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All new members with feminine names should be required to submit signed medical records attesting that they are indeed female. The same goes for names which are gender-neutral (i.e. Pat, Francis, Cecil), or are given a feminine appearance (Richard).
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The real problem is that you don't have to be religious to be a religious fanatic,
you just have to be a fanatic. -- Stan Shannon, the lounge
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Amen.
Of course that still won't be good enough for *some* people. They'll want naked photos of their private area, just to be absolutely sure. Then again *some* people might happily oblige.
But hey. Let's keep this a family site.
Why not throw away a dime?
I throw away ten pennies all the time.
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kevnar wrote:
They'll want naked photos of their private area, just to be absolutely sure
Yeah, coz those sort of photos are SO hard to find on the net....
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
Half the reason people switch away from VB is to find out what actually goes on.. and then like me they find out that they weren't quite as good as they thought - they've been nannied. - Alex, 13 June 2002
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C'mon Shog9 the real problem isn't female CPians or males posing as females. But the problem is the sexually frustated males who make a big thing about it due to ther own inadequacies.
I purposely don't reply to new females on the forums since I notice that when they make any statement at all they get unlimitted responses.
Consequently I'm on friendly terms with a couple of female CPians as you well know also. { And thats as far as it goes }.
I know one female and I suspect there are other females who pose as males because of this.
You are trying to treat the symptom and not the cause.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
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I was *trying* to be absurdly facetious, to illustrate the absurdity of trying to prove sex in a place such as this... I should know better by now i guess
... But you've made some good points! It's sad that women would feel they had pretend to be men in order to co-exist here...
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you just have to be a fanatic. -- Stan Shannon, the lounge
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By now, don't you realise that I'm never serious about anything at all that I post ?
Even this ?
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Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote:
Even this ?
Oh, you just *had* to qualify it. Now i'll still be guessing...
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you just have to be a fanatic. -- Stan Shannon, the lounge
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Well I thought it would make my post look interrogatively rhetorical.
Or did I ?
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Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote:
Or did I ?
i suspect you thought it would cap the thread... But i've been known to be wrong in such matters
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you just have to be a fanatic. -- Stan Shannon, the lounge
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Fair enough, since you insist I'll have the last word
Regardz
Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote:
Fair enough, since you insist I'll have the last word
But the last word was Delete in the bottom right corner of the post, which was nothing to do with you?
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If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.
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On my screen the last word if it can be called that is currently p.m. on the system clock, so I guess MS is having the last word.
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Colin J Davies
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Males posing as females might be a bad thing, but then it's understandable that there will be members of the vast CP community with a little perversion. But what is not understandable is why everyone goes gagaga the moment someone with a sweet girl-nick posts stuff. Everyone knows that there is only a very very faint chance of the person being female. I don't see what's the fun in sweet-talking to a guy posing as a female!
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
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A really cool improvement that Question of The Day stuff...
I think we should be allowed to select and answer the questions, and in the next day we should see how many CPians get the right answer and how many did it wrong. I think that would be cool...
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank
The alcohol is one of the greatest enemys of man, but a man who flee from his enemys is a coward.
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I like the idea. !!
Also the QOTD's should be divide into categories,
I have been unsure with some whether they were C# specific.
{ Sorry can't remember which }
BTW : At what level are these QOTD s aimed at ?
maybe that should be stated as well.
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Colin J Davies
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I made an animated emoticon for CP for :tired: ( )
It needs some polishing up. The beizers were a little hard to work with in 16 x 16 pixels, but it looks pretty good.
Do you want to see it?
Why not throw away a dime?
I throw away ten pennies all the time.
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I'd love to see it!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
he was a VB programmer, but he got better - Christian Graus
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I emailed it to you. What do you think?
Why not throw away a dime?
I throw away ten pennies all the time.
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kevnar wrote:
I emailed it to you. What do you think?
Any chance you could email it on to me as well Kevnar??? ah go on
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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Yep... come on... show it!!!
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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This post is brought on by the sad leaving of Rama K.
Are some of the Forums aka message boards too popular ?
A portion of CP is community building, this can also be viewed as creating interpersonal relationships.
It is difficult to build these relationships when you have 300 people all sitting around a table trying to talk at once. And I am guessing that forums are the same.
many forums never reach critical mass and become live.
However I believe some of CP's forums have become so active it is difficult for them to grow further, as memebers are unable to remain actualized with what is occurring.
So what solutions are available ?
Should there be a weekly allotment of posting rights ?
Should forums fragment into smaller forums at a certain size?
You might well ask "why is this forum in suggestions? "
Well 1.) I'm askingf for your suggestions,
and 2.) So it won't be lost in an hour in the lounge
Note: I don't think this is only a problem that afflicts some of CP's forums.
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Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote:
Should there be a weekly allotment of posting rights ?
People will get frustrated at not being able to post, and might not bother coming back. Or people will dig up old threads after a week, because they have something to say, and either will get no discussion, or will get a lot, but not many people will find it, causing confusion.
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Should forums fragment into smaller forums at a certain size?
More forums to feel lost in.
I think the forum software is to blame. Have a look at a vBulletin site (on of the most popular forum software packages around). Aside from not being threaded to the same degree as CP, the biggest difference is that as soon as someone posts in a thread, the thread is brought back up to the top.
This allows people to see which are the active threads all on one page, without having to go backwards and forwards for ages trying to keep up.
My 2c.
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I admit I added the allotment idea as a pure thought not because I thought it was any good.
If old threads were allowed to come to the top some threads would never go away. Such as the religion vs evolution battles.
I personally wanna see new posts and responses. But also to interact and shed thoughts with like minded folk.
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Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote:
If old threads were allowed to come to the top some threads would never go away. Such as the religion vs evolution battles.
True. Perhaps though, they could be moved to the SoapBox and be allowed to come to the top.
I think the problem is that the Lounge seems too fast moving. It might not be in reality though, since dealing with 5 new threads with 5 replies is not unmanagable for the human brain, yet it manages to push other threads off the first page. This gives a big impression of not being able to keep up.
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