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YE
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« on: January 15, 2021, 02:44:18 PM »

At least for the time being. I let it go for a while because this is the off topic board but it’s gone on too far.
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2021, 03:05:33 PM »

Good.

I never got to make "are alkali metals and halogens attractive?", but that's a smal price to pay.
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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2021, 03:10:41 PM »

I have no problem with this type of thread unless if they are clearly trolling for instance asking if "is Joe Arpaio attractive?" or " if "is Robert E Lee is attractive?"

if there politicians that might be genuinely or arguably good looking, then I see no issue asking this question
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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2021, 03:14:41 PM »

To be frank, I was becoming very uncomfortable with the degree to which this community was beginning to promote the male gaze. The parody threads were funny at first, but later got subsumed into the morass of discontent. I believe that we can all move on with ourselves now.
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2021, 06:14:35 PM »

people lack the guts to start a: "am i attractive thread"
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2021, 06:59:37 PM »

Can't we just let the novelty of such a stupid Trend wear itself out without the mods getting involved? I don't like the threads either, but it's a bad precedent.
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« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2021, 07:01:27 PM »

people lack the guts to start a: "am i attractive thread"

We have that: PAPOY
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« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2021, 07:03:00 PM »

Is this thread attractive?
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2021, 07:05:29 PM »

the sheep aren't going to like this
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« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2021, 11:48:56 PM »

I have no problem with this type of thread unless if they are clearly trolling for instance asking if "is Joe Arpaio attractive?" or " if "is Robert E Lee is attractive?"

if there politicians that might be genuinely or arguably good looking, then I see no issue asking this question

In a vacuum I don’t either but at such high volume it’s spam and seems to creep others out.
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« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2021, 02:45:14 AM »

Instead of a blanket warning, can the mods go after the main culprit/spammer, VARepublican, who's been polluting the forum for a while now?
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« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2021, 04:26:38 AM »

To be frank, I was becoming very uncomfortable with the degree to which this community was beginning to promote the male gaze. The parody threads were funny at first, but later got subsumed into the morass of discontent. I believe that we can all move on with ourselves now.

I agree the threads have long outstayed their welcome (though I don't think it is necessary for the mods to forcibly put a stop to them in the off-topic board), but I don't get this part.

For one thing, seems about as many of the threads were about men as women.

For another thing, I find the entire concept of "the male gaze" to be questionable. It seems increasingly like any time a man says he finds a woman attractive, he's treated as some kind of sexist, objectifying pig. It doesn't make any sense and it's getting dangerously close to downright stigmatizing perfectly natural male heterosexuality. Yet the reverse is never done; no one ever claims women who talk about how George Clooney is hot or whatever are "objectifying" him from the "female gaze," etc.
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« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2021, 04:29:55 AM »

I am not a spammer.
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« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2021, 11:36:52 PM »

>Checks post count
>19.4 posts per day

Don't worry, I still like you.
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« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2021, 11:46:16 PM »

>Checks post count
>19.4 posts per day

Don't worry, I still like you.

Hopefully my post average of 19.398 is low enough to not be a spammer.
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« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2021, 11:47:44 PM »

>Checks post count
>19.4 posts per day

Don't worry, I still like you.

Hopefully my post average of 19.398 is low enough to not be a spammer.

Of course it is. Everyone knows the legal spamming threshold is 19.4 ppd.
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« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2021, 04:38:25 PM »

I have no problem with this type of thread unless if they are clearly trolling for instance asking if "is Joe Arpaio attractive?" or " if "is Robert E Lee is attractive?"

if there politicians that might be genuinely or arguably good looking, then I see no issue asking this question

he most certainly is
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« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2021, 04:46:52 PM »

Did anyone actually like those
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« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2021, 07:09:59 PM »

>Checks post count
>19.4 posts per day

Don't worry, I still like you.

Hopefully my post average of 19.398 is low enough to not be a spammer.

Of course it is. Everyone knows the legal spamming threshold is 19.4 ppd.

I must be the equivalent of a guy doing 120 on a freeway, then.
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« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2021, 05:04:38 AM »

>Checks post count
>19.4 posts per day

Don't worry, I still like you.

Hopefully my post average of 19.398 is low enough to not be a spammer.

Of course it is. Everyone knows the legal spamming threshold is 19.4 ppd.

I must be the equivalent of a guy doing 120 on a freeway, then.

See, I was smart and I joined this site two years before I even started posting. Now my post average makes it look like I have a life even though I really don't.
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« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2021, 06:23:04 AM »

>Checks post count
>19.4 posts per day

Don't worry, I still like you.

Hopefully my post average of 19.398 is low enough to not be a spammer.

Of course it is. Everyone knows the legal spamming threshold is 19.4 ppd.

I must be the equivalent of a guy doing 120 on a freeway, then.

See, I was smart and I joined this site two years before I even started posting. Now my post average makes it look like I have a life even though I really don't.

See, I am smart and I don't even try and pretend that I have a life.
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T'Chenka
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« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2021, 01:17:07 PM »

>Checks post count
>19.4 posts per day

Don't worry, I still like you.

Hopefully my post average of 19.398 is low enough to not be a spammer.

Of course it is. Everyone knows the legal spamming threshold is 19.4 ppd.

I must be the equivalent of a guy doing 120 on a freeway, then.

See, I was smart and I joined this site two years before I even started posting. Now my post average makes it look like I have a life even though I really don't.

See, I am smart and I don't even try and pretend that I have a life.
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« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2021, 04:03:40 PM »

I just joined the forum on a whim when I made my Atlas account for predictions. I didn't think to use it at all until Election Night 2020, which however turned out to be a wonderful decision, so my daily post count is a bit deflated.
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« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2021, 05:04:22 PM »

Good. They were getting annoying.
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« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2021, 01:28:38 AM »

Good.

I never got to make "are alkali metals and halogens attractive?", but that's a smal price to pay.

Are noble gasses attractive?
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