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Vlammetje, you are quite right. Political fanatics need to behave when confronted, its the people not politics. I quite agree with you! There are many of us in here that need to sort ourselves out. I accept i have behaved wrongly when confronted and we need to change. But also, a dedicated space would be good.
However, I am SICK and tired of people saying, 'this is a community' and 'we should be able to discuss anything here' and 'we need to keep in check with the real world' and 'if you dont like politics dont get involved, keep to the mobile phone threads'. The problem i have, is that i use the new posts function, just to keep up to date with everything. So, if i accidentally visit a political thread, i may see something i heavily disagree with or that im offended by: i want to respond and reply. Again, if i am browsing the mobile free zone, and i see something pathetic like 'We hate Bush' blah blah that I disagree with I want to respond. Or, because I am a Christian, i see a religious thread, i want to reply, but then it may turn into a heated debate between members and it gets out of control.
This is a mobile phone forum, although light hearted mobile free zone topics are fine: but i see politics all day, i read newspapers and i get sick of it. I want to escape, and to enjoy myself, not have debates and fall out with other members.
Also, having a political forum is fine, but it means that you have to draw the line on who gets passwords and who doesnt. How do you go about doing that?
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[ This Message was edited by: vanquish on 2005-07-14 09:26 ]
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Posted: 2005-07-14 10:25:25
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It's allways for some period, after that they are burried deep into the esato archive, so why not afterall ? It's not like it's everyday, just on some occasions mods have a little more work.
A special political/religious forum could be created but then I suggest a "comments approval" function for mods like on blog's where comments can be posted in threads but doesn't show up until a mod approve the message, it might avoid a flamewar. Just an idea.
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Posted: 2005-07-14 10:33:38
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Personally i feel that such a Forum could be created, with the understandin that the mod has final say. Remember, we're here voluntarily, and the site owner has the right to allow mods to remove and delete as they see fit.
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Posted: 2005-07-14 19:01:46
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Hi everyone, I have a S E K700i, I want to buy a new cell phone, I'm interested in the K750 and the S700, Wich one is better? about imaging and the screen, please help me
Bruno
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Posted: 2005-07-14 19:10:16
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noob alert !
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Posted: 2005-07-14 19:50:49
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@brunoXT
This isn't really the place for that sort of enquiry. You would be better posting your query in the General Forum where it will probably get more replies.
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Posted: 2005-07-14 20:30:58
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I've sorted it for him.
There is allways room for a new member to make a mistake so back on topic please.
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Posted: 2005-07-14 20:54:24
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On 2005-07-14 10:25:25, vanquish wrote:
However, I am SICK and tired of people saying, 'this is a community' and 'we should be able to discuss anything here' and 'we need to keep in check with the real world' and 'if you dont like politics dont get involved, keep to the mobile phone threads'. The problem i have, is that i use the new posts function, just to keep up to date with everything. So, if i accidentally visit a political thread, i may see something i heavily disagree with or that im offended by: i want to respond and reply. Again, if i am browsing the mobile free zone, and i see something pathetic like 'We hate Bush' blah blah that I disagree with I want to respond. Or, because I am a Christian, i see a religious thread, i want to reply, but then it may turn into a heated debate between members and it gets out of control.
This is a mobile phone forum, although light hearted mobile free zone topics are fine: but i see politics all day, i read newspapers and i get sick of it. I want to escape, and to enjoy myself, not have debates and fall out with other members.
Also, having a political forum is fine, but it means that you have to draw the line on who gets passwords and who doesnt. How do you go about doing that?
Actually Vanquish, this IS a community, any grouping of people like this is. To say it isn't, I think, is missing the point to be honest and why I think people have such indifferent attitudes.
I use the New posts function all day long as well but unless i'm blind it shows me the topics and in which catagory they're in. If I don't want to read something, I don't. (Of course some topics can be deceptive...)
For the people that only want mobile information, well, those forums are quite clearly marked. For the people that want mobile information and also places to chat about other things, they're also clearly marked. I can't see how you wouldn't be able to tailor your browsing to suit your own needs. No one has to reply to every message.
Having a political forum wouldn't need to be password based, as far as I have seen there's no such forms of elitism on Esato, why start now. (Apart from the moderator area of course, but thats entirely understandable) You'd just need to treat it like the garbage zone, either click on the threads or not, it's your choice. (Just like it is now) Why complicate things?
Esato is *primarily* a mobile phone forum, however its also grown to become a community of people as well. Things change in time.
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Posted: 2005-07-14 23:35:58
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we can disagreen on many things. but there is one thing that brings us all together and thats
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Posted: 2005-07-14 23:43:38
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Well said, Gigs! I think your reasoning is amongst the most lucid i've encountered re: the entire political/religion debate. And yes, one certainly has the freedom to choose... To click or not to click, therein lies the rub...
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Posted: 2005-07-14 23:59:40
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