It means if you are going to make a mistake, better to be too cautious than too bold.
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Is GAF too strict?
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It means if you are going to make a mistake, better to be too cautious than too bold.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
I really didn't like the way your eyebrow was looking at me and yes Panadas are ugly.
I can see why American idioms make little to no sense to Flula.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=63Y5XjlO4vk
Trent Strong
Banned
Human isn't a race though, it's a species.
Semantics.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
You were the one arguing semantics in the first place!
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Partial Gamification
Banned
That's what happens when they (edit: languages) don't get codified.Okay now I'm raising a contention on the English language
Maybe? I can't tell if people just got it out of their systems, or if we're all waiting on bated breath to see if there's going to be another bish lawnmower incident.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
The final countdown
Thread is now about grammar fascism. It's "bated", meaning 'interrupted'. See: unabated.
Blast! You're right! There's nothing I hate more than a malaproper.
REQUESTING PERMISSION TO STEALTH EDIT AND THEN ROT IN A GRAMMAR PRISON CELL, COMMANDANT CHRISTINE!
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
I hate dirty people too.
Trent Strong
Banned
Also, it's waiting with bated breath, not waiting on bated breath. Heyooo!!!
Why did you spell his name wrong in your quote=<name> area?
I get it now. It's a joke with the word Orayn used.
Well played MrToughPants.
Sneaky sneaky.
Lionel Mandrake
Member
This thread is therapeutic. Let it ride.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I dunno, it's kinda hard to really reach purely objective "truths" about language, especially when the subject matter has a high degree of subjectivity.
Team Filler
Member
Imagine that, words with subjective meanings and intents. Too obvious, I refuse to believe it.
TheGreatDivide
Banned
:lol Jesus.
What thread?
SquiddyCracker
Banned
This thread kinda needs to be renamed into the "GAF whine/discuss thread".
evil solrac v3.0
Member
what is this thread about now?
Uno Venova
Banned
It'll settle down until a new moderation topic comes up like before.
People using the word "privilege" to write off other people's opinions and demean them in their new paradigm.
Done unironically.
Devo has asked the question I would ask.
Some of the words you're citing don't really conform to the issue. Some I do actually think could be problematic, but don't currently seem to be. Again, though, I'm confident that you would not get very far throwing the word "slut" around on NeoGAF.
This is interesting, but I think that more or less contemporary usage of the word is what's most relevant. I think it's clear from a quick Google or two that douche is not predominantly used to criticize women -- if anything, it's more often used to criticize men.
You might reasonably ask why this is not something a feminist would be more concerned with. I would suggest that it's because douche is not used to marginalize men for failing to conform to the bounds of the patriarchal conception of sexuality -- more often it's used for the exact opposite reason, to criticize men for slavishly adhering to it. Obviously the men who do this are also, fundamentally, being coerced by society, but it's still a worthwhile goal to offer a critique of the system that has coerced them.
Lionel Mandrake
Member
I'm not seeing a smoking gun in Sentry's post history. I wonder what got him.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Sentry screwed Sentry.
Sviatoslav
Member
I... don't think it was for that.
I try to never use derogatory terms...
As someone out there will be insulted in some way,
and then yell until it becomes a rule.
Just put a filter on like before, problem solved.
Or Mods need to add a reason to why a person was banned.
Also put the name of the Mod that set the ban,
unless Mods aren't confident in their actions.
Sometimes I'll see someone banned, but have no idea why.
Even if I go through their post history...
This way a lot confusion on the forum will hopefully disappear.
I can't be the only person on the forum confused as to why a poster gets banned at times.
A banning with confusion derails threads.
And that's not the type discussion that should be going on in threads.
As someone out there will be insulted in some way,
and then yell until it becomes a rule.
Just put a filter on like before, problem solved.
Or Mods need to add a reason to why a person was banned.
Also put the name of the Mod that set the ban,
unless Mods aren't confident in their actions.
Sometimes I'll see someone banned, but have no idea why.
Even if I go through their post history...
This way a lot confusion on the forum will hopefully disappear.
I can't be the only person on the forum confused as to why a poster gets banned at times.
A banning with confusion derails threads.
And that's not the type discussion that should be going on in threads.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
I agree with you.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall,
who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York,
who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls,
The man was living on borrowed time...doesn't mean I won't miss him.
TheGreatDivide
Banned
I gaze upon your post
And deep within me dwells
Emotion
I respond to your words
And the rhythm in which they
Are presented
You have awakened the poet inside me
I must work to improve my posts
To make them more pleasing
In the visual and pronounced forms
We are all artists
I also agree but the mods have been clear this isn't going to happen. I think it would be a great way to see how moderation actually works in practice and would limit the instances of moderators abusing their power. (Not accusing of anyone of power plays, but it would merely act as a deterrent) Transperancy is never a bad thing.
But we won't get our wish, unfortunately.
Epic.
Femmeworth
Banned
Is GAF too whiny?
Sviatoslav
Member
No one escapes Bish's mower once he starts it up.
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
There once was post in GAF
In a thread so long and fat,
Originally about strictness
and then about correctness,
that into prose they did graft.
In a thread so long and fat,
Originally about strictness
and then about correctness,
that into prose they did graft.
Huevos de Oro
Member
What the fuck is going on now? Everybody is talking weird!
According to his photo, he isn't a teenager anymore. So there's just no excuse for that.
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