topic Re: I don't know what to post anymore in Community Chat

I don't know what to post anymore

LilacTree — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:07:40 GMT

Yesterday was a huge news day. NBC Nightly News had to be extended to an hour, there was just too much news to cover it all in a half hour. Yet we dared not post about any of it.

I've made a personal commitment not to post anything "personal" anymore. So here I am . . . stuck . . . once a prolific poster with absolutely nothing to say.

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

SydneyH — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:09:52 GMT

Well we did attempt a discussion but the claws came out, shrugs. Only one side here apparently is 'allowed'.

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MyGirlsMom — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:12:27 GMT

I thought the story about the Holland American tourists airplane crash was very sad.

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LilacTree — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:16:12 GMT

I agree. All of the foreign news was either horrible or sad. I was never one to post about that kind of thing or participate much in them.

There was so much good news right here in the U.S. though, and, except for the prison escapees, nothing would have been acceptable.

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

newziesuzie — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:36:43 GMT

I just go ahead and post or start threads and to the
best of my abilities not do it as something I know is a
Standards violation so that's my suggestion.

Give it your best try and keep trying!😊👍

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

hckynutjohn — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:45:34 GMT

LilacTree--------I know your "formally known as", so a happy Hi to you. I have never been one to start many threads, but always found a lot to say(too much for many). It is a shame that Headline News topics cannot be discussed/debated on this BB. Yesterday there was a very interesting thread about the 3 attacks in other countries. A Moderator even stepped in to say, "keep it nice", I am paraphrasing not quoting. I didn't see what I consider to be any "way out there" posts, but later returned to see that thread "poofed" and nary a reason given by that, or any, now visible Moderator. Maybe my post got it poofed, beats me! If the Moderators are going to be visible, I would like to know if my post was the reason for the "poof", there she goes. I don't care if they tell me right here on this Forum for all to see, would not be "offensive" to me. I would at least know I took something too far "out of their standards", which might enrich me about what I CAN say in some other news worthy discussions. I admit I lean to the Right, but that does not mean I am not willing to listen and/or learn from those with differing idiologies. I hope tjis post of mine does not go "past their acceptable standards", and if so? Moderators!!! PLEASE just remove my post, and I will thank you.

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

NoelSeven — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:46:29 GMT

Ford, yesterday there were about three discussion lines on the ruling by the Supremes. One lasted for hours, two got very long,

There was also a long discussion on the funeral.

The finding of Richard Matt is still up.

How did you miss all that?

THANK YOU, Moderators for allowing the discussions to run their course!

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

MrsSweetieBear — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:05:56 GMT

Lilac/Ford - I didn't see you on our celebratroy Beautiful Day thread yesterday. It is still there but closed for commenting. There was also a disappointed bemoaning thread but alas and alak, I think it is gone, LOL! I'm still celebrating, btw. Changed my facebook to a rainbow coloring my face. And my cover is also a rainbow pic, a double rainbow in fact.

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

deepwaterdotter — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:17:05 GMT

It's a good idea to keep discussions of a personal nature among real-life friends and family. Why provide fodder for negative judgments and hurt feelings on this BB?

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Moonchilde — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:09:41 GMT

We have been able to read the posting rules, and the guidelines, forever. That they are now being stringently enforced does not mean they have changed. There is the choice to read them again and also to take note of which posts are deleted and why, and to modify ones posting so it is in line with the rules - or there is the choice to complain and/or claim puzzlement or ignorance.

What one may say/should not say is freely available. But some people's interpretations may need adjusting. It's a learning process. People have the option to learn, or not - and deal with the consequences. But it's not like complaining about it is going to change it.

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cherry — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:13:03 GMT

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
It's a good idea to keep discussions of a personal nature among real-life friends and family. Why provide fodder for negative judgmentss and hurt feelings on this BB?

Thats for sure. We had a poster, whose name escapes me, that showed some photos she had taken. She was very pretty, and got the nastiest comments about her looks from some people. She had a rough life, with heart problems, and lost her husband to cancer

I always wondered if the people that made those hateful remarks had a conscience

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

LilacTree — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:31:28 GMT

NoelSeven wrote:

Ford, yesterday there were about three discussion lines on the ruling by the Supremes. One lasted for hours, two got very long,

There was also a long discussion on the funeral.

The finding of Richard Matt is still up.

How did you miss all that?

THANK YOU, Moderators for allowing the discussions to run their course!

I posted once on the funeral and the President's eulogy. I don't remember seeing the rest of them. Are they still there? I spend much, much less time on this BB than I did before. I just can't get into it for some reason. I don't know what's missing, I can't put my finger on it.

Hopefully it will get easier for me. I will keep trying. Maybe it's because there are so few nics that I recognize. Plus the mods are really omnipresent to a fault. I'll think of something, and then say "nah, that won't fly," and so I don't post at all.

I'll look for those other threads. Are they in Community Chat?

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MrsSweetieBear — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:35:55 GMT

Yep. One of the ones I was referring to is called What a Beautiful Day. It was finally closed for commenting because a few kept trying to take it down.

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

Snoopp — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:36:52 GMT

Peeps, really. They don't want us to post about CURRENT EVENTS. That covers a lot, doesn't it?

It must be a qvc stepford wives site.

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

chickenbutt — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:43:40 GMT

I guess I don't understand the drama. When a thread ends up with posts that bring politics, religion, or insults in it, that's where the mods step in. I've seen numerous ones where the people causing the problems act all innocent and start calling 'unfair' when it was not unfairness at all, rather it was that they were changing a thread from what it was to something that is against the standards.

I also cannot help but wonder why some of the folks (not talking about anybody here, as I haven't seen all the posts in this thread) come here constantly for the express purpose of complaining about how positively horrible this place is. If I'm somewhere that causes me such stress and disdain, I just go somewhere else.

The rules are not at all complicated here. It's really pretty basic and pretty much just what it was before, only they spelled it out better in the new CGs.

There are boards, by the millions, all over internet land for discussing pretty much ANY subject. Some are specific to, for example, politics. Some are general with lots of subjects represented. Choices are always good.

Re: I don't know what to post anymore

PeterDM — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:44:15 GMT

Toast. We 're supposed to talk about toast. Perhaps horses. Not unicorns, though. Those are way too controversial.

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MyGirlsMom — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:46:11 GMT

I like my toast dark with butter

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deepwaterdotter — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:47:43 GMT

Post of the day cb. My thoughts also. And I love the picture of the golden.

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Burnsite — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:48:04 GMT

Was that Moomaw, cherry?

I remember comments about how her husband wasn't really sick. Then he died.

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Lila Belle — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:49:07 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
I guess I don't understand the drama.      When a thread ends up with posts that bring politics, religion, or insults in it, that's where the mods step in. I've seen numerous ones where the people causing the problems act all innocent and start calling 'unfair' when it was not unfairness at all, rather it was that they were changing a thread from what it was to something that is against the standards.

I also cannot help but wonder why some of the folks (not talking about anybody here, as I haven't seen all the posts in this thread) come here constantly for the express purpose of complaining about how positively horrible this place is. If I'm somewhere that causes me such stress and disdain, I just go somewhere else.

The rules are not at all complicated here. It's really pretty basic and pretty much just what it was before, only they spelled it out better in the new CGs.

There are boards, by the millions, all over internet land for discussing pretty much ANY subject. Some are specific to, for example, politics. Some are general with lots of subjects represented.    Choices are always good.

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I agree, chickenbutt. Choices are always good. There are lots of forums without much moderation.