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I confess... (5.00 / 2) (#3)
by kredwyn on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 12:11:05 AM EST
I miss banter and some of the folks I used t' banter with.

some banter is okay (5.00 / 2) (#5)
by Jeralyn on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 12:13:12 AM EST
but when the same commenter has 10 "bantering" one liners in a thread it's tiresome. They may think they are clever, I don't. They can start their own blog.

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I know.... (5.00 / 4) (#13)
by kredwyn on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 12:19:51 AM EST
It's just a bit hard to get used to after 4+ years...ummm...elsewhere.

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I don't think it's a bad thing (none / 0) (#148)
by dianem on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 12:25:09 PM EST
Most of the rules here are similar to those we would have at a social event in the real world. We're expected to be polite, to not dominate the conversation, to give other's time to speak, and to be able to hold a conversation without jumping off in 12 different directions. Sometimes conversations evolve, but it would be odd if I were talking about swimming and somebody jumped in with a comment about cars.

I was ...elsewhere... for a while, and the lack of civility eventually became grating. People will say and do things behind the anonymity of a computer that they would never dream of doing in public. I found myself getting more angry and swearing a lot more, generally in response to someone else's anger and swearing. I suppose that there are places in the real world where such behaviour is the norm, but I would not be likely to go to those places, and I don't like to think that I would routinely behave that way.

It takes a bit of effort to get used to behaving on the internet the same way you would behave at a social event in the real world, but I think that it is a more sensible way to exist.

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MarkL (5.00 / 1) (#130)
by bodhcatha on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 11:15:19 AM EST
is one of the good guys though

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Interesting (1.00 / 1) (#91)
by 1jane on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 09:29:33 AM EST
I am writing this comment under very heavy sniper fire.......nah, just jokin'. The number of posts by certain folks was excessive.

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hu (none / 0) (#125)
by flyerhawk on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 11:07:31 AM EST
Commenters who low-rate comments based on point of view rather than quality of the comment will have all their ratings erased. They will be banned.

Right.

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Plenty of "Chatter/Banter" sites around (none / 0) (#73)
by pluege on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 08:46:50 AM EST
There are sites such as Eschaton with endless banter and nonsense. This is a focused site. Its nice to have both options for those inclined either way or who like both approaches.

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There's a difference between (none / 0) (#94)
by kredwyn on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 09:52:47 AM EST
banter and nonsense.

And the halo-comment thing over at Atrios bugs the crap out of me. Was on kos for 4 years...before the primary nightmare got so bad, the banter exchanges there were easier to follow than at Atrios. It's the nested thing I think.

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