• March 12, 2024, 7:04 p.m.

    The facilities exist for the thread to be rearranged to make it more intelligible if you prefer. In a way though, the chaos of the thread is part of the nature of a discussion like this, and as important to anyone taking a view of it. This is, after all a forum, for people to chat, and chatter tends to be chaotic. If it was an editorial section, as we will have, that would be a different matter.

    The borderline is very fuzzy. There are many chaotic threads around, which diverge into all kinds of issues. That's one of the things that makes forums interesting, as opposed to curated content. It's only when that chaos includes some specific subject material that people start talking about taking measures to suppress the discussion. And the dumpster is suppressive, just more gentle than some other mechanisms. So, it morphs into dictating topics almost by stealth.
    And as I said, it's not as though we have a surplus of lively content.

  • Members 599 posts
    March 12, 2024, 7:06 p.m.

    Two thumbs up!

  • March 12, 2024, 7:06 p.m.
  • Members 599 posts
    March 12, 2024, 7:08 p.m.

    True, but I'm too lazy at present to needlessly spin my tires...
    My university teacher in philosophy taught me well to sniff out nonsense rabbit holes...

  • March 12, 2024, 7:14 p.m.

    Two things about that. The SW decides what goes into the leader, simple based on latest posts. To change that would involve changing the SW, which we don't want to do until the new one comes out. And even if we did, what would be the algorithm for deciding which threads should be de-prioritised? Maybe we could ask ChatGPT to produce one for us.

    Or an even better idea, why not have a forum where the posts are entirely generated by AIs? Then we could train the AIs only to generate sanitised threads, so all the people who like only the anodyne can just observe the AIs conversing away.

    Which is kind of the point in the end. This is the most active thread on the forum. Why would we want to stop people finding it? Do we want less activity on the forums?

  • March 12, 2024, 7:15 p.m.

    Philosophy is mostly nonsense rabbit holes.

  • Members 598 posts
    March 12, 2024, 7:18 p.m.

    OK, I feel stupid now for not having thought of that myself! 😂

    I agree. Was just trying to find a compromise.
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  • Members 599 posts
    March 12, 2024, 7:18 p.m.

    They are not insults. I'm all for folks discussing their views whether they want to expound or not. I'm abhorred by the mediatards that have turned things upside down and have become corrupt to the point where it has divided people in a harmful way. I can freely express that and don't necessarily want to debate it to death. I know where that will lead... so I would rather point it out rather than having to explain it to death.

  • March 12, 2024, 7:20 p.m.

    Compromise is the enemy of the interesting.

  • Members 598 posts
    March 12, 2024, 7:21 p.m.
  • Members 598 posts
    March 12, 2024, 7:22 p.m.

    And we absolutely do live in interesting times!

  • March 12, 2024, 7:23 p.m.

    Actually, the photo in the OP is quite interesting. When you look closely, at the tension and stiffness in the woman's body, you can see it's not consensual - but it takes a close look.

  • March 12, 2024, 7:24 p.m.

    Dammit. That was what I was going to say in reply to whatever you said.

  • March 12, 2024, 7:24 p.m.

    They can easily be interpreted as such.

  • March 12, 2024, 7:28 p.m.

    It's the future. Chat forums can be configured to contain any kind of discussion you need. No need to deal with members. Moderators are redundant, and however much they defame people, you can't sue an AI.

  • Members 599 posts
    March 12, 2024, 7:28 p.m.

    Possibly, but I'm not heading down a rabbit hole with a Marxist. Can you say time wasting...lol
    He is trying hard to instigate.

  • March 12, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

    He could equally say the he's not heading down a rabbit hole with a fascist, and it would be an equally convincing argument for failing to argue a point.

  • Members 599 posts
    March 12, 2024, 7:31 p.m.

    I fully understand that, but...