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Scrap Flame Wars Board; Nobody Ever Uses It Despite Being Forced To For Years
Topic Started: Sep 23 2017, 09:13 PM (20 Views)
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It makes no sense. Sensitive people can still read it as already stated, thus it has no actual purpose, and nobody has yet been able to actually explain why it exists. Just fancy talk that is neither here nor there - some people at old message boards being driven off, poor people getting welfare, monkies in outer space, it somehow "prevents people from "ganging up" on people," yet the Flame Wars forum hasn't stopped Mark and Degree from recently ganging up on me outside of it in their malicious attack against me of them being too stupid to understand me. I take offense to that. You people always avoid the main question: why does it exist? To protect sensitive people by forcing the flam-ER (I'm not allowed to spell that word out normally?) to be a crazy person and talk to themself in the flame forum, just hoping the person they secretly insulted never goes there? In that case, why not just also RESTRICT sensitive people from ever viewing that board just to make sure they aren't insulted, and they must sign up for such willing restriction.....until they change their mind and decide it's their turn to flame someone, then request new access to it?

Just continue to let people block people if that's actually an option, and let Jane warn people if she personally thinks something is "too mean" or not....and they can just get temporarily banned after so many warnings or something.

Just delete the Flame Wars board, and move all topics from there into The General Forum.

Or just make it that nobody can ever say anything "mean" anywhere on this entire site - and if someone knowingly or accidently offends someone, they are required by law to apologize in a timely manner, since that makes as much sense, or as cool as The Flame Wars Board.

If your logic was to tell me that the Flame Wars forum is just to serve as a temporary outlet for two people who usually maybe get along, to allow them a brief yet personal schism only to then willingly meet to box each other.....that be one thing. But no mention of that was made to justify it's existence, and you just keep up with the "protecting weak and emotionally girly people" stance at all costs....should Jane whatever. She didn't even say what she would do....it would just be at her discretion.....to do what? To tell one or both people to just knock it off or else banish them to the flame wars forum for one day, or to stay locked in mortal combat for eternity? This is one thing I don't get. But how can I? Its not my idea, and Jane really hasn't come up with her own yet, or hasn't told us anyway.....how she plans on forcing people to use the flame war forum, only that flaming is to be relaxed and everything else is at her discretion. Or maybe she did say she just doesn't care about the flame wars forum and flaming and punishment is just at her discretion.....in that case, "if you don't use it, just lose it" scrap the forum and move all topics to The General Board like I said. and Mark has never told us since I've been around why The Flame Board exists, other than just that we are "to use it for flaming."....but never gave no real reason why. I don't care. But it may be why I was banned from chatterb0x for a couple years, cuz I never understood it, and I never cared, I just like bitching. Well, I sort of care, but If I can't rule, there's often nothing else I want to do here except bitch. At my house, though, I'm about to eat another hot, thin steak meat sandwich. I'm addicted to them like Kramer from Seinfeld I think was addicted to Kenny Rogers or some chicken. And sometimes the door knobs inside my house are greasy too....but not from chicken.
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