BigBill
Master Don Juan
I see a lot of talk
about 'why don't we kick the women out of the forum!'
Here are some reasons:
#1) they usually leave on their own anyhow.
#2) If the forum admins decide to go that route whose job is it going to be to sit there with nothing better to do than scan every post and ban every IP that people feel is a female poster.
#3) How are you going to KNOW if someone is if they don't announce it. I beleive Dancer is a female and Anything But Tamed also. Can I prove it? No. Do I care that much? No. You see my point though.
#4) the really obnoxious ones will proboly find a way to post anyhow. On a different forum I used to post on, they got heavy-handed and banned a bunch of people for inappropriate language. This just pissed them off and we...er THEY (heh) kept finding ways to get around the ban and flood posts. Banning just made them post more if anything.
#5) this is a place where you can speak freely. It's one of the few on the net. Just look at the post by the guy who got banned by the feminazi site. Buch of Fascists over there! Here you can say what you want, and someone can shred it to ribbons if they feel like it. Anyone not prepared to back up their statements here better be ready to get their little feelings hurt.
#6) I think there are better ways to handle it.
Here's my proposition. I don't know how tough this would be but how about making admins able to change someone's title from DJ or Master DJ to Wuss. This could be for posting... well, a bunch of the kind of opinions and advice peopel are geting upset about. This solves the problem of Newbie DJs getting confused about whose side to believe since no one is going to want to do what a wuss says.
Anyhow, the person should have to request in writing to get the wuss flag removed and give a darn good reason why. Just an idea. Any other good ones?
P.S. Admins, please don't flag me a wuss just to be cute! Thanks
about 'why don't we kick the women out of the forum!'
Here are some reasons:
#1) they usually leave on their own anyhow.
#2) If the forum admins decide to go that route whose job is it going to be to sit there with nothing better to do than scan every post and ban every IP that people feel is a female poster.
#3) How are you going to KNOW if someone is if they don't announce it. I beleive Dancer is a female and Anything But Tamed also. Can I prove it? No. Do I care that much? No. You see my point though.
#4) the really obnoxious ones will proboly find a way to post anyhow. On a different forum I used to post on, they got heavy-handed and banned a bunch of people for inappropriate language. This just pissed them off and we...er THEY (heh) kept finding ways to get around the ban and flood posts. Banning just made them post more if anything.
#5) this is a place where you can speak freely. It's one of the few on the net. Just look at the post by the guy who got banned by the feminazi site. Buch of Fascists over there! Here you can say what you want, and someone can shred it to ribbons if they feel like it. Anyone not prepared to back up their statements here better be ready to get their little feelings hurt.
#6) I think there are better ways to handle it.
Here's my proposition. I don't know how tough this would be but how about making admins able to change someone's title from DJ or Master DJ to Wuss. This could be for posting... well, a bunch of the kind of opinions and advice peopel are geting upset about. This solves the problem of Newbie DJs getting confused about whose side to believe since no one is going to want to do what a wuss says.
Anyhow, the person should have to request in writing to get the wuss flag removed and give a darn good reason why. Just an idea. Any other good ones?
P.S. Admins, please don't flag me a wuss just to be cute! Thanks