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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Oct 19, 2016 - 10:37pm PT
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who the heck is m_jones?
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nah000
climber
no/w/here
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Oct 19, 2016 - 10:47pm PT
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^^^^
someone who thinks that bringing back ron anderson and leb will make supertaco great again?
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Oct 19, 2016 - 10:49pm PT
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splitting this forum into two sections. One for
Those willing to use their name and the other half for those that are not.
I'd abide it!
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Oct 20, 2016 - 12:19am PT
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As long as it gets rid of the music, auto mechanic, cat, dog, bird, trout, soccer, baseball, legal, dental, medical, food, rooftop solar, and all other non-climbing posts.
Don't we want to be pure??
But I think the site would be the poorer for it.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Oct 20, 2016 - 07:09am PT
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The politards should take off the days of the week beginning with the letters T&S.
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HermitMaster
Social climber
my abode
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Oct 20, 2016 - 08:57am PT
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Trashman
Trad climber
SLC
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Apr 16, 2019 - 03:38pm PT
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Results are in: Bomz, you are the biggest loser!!
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silverplume
Trad climber
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Apr 16, 2019 - 03:53pm PT
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Chris: I'd really encourage you to be deliberate about the kind of community you want to host and foster. One of the more successful online communities before Yahoo! ran it into the ground was Flickr, founded by Stewart Butterfield (now of Slack) and Caterina Fake. Caterina has been vocal in advising and encouraging people to be deliberate about the online communities they host, build, and support.
See: The Right Way to Build an Online Community: 3 Rules from Investor and Flickr Cofounder Caterina Fake
Also: Online Communities Gone Bad (and getting them back on track)
Give Caterina's advice a read and see if it resonates with you.
One key quote from the Medium article: "One of the things that Heather Champ — who was the first community manager on Flickr — says repeatedly is: ‘What you tolerate is what you are.’ So, if you tolerate white supremacists on your platform, you’re a platform for white supremacists. And you just have to accept that. And that unless you draw the lines, unless you say what is and is not acceptable on your platform, it just becomes a disaster. Because you want to be part of a community that share your values. And you don’t share values with white supremacists.”
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 21, 2019 - 10:00pm PT
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Yes
But each rant should be restricted to one post
Then the thread should be locked
Then deleted automatically after two days
And must include "Political Rant" in the title line
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aspendougy
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Apr 21, 2019 - 10:27pm PT
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Thing is, a person can go on a political rant on a non-political thread if they are determined. I would not mind getting rid of all threads that do no have to do with climbing, or at least have the climbing threads go to the top. I have found that sites such as FOX and DAILY MAIL allow more or less unrestricted political comments, and you have a much larger audience, so I don't understand why people want to get into political stuff on this particular site. Some of the non-climbing threads, such as Guido's boat building saga are really good.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Apr 22, 2019 - 03:05am PT
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. - Leonardo da Vinci
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Apr 22, 2019 - 03:46am PT
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Flip flop nails it. Our country is imploding under the grip of a corrupt facist administration and C Mac wants to burry his and our heads in the sand and only allow talk about climbing..
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Apr 22, 2019 - 05:38am PT
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Yes. It's not like second hand smoke; you don't have to participate.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Mill Valley, Ca
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Apr 22, 2019 - 05:41am PT
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Cry me a river!
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Apr 22, 2019 - 05:54am PT
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Ranting about politics isn't "doing" anything. Quotes from MLK? Really? MLK didn't just post on forums.
It's a form of verbal masturbation at best that seeks approval from others in a strange echo-chamber where dissenting opinions are summarily crushed by the mob.
There are plenty of other forums for this....
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Scott McNamara
climber
Tucson, Arizona
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Apr 22, 2019 - 07:20am PT
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Hi Chris,
I dont post very much. I rarely read political threads, but I read ST almost every day.
For me, one of the charming things about Supertopo is its chaotic, anti-authoritarian nature.
There are a lot of weird, funny, endearing characters.
It was not very regulated. You could find any wild opinion on a given day. It was great entertainment.
It was just like climbing outside “back in the day.”
You could pretty much put up a first ascent where ever you wanted.
For me, the bizarre, difficult, talented,driven climbers were entertaining and an important part of the scene---and sometimes a pain in the ass.
Times change, but to the extent you force change upon your website and try and over control it, it may become indistinguishable from all the others.
Thanks for asking.
Best,
Scott Mc
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Apr 22, 2019 - 07:21am PT
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Of course it should be.
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LAhiker
Social climber
Los Angeles
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Apr 22, 2019 - 07:28am PT
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Yes, it should be, especially now as the United States appears to be approaching an important and difficult time.
I do wish there was light moderation of the forum, to remove abusive or extremely offensive posts.
However, now it seems that politics -- not abusive or offensive posts, but instead, anything do with politics -- appears to have been banned from SuperTopo. This means it will no longer be the campfire where climbers and their friends gather to talk about anything and everything, from climbing to mind to aging to yes, politics.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Apr 22, 2019 - 07:35am PT
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This is the only forum that I tolerate political nonsense. I know that I can come here for a smattering of political philosophy. Or I can pass it by. I mostly avoid it but occasionally suffer through it to better understand the minds of others. Even trolls like 'Fear' are occasionally human. Usually not, but sometimes.
I'm baffled by American's love of willful ignorance and their worship of anti-intellectualism. In the understandable desire to quash the stupidity, SuperTaco is also silencing the intelligent and moral opinions of the smart and wise.
Brook from Tahoe, Yosemite, Tuolumne, Monterey
Definition of troll loser: 'Fear' has 3000 posts of trolling hate, no pictures, no trip reports and he lives in Connecticut. That 'mental masturbation' must be his daily affirmation in his lonely world
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tornado
climber
lawrence kansas
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Apr 22, 2019 - 08:39am PT
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It's over. You lost.
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