Why don't you post on Society, Culture & Politics?

[Fnaar]

So tell us, why doesn't Ms Goodbody post on SC&P?

Basically because she is a figment of my fevered imagination

She has no time for time for politicking... she prefers someone who gives it to her straight.

 

[jonny jeez]

I'm with you there. It simply hasn't been much fun for a while. It doesn't have to be that way, although some people clearly prefer it.

Okay, well this is progress...so given that you are an active contributor who is clearly intelligent or well educated, what would you suggest could be done...by all members...to make sc&p an interesting place to visit without fear of intimidation or being rounded upon just because you don't understand something...which is probably why you went there in the first place.

 

[Globalti]

It's a place for demonstrating one's impeccable PC credentials. The funniest riposte is the standard: "Where's your study to prove what you've just claimed?" .....as if anybody carries out a formal study on any of the twaddle that people talk on web fora, which are, after all, merely virtual pubs. It does give you an insight into the bitchiness and egotism of the academic world.

 

[User482]

...and begins a sentence with the word 'So'. There's another pet hate of mine.

Perhaps you could start a list of the trivialities which annoy you. Why not step back from the computer and go for a jog?

 

[jonny jeez]

People can always call other people out on their poor behaviours.

Are you being genuine, or factitious.

 

[Fnaar]

The funniest riposte is the standard: "Where's your study to prove what you've just claimed?"

Don't forget the magic words "peer reviewed"

 

[Fab Foodie]

People can always call other people out on their poor behaviours.

.... and do.

 

[Archie_tect]

I wouldn't necessarily trust all peer reviews... not if my b-in-law's tales of ineptitude, back-stabbing and deceit are true*. I remember reading about Darwin's peer reviews so nothing has changed.

(* anecdote)

 

[Archie_tect]

.... sometimes

 

[coffeejo]

This two tribes thing is like being stuck in a badly directed production of Romeo and Juliet, just without with the naive, sickly, puppy love story.

 

[Fab Foodie]

So, thus far people who post in SC&P have been called 'egotistic', 'bickering cliques', 'petty know it alls', 'childish', 'obnoxious', 'full of hate', 'overbearing', 'pretentious' (for using words like 'one' and 'nuanced' apparently), 'petty minded', 'thinking they're big and clever', 'feigning intelligence', 'a toxic gang', 'pseudo intellectual', and 'using cliches'.

Damn we're good!

 

[Tail End Charlie]

What's interesting is that people who post in SCP feel obliged to offer their words of wisdom in a thread entitled "why don't you post in SCP". A psychiatrist would have a field day here.

 

[Fab Foodie]

This is going well ....

 

[Archie_tect]

I have a foot in both camps... perhaps I should use a different analogy.

 

[theclaud]

Soz

Lolz.