I do know. A key problem is that many of the most interesting writers were scared off of forums years ago. You know, forums have a serious brand probl...
Surely I do want such intervening. If the goal were to raise the quality of content on average, there is no other option. Again, such intervening does...
To clarify (again) there's nothing about what I've suggested which prevents a clash of personalities. Also, my suggestions do not require a choice bet...
That seems a reasonable theory. I don't know what the behind the scenes situation is, so I'm just speculating. If your theory is generally correct, th...
Whether readers can understand is largely unknown here. It does seem true that this topic routinely fails to engage. That used to frustrate me, but la...
This might be addressed by confining such posters to the Conversation area. They don't necessarily need to be banned, but just removed from public vie...
If a discussion is about ideas instead of people, who cares who is being duplicitous? And anyway, none of us are the owner of any of these ideas. Howe...
Are you trying to understand Trump voters? Or is most of your effort going in to rejecting them? This isn't a challenge or complaint of any kind. Just...
It's also reasonable to consider that the audience may not be capable of understanding a particular topic and there's not really anything the author, ...
I don't wish to end it. I just know from long experience where it is headed. Nowhere. And that's ok, no problem. I just enjoy exploring ideas, that's ...
Yes, it's a different model than what is here currently, that's of course true. It's also different than the vast majority of forums, also true. And t...
I also have no philosophy training. We would NOT be eliminated. Say it again, we wouldn't be eliminated. Our posts would just be re-organized in to a ...
Why one or the other? Why not both? As you know, I've already written on the nature of thought about a hundred times. At least the way I discuss it, t...
Yes, it would drive many away, agreed. My point is only that the mass publishing of a lot of junk drives many away too. They come in off a Google sear...
Imho, Kennedy is a particularly interesting case. He seems to have single handedly saved Western civilization during the Cuban Missile Crisis which, i...
Yes, exactly like having to get published. Thus, the editor(s) will be careful about what articles they publish, as they should be. There's no way aro...
I hear you, we're all struggling to understand this phenomena. The best I can do for now is to try to draw a line between 1) the decision to vote for ...
If the conversation is perceived as being between people, then removing screen names is obviously going to generate confusion, agreed. But if the conv...
It may help for you to find further clarity on whether your goal here is to understand, or reject. Everyone is deep, deep, deep in to rejecting right ...
One way of removing the primary source of bias on philosophy forums, male ego, would be to remove all the screen names so that nobody can tell who sai...
Ok then, you are smart, smart, smart and those people over there are stupid, stupid, stupid. Given that every other post on every philosophy forum is ...
I thought this too, until my wife informed me that what is required is a two thirds of vote of whatever senators show up for the vote. If true, then R...
I was against it for the reasons you cite, until I realized it might prevent Trump from running again. Removing that threat once and for all seems wor...
To act as attorney for Trump voters.... In comparison to what? More decades of the same old political status quo which has failed so many people? Yes,...
I'd be happy to see him slammed in to federal prison for the rest of his life. That would send a message that's worth sending. But that's not going to...
Ok, so let's try to understand this phenomena together. I don't have the perfect answer obviously, so the following is just a place to start. First, t...
Charisma is perhaps more accurately compared to the phenomena of screen presence in TV and films. It's not so much about the character being laudable ...
The point of this thread could be an attempt to better understand Trump's appeal to his base. Calling Trump voters stupid is an insufficient analysis ...
Personally, I can't see that happening before the end of his term, but it might be possible in the next Congress. Apparently (if I understand correctl...
It's indisputably true that Trump is a compulsive liar, we all seem to agree on that, so we should be able to move on from this obvious point. What's ...
Hi Twinkle, Sorry that I can't help you with the book. So this is just a quick note to let you know that it would interest me to be taken in to the wo...
How about this? When you feel like making statements unfit for a philosophy forum why not confine that activity to the Lounge? Or, retire as a mod and...
Ok, here's the next question. When are you going to find some outlet other than a philosophy forum for such oh-so dramatic little high school statemen...
There would seem to be some measure of truth in this. As evidence we can examine the Trump thread which seems to filled primarily with tribal emotiona...
The perception of independent existence seems likely to be a pattern of conceptual division which the inherently divisive nature of thought imposes up...
Just quibbling with this a tiny bit. In 1995 I was hanging wallpaper for a living, making just enough to pay my modest bills and that's it. By 2000 I'...
Now that we've all chanted "we hate Trump!" about a billion times, it seems about time to start focusing on understanding why that happened. A few tho...
It will stop doing so once that we use the tools reason has given us to destroy our civilization. https://cdn.allthingsnuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/...
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