You Asked For It -- Another Poll on the idea of an Adults Board — Page 3

can we just slap some more of the "mature teens"?

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I'm over eighteen and I must say the idea still bothers me...

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Say, does anybody think that sometimes it's the adults who act more like children than the young people? Oh, you do?

Jesus Christ. How many more times are people going to post and re-post that point? It's like some Rathnait virus that just keeps recurring.

A young persons' board could be where all homework help and parental complaints go.

A grown up persons' board could be the very special place where posting a vague head threadline like: "Sometimes I think"

with a message like: Eden Espinosa is the greatest singer of the past two centuries

would get you immediately BANNED FOR LIFE.

Now. What's so hard to grasp about that?

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Updated On: 6/25/05 at 10:26 PM

I wrote "head threadline" when I meant to write "thread headline."

I don't think it would be possible to do something as regimented as you describe, Jose.

I think just start a third board and let the chips fall.

(The influx happened around Tony time last year. That show about the green girl. That's what did it. And this year I am left pondering the question why the young people haven't embraced and are not obsessed with Spelling Bee. It's an infinitely superior show with odd balls for each and every young person to relate to.)

Besides, DID IT EVER OCCUR TO ANYBODY that sometimes the adults act more immature than the young people?

Oh. It did?

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I guess the question is.. will this cost us anything? And how do you seperate a moronic post from a younger posters post?? ( Like my post is moronic but I am 41)

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Besides, chronological age doesn't necessarily count for much here, as we've seen.

Amen!

I agree with Rathnait 100% on the issue of certain adults behaving like children.

Funny how some dish and dish but can't take it when their **** comes flying back at them. Not naming names, but it should be fairly obvious once one reads this thread.

Someone who simply voted.



No qualifiers and no blah, blah, blah.


Thank you, RobbO.

If BWW charges an access fee that would eliminate many of the younger people.

I like the idea of the OPTION of a third board on which to CHOOSE to post. It could be labeled an Old Fogey Board, or you could go the other route and label it a Student Board. Whatever. The point, for me, is NOT to rigidly control or exclude anyone, but to allow for the gravitation of posting in different directions....the same function that the creation of an Off Topic Board served a year and a half ago. Create a third venue...with no rigid rules...and I believe that the chips will fall into place on their own. If a "kid " chooses to start a thread on the Old Fogey Board and it "feels okay", no problem. If it belongs elsewhere, I'm sure any number of people would be quick to point out that "this belongs on the other board" and it could be moved...just as it happens now with the Main and OT boards.

To summarize: create a third board that will wick or channel different demographic groups in a particular direction, but don't make rigid rules or regulations about who can or can't post on any of the boards. To overcomplicate the concept is to doom it to failure. Offer a third option... and allow it to develop as it will...without TOO MUCH policing by the moderators. The creation of a third board should enhance the experience of BWW for everyone. Self-monitoring will often be enough to establish the norms for each board. For instance, while a chronological adult might feel free to venture into a thread, under the current set up, where chronological young people are complaining about their parents or school or talking about the wonder that is Idina...and make condescending, irritated, or snotty comments... that would be a) less likely to happen on a three board system and b) be less likely to be tolerated by the "dominant" demographic of that board if it was NOT on the Old Fogey Board.

Just a plea...be open to giving the three-party system, oops...three-BOARD system... a try. But without rigid rules. No membership fees and no rigid age requirements and no over-zealous moderating. Let it evolve into what it will be.

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ditto -- and more slapping.

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i know you are but what am i doodie-face!

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