Always a Wasp
General Category => Wasps Rugby Discussion => Topic started by: Vespula Vulgaris on August 18, 2022, 05:44:37 PM
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I have updated the rules post at the top of the page, please read it. As it is locked to comments if you have a comment about it this is the place.
Thanks
VV
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I am sad to hear that a regular poster has left. This should be a forum for lively exchange of views, but also considered and respectful, especially when a view runs contradictory to your own! It should be a page to look forward to visiting, not in trepidation because someone hiding behind the anonymity of the internet is acting in a disrespectful/intimidating/aggressive/inflammatory way.
Well said and updated VV!
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Plus 1. I have left the other thread for the reasons mentioned above but hope that some day I can return. I hope the lost poster will feel the same and return too. I hope that I have not contributed in any negative fashion and apologise if I have done so in any way.
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Thanks, VV. Sorry to hear we've lost a regular poster. Hope that they are still reading and will return.
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One of the greatest quotes ever written was “I disapprove of what you say but I’ll defend to the death you’re right to say it”. So I think posters of all opinions should be welcome. Having said that I agree the tone of debate should be reasoned and civil. Affinity to your team can make you cross that line and I’m happy to apologise if I personally have crossed it. Worst of all I’d hate to think contributors have been lost for whatever reason - every comment is valid if communicated correctly and no-one should ever think otherwise.
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Well done VV I do hope we can have some great discussions in the coming season.
Sad to hear someone has left, hope they have a change of mind
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One of the great difficulties of message forums is when people of differing opinions have a discussion, but neither side has any intention of ever changing their mind.
In the end, that just becomes a battle to eventually be proven right,
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Also known as “last wordism” because for some that means they’ve won the argument.
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What a shame. I know I'm a new poster, but I've been reading your views for quite some time and it's always seemed like a nice place to hang out :)
One of the biggest losses to society, and it has changed noticeably in the last six years I think, is the ability to have reasoned debate, to see things from another's point of view, and to listen to arguments and maybe even change your mind.
Ah well. So be it.
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Well said VV, I've just read it and it's all very fair comment. I very rarely visit the DW site anymore for precisely the reasons you mention here.
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Seems fair. I've not been near the other site in recent memory - I just want to discuss rugby, especially Wasps and certainly am not interested in acrimony. I can get that down the pub....
Whilst recognising the interplay with the football club - it is of no interest to me - my football allegiances lie elsewhere anyway. I'll most likely not post on threads that have it as a subject.
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Seems fair. I've not been near the other site in recent memory - I just want to discuss rugby, especially Wasps and certainly am not interested in acrimony. I can get that down the pub....
Whilst recognising the interplay with the football club - it is of no interest to me - my football allegiances lie elsewhere anyway. I'll most likely not post on threads that have it as a subject.
The admin at DW have sensibly changed the thread subject to Wasps Business Thread (non rugby). So easy to avoid.
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Thanks - but I do prefer it here!
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Thanks - but I do prefer it here!
So do I. I was once called the nastiest poster on Drunken Wasps years ago by arquero ::) He's registered here by the way (2017) but has never posted. Hope you are well, if you read this.
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Thanks - but I do prefer it here!
So do I. I was once called the nastiest poster on Drunken Wasps years ago ::)
Ah - probably still are (excepting the current swathe of somewhat over the top old English epic characters)