Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

[Palolo Joe]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

Well I better post something just so I'm not in some sort of silent agreement...

I think it's funny how I disagree with people and others think I got the hots for 'em. My love life is just fine, thank you very much. Don't need HT to play matchmaker for me.

(notice the strategic use of emoticons... lol)

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

"death; the big sleep.
sleep; the small death."

I thought "the little death" (le petit mort) referred to something else entirely.

[lavagal]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

Well I better post something just so I'm not in some sort of silent agreement...

I think it's funny how I disagree with people and others think I got the hots for 'em. My love life is just fine, thank you very much. Don't need HT to play matchmaker for me.

(notice the strategic use of emoticons... lol)

Yeah, I had a feeling things were going alright for ya in that dept Palolo Joe.
You should probably report to your wife/sig other that you've become a sought-after sex symbol on HT. Better she hear it from you first, dude.

[sinjin]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

Some of the forums on Hawaii.com have grown a little meaner and less saccharine lately, compared to HawaiiTreads.com.

Compare this thread on Hawaii.com...
http://www.hawaii.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2321
to this thread on HawaiiThreads.com
http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=6333

Cheers,

Jonah K

I'll say. I managed to get called nazi, klansman, etc. in just a couple posts.

Btw Jonah I appreciate your posts both here and there.

[mel]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

I have been reluctant to post to this thread until now. Granted, I may have been mean to a few people in some of the political topics. But then the old saying of what goes around comes around holds true. Seems like a lot of meaness has spread to otherwise benign topics out of the political realm around here (not that I read everything here to begin with)...... But...

Has it come to a point where the membership here would like to ban another member from access to the board?

I can think of only one incident very early in the history of HawaiiThreads that may have resulted in the banning of a user. It was a person who posted a couple of hardcore pornographic pictures and nothing else. (More than likely a message spammer.)

Anyway, to keep this discussion going should anyone be banned?

(OK I'll take a pre-emptive strike against myself just in case I am so bad that I need to be banned.. so 1 vote for me.)

[helen]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

I don't think banning would work in the long run.

[scrivener]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

I think that as long as the general rules of the forum are being followed, banning is unnecessary. If people want to ignore me, they will, which will effectively ban me among the regular participants. If my behavior becomes unbearable in general, and Ryan decides that I need to go, he can make that decision himself without input from anyone else.

But just to be sure, does anyone have an archive of those photos? I'll need to evaluate them myself!

[1stwahine]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

I'll give an example, Kimo55. I disagreed with him countless of times, he made me so angry. I used the tool to "Ignore" him and it worked. Over time, I cooled off and missed his answers.

We all are not perfect. At one time or the other we may have been irritated with a fellow poster. I have been at odds with several of my fellow posters on the board but as time went by I've learned that each and everyone of them are special. I have learned from each one of you on the board.

Yes, newcomers may seem too brash and think they know-it-all. It may make us all fall into their hands like they want to...some "think" they are experts in that field. To use people for their purposes. Lets rise above that. We, are professionals. We, don't play games.

This is hawaiithreads.com, We talk stories! Interesting ones. Not belittling others or trying to find every bit of fault in someone. We don't assume anyone's faith or how incapable they are to think, etc.

Since I've been a member, nobody has teased me of my mental illness nor for the God I believe in. I, therefore after writing all that because I'm in a manic stage...say NOT to BAN. We have the "Ignore Tool!"!

Auntie Lynn

PS. Do they have any Male X-rated pictures? LOL

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

But just to be sure, does anyone have an archive of those photos? I'll need to evaluate them myself!

Let's just say that if you did a Google Images search on the word "gaping", you'd get a general idea of how they looked.

[Menehune Man]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

Threads are getting closed left and right. Feathers are getting ruffled. Strong opinions about other's perceived racism and self-opinions of granduer. It has sure stepped up from "olde" days of just wondering what Kimo was gonna say. Just playing with ya man.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

Heaven forbid the employment of "tyranny of the majority". Please don't give us "banning mana".

And if I might share something I learned growing up on the Homestead: some of the best friendships are forged from the grudging respect earned after getting lickens.

If I wanted to post like a Mombie™, I would visit such a site. I like it here. And I like the opportunity to learn from sarcasm and disagreement (should that take place).

</2¢>

[Pua'i Mana'o]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

Let's just say that if you did a Google Images search on the word "gaping", you'd get a general idea of how they looked.

Thank. You. So. Very. Much. for that.

{{{willies}}}

[craigwatanabe]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

mean isn't a proper term to use here...EVIL is. There is so much bad talking going on here it comes down to spite at times. A while ago on Mel's Hawaii Radio and TV guide forum before it connected with Hawaii Threads I was the target of some maniacal flamer who could only speak of lies and inuendos regarding my personal and professional life in the media. I found out who she was and reminded her that some of us work in radio for a paycheck and to feed our families. When she spewed out all these lies about me for the sake of fun, she threatened my career of over 20-years. I told her how would you feel if I went up to your boss and told him that you were a prostitute at night and F&*ked his dad?

Can you imagine the fallout based on that lie? Well to denegrade someone in public based on lies is not what I call mature thinking.

We have to be careful how we speak on this board. To some it may be funny, to others their reputation is on the line now and you can really hurt someone with vicious and malicious statements. Sometimes I think some of the people here who spew garbage out on these threads are really little kids who haven't grown up into mature adults.

So is HT.com too mean? I think so, but it will take all of us participating on these threads to control ourselves and treat everyone here with a little bit more respect. Ask yourself, would you talk that way to your own kid?

[lurkah]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

mean isn't a proper term to use here...EVIL is. There is so much bad talking going on here it comes down to spite at times. A while ago on Mel's Hawaii Radio and TV guide forum before it connected with Hawaii Threads I was the target of some maniacal flamer who could only speak of lies and inuendos regarding my personal and professional life in the media. I found out who she was and reminded her that some of us work in radio for a paycheck and to feed our families. When she spewed out all these lies about me for the sake of fun, she threatened my career of over 20-years. I told her how would you feel if I went up to your boss and told him that you were a prostitute at night and F&*ked his dad?

Can you imagine the fallout based on that lie? Well to denegrade someone in public based on lies is not what I call mature thinking.

We have to be careful how we speak on this board. To some it may be funny, to others their reputation is on the line now and you can really hurt someone with vicious and malicious statements. Sometimes I think some of the people here who spew garbage out on these threads are really little kids who haven't grown up into mature adults.

So is HT.com too mean? I think so, but it will take all of us participating on these threads to control ourselves and treat everyone here with a little bit more respect. Ask yourself, would you talk that way to your own kid?

Couldn't think of many more reasons than those for using an alias.

[Peshkwe]

Re: Is HawaiiThreads.com too mean?

Ummm...You been to the Honolulu Advertiser boards lately?

Wear your asbestos undies if ya do and ya decide to walk into a thread unprepared.