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1  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Would Anyone Care to Chime In? on: 2006 November 28, 04:18:56
Quote from: "Denimjo"
What I said was in bad taste was your "quoting" someone that made comments on a forum that cannot be linked to, thus things like 'context' and 'exact wording' (and even 'person who actually said it') cannot be verified by anyone else (save for those that find their way here, of course).


lol most of the members(or at least the ones in the debate thread) are lurking here/are members =] but yeah I can see what you mean. I'm just a lazy bum and didnt feel like bringing up the browser to do it here too xD

Quote from: "BlueSoup"
For christsake, aren't they only a forum?


Actually they are a forum, a dowload site, have their own magazine, and also host a member run graphics site.
2  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Would Anyone Care to Chime In? on: 2006 November 28, 04:11:14
Quote from: "FatedCircle"
Heh...speaking of boolprop.com...

They've recently started turning to their flock of mostly teenaged members for donations to cover their $200 per month hosting fees.  Yes...I said per month.  I'm thinking $200 a month would get me a decent car, not to mention I don't like the thought of exploiting the naivety of teenaged kids.  Do I think they're being ripped off?  Hell yes.  Don't try to tell them that though, they'll defend their ways until they're blue in the face.  Precious group, ain't they?


Well I already mentioned it on Boolprop but since Denimjo thinks its in bad taste I will say it here aswell =]

Boolprop is not exploiting niave teenage members, if you check the trophy list you will see that only one member that has donated was a teen(that person being NovaMiniMan)..of course you would have no way of knowing that without knowing the members of the site though  :wink:
3  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Would Anyone Care to Chime In? on: 2006 November 28, 00:29:36
Quote from: "MMEStalker"
Quote from: "Kaibon"

 I'm only saying in most instances, its harder for the age group in question to understand the more advanced words.


I've read all of the thread in question, and I seem to be missing these 'more advanced words'. I'll be honest, I can't fully put my self in the shoes of these kids that you think are having trouble understanding, as I had an adult reading age before I left first school, but I do remember many instances of not understanding something, and I always looked it up or asked someone, whether it was a word, a phrase, a debate or something else. This still happens to me now and always will as no one can be well informed about everything, learning new things is part of life. Surely it's good for younger players to have this sort of interaction with us, having to argue my views with older better informed people has taught me a lot, it was a vital part of my education. I guess I don't understand why you think those here who have posted there, shouldn't do that, I don't see how it can be bad.


I agree with that completely =] however when there are alot of posts using a plethora of words you dont know...well...people tend to back down rather than look up 20 words =/ I can see were you are coming from though. I have always had a high reading level xP mostly because I'm a reading dork, but younger members might be intimidated and not post which would make the idea of debate useless ^0^ I wouldnt want to dumb myself down either, but Ive spent so much time with younger members of the forum that I just get used to it.
4  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Would Anyone Care to Chime In? on: 2006 November 27, 23:54:23
Quote from: "Ensign EO"
 And if I have no idea what's going on, I don't drop a post in the middle of the thread, crying that I don't understand and you're all too smart for me--I just don't post at all!  Simple concept.  


I think it was only mentioned being that the thread is a debate =] like you said, if you have no idea whats going on you wouldnt post. Most people are with you on that. =P More people will respond if posters with a vast vocabulary "dumb" themselves down. If you don't mind less response to what you say, then its all good. If you just wish to state your opinion and leave with no debate inbetween then dumbing youself down wouldnt be neccisary. Dumbing yourself down for the sake of debate may however, be needed considering the larger age group of boolprops members are in middle school =/

not saying you cant understand whats going on if your in middle school xD JustLiz is only 13 and has a wonderful vocabulary as well as a fabulous understanding of words. I'm only saying in most instances, its harder for the age group in question to understand the more advanced words.
5  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Would Anyone Care to Chime In? on: 2006 November 27, 22:59:09
Yesh wifey I know xD(Aimed at justliz, sorry I didnt expect the topic to move so quickly)

The thought whole "changing" thing was aimed at the debate, because a debate CAN change a forum even if it is within the rules =/

I think boolprop can handle it though =] despite weeding through a bit of rudeness in the debate(from both sides) everyone has done a good job of stating their views, and taking others views into consideration.

EDIT: I didn't mean to imply that it wasnt her choice...I even debated using the word "choice" but I couldnt think of a better one ^_^;
6  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Would Anyone Care to Chime In? on: 2006 November 27, 22:52:22
^0^ Hello misc boolpropians whos names I am far to lazy to mention!

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I'm proud of the fact that BoolProp had the balls to step up to the plate.


100 percent  :roll: I know alot of forums that wouldn't have been able to handle it.

Anywho-
I'm pretty sure Sushi means, change for the better. Everyone knows boolprop is going change eventually, but there is always a chance it could be for the worse. If Sushi feels she can prevent it from becoming worse in any way by signing up here then thats her choice ^^

As for if boolprop just shut down one day...well I would be upset O_o Boolprop is kind of a rarity among forums, maybe you could call it "Glittering and smelling of candy and rainbows" but the people there are generally nice and I like that better than most forums =] it is nice to see one like this though xD oh yesh. I can see myself coming to a forum with these kind of rules, had it not been made in favor of something I was against ^_^

I have no idea why I signed up here, maybe its just because a fair amount of you are on boolprop and I felt intitled ^0^ oh well, I'll be lurking.  Smiley I have big love for debates.
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