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I hope you do , but I think there will never be another 60's... ( the 70s were not so bad either

 

My asawa wears a biometric chastity belt - I'm going to have to be careful.

(@Rye83 - please note how I put myself into off-topic! Bonus points please).

 

I salute to the mods effort to keep this forum informative and relevant for all those seeking legit information regarding their concerns. Seeing all the personal attacks and BS being posted just because they're being "moderated", it must not be easy. That's why I laugh at users who mock and make a big deal out of it, when in fact, the moderator is only doing his job as a MODERATOR.
Been there, done that. Never wanna go back.

 

This is a very good point that you make.

A training process would be much better than banning users. This training process would get longer and longer the deeper they dug their hole.

The point being is that everyone has some value in what they communicate. When a user is banned, the forum loses the valuable part of their input. (however small)

The challenge is the sorting and training to reduce the crap.

1) Ideally there would be more community moderation through the use of ratings to relieve the official moderator.

2) Posts the community determined to be bad would be diminished. Similar to what happens if someone rates a post as off topic now.

3) People who collect a number of bad ratings would have to answer a few questions when they made future posts to ensure that they considered the forum rules when making subsequent posts.

An important feature would be the ability/requirement to leave comments relating to the negative rating so that posters would learn why the reader left a negative rating.

In the end it would be better to train people than to ban them. Those people who are hard to train would be met with a very long training process before every post they made. Whereas a moderator would tire of this, an automated software solution would continue on tirelessly. In time the poster would learn their lesson and become a positive contributor to the forum.

There is some value in what everybody says.

 

Not a reliable way to communicate. You can use it if you also have a basic understanding of Cebuano grammar. It is fairly good for vocabulary. Often spellings can be confusing; for example “kaayo” or “much/very” can be spelled as “kaau” (more Bohol dialect) and Google might not pick it up. Keep at it though; they will really like you for it. Sometimes they run words together and Google cannot understand unless you break up the components. But it us not a complicated language. It has limited vocabulary.


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A member here (one who previously questioned my credentials to give virological advice and on whose postings I could correct many English language errors if I wanted to be condescending) might well check the word 'condescending' (which you defined for him, anyway). Not you, of course, as I am entirely in agreement with what you wrote and full marks to those who have enquiring minds and prefer to check something than to skip over it.

 

I agree with a reply above that having a sense of humor/humour (I am trying to be inclusive here) is a good thing in the present circumstances and at any time - as long as it does not cause unreasonable hurt to others.

I am the one who went off-topic on your 'cheese' thread BUT I did so AFTER your question had been answered (that is the crucial point). The three main sources (see Mr Rye, sources here, sources there, sources everywhere ) of cheese were already given and, though not redundant, the thread had served its purpose.

I did not just head in and steal a thread that was still running. I did consider the remote possibility of the OP objecting but hoped he could bend a little in the name of good humour/humor and not worry too much about a thread which served his purpose getting corrupted. It is a bit like picking up a discarded stick and playing with it.

BUT, if you feel hurt then my apologies to you.

 

Yes...you are correct! I would always add Heinz Ketchup to the mix.