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What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?
Lashiec:
Nobody understands him anyway. And "Report to moderator" is sooo close ;D
Carol Haynes:
Just for the record. I would have absolutely no problem with even the creation (no pun intended, but you gotta admit it's a good one) of a whole forum on "Religious Software". And I would just choose not to read it most of the time.
-tinjaw (January 05, 2008, 02:21 PM)
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That assumes you only read by forum - I don't know about others but I don't open individual forums very often (usually only when I am looking for something specific - and even then I mostly use search). The way i read forum posts is to use the "Unread Posts" button at the top. Unfortunately that would mean I would be faced with all of the religious software threads whether I wanted to see them or not. OK I don't have to open them but to my way of thinking they would be just as bad as the Junk folder in my email that I have trawl through.
To me codeTRUCKER hit the essence of the argument - he know some people (and I'd guess around here it would be substabtial group of people) would be offended by overtly religious references - software related or not. For me, as a rational being and an atheist, religious belief is akin to "pornography of the mind which serves to remove thought and embed dogma" so promoting software that propagates such a belief system would be as objectionable to me as whole pages of pornographic images.
There I just proved the point! :-*
Footnote for codeTRUCKERcodeTRUCKER that little tirade was not actually aimed at you and your belief but rather to illustrate (genuinely) that what you said was true, for me at least
CodeTRUCKER:
Nobody understands him anyway. And "Report to moderator" is sooo close ;D
-Lashiec (January 05, 2008, 02:43 PM)
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Personally, I think it's the language barrier, but his conception and vision of Grivitation is not too dis-similar from Galileo's, complete with the accompanying persecution.
f0dder:
That assumes you only read by forum - I don't know about others but I don't open individual forums very often (usually only when I am looking for something specific - and even then I mostly use search). The way i read forum posts is to use the "Unread Posts" button at the top. Unfortunately that would mean I would be faced with all of the religious software threads whether I wanted to see them or not. OK I don't have to open them but to my way of thinking they would be just as bad as the Junk folder in my email that I have trawl through.
-Carol Haynes (January 05, 2008, 03:05 PM)
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I view the forum basically the same way.
An option would obviously be to have a forum setting where you could checkmark the subforums you don't want included in "View unread". Dunno if it's SMF default, but iirc we have it at asmcommunity.net .
CodeTRUCKER:
To me codeTRUCKER hit the essence of the argument - he know some people (and I'd guess around here it would be substabtial group of people) would be offended by overtly religious references - software related or not. For me, as a rational being and an atheist, religious belief is akin to "pornography of the mind which serves to remove thought and embed dogma" so promoting software that propagates such a belief system would be as objectionable to me as whole pages of pornographic images.
There I just proved the point! :-*
-Carol Haynes (January 05, 2008, 03:05 PM)
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ToDo: Make special tag for Carol and tinjaw... NSFA
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