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Off-site discussion of BetterMost posts
milomorris:
--- Quote from: garycottle on July 25, 2009, 04:34:12 pm ---If these same people were sitting across from you at your kitchen table, and you had a discussion with them over a cup of coffee, you might get a different impression of where they stand and what they think.
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Absolutely. Being able to communicate vocally and with movement/body language certainly does make things more clear.
I got an interesting comment from a Brokie I met in the flesh. I have known him via one of the BBM groups on Yahoo since I first saw the movie. I was in his hometown for a business trip last year, and he and I met for lunch one day. We talked about all kinds of stuff, and at the end of the conversation, he said "you're nothing like what I expected." I said, "well...you can't hear me online." He smiled and nodded.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: milomorris on July 25, 2009, 08:29:06 am ---Opposition and contradiction were never the problem. Retribution is the problem.
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Milo, this thread is funny as hell.
Gee what a shame all the leftists have me on "ignore", for the first time in quite a while, I would love to chat away with them.
Oh, by the way, Jess's Retreat certainly isn't just a haven for conservatives, as one of the above posters opines. I mean Milo you are there, and you have always seemed to me to be a reasonable, rational liberal of the old style, the type of liberal I can respect. not one of the current crop of leftists that dominates the Democrat party. that said, yes, we have no leftists on the Retreat site.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: milomorris on July 25, 2009, 04:14:49 pm ---1. What about people who post the author's article, along with the readers' comments from said blog? Aren't those comments the same type of conversational posts that we get here?
2. I'm not sure why the lack of polish should matter. People have to learn that this is the Internet, and your posts--no matter how--off-the-top-of-the-head are being made public. If one is not communicating clearly, and that is causing misunderstandings or disagreements, take the time to clarify. I think most of us here do that already.
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I personally will not copy anything posted on Bettermost and post it anywhere else. Where is the motivation in doing so? If someone wishes to speak with me, they can PM me from Bettermost and I will respond.
That said, however, I am not sure why anyone is getting their shorts in a wad because someone posted their comments on another web site. What are they hiding from, and why do they care?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on July 25, 2009, 06:17:47 pm ---why do they care?
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I couldn't agree more, personally. I don't give a damn what anyone might copy of mine and discuss on the other site. If anything, it's flattering that people who have left or semi-quit BetterMost are still all abuzz over stuff that gets posted here. Have at it! :)
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: milomorris on July 25, 2009, 03:36:46 pm ---I honestly am not understanding what the difference is between cross-posting from here and "sneering," and pasting something from any other blog and discussing/analyzing/criticizing it without the author's knowledge or feedback. Why is one acceptable, and the other not??
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I think the difference is that we know each other, which isn't the same with other blog/article writers and entries, so people are bound to take it personally.
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