Proposal for Anything Goes - Beyond Tiki

S SugarCaddyDaddy Member Huntington Beach, California Joined: Jun 03, 2002 Posts: 1500	S SugarCaddyDaddy Posted posted on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 1:07 PM My vote & opinion on a separate "Anything Goes" Forum: NO, NO, NO! Just in case you didn't read it right: NO! I believe that the description heading to the "Beyond Tiki" Forum should read: Got something to share that's not Tiki-specific, but you think the members of Tiki Central would like it? Share it here. Lounge, Retro, Swing, Cars, Tattoos, Art, Surf, Tropical/Hawaiiana, Vintage. "and beyond" should be deleted. It leaves too much of an open door to those that "take a mile" when given an inch. Our posts are open to Google, Yahoo, Excite, etc. web searches. If controversial, slanderous, racial (or whatever you want to call it) posts are made in an Anything Goes forum, it then can be found by those who are looking for an internet argument, which then lets them think that we are welcoming such Idiotic Posts (which is what the forum should be called since that is the type of forum it would end up being). Hanfords mailbox would then be filled with emails from disgruntled members because someone is sure to be insulted somewhere, somehow, in some way. He would then have to email them back to explain that it's an "ANYTHING GOES" forum and to expect those types of posts. Unfortunately, those members that would join TC just to put their 2-cents in on subjects in an Anything Goes forum, would most likely not keep their 2-cents strictly in that forum. There are alot of other websites for highly controversial chat. Let them go there! In addition, I don't want to have the main topic at future TC social gatherings to be how TC has been overrun by terrible, controversial, insulting posts, which, by the way, has been talked about just by the few posts we have had.....which brings me to my last point: Since we are unlike 95% of other internet forums, whereby we actually meet each other, go on trips with each other, and socialize in person on a regular basis, you will notice that those topics that have been either highly insulting and/or highly controversial have been by members that are not quite local to any other members at all or don't socialize with other members in person. For them, we are just names on the screen. We are basically non-existent to them other than being a sounding board for their spamming for profiteering, their allegiance to some faith/religion and/or political view, or trying to find some kind of acceptance for out-of-control substance abuse. We, as a whole, have been able to police quite a bit of these types of posts, and nip most problems in the bud, but, unfortunately, it does have it's end result as a locked post by Hanford. Like I've said before: Tiki and Tiki Central's attraction for me is ESCAPISM. Controversial/insulting/religious/political posts on TC is like having a non-stop ringing fax & phone on my tropical isle. I don't like that. Do you? Just my 2 coconuts worth. SugarCaddyDaddy's SoCal Hoity Toity Schedule! [ Edited by: sugarcaddydaddy on 2003-08-26 15:08 ]

My vote & opinion on a separate "Anything Goes" Forum: NO, NO, NO! Just in case you didn't read it right: NO!

I believe that the description heading to the "Beyond Tiki" Forum should read:
Got something to share that's not Tiki-specific, but you think the members of Tiki Central would like it? Share it here. Lounge, Retro, Swing, Cars, Tattoos, Art, Surf, Tropical/Hawaiiana, Vintage.

"and beyond" should be deleted. It leaves too much of an open door to those that "take a mile" when given an inch.

Our posts are open to Google, Yahoo, Excite, etc. web searches. If controversial, slanderous, racial (or whatever you want to call it) posts are made in an Anything Goes forum, it then can be found by those who are looking for an internet argument, which then lets them think that we are welcoming such Idiotic Posts (which is what the forum should be called since that is the type of forum it would end up being). Hanfords mailbox would then be filled with emails from disgruntled members because someone is sure to be insulted somewhere, somehow, in some way. He would then have to email them back to explain that it's an "ANYTHING GOES" forum and to expect those types of posts. Unfortunately, those members that would join TC just to put their 2-cents in on subjects in an Anything Goes forum, would most likely not keep their 2-cents strictly in that forum. There are alot of other websites for highly controversial chat. Let them go there!

In addition, I don't want to have the main topic at future TC social gatherings to be how TC has been overrun by terrible, controversial, insulting posts, which, by the way, has been talked about just by the few posts we have had.....which brings me to my last point:

Since we are unlike 95% of other internet forums, whereby we actually meet each other, go on trips with each other, and socialize in person on a regular basis, you will notice that those topics that have been either highly insulting and/or highly controversial have been by members that are not quite local to any other members at all or don't socialize with other members in person. For them, we are just names on the screen. We are basically non-existent to them other than being a sounding board for their spamming for profiteering, their allegiance to some faith/religion and/or political view, or trying to find some kind of acceptance for out-of-control substance abuse.

We, as a whole, have been able to police quite a bit of these types of posts, and nip most problems in the bud, but, unfortunately, it does have it's end result as a locked post by Hanford.

Like I've said before: Tiki and Tiki Central's attraction for me is ESCAPISM. Controversial/insulting/religious/political posts on TC is like having a non-stop ringing fax & phone on my tropical isle.

I don't like that. Do you?

Just my 2 coconuts worth.

SugarCaddyDaddy's SoCal Hoity Toity Schedule!

[ Edited by: sugarcaddydaddy on 2003-08-26 15:08 ]

Post #49321 by SugarCaddyDaddy on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 1:07 PM