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there is no fine line....

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tami

Lifer
i'm writing this more as a vent than as anything else, and i guess my statements will be taken apart. by all means, i want your feedback anyway.

it bothers me a lot that people on ATOT get really anal about the "P&N" threads that are made in ATOT.

here's my take on this.

yesterday, someone posted about wanting to host a video about what we originally thought was 9/11 coverage. immediately, someone had to write "wrong forum."

but is it really the "wrong forum?" is 9/11 "news" at this point, or is it just a piece of our history? (and i really don't see 9/11 as "political," as long as the discussion was apolitcal.)

even without it being a 9/11 thread, i think that there is more P&N in OT than there is probably in P&N.

just because someone posts about 9/11 (which some may view as "worthwhile news") as opposed to "man's widow wins $1.875 settlement from nursing home for being bit by fire ants" doesn't mean the latter is not news.

(nobody said that this belonged in P&N now, did they? it still is very much NEWS, albeit not as publicly known as, say, 9/11.)

among other "news" threads in ATOT, you can find plenty:
guy wins $1million from home depot
dwight gooden arrested again
mario vazquez drops out of american idol

i find that these are perfectly well-suited for ATOT, although there's no mistaking that this information is considered NEWS. (and the forum is called politics AND news now, isn't it?)

do you really think that the aforementioned news stories belong in the P&N forum, which contains such threads as Looking for an Honest Socialist, Guantanamo Detainees Still Yielding Valuable Intelligence, Bush crisscrosses Red States re-inforcing Brainwashing of American Republicans 3-12-05, and Iraq parties gridlocked over terms?

i REALLY don't.

given that 9/11 was so long ago, i don't think it really has a place in P&N... nor does this thread belong in P&N. (as i said in that thread, i don't find anything outright political about that post except that the two guys are political figures.)

there's a truly blurry line between a lot that is posted in ATOT and P&N. that does not warrant personal attacks or whatever the case may be, yet some people address such posts (and responses) rather harshly. (feel free to attack what we say, but don't attack us.)

i could point out so many more threads about this, but you get my point.
 
Careful, Tami, you'll be branded the Forum Jackass if you bitch about wrong-forum threads too much! :roll:

(I completely agree, Tami. There is no fine line between any two forums with the exception of General Hardware and Highly Technical. It's laid out in black-and-white, but since AT is full of bleeding MORONS WHO CAN'T READ, they dump everything into OT. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Careful, Tami, you'll be branded the Forum Jackass if you bitch about wrong-forum threads too much! :roll:

(I completely agree, Tami)
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this will be my only thread regarding the issue. (i'll still respond to stuff here.)
 
i think news topics that have a 85% chance of becoming political bash fests dont belong in OT

some examples migh tinclude:
abortion
bush bashing
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Careful, Tami, you'll be branded the Forum Jackass if you bitch about wrong-forum threads too much! :roll:

(I completely agree, Tami. There is no fine line between any two forums with the exception of General Hardware and Highly Technical. It's laid out in black-and-white, but since AT is full of bleeding MORONS WHO CAN'T READ, they dump everything into OT. :roll:
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We already know you're the forum jackass. He cannot take your crown!
 
The main reason you see the posts exclaiming "P&N!" with a topic like that is because you are basically luring P&N idiots (DMcowen, etc) into ATOT, and we fear that. It's better to keep them in the other forum.
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
The main reason you see the posts exclaiming "P&N!" with a topic like that is because you are basically luring P&N idiots (DMcowen, etc) into ATOT, and we fear that. It's better to keep them in the other forum.
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so true.
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: Nik
Careful, Tami, you'll be branded the Forum Jackass if you bitch about wrong-forum threads too much! :roll:

(I completely agree, Tami. There is no fine line between any two forums with the exception of General Hardware and Highly Technical. It's laid out in black-and-white, but since AT is full of bleeding MORONS WHO CAN'T READ, they dump everything into OT. :roll:
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We already know you're the forum jackass. He cannot take your crown!
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hello, tami is not male 😛
 
Originally posted by: Hammer
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
The main reason you see the posts exclaiming "P&N!" with a topic like that is because you are basically luring P&N idiots (DMcowen, etc) into ATOT, and we fear that. It's better to keep them in the other forum.
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so true.
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as i said recently (with locked thread goodness http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1543974&enterthread=y ) P&N is a scary, scary place-we really don't want monsters creeping out into our dimension...
 
Whenever I think of P&N (which is quite rare), I am always reminded of the adage, "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
 
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: Nik
Careful, Tami, you'll be branded the Forum Jackass if you bitch about wrong-forum threads too much! :roll:

(I completely agree, Tami. There is no fine line between any two forums with the exception of General Hardware and Highly Technical. It's laid out in black-and-white, but since AT is full of bleeding MORONS WHO CAN'T READ, they dump everything into OT. :roll:
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We already know you're the forum jackass. He cannot take your crown!
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hello, tami is not male 😛
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Lies. There are only two women on the internet and one of them used to be a man.
 
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: Nik
Careful, Tami, you'll be branded the Forum Jackass if you bitch about wrong-forum threads too much! :roll:

(I completely agree, Tami. There is no fine line between any two forums with the exception of General Hardware and Highly Technical. It's laid out in black-and-white, but since AT is full of bleeding MORONS WHO CAN'T READ, they dump everything into OT. :roll:
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We already know you're the forum jackass. He cannot take your crown!
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hello, tami is not male 😛
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And the proof is in the pudding.....

:camera:?
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: Nik
Careful, Tami, you'll be branded the Forum Jackass if you bitch about wrong-forum threads too much! :roll:

(I completely agree, Tami. There is no fine line between any two forums with the exception of General Hardware and Highly Technical. It's laid out in black-and-white, but since AT is full of bleeding MORONS WHO CAN'T READ, they dump everything into OT. :roll:
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We already know you're the forum jackass. He cannot take your crown!
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hello, tami is not male 😛
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And the proof is in the pudding.....

:camera:?
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i'm getting married on sunday. he also is on AT.

maybe, just maybe, i'll post a wedding picture. 🙂
 
is it just me, or does it seem like when people venture from ot and start spending time in p&n, they start turning into crusty curmedeons when they come back to OT?
 
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