Casey
- Public recc feature
- Moderated board (A, hopefully and ideally, a benign and fair dictatorship)
They serve to give back the concept of Responsibility for One's Actions. Something that started out with two guys starting at each other over a rock, or a campfire.
If you aren't getting the nuances of facial feedback, use emoticons (or assides).
Yahoo's system removed all fear of receiving a sock in the eye for being a mouthy jerk and look at the anarchy they have.
Sorry Ocyan, I totally disagree. Think of this as a nice big playground with a chainlink fence around it. I can deal with knowing that the boundaries are there. If you can't, that's okay too. Start your own board. Or do the 'Merkan thing and (read gently please) hitch wagons and roll off into the wild Yahoo west.
I'm tired of that. And frankly folks, my DSA schtick was getting old for me too.
Back to lurk mode.