27-10-2023, 05:45 PM
Just seen Marks post after making mine above.... It was so close to what I was expecting I could almost have written it, and I don't mean that pejoratively! What would one expect a forum owner, sticking up generically for other forum owners, to say? I'd probably say the same myself if roles were reversed.
I must point out that other than a post way up thread I have been careful that my comments apply generically to forums and I was not talking about any specific forum.
They say you can't please all the people all the time.... but it seems in my case I can all too easily upset most of the people most of the time! I'm rather good at that apparently. We have one who posted earlier to strongly agree with me over forums... but know hates me because I'm a petrol head and get my kicks form high performance motorbikes, the forum owner who allows discussion of automotive matters but not if high performance vehicles is your thing, several who disagree with me over ULEZ and one who passionately agrees with me over ULEZ and has just PM'ed me to say so...
I find it all interesting in philosophical and epistemological terms. "Sheeple"ism, trends, fads, cancel culture, echo chambers... it's all this thread somewhere. My mind doesn't work like that so I always seem to be out on a limb somewhat
Trying to read between the lines a little here re the entire thread and posts it seems the message is "you're entitled to your opinions... but only if the site owner and a majority of the (pretty conservative and middle age+) members of the site agree with you" (be part of the echo chamber or shut up!) which then gets me recursively back to "the kind of issues I have generically with forums are....."
Certainly my attempts at addressing a few elephants in the room which never get discussed have been described variously as "unacceptable, "worrying", "controversial, "crazy", "deplorable" and "having issues".... "Rule one of fight club: Never talk about fight club" = "Rule one of forums: Never talk about forums". About right yeah people?
Your's, a "Guardian reading, paint throwing", far left socialist, ex "hells angel", ex "new age traveller", ex squatter, with dreadlocks down to his arse! (yes really to all that. But also an engineer and as much a geek as the rest of you) hence probably reading from so different a hymn book on many issues that we may as well be from different religions
Hope everyone can keep a sense of humour and perspective amongst all this and yes... Onwards and upwards
I must point out that other than a post way up thread I have been careful that my comments apply generically to forums and I was not talking about any specific forum.
They say you can't please all the people all the time.... but it seems in my case I can all too easily upset most of the people most of the time! I'm rather good at that apparently. We have one who posted earlier to strongly agree with me over forums... but know hates me because I'm a petrol head and get my kicks form high performance motorbikes, the forum owner who allows discussion of automotive matters but not if high performance vehicles is your thing, several who disagree with me over ULEZ and one who passionately agrees with me over ULEZ and has just PM'ed me to say so...
I find it all interesting in philosophical and epistemological terms. "Sheeple"ism, trends, fads, cancel culture, echo chambers... it's all this thread somewhere. My mind doesn't work like that so I always seem to be out on a limb somewhat
Trying to read between the lines a little here re the entire thread and posts it seems the message is "you're entitled to your opinions... but only if the site owner and a majority of the (pretty conservative and middle age+) members of the site agree with you" (be part of the echo chamber or shut up!) which then gets me recursively back to "the kind of issues I have generically with forums are....."
Certainly my attempts at addressing a few elephants in the room which never get discussed have been described variously as "unacceptable, "worrying", "controversial, "crazy", "deplorable" and "having issues".... "Rule one of fight club: Never talk about fight club" = "Rule one of forums: Never talk about forums". About right yeah people?
Your's, a "Guardian reading, paint throwing", far left socialist, ex "hells angel", ex "new age traveller", ex squatter, with dreadlocks down to his arse! (yes really to all that. But also an engineer and as much a geek as the rest of you) hence probably reading from so different a hymn book on many issues that we may as well be from different religions
Hope everyone can keep a sense of humour and perspective amongst all this and yes... Onwards and upwards
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