Making it Better: The future of WP

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When you state that Jimmy is basing his conclusion on some sort of master race 'nonsense' ~ it is an interesting statement given that you previously stated:


Yet you have not plainly stated what makes sense to you.

You seem to be referring to the master race 'nonsense' as being in the master and servant sense such as involving slavery, rather than in the sense of a master who is considered before others on account of sex, age and experience ~ as in terms of being more in control of themselves, hence the derogation on account that some believe that light skinned cultures are more civilised or advanced than dark skinned cultures and vice-versa ~ because of not linguistically understanding or behaviourally appreciating each other's historical traditions or developmental innovations.


Stick as you state to calling a 'spade a spade' (i.e., as being here reading what is written) rather than imagining the intentions of the digger (you) and undermining yourself by way of entrenching others in your fantasised interactions (teeth gnashing and silencing you). The [psychological] map is not as such the [physiological] territory! The only thing stopping your freedom of speech is your failure to abide by it in terms of respecting other peoples sense and sensibilities ~ recalling or considering anew that the freedom of speech is like having a driving license and abiding by the highway code ~ so drop the imagined wrong doings of yourself in other's positions, and pick up on the subject matter of the discussion itself (as being to make the future of Wrong Planet better) instead, and no longer break the following rule:

2. Personal attacks.
This includes insinuation, ridicule and personal insults, regardless of whether direct or indirect. Attacking an opinion, belief or philosophy is acceptable, but attacking the person making the comments is not.

Your compliance is very much appreciated as it is universally required. Thankyou everyone.

I do think that choosing to focus on support for autism and related issues rather than politics would stop the massive migration from here. There must be endless political forums elsewhere but few that support autism.

Even this thread has become a political arena.
Separating the political forum completely and isolating the conflicts to a restricted arena may be WP's salvation. It's in your face constantly even if you try your best to avoid it.

Yes Bender. Then it may be WP's "swan song." Some members just go straight for the jugular and don't let go, they thrive on conflict. Inevitably they will be the last left still standing and suddenly realise they have driven all the more mellow souls away.

If we had the admin power we'd do that. We'll be submitting a formal request to admin soon, with various suggestions.

I don't believe all the "mellow souls" will leave but would suggest they avoid PPR if at all possible. i think the whole forum might be unnecessary. Many folk would prefer to discuss their model trains, recipes or the movies they've seen. We're going to post rules as "sticky" (if possible without admin tools...) and re-post some rules where folk can see them prior to posting.

We have some fantastic members here and although I miss some who have left since I joined, there are numerous reasons they left and in most cases not because of members here but because personal stuff in real life got in the way. i'm still in intermittent contact with a few of these.

@Bender: I like the sound of that!! it could change the tone of future exchanges here.