rebelsoldier response to the below post: With each successive post, you demonstrate how nuts you are and how you could possibly have a compulsive neurotic complex with delusions of superiority, grandure, and mania. You're not a Star Trek geek are you? Instead of a gradation table of lesser and greater "intellects" into which certain posters will be determined to fall, why don't you design a handy color-coded chart instead, and then check yourself into a mental ward. Or are you posting from one already? That Medicaid sure gets around.
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To: rebelsoldier
Generalizations are generally valuable because they are generally true. That's why they continue to be employed by people all the time. Furthermore, there is nothing irrational about generalizing, because that implies that an argument is groundless which isn't applicable to generalizations. When you suggest that posters might better be served by stratifying their posts according to literary ability and further by a highly subjective assessment of "quality" (determined by whom?), that's disturbing and telling. There is already moderation, deletion, and prohibition of some topics, treatments, and comments. What more do you want, a meticulous, micromanaged monitoring of all opinion of just that which disagrees strongly with yours?
It seems obvious enough to me from reading several of your posts on this thread (see typical post pasted below) that your disjointed, attack style of writing would give you the privilege of posting in the elementary forum where you wouldn't be privileged to attack college level writers. Which is for those that do not attack and have developed better research and writing skills. You don't like that.
Yet you could still read all posts on all threads. By reading the higher skilled writers on the college forum you could use that to improve your own writing. Self responsibility to set and achieve goals to write at the high-school-forum level, then on to "college" forum level writing. Get it? Also, it's good that you raised your level of writing in your most recent response.
I do have ideas on how each forum could be monitored and/or self-policed. I stated that in the original post. I'm not going to bother sharing them with you as you have more than demonstrated your insincerity and need to attack.
What more do you want, a meticulous, micromanaged monitoring of all opinion of just that which disagrees strongly with yours?
I want a means to improve the quality of writing while lessening personal attacks so I put forth some ideas on how that might be achieved by structuring three forums wherein the software would facilitate and foster achieving the goals of improved writing while lessening personal attacks.
About six months ago Jim Robinson posted a thread describing new modules and forums that he wanted to implement. Some of them have been implemented and others are in beta or not yet written. He mentioned having modules wherein a Freeper can start his or her own forum where it is by invitation only or open to all.
Below is an example of an ill-conceived and un-skilled written post matching at best the earned-privilege of being posted to the elementary forum.
Sounds like you desire a website characteristic of snot-nosed, pecksniffian academic pedants using bombastic bloviating bilge, boring and barren, but supposedly "civilized"; with poster's worth ranked of course by people like yourself. Why don't you collect a list of the "undesirables" and petition Jim Robinson to personally remove them from this website? I'm hoping to be the first to be banned when the New Web Order descends upon this site and makes it a mutual admiration society for selective commentary.
439 posted on 6/7/02 3:40 AM Eastern by rebelsoldier