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what % of members have turned off the Soap Box entirely?
09-06-2008, 03:59 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2,713
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what % of members have turned off the Soap Box entirely?
Just out of curiosity.. since there was a 'forum-wide' election poll there.
Is that a statistic that the moderators have access to, and can reveal?
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09-06-2008, 07:00 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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I turned it off immediately and my blood pressure shows it. 
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09-06-2008, 07:58 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by ladelfina
Just out of curiosity.. since there was a 'forum-wide' election poll there.
Is that a statistic that the moderators have access to, and can reveal?
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I visited the Soapbox when I first joined, when I was confused about dryer sheets. It is not for the gentle and meek; although they may inherit the earth, they won't survive a single thread in the Soapbox. I consider myself rather sturdy and stalwart, but "there be dragons." I peek in occasionally, and slam the door shut real quick.
Kudos to those who can spend enjoyable time there. For those brave folks, Macbeth said it best:
"I have almost forgot the taste of fears;
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me."
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09-06-2008, 08:16 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Ah yes, the "mosh pit"! It's relishing to bathe in it once in a while. After all, this is life in all it's naked glory, and serves to sharpen your wits, as well as reinforce your biases - or knock them down. It is not for the faint of heart.
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09-06-2008, 08:36 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North-Central Illinois
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I've visited The Litter Box 'The Soap Box' two or at most three times. I haven't used the 'official' "Ignore Forum" feature (yet), I just ignore it and I don't venture there. I get enough political BS to fulfill my 'Daily Recommended Allowances' at the local coffee shop and via the nightly network news, and I ignore most of that as well. 
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09-06-2008, 08:45 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
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I put it on ignore a couple of weeks ago to avoid all the political flaming. I might go back after the elections, but I've been enjoying the forums so much more without it, so I may not.
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09-06-2008, 10:01 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: minnesota
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No, we don't know how many ignore the soapbox.
I wish I could, as it tends to pull me in. I have backed out of talking politics for the time being. I avoided it the last election and that was probably the correct decision.
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No more lawyer stuff, no more political stuff, so no more CYA
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09-06-2008, 10:12 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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The Soapbox has lived up to our expectations:
- Kept most of the political discussion in one place;
- Resulted in lots of name-calling, and the resulting bad feelings;
- And detracted from the subject of this forum.
I will continue to ignore it...
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...not doing anything of true substance...
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09-06-2008, 10:20 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2004
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The political spam is the main reason I originally requested and pushed Andy so hard for an ignore feature on this forum.
It's the best feature on this forum by far.
And yes, I have the Soap Box on ignore.
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No man is free who is not master of himself. --- Epictetus
Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think). --- Guy Lombardo
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09-06-2008, 10:51 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: At The Cafe
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Ignore the soapbox? Why I might as well give up oxygen!  How could I not chime in on "bash parents for not preventing legal teen's pregnancy?"
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09-06-2008, 11:06 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2005
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ok Martha, thanks.. I just thought it might be nice to know how many users out of how many were tuning in or at least seeing the topics, again mostly to ascertain whether a poll there has the chance of getting a decent sampling.
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09-06-2008, 11:08 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2007
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What... and miss the daily scuffles. No way!
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09-06-2008, 11:32 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Electile dysfunction
I am suffering from the inability to become aroused or escited by any of the candidates or national 'fluff,' probably until 3 days after the election. The TV is off ... I'm not reading the newspaper or weekly news magazines ... I'm self-censoring the amount of information I take in.
It probably makes me a dull person ... but I'm a contented, live, un-stressed one. My concern is my DW and my home -- all else is fluff.
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09-06-2008, 12:36 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
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I put it on Ignore about a week after it was created. It cuts down the posts in the New list to those I'm really interested in.
-- Rita
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09-06-2008, 12:46 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Too much mean and nasty for lil old me in that area. I skittled away.
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09-06-2008, 12:50 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SW Ohio
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This thread is gonna turn nasty, too, I can feel it! Can this "What % of members have turned off the Soapbox" thread please be moved to the Soapbox?
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09-06-2008, 12:51 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Quote:
Originally Posted by samclem
This thread is gonna turn nasty, too, I can feel it! Can this "What % of members have turned off the Soapbox" thread please be moved to the Soapbox?
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Sam, I love your logic... 
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09-06-2008, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Why else would anyone start it here. Just to spread the infestation....
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09-06-2008, 01:23 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Thanks for starting the Soap Box forum--I shudder to think that the threads there would be all over this board otherwise.
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09-06-2008, 04:32 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2005
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sam, REW, notmuchlonger.. you are being the problematic, argumentative ones here. You can see my practical reason for asking; I stated it twice.
It's not my fault that people used the opportunity to sound off one way or the other.
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