What are your criteria for a constructive discussion thread?

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Perhaps if we just laid it all out on the table we may learn how to better stomp on each other's toes, or lack thereof.

For me, the more of these the better:

   
• Sharing of knowledge that can be put into use in daily interactions
• Conceding points
• LULZ
• Rejacking thread drift
• Statements of agreement/disagreement with a super-concise explanation
• Quoting shit with the specific post information in it, so everybody can fucking click right the fuck to it for context you lazy fuck don't make everyone dig for it, I don't care if it's 50 pages back and you want to share your thoughts but for fuck's sake use the quote button in their godforsaken post while you're there copying and pasting it not the:

  DERPA DERPA DERPA

  tags christ what an asshole, knucklefucking shitato
• Feature article length posts but with two little details that have a surprisingly helpful power to navigate and educate: a headline and section headings. If you're going to go through all that trouble to write that beast is it too much to ask that you organize it into helpful topic sections and a well distilled headline?
• Brutal satires/trolls with a point
• Questions aimed at clarifying garble
• Beating dead horses into such a fine pulpy mist that you can taste it in your vestigial lung buds (go ahead and laugh you fuck, but I mean that, I will be reformulating some arguments on some audiences until I'm proven wrong or otherwise die of equine inhalation)

[Verbal Mike]

This vehicle is endowed with correctness.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

* View a conceded point as a complete victory.  Moon walk on the smoking remains.

* Keep bringing up the same point(s) over and over again, no matter how peripherally involved it is to the subject.

* Anyone who disagrees with you should be emotionally bastinadoed or told they're not capable of understanding.


Note:  All 3 of those are from 3 different discussions over the last few years.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

More stuff like

knucklefucking shitato

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

One in which people's feelings/experiences are heard and not dismissed as being incorrect.

[AFK]

Creative insults that weren't coined in the 90s.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

To offer an opinion without being snarled at.  To not be considered the "safe target" for said fucking snarling, when other people are being openly disagreeable without facing said snarling.  TO NOT BE TAKEN FOR FUCKING GRANTED.  To not be considered somewhere between a flatworm and a trilobite for not agreeing 169%. To not be treated like a Goddamn dog that's messed on the carpet.

That would be a good fucking start.

[P3nT4gR4m]

One where I learn something new. The rest of it, who's right, who's wrong, who spins the most convincing line of bullshit? That shit can go to fuck as far as I'm concerned. I'm selfish that way

[Juana]

When a point has been conceded, let it go. Don't bring it up over and over and over again to the person who surrendered it. It's repetitive and only fucks up discussion to the n^th degree.

Don't treat it like a competition (this is sometimes a bad habit of mine; please call me out if it looks like I'm doing it).

Arguments sometimes turn heated. Keep the heat in-thread instead of starting a forum-burning wild fire.

Don't make assumptions. Don't put words in other people's mouths. If you have a problem with an implication, quote it and break it down.

Try not to read the worst into something someone says, unless it's a direct personal attack. The vast majority of human communication is body language and we don't have that here.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Don't treat it like a competition (this is sometimes a bad habit of mine; please call me out if it looks like I'm doing it).

This is wicked difficult for me to avoid, too. Especially if I'm getting bored with a conversation. I really should just duck out of it but, fuck it, there's some people I might be able to convince of something I probably don't even really agree with myself ...

[Juana]

I spent a third of my life as a competitive debater and being able to hone in on a breakpoint in an argument is a useful skill. If I'm not paying attention, I tend to revert to that. :s

[Faust]

Only criteria:
Threads that recognises discussion can be fun and interesting.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

To offer an opinion without being snarled at.  To not be considered the "safe target" for said fucking snarling, when other people are being openly disagreeable without facing said snarling.  TO NOT BE TAKEN FOR FUCKING GRANTED.  To not be considered somewhere between a flatworm and a trilobite for not agreeing 169%. To not be treated like a Goddamn dog that's messed on the carpet.

That would be a good fucking start.

OK, I am going to ask you directly: Is this about something I said?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

To offer an opinion without being snarled at.  To not be considered the "safe target" for said fucking snarling, when other people are being openly disagreeable without facing said snarling.  TO NOT BE TAKEN FOR FUCKING GRANTED.  To not be considered somewhere between a flatworm and a trilobite for not agreeing 169%. To not be treated like a Goddamn dog that's messed on the carpet.

That would be a good fucking start.

OK, I am going to ask you directly: Is this about something I said?

Yes.  See the No Cause, No Ally thread.

It wasn't just you, but that WAS the splinter up underneath the fingernail.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

To offer an opinion without being snarled at.  To not be considered the "safe target" for said fucking snarling, when other people are being openly disagreeable without facing said snarling.  TO NOT BE TAKEN FOR FUCKING GRANTED.  To not be considered somewhere between a flatworm and a trilobite for not agreeing 169%. To not be treated like a Goddamn dog that's messed on the carpet.

That would be a good fucking start.

OK, I am going to ask you directly: Is this about something I said?

Yes.  See the No Cause, No Ally thread.

It wasn't just you, but that WAS the splinter up underneath the fingernail.

Well, great. I'll just fuck off then.