Banter?

[bf03yvd]

Pictures to follow lol

 

[Sarz11]

Pictures to follow lol

What pictures? Mine are gone :,( il learn how to make a website

 

[Spoon]

What pictures? Mine are gone :,( il learn how to make a website

will it require a monthly fee to view...

 

[Sarz11]

will it require a monthly fee to view...

For you no haha

 

[Spoon]

I think what makes the internet different is that meaning and intent is sometimes misinterpreted - on site you may dish out banter but people can tell your jesting by the tone of your voice and facial expression (glint in the eye), but not so with text.

Sorry Mods for taking this thread off at a tangent... (Every time I read the words Mods a chant pops into my head . "we are the mods, we are the mods, we are, we are, we are the mods..." Sorry again Mods...

Anyhow I think that Hawkmoon pretty much sums it up above.

Yes we have lots of smiley faces and other things that might help but do we have one for when someone is being sarcastic or just joking? Im a GOM and I don't know what they all mean.

 

[GMES]

Your all a bunch of tree huggers
( now the question is am i serious or am i joking )

 

[Adam W]

Is this about 'banter' or another 'be nice to the cowboys' thread?
IMO 'banter' should be between two willing participants. Yes it happens on this forum, but to me 'banter' is the old guys having a go at each other for being old and past it, or northern, or southern, or having admitted to messing up an outside light several years ago or drilling through a soil pipe, and not the threads started by cowboys which invariably end up along the lines of "Oh well I'm sorry I must have missed the point of a forum", which in itself is sarcasm, what you claim to dislike so much, but in either way reciprocates with the 'perpetrator' so validates it.

I'm against bullying just as much as the next man, although to me 'cyber bullying' is something children do over facebook when it doesn't occur to them to 'defriend' or simply block the bully, but to brand all 'banter' as 'bullying' and try to ban it just seems short-sighted.

The author of the so-called 'article' describes banter as "literally and without question the single worst thing in the history of the universe". I would argue that the holocaust was worse, because that was physical bullying, and people actually died from it.
Also from expressions like "Worse than the SN1987A supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which wiped out six planetary civilisations"... WTF!? Who throws that into an everyday conversation? It's clear that Tom Chivers is a geek and as far as I'm concerned he can bore off.

 

[GMES]

This is the thing that scares me Adam do we now have to be nice and cuddly to all the clearly incompetent posters who have swapped db's etc and then come and ask the very people who's work they have stolen for advice on how to rectify it.
If that is the case then i am sorry but it is not for me.

 

[dazza1981]

Is this about 'banter' or another 'be nice to the cowboys' thread?
IMO 'banter' should be between two willing participants. Yes it happens on this forum, but to me 'banter' is the old guys having a go at each other for being old and past it, or northern, or southern, or having admitted to messing up an outside light several years ago or drilling through a soil pipe, and not the threads started by cowboys which invariably end up along the lines of "Oh well I'm sorry I must have missed the point of a forum", which in itself is sarcasm, what you claim to dislike so much, but in either way reciprocates with the 'perpetrator' so validates it.

I'm against bullying just as much as the next man, although to me 'cyber bullying' is something children do over facebook when it doesn't occur to them to 'defriend' or simply block the bully, but to brand all 'banter' as 'bullying' and try to ban it just seems short-sighted.

The author of the so-called 'article' describes banter as "literally and without question the single worst thing in the history of the universe". I would argue that the holocaust was worse, because that was physical bullying, and people actually died from it.
Also from expressions like "Worse than the SN1987A supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which wiped out six planetary civilisations"... WTF!? Who throws that into an everyday conversation? It's clear that Tom Chivers is a geek and as far as I'm concerned he can bore off.

Its about Banter

 

[Adam W]

Same - I'll start being nice to the cowboys when Dom Littlewood and 'Matt Alright BBC Rogue Traders' start being nice to the cowboys; instead of jumping out on them and demanding to know why they've ripped people off they could jump out and offer free advice.

 

[Adam W]

Its about Banter

Yes I read the title of the thread but what I'm suggesting is 'banter' (jovial ribbing between like-minded people) is getting confused with telling cowboys they're out of their depth, which in turn is getting confused with going around picking on strangers just because they're different (northern, foreign, gay, ginger etc).

 

[Sarz11]

Your all a bunch of tree huggers
( now the question is am i serious or am i joking )

Ah hahaha well i am so am taking you seriously haha

 

[Sarz11]

Is this about 'banter' or another 'be nice to the cowboys' thread?
IMO 'banter' should be between two willing participants. Yes it happens on this forum, but to me 'banter' is the old guys having a go at each other for being old and past it, or northern, or southern, or having admitted to messing up an outside light several years ago or drilling through a soil pipe, and not the threads started by cowboys which invariably end up along the lines of "Oh well I'm sorry I must have missed the point of a forum", which in itself is sarcasm, what you claim to dislike so much, but in either way reciprocates with the 'perpetrator' so validates it.

I'm against bullying just as much as the next man, although to me 'cyber bullying' is something children do over facebook when it doesn't occur to them to 'defriend' or simply block the bully, but to brand all 'banter' as 'bullying' and try to ban it just seems short-sighted.

The author of the so-called 'article' describes banter as "literally and without question the single worst thing in the history of the universe". I would argue that the holocaust was worse, because that was physical bullying, and people actually died from it.
Also from expressions like "Worse than the SN1987A supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which wiped out six planetary civilisations"... WTF!? Who throws that into an everyday conversation? It's clear that Tom Chivers is a geek and as far as I'm concerned he can bore off.

Ah hahahahaha actually laughing . I agree with some of what you have said but its about banter nothing to do with cowboys. Theres nothing funny about incompetent people doing dangerous things your right!! However there is maybe a way of saying things to these people tactfully but saying what you mean as bantering with them would be pointless anyway if makin a serious point as banter is meant to be funny/a joke. Anyway its about banter and how things are taken and said.

 

[Sarz11]

This is the thing that scares me Adam do we now have to be nice and cuddly to all the clearly incompetent posters who have swapped db's etc and then come and ask the very people who's work they have stolen for advice on how to rectify it.
If that is the case then i am sorry but it is not for me.

Glenn glenn glenn stop this ludacris talk. Thread is about banter silly. I dont agree with the above and wouldnt be nice and cuddly but prob wouldnt banter with them either.

 

[Sarz11]

I know im blonde but jeez Im confused now eeek