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#17206 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Greg wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 9:59 pm It seems to me that this message wasn’t following the thread, but it certainly fits ‘Nothing in Particular’. I hope you’re not going down the road some here navigate, informing the forum members (and the much wider dissociated public) of all the mundane occurrences and plans they have in their lives. We all have mundanity in our lives. We just don’t need to tell everyone else about it. I may be a bit different but generally it seems to me these kind of posts are unconstructive and certainly uninteresting. Well, that’s my take on it.
Greg, stepping back from my downpour post, you might want to reflect on your lack of empathy, and rather judgemental perspective, expressed towards members in your response.

I can appreciate your personal viewpoint on this and understand that you might experience some frustration, so can I suggest that, perhaps, you should consider just ignoring some posts or, if they trouble that much, adding some members as 'foes', which I think will block their posts from you.

My personal view is that, within sensible bounds about what is socially acceptable, we should avoid censorship or oppressing views, or to try and define rules for what defines constructive and/or interesting content.

Regarding my own post, as it happens I commented because the downpour was, in my experience, quite exceptional and not at all mundane.
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#17207 Re: Nothing In Particular

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shane wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 10:58 am Love that smell! Interesting mechanism behind it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
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#17208 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Ray P wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 8:24 pm
shane wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 10:58 am Love that smell! Interesting mechanism behind it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
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#17209 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Nicely put Ray. Anna and I walked out into the woods today. So, so beautiful.
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#17210 Re: Nothing In Particular

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My personal view is that, within sensible bounds about what is socially acceptable, we should avoid censorship or oppressing views, or to try and define rules for what defines constructive and/or interesting content.
That may be the case, but I would just remind that this is not a democracy, so avoiding censorship or oppressing views, covers both your and Greg's posts equally. There is no we, there is no censorship and there are no rules, and there is no definition of constructive or interesting.

Everyone who is a member can post what they like.
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#17211 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Nick wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 8:57 pm That may be the case, but I would just remind that this is not a democracy, so avoiding censorship or oppressing views, covers both your and Greg's posts equally. There is no we, there is no censorship and there are no rules, and there is no definition of constructive or interesting.

Everyone who is a member can post what they like.
Nick, that's essentially what I was expressing, other than my caveat about social acceptability is recognising that at some point the rule of law comes into play so, whilst members can post what they like, there might be consequences.
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#17212 Re: Nothing In Particular

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"social acceptability" and "the rule of law" are very much different things IMHO.
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#17213 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Nick, all I was saying is that this forum community exists within a broader society framework that imposes constraints on this community, but i suspect you knew that...
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#17214 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Ray P wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 11:03 pm Nick, all I was saying is that this forum community exists within a broader society framework that imposes constraints on this community, but i suspect you knew that...
Yes, that's why I wondered why you felt you should say it.
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Thanks Nick for you’re choices.
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Agreed. It's always been a place where people's comments stand by their words, and others can make their own decision on the words and the poster.

It's perhaps worth mentioning a certain feline infestation we had some years ago on my GM70 thread that riled a lot of people here. It's not worth digging up the past on this, but I noticed some time ago when rereading the thread that said poster had deleted all their posts, so there is now significant missing context, which isn't ideal for those reading afresh.

One could take a view on why they deleted their words. Especially when you can remember the gist of the exchanges. But perhaps it's worth considering blocking the ability to edit posts after a certain time to preserve context?
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simon wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 1:46 pm But perhaps it's worth considering blocking the ability to edit posts after a certain time to preserve context?
I thought that was already the way ?

Perhaps deletion is allowed but editing not.
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#17218 Re: Nothing In Particular

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simon wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 1:46 pm One could take a view on why they deleted their words. Especially when you can remember the gist of the exchanges. But perhaps it's worth considering blocking the ability to edit posts after a certain time to preserve context?
Hmm, maybe deleting can be done. Can you point me at the actual thread and I will check.
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#17219 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Just checked, posts can be deleted up to 60 minutes after creation, edited 720 minutes after posting.
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#17220 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Okay, this was a good few years ago and it looks like the forum settings have been updated since :thumbright:.

The text of the posts (would have to check back whether they were edited or deleted) would have been deleted some time afterwards - could be months or even years. 12 hours seems a fair compromise.
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