for listening to my rant on the weekend! (sorry had 4 beers today, this whole post might seem sporadic.)
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