“Thread” Awareness

Hello.

As many of you know, this community loves to debate, which is completely fine, in an appropriate manner (in my opinion).

However, this is getting out of hand. Stop turning innocent and peaceful threads into debate threads. I’ve seen this happen to my threads, a recent 9/11 thread and a few others.

When it says to not derail a thread; don’t derail the thread!

I’ve seen a lot of these threads stay with the topic, support, etc.

The common problem is simple. A person says something that isn’t what the thread author had in mind for replies, and people dislike the reply, so they argue, and it gets worse, and worse.

It’s getting serious, and I don’t believe I’m the only one who noticed. Seriously, stop it.

 

I see nothing wrong with it... If you're gonna make a thread about a controversial topic you should accept all kinds of opinions and be open to debates.
What's so bad about a debate anyway? You say it gets out of hand and gets worse and worse but in reality it's just a bunch of people having a healthy debate.

 

this thread is a debate thread so...lol

 

As Mint said, if your gonna make a thread thats controversial (say, a 9/11 thread or banning the Russians), it's gonna have debate. Even if the thread says not to derail it, it's probably said/gonna say a lot of things that people have opinions about.

Then again, it is a fucking Minecraft forum, so we shouldn't even be discussing this lmfao

 

True, but it was created FOR Minecraft.
Then again, we have a sub-forum for that.

Eh.

 

I mean it has "Minecraft Server" at the end of it's name.

Holy shit this became a debate thread
but its not debating its me being stupid

eh fuck its based of minecraft I'm not debating on a thread that is about not debating lol

 

Nothing bad about debate except when it’s made at inappropriate times.
(The rest isn’t related to your reply so dw)

This is a debate thread, you’re correct, and nobody said it wasn’t, but people are specifically telling you to not derail things on other threads.

You’re confusing me saying “this isn’t a debate thread” and “this thread is related to debate threads”, which have been completely misinterpreted.

This isn’t my forum, and it’s not my rules, but it’s only fair that threads be respected as they were intended to be.

 

What do you mean? If there's a thread that talks about a controversial topic, it's natural that debates will start. The only thing to avoid in those situations is getting such debates off topic. And insulting each other, of course.

 

Define derailment because you've hinted at it being defined as a direction the creator did not intend to go in. But if we were to curve to that definition threads would be mindless praising with no real thought to it.
There is never just one side to things and you will need to accept that sometimes things go off topic(ish) in benefit of everyone.
Education is much more of a priority over feelings \o/

 

Oh I agree, hence the "(ish)".

 

what is this thread designed to achieve?

 

If you don't understand that then let me put it the clear way : No, we won't stop posting on threads and voicing our personal opinions, even if that derails a thread. This is a forum, that's how it works. Threads like (Post a picture of yourself) don't have any discussion because there's no discussion to be had, a thread like 9/11 memorial can spark a discussion. If you don't like this, then don't visit the forums.


''Leave it to the internet to turn nothing into an argument''

 

I honestly don't care if you're starting a debate but when you talk about an event like 9/11 or something serious, don't make it be negative. Some of you didn't like the fact that someone posted about 9/11 on a thread and that is so disrespectful. Not just to the person who posted it but to the people who died on those airplanes. It's okay to voice your opinions but you're dead ass turning something that was made to remember and acknowledge people into a war zone. We don't have to be animals or spark an argument just because you disagree about it. By the way, I don't mean all threads. This is only how I feel about peaceful threads.

 

people have to realize that this is the internet. we have an option to communicate in a way where we have no idea who, where, and what is typing back. people have boundaries irl. you wouldnt go talking about how hitler was a great man irl, would you.

when you know that you're completely anonymous, you tend to let off steam and just say whatever. one reason why doxing is serious. you need to learn that people dont act as themselves online, and that these "justice threads/comments" arent going to fix it.
on a place like this, people like to get reactions out of other people.