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February 14th, 2004, 11:51 AM
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Re: politics, religion, and beating children
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Originally posted by Norfleet:
these kinds of debates start ON topic, and occur when a thread gets horribly derailed.
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I have a lamentable weakness for trolls. I find it hard to resist replying when people say what I consider to be silly things. 
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February 14th, 2004, 03:33 PM
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Re: politics, religion, and beating children
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Pity, I was looking forward to show my post in that thread to my religion teacher... I see why it was done, though.
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Your internet providor that you connect with usually gives you access to a email, browsing (by providing a DNS service), sometimes a personal web-page space, and newsGroups.
Ask them about newsGroups. Every job, hobby, pet, team, music group, or any other debate subject seems to have its own newsgroup where people gather to yell at each other. NewsGroups are part of Internet just like www is part of Internet (except newsGroups are much older than www). There are arguments there (ummm I mean debates) that have been going on for decades.
As long as the newsGroups still exist, Moderators dont have to feel too bad about saying "that doesnt fit here" and deleting it.
I tend to live in comp.ai.games (where I learned of GalCiv in '95), comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic (where I learned about Dominions1 in '01), and in alt.hacker (I was the 2nd most frequent poster there for 2003)
[ February 14, 2004, 13:33: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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February 14th, 2004, 05:29 PM
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Re: politics, religion, and beating children
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Originally posted by Norfleet:
That'd be a good solution in theory, but in practice, most of these these kinds of debates start ON topic, and occur when a thread gets horribly derailed.
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...which is why the Moderators have the power to move a thread from one forum to another. If a thread gets so derailed that there's no going back, it just gets moved over to the Off Topic forum. It works both in theory and in practice.
I am the head moderator over at a gaming forum with over 1550 registered Users (many of whom are younger than the average Dom II player), and it works for us.
[ February 14, 2004, 16:57: Message edited by: fahdiz ]
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February 14th, 2004, 07:01 PM
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Re: politics, religion, and beating children
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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Your internet providor that you connect with usually gives you access to a email, browsing (by providing a DNS service), sometimes a personal web-page space, and newsGroups.
Ask them about newsGroups.
I tend to live in comp.ai.games (where I learned of GalCiv in '95), comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic (where I learned about Dominions1 in '01), and in alt.hacker (I was the 2nd most frequent poster there for 2003)
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I have followed, and a few times posted in, CSIGS and rec.games.roguelike.adom for a few years. It was a link through Illwinter's page that got me into them (google Groups). Now that my father decided to try Linux I have access to IRC, newsGroups etc. programs, I might be able to change into a real newsreader. Are those really worth bothering if I can already read 'Groups through google? I have got IRC to work, but haven't found #dominions to be very active... BTW, thanks for those who told me some servers.
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February 14th, 2004, 08:43 PM
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Re: politics, religion, and beating children
I prefer reading my email on linux but I use windows programs for news. Forte is cool. I wouldnt prefer to do either of those thru a web interface because its too limiting.
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February 14th, 2004, 08:44 PM
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Re: politics, religion, and beating children
You might want to try #Dom2 on IRCnet. In the US use irc.stealth.net 6667. Zen has a continuously updated thread here:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=74;t=001276
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February 14th, 2004, 09:08 PM
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Re: politics, religion, and beating children
Remember, I still only have Dom2 as a demo. Still, as I think about it, propably they are playing with the two at #dominions too, so I might aswell give #dom2 a try. Thanks for the hint!
[ February 14, 2004, 19:09: Message edited by: Endoperez ]
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