Actually, you don't have a red LINE.. you have one red dot. That is no big deal. The longer the red or green line, the more significant it is. I bet if you posted some more messages, you would go green.
Hmm, we are seeing two very different things. I see five dots.
You have 5 dots… but I was replying to DENE - who has but one. One dot does not make a person bad.
We can quibble if you like but anyone coming through the forums who read the original post won't comes away with "clearly". My evidence? 31 people, as of now, have looked at this post and only four have posted and only you, R, have asked a legitimate question worthy of debate.
Its so absurd that Colon Crapondick would wind up as the "Man Of The Year" of GQ that I can't conceive of anybody supporting that. But then again… half the country is in love with crooked Hillary Clinton, and I can't conceive of anybody supporting that monster either.
I have no interest in the top or I'd read it and engage. To me, he made a choice and is paying for it. I do hope he doesn't get signed and I hope I don't have to look at him anymore – VERY not my type.
The "top"? I don't know what you mean by the "top".
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I think they got rid of Colon because his skills were slipping. He may have intentionally decided to make himself as radical and absurd as possible to get attention and play the martyred "race card" to try and save his career that was going down the drain.
I'll travel from the personal to the more general.
My alluring, long red reputation line (and always looking for a little more) was established by two persons.
Meanwhile, I've been assigned 360 "thumbs and emojis" as of this writing, with the top six contributors totaling 222 of these marks, and the sixth position tallying at 21 marks. Other members assigned the remaining 138 marks, which, while unlisted, must tally from the teens downward through single digits.
Thus, I've received thumbs and emojis from more than a dozen members. I'll take that larger gene pool over the "reputation" kissing cousins any day. And for whatever it's worth, my marks run about five-to-one positive.
I wish this thread would act as a long-term catch-all for remarks about either evaluation system. Unfortunately, so many political topics are diverted and derailed by endless mention of reputation, in particular. It's a sad and weak refuge when one's argument is being shredded for lack of citations, the poor quality of citations, biased premise, off-topic meanderings, and so on.
That sums it up for me. Oh, except to say that none of it means much in the grand of scheme of things – for self-actualized people, anyway.
I suspect that, when i posted more, in the past, i got in the same situation… I have stated views and countered people's opinions in the political forum but was 99% nice to people, i disagreed with some yes but not sure how differing views = bad rep
I realised today I have a red line - which is sad because it gives others - especially new people, the impression that i'm a bad guy when i am not. I am a guy that can be quite helpful & anecdotal & fun etc - But I disagreed with other people who were just as forceful in their debating of politics and so now pay the price.
Actually, you don't have a red LINE.. you have one red dot. That is no big deal. The longer the red or green line, the more significant it is. I bet if you posted some more messages, you would go green.
I am all about the preservation and promotion of credible news outlets – those that employ time-tested, verifiable fact-checking and reporting methods.
The following Forbes article highlights some of these media:
So, I would point to The Economist, BBC, The New York Times, National Public Radio (NPR), and TIME, to start.
There's the National Review (for my conservative fix), The New Republic (as antidote), and wire services like Reuters, The Associated Press and Bloomberg.
And Vogue. But not YouTube.
BBC is fine, but NPR? They have been the fuel for left wing psychos for decades.
Without a direct and blatant call for debate, clearly there is a call for debate here.
Does Colin deserve to be MAN OF THE YEAR of GQ or anything for that matter?
We can quibble if you like but anyone coming through the forums who read the original post won't comes away with "clearly". My evidence? 31 people, as of now, have looked at this post and only four have posted and only you, R, have asked a legitimate question worthy of debate.
Its so absurd that Colon Crapondick would wind up as the "Man Of The Year" of GQ that I can't conceive of anybody supporting that. But then again… half the country is in love with crooked Hillary Clinton, and I can't conceive of anybody supporting that monster either.
If you look at my down votes, you will see the same 6 people (only shows the top 6) for Fred. Someone, I won't mention Flozen's name (oops, that just slipped out), in this thread is in my top 6 down voters.
I'm glad you noticed. I assign Thumbs Down for a variety of reasons, but chief among them are:
Potty mouth
Absence or weakness of citations
Intentional leading of threads off-topic as a diversion when "losing"
Inability or unwillingness to evaluate new facts presented by others
Well, the list could go on and on.
LOL.
Why did you leave out "not worshiping feminism and all it's religious dogma"?
Anyway, it says volumes that you are up there with Suitieday, Wafflez, DrWas and the other rancid SJWs who would follow me around and proudly down vote me for filling porn requests or helping people in the support section.
I used to fill a lot of porn requests too! I guess no good deed goes unpunished.
Just curious.
Myself, I look at the world news feed on reddit to see what's trending. I then head over to Drudge to see what he has up on his feed. I'll click over to the Daily Yomiuri to see what's happening around me. If it's a slow news day I'll head over to Al Jazeera. That's it.
Where do you get your news and why?
My choices are to get three or four different perspectives.
By "news" I assume you meant what news outlets do I look at. For example, CNN reports almost no news, but I can't resist taking a peek at what fake news bullshit they are reporting. When surfing the internet, one is bombarded with all sorts of "news" via MSN, Yahoo, etc. I also take peeks at CNN, Fox, very little MSNBC, and a load of assorted links I find when surfing the web. I'm smart enough to discern reality from the "news" that is spoon fed to people. It used to be that one could take the news reports as being credible, real, true, and accurate. Those days are LONG gone.
If you look at my down votes, you will see the same 6 people (only shows the top 6) for Fred. Someone, I won't mention Flozen's name (oops, that just slipped out), in this thread is in my top 6 down voters.
I'm glad you noticed. I assign Thumbs Down for a variety of reasons, but chief among them are:
Potty mouth
Absence or weakness of citations
Intentional leading of threads off-topic as a diversion when "losing"
Inability or unwillingness to evaluate new facts presented by others
Well, the list could go on and on.
Pardon me for using a bad word on a gay porn site.
Anybody with a brain realizes that I provide source citations as much or more than anybody else does.
I also post relevant content.. which you almost NEVER do. All you tend to do is bitch about the posts without including any relevant content.
One does not become #1 or #2 without being full on knowledge, wisdom, and mental acuity. I guarantee you that neither #1 nor I are fooled by what frivolous schemes are being cooked up in private messages.. none of which are as significant as a flea on an elephant's nut sack.
Everyone makes mistakes, but the "WINNER" is the person that doesn't repeat their mistakes.
I made a mistake just a couple of hours ago. I went to see "Thor Ragnarok" in a new theater. (The movie is loaded with super effects, but the storyline is complete garbage). This theater's tickets are normally $9 for adults (except for special events). That isn't too bad. The tickets on Tuesday are always $5. For a few weeks they are having an online promotion for $3 tickets if you buy your tickets online. For 3 days, if you bring in 4 cans of food to donate, they give you a FREE ticket. Wonderful.. right? They also have buttons on swinging trays in the theater itself. You push a button, and someone comes to take a food order. I didn't know what their food was like, so I decided to play it safe and just get a popcorn and a pepsi instead of a meal. The popcorn was a bowl (not a bucket) which was about as much popcorn as you would get with a microwave bag. I'm not kidding.. about 1/3 of the corn was UNPOPPED! I don't know how that is possible. My knowledge of theater popcorn in the past is that the corn was popped so that only the popped corn would overflow into the "chamber" and then they would fill large "garbage" bags with just the popped corn, and keep it heated until needed.. and there should be NO kernels. This small bowl was LOADED with unpopped kernels. Then there is the soda.. this theater also offers liquor, and coca-cola is a common mixer.. so anyplace serving mixed drinks should have coca-cola. Not this place… they have PEPSI. I like pepsi.. maybe even more than coke.. so that didn't bother me.. I just found it odd. But then.. the shock.
Just what do you suppose they charged for a small serving of lousy popcorn.. and a plastic cup of pepsi?
$5 for the popcorn, $4 for the pepsi! At the local WalMart, I can buy 8 liters (2 gallons or 256 ounces) of Pepsi for $4! Also, a 50 cent packet of microwave popcorn is about what they were selling for $5. A markup of 10X (1000%) is a bit excessive!
The thing to do is never eat there.. just bring candy and canned soda in. Guzzle down the soda in the bathroom so the theater nazis don't go shining a flashlight in your face. Even more absurd.. the bitch stuffs the credit card receipt in a booklet with a pen to me halfway through the movie. The theater is so dark that the receipt is impossible to read. There was a space on the receipt to add a TIP!
I didn't tip Lacy Green when she raped me, and I wasn't about to tip this movie theater bitch either!
I think I will open up a movie theater that plays only gay porn from Staxus, Helix, and Bel Ami. The popcorn will be $2 and come in buckets with a hole in the bottom. There will also be foot long hotdogs. Guys between 18 and 25 will get in free.
All of those sites are to the right of CNN and MSNBC
I lost interest in CNN about 15 years ago. It's never been a good source of news.
I like balance. When I listened to Rachel M. I also listened to Fox. Now I mostly read the news, so I hit different sides by what's popular.
You're not going to answer the question yourself?
There is plenty of leftwing moonbat garbage on Fox too.. they just stick it on in the mornings and on weekends.
Go, Quietly.
I wish there were a button to tag messages as SPAM.
And if the message is not actually spam, then the person doing the tagging gets tagged for a false report.What makes your unfunny opening – with racial overtones about Kapernick and the ghetto -- any more deserving of inclusion than my honest suggestion of what to do with this type of drivel?
Good Question!
I think clowns are funny. When someone has a volume of hair that is 5 times the volume of their head, that is FUNNY! :bananadope:
Just curious.
Myself, I look at the world news feed on reddit to see what's trending. I then head over to Drudge to see what he has up on his feed. I'll click over to the Daily Yomiuri to see what's happening around me. If it's a slow news day I'll head over to Al Jazeera. That's it.
Where do you get your news and why?
My choices are to get three or four different perspectives.
All of those sites are to the right of CNN and MSNBC
Go, Quietly.
I wish there were a button to tag messages as SPAM.
And if the message is not actually spam, then the person doing the tagging gets tagged for a false report.
I thought GQ stood for "Gentleman's Quarterly"
Apparently it stands for "Ghetto Quarterback"
I do like Colin's pig police socks though.
https://www.gq.com/story/colin-kaepernick-cover-men-of-the-year
I must be a loser. I only have 82 fb friends. Of course I know all of them either personally or have extremely close ties to them online. None of that bullshit of "the person with the most fb friends wins" for me, thanks.
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Fred makes and excellent point about how shitty the thumbs system is. A person can spam the thumbs down button, targeting a single person, then cry that they are being bullied.
82 close FB friends is quite a lot.
Another thing about the THUMBS system is that it doesn't identify who is clicking on UP or DOWN, it only shows who is applying a vote. There are exceptions to that in which I can tell who is voting down, but I'm not giving that secret up in open chat.
As always, you are wrong.
I can provide them. Here is one from 2.5 months ago!:
https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=52326.msg284701#msg284701No. Your point was that I "lied" about making a thumbs down – that somewhere I denied it, and you had the ability to prove otherwise:
"I would also point out that you have lied to me several times about giving me a thumbs down. I have my own special way of knowing that."
Your reference link only alleges the giving of a thumbs down. I've given you a fair share, including in that thread.
Saying I lied about it is, ironically, the lie. Pony up a citation where I have lied to you regarding thumbs, and stop shifting your claim.
You did lie about it. You were not aware that I could tell who was downvoting me, and you kept denying it. You were lying.
When you say "A group of mean and women pulled down their drawers, and each one took a steaming shit", are you referring to how the statue of Marion Barry was made?
You're remarkably unfunny, and this scatological allusion to African-American skin color should earn you a warning, but of course, it won't.
Stop deflecting the issue at hand and allow it to be discussed.
You are the one defecating the issue at hand.
You are quite racist in implying that African-American skin color is like shit. I was referring to the clay-like consistency of shit and how it may be used in constructing things like houses in Pakistan and India. In fact, there is a shortage of shit in those countries because they also use shit for fuel! You might think it is funny, but the great potato famine was caused by a lack of soil and also a potato blight.. they were using "nightsoil" (shit) to grow the potatoes. Shame on you!
I would also point out that you have lied to me several times about giving me a thumbs down. I have my own special way of knowing that.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to call "bullhockey" on that fabrication.
As we have not "spoken" privately to my memory, can you simply provide the threads where I "lied" in comments about giving you/not giving you "a thumbs down"?
But you can't provide them, can you? So much for your special ways. As an aside, you've probably received about five percent "up" from me in the world of thumbs – a number that has clearly reached its plateau.
As always, you are wrong.
I can provide them. Here is one from 2.5 months ago!:
https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=52326.msg284701#msg284701
Would it be free speech if a group of men and women pulled down their drawers, and each one took a steaming shit on the memorial, until it was covered in feces and became a public health issue?
When you say "A group of mean and women pullled down their drawers, and each one took a steaming shit", are you referring to how the statue of Marion Barry was made?
This is all over the Japanese media this morning. The tone is reproach. Personally, I think the POTUS using Social Media is positive as it gives any sitting person the power to communicate directly with the electorate, especially a part of the population that no longer watches TV or reads newspapers.
So POTUS responds to Mr. Kim from North Korea with a jab at his height and weight. This is clearly Donald speaking and not the persona of POTUS.
Is this okay or not okay in POV? And please stay on topic, here.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/11/politics/north-korea-trump-asia-trip/index.html
I think it's great that Trump uses something like Twitter to get his message out to the people, however I don't think posting messages helps a president, it only hurts. Just about all presidents have avoided saying anything that they didn't have to, or was sanitized by their staff before saying it. Reagan was famous for pretending he could not hear the questions.
By the way.. online it says that Kim Jung Un is 5'7 and 300 pounds. Bullshit. He is more like 5'3 and 170 pounds. Even if he was 5'7, he would be the size of a house at 300 pounds. Putin is 5'7 and could probably kick the ass of any other world leader. Justin Trudeau is another bruiser.. he is 6'2 (as is Trump) but in much better shape.
I'll travel from the personal to the more general.
My alluring, long red reputation line (and always looking for a little more) was established by two persons.
Meanwhile, I've been assigned 360 "thumbs and emojis" as of this writing, with the top six contributors totaling 222 of these marks, and the sixth position tallying at 21 marks. Other members assigned the remaining 138 marks, which, while unlisted, must tally from the teens downward through single digits.
Thus, I've received thumbs and emojis from more than more a dozen members. I'll take that larger gene pool over the "reputation" kissing cousins any day. And for whatever it's worth, my marks run about five-to-one positive.
I wish this thread would act as a long-term catch-all for remarks about either evaluation system. Unfortunately, so many political topics are diverted and derailed by endless mention of reputation, in particular. It's a sad and weak refuge when one's argument is being shredded for lack of citations, the poor quality of citations, biased premise, off-topic meanderings, and so on.
That sums it up for me. Oh, except to say that none of it means much in the grand of scheme of things – for self-actualized people, anyway.
Wrong again.
It is extremely easy to click on a thumb - too easy.. which is why you have a dozen people giving you thumbs.
One flaw in the "thumbs" is that you can see how many thumbs up and thumbs down you have.. but while it does show you who gave you a thumb, it doesn't specify which members gave you a thumbs up and which gave you a thumbs down.
I would also point out that you have lied to me several times about giving me a thumbs down. I have my own special way of knowing that.
But.. beyond all of that, just read the messages. Anybody with a functional brain can figure out who is astute and who is just an ass.