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
To this day I have never cast a single downvote in TDW and GAW. This site was created to facilitate discussion. Downvoting inhibits it.
How does a downvote Inhibit discussion. Can't we simply ignore them. I think the ability to ignore negative and downvotes is key to building up strong digital warriors. Same goes for not getting puffed up from upvotes
It is only by the most intense concentration and effort that I am restraining myself from giving this comment a downvote.
I don't know what it is. It's not that I disagree with what you're saying. It's not that we have any personal history. It's not that I'm a shill. But the desire to downvote this is.... hard....... to.... <grunt> ... resist.
:D
Damn! My willpower is AMAZING.
I'm weak. Kek
kek. I scored a downvote. Did someone fail to detect the tongue in cheek nature of my reply? We may never know....
Idk, I think the downvote is as meaningful as the upvote. If you have a different opinion, and feel the OP needs to see that others don’t agree, you are saying something without saying something, if you are afraid of discourse?
I downvote anything that would put our movement in risk, like the obvious ones trying to call for violence, the obviously baited comments. They are obvious too, especially to this old geezer who knows a thing or two about ef bee eye surveillance.
Also shills & agitators should be down voted & deported immediately.
If you disagree with someone, you can always choose to reply. Downvoting without replying will seem to others that you are some troll/shill or someone who has no argument. It is an interjection.
Some are so stupid or glow so hard that they don't merit a reply
I agree, but it does tell me how many people without arguments got mad :D