|
More site info...
About This Message Board | Forum profile
|
|
Forum profile page for About This Message Board on http://www.straightdope.com.
This report page is the aggregated overview from a single forum: About This Message Board, located on the Message Board at http://www.straightdope.com.
This forum profile page summarizes the general forum statistics such as: Users Activity, Forum Activity, and Top Authors, which are reported in either a table or graph below for a given reporting time period.
Additional forum profile information for "About This Message Board" on the Message Board at http://www.straightdope.com is also shown in the following ways:
1) Latest Active Threads
2) Hot Threads for Last Week
Warning: These statistics are generated using 'best efforts' and can experience delays and reporting errors at times. Please note that such statistics do not constitute a forum's popularity and/or exact posting volumes at any given reporting period.
|
|
|
|
|
Posting activity on About This Message Board:
|
|
Week
|
Month
|
3 Months
|
|
Threads:
|
37
|
192
|
638
|
|
Post:
|
239
|
1,425
|
4,724
|
|
|
About This Message Board Posting activity graph:
|
Top authors during last week:
user's latest post:
Calling a lie a lie, and GD
Published (2009-12-01 16:02:00)
Yeah--I would agree that the way to handle the kind of anti-Semitic drivel such as that quoted in the OP is best dealt with via facts, mocking and pointing/laughing. I just didn't see how it fit under the rules as I'd been misinterpreting (apparently for years!) them. (I do now thanks to Tom's clarification)
user's latest post:
Calling a lie a lie, and GD
Published (2009-12-01 15:48:00)
"Changing a statement" is not a rules violation, unless the statement is in quote tags. Is that what you meant, Shodan ? Generally speaking (you may recall there was a long thread about trying to define "hate speech"), there's a difference between "Does Mexican culture foster a notion of time that's different from US culture?" and "Those shiftless Mexicans, they're...
user's latest post:
Kudos for Gfactor regarding...
Published (2009-11-30 20:32:00)
Well, then you need to hang around. Because snarking at people who are unable to respond due to the adminstration or to moderators shutting them up is jerkish behavior, in my opinion. (And in the opinion of some admins and mods.) How would you like it if you could not respond to this post? What if you could not defend your position, but I could attack it at will? I say you're wrong, and that your tactics are bullyish, and are designed to...
user's latest post:
Calling a lie a lie, and GD
Published (2009-12-01 12:19:00)
I did a quick review of moderator warnings and found only one warning in Great Debates for hate speech in the last five years. There were three or four other hate speech warnings in other forums. I think two were in the Pit, one was in GQ and one was in MPSIMS. It's not a perfect methodology because I was searching for the word "hate" in our writeups, but I hope it's a starting point. And the one warning was for...
user's latest post:
On the topic of moderator bias -...
Published (2009-11-30 01:29:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by Sage Rat Did you report it? In general, the mods don't do anything unless someone reports a post. Why do you think it got moved so quickly? Yes, I reported it, and received a reply that was essentially that the poster violated no rules and everything he said was a-okay with the moderators. *shrug* I've said my piece about it, and as even a cursory search of threads by this poster demonstrates a history of...
user's latest post:
Calling a lie a lie, and GD
Published (2009-12-01 14:24:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by tomndebb Why don't you? Don't be childish. Look, tom , you made a specific accusation of a violation of the rules, and it was untrue. Since you can't back it up, at least man up and admit it. Regards, Shodan
Really Not All That Bright
6
user's latest post:
What sort of legal stuff was...
Published (2009-11-30 09:34:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by ivn1188 May I just ask why, if you have no idea, you felt the need to post? I think her implication was that he was just making stuff up. Presumably he can't get into any trouble for secretly taping the cleaner unless she posts here and puts two and two together.
user's latest post:
Kudos for Gfactor regarding...
Published (2009-11-30 23:46:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by Liberal I believe all people who cowardly attack defenseless people are trolls. Quote: Originally Posted by Fenris Hey mods? Ruling here please? He's point blank calling me a troll since I said I did this. If this kind of thing where you call someone a troll by syllogism is allowed, can I respond in kind? In the context of this thread and my reading of Liberal 's intent, I'm going to allow that...
user's latest post:
Cafe Society - Hey, minorities...
Published (2009-12-01 01:17:00)
Quote: Dex : We used to have a friend named Vinnie who just broke their kneecaps... I had an Aunt Vinnie like that. Scots-Irish, she was.
Attack from the 3rd dimension
5
user's latest post:
Ok, so my boyfriend is working...
Published (2009-11-23 13:29:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by Una Persson Well, you can't know you've been corrected the first time until you read it. And it really depends on context. Here we're specifically talking about spelling errors. So no, GuanoLad will not be joining the 300+ people currently on my Ignore list. I was surmising that he was already in the outer darkness. I am stoked, however, to discover that I remain visible.
|
|
|
|
Latest active threads on About This Message Board::
Started 2 weeks, 2 days ago (2009-11-16 17:16:00)
by Covered_In_Bees!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed Zotti
Cecil's latest can now be heard on a podcast. In the iTunes Store, search for "Straight Dope," then click on the "subscribe" button next to the Straight Dope logo. The column will be sent to you automatically each week, masterfully voice by Stan Jastrzebski.
That's awesome, but...
Started 1 day, 23 hours ago (2009-12-01 14:52:00)
by Rico
In response to one of your questions:
The moderators can't read every thread. We rely on your reports of what you feel are violations of board policy or problems in general. Use the Report Post icon in the upper right of the post to send a report to all the moderators of that forum.
Started 3 days, 3 hours ago (2009-11-30 10:36:00)
by Marley23
Quote:
Originally Posted by aldiboronti
Would it be kosher to say to the poster in this instance, "you have been misled by the outright lies propagated by the enemies of ............"? In other words, you are branding the statements as lies without calling the poster a liar.
Or would that be seen as circumvention of the rule?...
Started 3 days, 21 hours ago (2009-11-29 17:07:00)
by Sage Rat
:: Pittings Per Year ::
Liberal - 22/10 = 2.2 PPY
Carol - 3/3 = 1.0 PPY
The method used to conduct this survey was to search the title of Pit Threads for the users names, excluding those threads which were not pittings of that specific user. That number is then divided by the number of years that the member has been registered with the site.
Irony, I love you.
Started 3 days, 2 hours ago (2009-11-30 11:58:00)
by runner pat
If it was started by Mr Happy , he's been banned.
Started 6 days, 17 hours ago (2009-11-26 20:30:00)
by Liberal
What version of IE? And have you checked for updates?
Started 6 days, 9 hours ago (2009-11-27 05:09:00)
by Princhester
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arnold Winkelried
Next time you have to chastise an evildoer, I hope you'll say "Who pooped in my forum?"
I don't think you understand. He doesn't need to ask. From their poop, he will know who they are.
Started 3 days, 13 hours ago (2009-11-30 01:11:00)
by Inner Stickler
You know. Legal stuff. With lawyers and laws and courts. That sort of thing.
(I have no idea. Libel suits?)
Started 3 days, 2 hours ago (2009-11-30 12:04:00)
by Skald the Rhymer
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Joe Meager
What is meant by the term "id sock"? I know what a sock is (in message-board-speak), I know what the id is (in Freud-speak), but what's an "id sock"?
Cite
Thanks.
Judging from your link, I'd say calling a given user an ID sock is saying that that user's ...
Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-22 17:27:00)
by mswas
LOL, it's Tomndebb . That's just the way he is. Don't expect any sort of consistency of principle from him.
|
|
Hot threads for last week on About This Message Board::
Started 3 days, 21 hours ago (2009-11-29 17:07:00)
by Sage Rat
:: Pittings Per Year ::
Liberal - 22/10 = 2.2 PPY
Carol - 3/3 = 1.0 PPY
The method used to conduct this survey was to search the title of Pit Threads for the users names, excluding those threads which were not pittings of that specific user. That number is then divided by the number of years that the member has been registered with the site.
Irony, I love you.
Started 6 days, 17 hours ago (2009-11-26 20:30:00)
by Liberal
What version of IE? And have you checked for updates?
Started 3 days, 3 hours ago (2009-11-30 10:36:00)
by Marley23
Quote:
Originally Posted by aldiboronti
Would it be kosher to say to the poster in this instance, "you have been misled by the outright lies propagated by the enemies of ............"? In other words, you are branding the statements as lies without calling the poster a liar.
Or would that be seen as circumvention of the rule?...
Started 3 days, 2 hours ago (2009-11-30 11:58:00)
by runner pat
If it was started by Mr Happy , he's been banned.
Started 6 days, 1 hour ago (2009-11-27 12:27:00)
by padabe
I don't believe it's permissible so much as generally overlooked.
IANAM
Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-22 17:27:00)
by mswas
LOL, it's Tomndebb . That's just the way he is. Don't expect any sort of consistency of principle from him.
Started 6 days, 9 hours ago (2009-11-27 05:09:00)
by Princhester
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arnold Winkelried
Next time you have to chastise an evildoer, I hope you'll say "Who pooped in my forum?"
I don't think you understand. He doesn't need to ask. From their poop, he will know who they are.
Started 3 days, 13 hours ago (2009-11-30 01:11:00)
by Inner Stickler
You know. Legal stuff. With lawyers and laws and courts. That sort of thing.
(I have no idea. Libel suits?)
Started 3 days, 2 hours ago (2009-11-30 12:04:00)
by Skald the Rhymer
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Joe Meager
What is meant by the term "id sock"? I know what a sock is (in message-board-speak), I know what the id is (in Freud-speak), but what's an "id sock"?
Cite
Thanks.
Judging from your link, I'd say calling a given user an ID sock is saying that that user's ...
Started 1 month ago (2009-10-29 14:46:00)
by Contrapuntal
Quote:
Originally Posted by aldiboronti
From the SDMB registration agreement:
I was refreshing my memory of the rules when it suddenly struck me that I have no clear idea of how the SDMB defines hate speech. So what does constitute hate speech?. I checked the definition on Wikipedia but it seems far broader than would ...
|
|