Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Good rant. Been busy, so I have not noticed lately, but you summed up my feelings from my past experiences. Hope it clears up.
NCSWIC, even clickbait.
Thanks for the positive spin.
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As you might be able to tell from the rant, I am totally sick with this bullshit coming across this site, particularly by people who should know better. I think of the negative impact, the way honest pedes are mislead, trained to knee-jerk react, and how this perpetuates the very matrix we are attempting to escape from, and it sickens me to my stomach.
While I appreciate the positive spin, watching confirmed contributors (i.e. endorsed by the mods) and prolific active 'big' voices on GAW promote this stuff in the last month or two (even if its inadvertent, via negligence), makes me think of the scripture:
“If anyone causes one of these little ones - those who believe in me - to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea"
Not murder, not kill. Even stumble.
I can understand noobs posting this sort of thing. We've all been caught by reactive clickbait at some point in our anon lives, and posted it forward. (I had my fair share back in 2018, which is when I first started to cotton on to these sorts of operations.) But veterans? Approved contributors?
These posts cause hundreds and thousands of our pedes to stumble, as evidenced by the upvotes and reactive responses to what is in fact bullshite (aka fake) that these posts elicit.
It's worse than fake news, but many of our board members interact with it as it if were real....
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