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pavlosh wrote:

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Dennis,

I appreciate a lot (I mean that!) your reply, but let me drill a bit deeper as you explained some while I need more. Perhaps I will became very first who will express here the "word of disagreement" going my own way to voice my opinion I mean it's not so tough to have unanimous opinion when there is only "handful of those who are posting", but sooner or later somebody come who is not agree.

I will look at the topic from different sides to get really complete understanding.

OK, the "added value" that you propose to this tribe ups, this site contributors is lack of censorship and banning, which provides one with freedom to express himself/herself. Right?
In other words you're running process of tribalization calling freedom lovers to join. And as a matter of fact it appears that no more than handful of people is really interested in such attraction.

One can easily see that your last posting on messaging board XXX is dated back June 2, 2007 while your first posting here is dated June14, 2007 so its easy to guess where you personally suffered from censorship. Do you expect other newbie to stop their participation in other forums as well (as you did)?

Sorry but you left unanswered my question, so let me reformulate it using text of your posting: if the lurker bit isn't a big deal at all why youre trying so hard to attract new people to join in- up to giveaways?

If the essence of this site members activity is to learn & use as many new pens as possible what is exactly the problem with censorship that we are talking about? Im doubt that some pen/ink brand could be forbidden to talk about or something like that. Could you please be more specific? Or you suggest that learning on this site can provide more fun than on some other? What sort of the fun youre thinking about? I hope its something more than just casualty in way of communication?

Ugh, my posting appeared to be pretty long, so I should left/pospone all other things for future. Before you ever will start to ask me about why Im interested in all that Id like to assure you that you will know that well before our discussion will come to some (whatever it will be) completion. In the meantime I will appreciate your further comments on aspects that I touched above. Apparently along further discussion I will touch some more aspects.

Sincerely (!),

Pavlo Shevelo

P.S. Im not native speaker living far from USA, so please forgive my English and please take into account 9 hours time difference between your and my location.

-- Edited by pavlosh at 20:07, 2008-09-18

 

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Yo....banning and mealy mouth is the other com..... I got my first Warrning....after I'd been here for a week or so already....

I stated a common knowledge fact, that kids of pure vegetarians are 10% dumber than regular meat eating parents.
Some old timer said, he wanted to see scientific proof.
Ie Calling me a liar.
There is a whole world of knowledge that is pre-link...and where I'm from, calling me a liar means I can call him an undereducated fool. I did it staidly....yep.
You can find it on the last page of the Vegetarian thread...before they closed it. You can tell me, if it was not a just reply or not.

I told him some thing like it he could improve his common knowledge, by reading more. And that was a personal attack....he and those mods should see what is normal on the boxing com's lounge where I normally post.

I was being nice, didn't say a word about his mother and his lack of a proven father or anything "normal".

It is a rather staid place...can't as far as I understand use the word you or yours...much less state an opinion. I'd done it really staid too....

Having had a hot word, with a couple of mods inside of 7 minutes...I'd bet I'm now banned from their chat room....it don't bother me none.

I had not seen much there that I'd not already commented on.

I had read all 27seven pages of Threads, to see what might have been interesting.
5 or 6 drew my interest...only that few.

No religion bashing...no evolution bashing...no beer ....no whiskey...and no women slandering....a bunch of Grandpa and Grandma Ozzie and Harriets....not a single Ozzie from Black Sabbath type of post in the whole bunch. (Rickey by the way was about my age way back in the BC...Before Color TV)
The modern Ozzy looks a hell lot older them me too, and me the elder.

Can we have a good discussion on religion, it's lacks, its .....hum....trying to find good things about religion....

By the way I'm a BAP....Born Again Pagan....now that would go over like a lead balloon on the staid com....I just have not decided exactly what sort of Pagan I want to be....looking for them with drunken orgies and no human sacrifice.
don't mind one with F*cking Gods and Goddesses, unfortunately beautiful Goddesses don't need glasses and a middle aged Hera don't interest me.
Discus.

 

-- Edited by Bo Bo Olson on Saturday 16th of May 2009 10:29:42 AM