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MAGA
2017 Feb 16, 7:41pm
You could probably have made more money and been safer in a private job for those years
You are probably right.
Y
2017 Feb 16, 7:51pm
You are one of the most reasonable posters here. And no this is not a self serving post.
jvolstad says
Wait I went up a point. I gotta post more.
I served in the military for 26 years. Say something good about me. That will boost your score.
FNWGMOBDVZXDNW
2017 Feb 16, 8:18pm
Maybe you should be careful what you wish for.
I don't think I expressed much of an opinion on the moderation topic. It will probably improve the site, so I do think it's a good idea. Getting a comment deleted doesn't change my opinion on the topic, although it was annoying to have a rather long post deleted.
I suspect that I know who will have to change their behavior the most. Unfortunately, I probably cannot say who that is anymore.
I served in the military for 26 years. Say something good about me. That will boost your score.
Thank you for your service!
Tenpoundbass
2017 Feb 17, 7:52am
So the Ad Hominem button is a virtue signal?
Would it be fair to say anyone that uses it, is virtue signalling again?
Patrick
2017 Feb 17, 7:55am
So the Ad Hominem button is a virtue signal?
Would it be fair to say anyone that uses it, is virtue signalling again?
The only virtue it signals is the ability to attack the point and not the person.
But you can say the most ridiculous politically incorrect things and they will not be classified as Ad Hominem. Try it!
Tenpoundbass
2017 Feb 17, 11:34am
Can I still rant about the shitbirds, without singling a single asshole out?
Patrick
2017 Feb 17, 6:17pm
Remember -- any point that a user makes is fair game.
Their personal qualities are not fair game, because they are irrelevant to the point being made.
Patrick
2017 Apr 3, 10:40pm
The Red Pill on Reddit has a good rule: Do not insult or harass members
That's pretty much what I mean by ad hominem.
komputodo
2017 Apr 3, 11:20pm
What if JaNE is arguing that she is more of an ignorant slut then she is being credited for?
So "Jane, you ignorant slut." is out of bounds.
But whatever point Jane is making is fair game for attack.
Well played.
Patrick
2017 Apr 3, 11:25pm
APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
Of course, mine is one of the very few 100% civility scores!
Amazing but true!
DOGEWontAmountToShit
2023 Dec 13, 11:48pm
What became of this, btw?
fdhfoiehfeoi
2023 Dec 14, 10:56am
Stuff would get really quite until people started caring enough to put some effort into their comments, but what would remain would actually be worth reading.
Ceffer
2023 Dec 14, 11:09am
Patrick
2023 Dec 14, 11:22am
What became of this, btw?
It became the ability to flag comments as personal.
That seems to be sufficient, since the ultimate problem is personal attacks instead of attacks on the point being made.
Patrick
2023 Dec 14, 12:33pm
WookieMan
2023 Dec 14, 12:41pm
I'd say at this point what patnet needs more is a did some research first score. People who don't maintain a minimum threshold by providing citations, or demonstrating strong reasoning skills, and instead spend all their time spouting opinion have their comments hidden or de-ranked, requiring users to perform an additional interaction to show their noise(clicking a show opinions button).
Research? Citations? If I personally witness something I'll make a comment. It's not opinion, it's what I physically saw.
Example. People claimed you couldn't travel during covid. Bull shit. Jamaica, Mexico, Dominican, PR and USVI. I did that. People, media, government lied to you for 2+ years. I didn't.
There are Pat net bull shitters for sure. If you know they're wrong that's your job to prove it and with evidence. It should be easy enough if you know you're right... right?
Ceffer
2023 Dec 14, 4:41pm
Even Patrick has 3 ignores, which cracks me up. I think some of that is 'Covid exhaustion', but I think hammering the Covid Terror relentlessly is very important to keep it from fading into the memory hole as usual usual.
Patrick
2023 Dec 14, 4:43pm
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Civil comments are simply those that are reasonably polite.
If a comment does attack another user's character, personality, or other attribute of the user making an argument, use the "uncivil" link to flag it. It will go into comment jail. Anyone can view comment jail.
The user can edit the jailed comment, and Patrick will get notified of the edit, and then perhaps liberate it back to the thread it came from, also restoring the user's lost civility point automatically.
Eventually I'm going to let the most civil users liberate comments from jail so I don't have to be the judge.
#civility #patnet