SC - Useful Debate, or Just Lots and Lots of Yelling?

[AggieDave 6]

SC serves two purposes:

1. To allow angry people to be angry
2. To prevent angry people posting angry things in the real forums.

There are more useful debates in the DB Cooper thread than in this entire forum.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[quade 4]

"More useful" is a relative term.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[popsjumper 2]

Couldn't resist, eh?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[quade 4]

popsjumper

Couldn't resist, eh?

I'm just askin', "more useful" to whom?

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[rushmc 23]

popsjumper

I avoid the Bonfire (for the most part) because I cant stand the ass hole attitude of many that post there

At least here, people have to think (a bit)

Ah, poo. SC makes it easier to be an asshole...no thinking required.
Think of all the straight-line set-ups you are being fed.

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Cant argue with that but

I'm just sayin.......

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[NewGuy2005 52]

It was not like this before Obama was elected.

[ManagingPrime 0]

IMHO there is very little useful debate. After doing some reading from all my typical news sources I'll jump into the SC and see most all the headline stories.

From time to time a subject actually interests me. In many cases posts are predictable. There are some posters who cause me to think a little deeper about an issue, I have to actually slow down and read their posts in detail and I really enjoy those posts.

As previously mentioned, the majority of the posts in the majority of the threads are kind of depressing, because there is little if any sincere exchanges of ideas (debate)...most posts are disguised personal attacks.

That said, I enjoy reading comments on the "news of the day" and I have no interest in setting up accounts on a bunch of other websites to engage in more stimulating debate when this website is largely just a distraction during my downtime at work.

The left vs right shit is really annoying.

[StreetScooby 5]

SC used to be much different many years ago.
You could actually learn something.
Not so much anymore, IMO.
I miss that.
BTW - nerdgirl was one of the best.
Always made me think.

We are all engines of karma

[rwieder 0]

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I'd buy anyone here a beer. People get all worked up on line and that generally has nothing to do with their behavior in the real world. (With a very few exceptions.)

+1

-Richard-
"You're Holding The Rope And I'm Taking The Fall"

[1969912 0]

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....and getting a refund on used items from WalMart.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[catfishhunter 2]

billvon

>Its defiantly helped me identify those I wouldn't cross the street to piss on if they were on fire.

I'd buy anyone here a beer. People get all worked up on line and that generally has nothing to do with their behavior in the real world. (With a very few exceptions.)

LOL see the don't take everything so serious billy I promise if you or kallend or quade was on fire I would most assuredly piss on you and I would sit down to an O'Dhouls with you as long as we didn't talk about anything except jumping :)

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[mistercwood 287]

I'm a fairly optimistic guy, so I'd say it's about 30/70 content to noise. I'm including the content that I disagree with as well, but that still gives me new things to learn, new angles on topics. Like Wendy said though, it helps to be a fast reader...

You are playing chicken with a planet - you can't dodge and planets don't blink. Act accordingly.

[oldwomanc6 40]

I do find that there is an awful lot of intellectual snobbery here.

lisa
WSCR 594
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[christelsabine 1]

oldwomanc6

I do find that there is an awful lot of intellectual snobbery here.

Yep. Just happened at discussion about who was holding an umbrella with what over which president .....

Jesus, can't stop ROTFLMAO over such an intellectual level of a thread .

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[champu 1]

Speakers corner is probably about 1/3 people who want to trumpet their staunch opinions as loudly and frequently as possible because they're just frustrated about something, 1/3 people who just enjoy egging the first group on, and 1/3 people interested in discussing current events or reading discussions about them. These groups don't necessarily post with the same frequency though.

If you look around in the threads there really just aren't that many people who post here anymore.

The thing I found most iconic in the umbrella thread was someone writing early on, "This is just a website stirring up shit." and the next post is someone saying [paraphrased], "Well then let's go for a swim."

[Andy9o8 2]

oldwomanc6

I do find that there is an awful lot of intellectual snobbery here.

Hey! You don't have to be so snotty about it.

[wmw999 2,371]

Intellectual is a 5-syllable word, and snobbery is a 3-syllable word

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[oldwomanc6 40]

lisa
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FB 1023
CBDB 9