This forum is like a school. There are Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Then, of course, we have the teachers. And finally, there is our great principle, David Leip.
My personal experience has always had a light called respect to guide me. I take status, post count, and seniority on this forum seriously. Perhaps too seriously. Some posters have been here for many, many years, and our a pillar to the forum. Polnut, Torie, Comrade Sibboleth, Bacon King, Antonio, Opebo, and so on….these posters are what I would consider to be the “teachers”.
When I think of “Senior” level posters, I think of Nathan, Redalgo, Cathcon, 20RP12, SJoyceFl, etc, etc. They are relatively new, but are some of the best, most informed, thoughtful, and intelligent posters we have.
Next we have the Juniors. I belong here. My posts are not particularly bad, in my opinion, but they certainly are not good. Nor are they long, thought out, and rarely do they contribute to the forum. I can be annoying-remember my White Nationalist phase?-and of course, there also is my “Confederate nostalgia”, my conspiracy theories, the time I wished Jimmy Carters death (which is odd because I actually like him personally and always have) and my rambling, religious based posts. But, I always have been consistent, and honest in my views, and have always treated people here the way they treat me-respectfully. I didn’t even start posting in the Off Topic-Forum Community sections until I got over a 1,000 posts, because I felt I was too new to be tangling with the big boys.
The Sophomore posters are…there are none.
Now on to Freshies! High School Freshmen, and keep in mind, I was one last year, are annoying, cocky, and nowhere near as intelligent as your typical senior in most cases. I can say the same about a couple of our newer, right wing posters. You know who you guys are.
I once overheard two juniors at my school joking about us Freshmen in the hall last year. One of them made the comment-“why cant they all just get [inks]ing expelled?” This line is relevant for the first time in my life as I watch the condition of this forum slightly (it is not
that bad) deteriorate in recent weeks. Why don’t we just expel these troubled “students?”
For starters, most expelled students have to go through the school board, who reviews their case. And that is what we need here-a school board. We need a group of veteran posters who should review new posters along with the moderators on who gets to stay and who gets to go. Not all of the new, blue avatar posters are trolls…just most of them
So, I am I right? wrong? crazy? incredibly stupid? A little bit of each?
