Forum Issues and Suggestions
 

I just want to say that all the responses to this thread were excellent...especially those related to how we "treat" opinions/ideas of others. On a less serious approach to this, I wanted to say that it reminded me of something that I once read and have often used...in jest, of course: "You're entitled to your own opinion as long as it's the same as mine."!!

Therese

My Grandmother always used to say when I got uppitty "two great minds think alike" but then she would smile and change the subject. Wonder why lol

I appreciate the responses here and hope to continue this thread so that possibly we can work with the issues that members have found upsetting for them, or not working for them, on a continual basis...as far as threads, posts and communications go.

If there's something you don't feel comfortable putting here, please PM me.

Also, I do want to let you know that this thread is to think of suggestions that might help the communication and flow of this forum, NOT to discuss specific guidelines or actions. If you disagree with the guidelines, which are agreed upon when joining and posting, or mod/admin actions, please PM and admin. or DocJohn. I'd like us to discuss what might improve the forum function overall within the already established guidelines.

KD

conflicting desires
 

I will speak only for myself, but it is frustrating to be trying to carry on a serious discussion of a scientific topic here at times. It is like practicing football and the marching band is using the same field, at times. :D

On the other hand, I like to joke and kid around sometimes as well. And I know that not everyone is able or willing or even interested in taking part in some of the things I desire. But some are and there should be some way to accomodate us all.

Back in the days of steam powered computing, I used to frequent Usenet. There was a convention there of prefixing the subject line with an abbreviation to let readers know a little bit about the thread. Maybe something like that could work here.

For example, we already use OT for off topic. Maybe we could adopt "SER" for serious consideration of something scientific by serious curmudgeons like myself? And maybe KIL for keep it light.....

Yeah, that's gonna fly.....:D

That's a good suggestion, and one I saw before...using icons.

What kinds of icons would help us here..."off topic" was mentioned, "serious postings only"?..."for fun"?

Thanks!

KD

hi kimmydawn
 

what we need is an image of Einstein with his tongue stickin out -
holdin a postboard with a stick : that says -relativity check!


http://www.cardcow.com/images/set21/...rd00046_fr.jpg

Tena Tena Tena

I love you kid and your style it is always on point and realistic. Nothing fatuous about you as is about me. I am here one minute and gone the next. Must be my age or looks or something. lol lol lol

hello dear thelma...
 

Well thats the first thing I thought of -LOL? :D

also this shows how people differ in opinion...

to each their own - ;)


Why did the chicken cross the road?

Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.

Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest, chickens in motion tend to cross roads.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends on your frame of reference.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

Wolfgang Pauli: There already was a chicken on this side of the road.

KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: To get to the other side.

PLATO: For the greater good of man.

KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.


RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.

GEORGE W. BUSH: The chicken crossed the road because he was an evil-doer, and we smoked him out of his hole and got him on the run!

Info vs. mutual support?
 

BILL CLINTON: Ah did NOT fricassee that fowl, uh, Miss Chicken.

My opinion on the coded thread suggestion: Eight years since dx, I have about as much chance of remembering the codes as I do of where I put my keys. Let's not get too carried away about rules, otherwise Tena would have had to start a new thread to make a joke, and I would have had to know about her thread to make my clever, witty response. Some of the best threads have an ebb and flow about them.

If people are being disruptive, please deal with disruptive people, don't put a bunch of Parkies under still more and more rules. Besides sharing information, we come here to be with each other for mutual support, don't we? To me that means not being scrutinized for weirdness by non-Parkies (other than Thelma, who is not really a non-Parkie) and not being told to behave in some standard fashion. I know you mods weren't intending to do that, but I fear any tendency in that direction. I don't believe in coralling all the horses to put shoes on only a few.

Information-sharing threads could include the word "info" in the title. I am in favor of letting the rest flow freely. Hmm, we used to have a member whose humor was often misunderstood, so he marked his humorous posts with "HFF" for Humor Flag a-Flyin'. It was voluntarily done to help others.

Those are my views, AND I'm flexible about accepting whatever gets changed.

A comment for those friends who may have thought I went away mad from the "What if..." thread: I was indeed off-topic, and I preferred not to have my post as the last thing before a "rolleyes" comment. I get enough of that at home, LOL. Then when I thought about where else to post it, I realized it wasn't worth preserving. It was kind of a bad-hair day anyway.

Nonetheless, Thelma, your words were inspiring and comforting. Maybe I'll be fatuous for a while, too, just to be fair. :D

Suggestions? Mods asked for suggestions. Okay, remember what DocJohn blogged about personal-interest forums working better than information-sharing forums? I'll try to find it later.

Jaye

I, for one, appreciate the "hands off" approach........
 

that the moderators approach this forum with.
The saying, "be careful what you wish for, you might get it!!", comes to mind in this situation. We are all different and have our own opinions as to how the group should be operated. my suggestion is, to delete personal attacks and let the formicuns post whatever else they wish to.
Remember Chuck Sloan and Laura Dean (ole CS and Harley) were sumarily banned in the old Braintalk, and the moderators ignored our requests to talk about it. That is why I switched to this forum.

This, or any forum, will NEVER suit everyone, but I think that it works for the majority of us.

SO the bottom line is, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!" I appreciate the forum and its moderators just as they are, and would never presume to micro-manage either.

SO lets cut each other some slack!! Lets learn, laugh and sometimes cry together and be thankful that we have such a great place to post!!

Charlie Black