Posted on 12/18/2002 9:04:40 AM PST by TPartyType
After getting frustrated with the incessant flaming, and rather degenerative quality of discourse here at FR, I put together |this web page|.
Decorum is the hallmark of civil discourse. Many people who participate in online discourse show a deplorable lack of decorum, IMO. I don't really care what goes on at other sites, but I'd sure like this forum to engage in civil discourse. Why? Because I believe conservatives should value it, and I know the founding fathers considered civility an indispensible support to free society. |Read this|
Enjoy the links!
just a minute here . . .
Okay. . . . Flame away!
The problem is that the Internet allows instant response and it takes time to really grasp and argument and think up objections and defenses. Also, we typically want to annihilate opposing arguments, when in fact it's usually not possible to prove things so conclusively.
Yes, I think so. And there is limited contrast with the blue font.
x thinks time is a factor. It may be lack of education or limited knowledge. Also, a forum is often last resort for those who have failed to get respect elswhere.
The best advice I know is to find the good posters on the forum and do a search on them. Off the top of my head, these posters have things worth saying and responding to (excluding otherwise worthy hit-and-run pundits):
x
Dumb Ox (when he speaks)
Diamond
Iron Jack
Cicero
betty boop
Nebullis
Huck
KC Burke
And more whom others should add because I know this my list would be incomplete.
Not even close, spawn of inbred hillbilly beastialists.
Main Entry: pla-gia-rize
Function: verb
Inflected Form:-rized ; -riz-ing
to present the ideas or words of another as one's own
pla*gia*rism \-*ri-z*m\ noun
pla*gia*rist \-rist\ noun
Daddy seems to qualify.
--Boris
Speakest thou not thy blasphemy lest I instruct my servant to consult the Book of Armaments!
"Compromise is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a big rock."
Some 90 lb weakling just kicked sand in my face!!!
Yeah, I've heard they suck canal water, or worse yet, they suck from the new Davis revenue stream... listen!!!
Did'ja hear it???
That giant Steve Peace/Gray Davis SUCKING SOUND in Suckramento, coming from the Crapitol!!!
EEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUW!!! (Better put your wallet in a new middle pocket in the back of your pants!) BOHICA!!!
The link in #9 is truly funny! I'm going to add that to the HTML Sandbox! (I never bothered to read it before . . .)
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