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
Well I typed this out and then lost it I guess. First, thanks for the great questions.
I don't for the most part see folks digging like they used to. Yes there are some top quality threads that are dropped by folks doing real research, but I see a lot of razors being thrown around mostly: everyone's already been gitmo'd, they're a clone, everything is a false flag, 'it's a movie', etc. etc.
It find it incredibly detrimental in that it irrecoverably muddies the waters. It makes it hard to talk to my peers. If I send them a great thread from GAW, they'll usually peruse and find some other crackpot threads and discount the whole thing.
I will try to insert my thoughts and open questions for debate as you suggest. I think I've been slacking on my end there, but I think a lot of folks have closed minds and presuppositions that have been sussed out to such a degree, that to change a mind, say about clones, it would require an entire Jenga-blocked tower of their Worldview to be removed - a lot of mental sunken cost.
Edit: and then I'll check the mod logs like now: "20 minutes ago A moderator added note to lithopedion -" and think, 'well fuck... I should probably pipe down so I don't lose my privileges for a while'.
Considering you have posted all of 2 posts in your 2 years here, you can start by setting an example.
GAW is not for everyone. You dont just send links to GAW to any person and expect they get the same out of this site as you do. There needs to be a certain understanding of the Q to be able to get value out of GAW.
Your job is to understand what you find here, and translate it to your peers at the level they will be able to accept. Some might be able to accept a GAW link. Some might require a gateway pundit link and some others, perhaps an MSM link (just as example). Or you could simply explain the point you are making based on the current events, without having to offload the explanation to someone else.
I find the last option the most effective.
Just because your peers came and didn't like what they saw here, does not mean we have to change what is discussed here.
I'm not asking anyone to change what is discussed. I don't think you can interpret that from what I was saying. This seems to be getting adversarial, so I'm just gonna step back from it.
Reread your first comment and you will understand what adversarial is. If you come here in good faith you get answers. If you don't, we are very good at sniffing it out.
Perhaps this place is not for you anymore.
Honest to God, I reread it a few times and do not see how it be seen as attacking or adversarial, hurting someones feelings. But I also cannot have an in-kind conversation with you about it, because you're a Mod and can rug pull me at any moment. So I retract my statement ;)