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Originally posted by BulldozerGirl
I’m glad other people have noticed that garethace talks nonsense sometimes. But to me, very detailed architecture discussions with strange terminology also sounds like nonsense, and Diaspora is also guilty of philosophizing in each post.I think if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck you can be pretty sure of what you have.
Yes – architectural criticism can, on occasion, be impenetrable. This is most emphatically *not* a good thing, yet it seems to be picked up on by a certain kind of mind, which then blithely assumes anything of similiar impenetrability must be of value. Sadly this is rarely the case, as has been amply demonstrated lately.
Golden rule: If it’s hard to read, nine times out of ten it’s not worth reading.
If the purpose of writing here is debate then comprehension is key. Otherwise it’s just persiflage masquerading as insight.
u never liked kylie!!! my god man!
persiflage!!!! i liked that too. have no idea what it means but sounds funny.
Originally posted by FIN
u never liked kylie!!! my god man!
I never got over her ‘I should be so lucky’ Phase in the late 80’s.
I know she spent a few years in Belgium during the mid 90’s with a dance label. Her stuff since her comeback has been more tolerable but.. How much of what you see is real
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Originally posted by BulldozerGirl
The problem with this forum is that the posts are squashed at the side of the screen.Message board formats.
This is where I started off as an online message board contributor:
http://www.aceshardware.com/forum
It is a pretty radical approach to a message board design, and serves that online community of computer specialists surprisingly well indeed. Notice how you can cut in anywhere in the thread. Meaning you can have a number of parallel discussions on the same thread. The only way you know what is a new post, is by the red ‘new’ sign at the start of a new post.
Any threads you have looked at turn from blue to purple in the main message board list. The messages just move off the screen as each day goes by. You have to keep the links yourself somewhere, like in an email or somewhere, if you wish to re-visit an older thread from a month ago say.
This means the message board constantly gets flushed periodically rather like a toilet. Allowing discussion about new computer products, new articles, topics etc to take precedence all the time. I mean, I could keep adding some stupid comment to a thread of my own making every day for months to keep it at the top of this message board.
While this feature can be an advantage for some old threads like ‘The spike’ where some new piece of information breaks about it. I can see how it would ‘piss off’ regular posters a bit too, with guys like myself camping on the discussions I just wish to stay active.
This thread has started to make me think about this forum as a sort of ‘online public space’. It is of course an exclusionary space in many respects (it is limited to people who have internet access and a small amount of internet knowledge along with other factors). However it still interests me as a sort of ‘space’. I wonder if we were all meeting up in a real public space what the outcome would be? I am willing to guess that who ever was controlling it would have had to install CCTV cameras by now! Anyone else any thoughts on this? :p
Thanks
Phil
If you want to give yourself a real foundation in these concepts though, look up a book by Susan Conway called ‘Unlocking your Knowledge Assets’ published by MicroSoft Press.
debate can be a polite form of fist fight and at worst a confusing exercise in i know bigger words than you! however persiflage is a gem and wit and a piss take are just that so keep your socks on gareth ace!
i didnt mean to sound snotty in my last post and i chose not to have my e-mail given out as it is an option. i dont think its relevant to the thread and privacy is a good thing plus if someone wants to e-mail me then that is what the moderator is for. bollocks enough about that – kylie is a cracker all 4 ft of her and with that…:DWhat’re you talking about – all of you? Your English is abnormal.
It is easy to arrange a meeting for everyone. How about Friday, February 27th, 12 noon – at the entrance of the St Stephen’s Green shopping mall. If you are a member here, go and stand there at that time and look at the people standing around you and see if they catch your eye 😉
I don’t like Kylie Minogue – she’s very small and thin and behaves in a silly way for a person her age – it’s pathetic. Her 80’s music isn’t so bad though 🙂
Originally posted by BulldozerGirl
If you are a member here, go and stand there at that time and look at the people standing around you and see if they catch your eye 😉Failing that, you can accost random people and ask them if they’re from the internet.
What is it then Ted………….is it a duck?
It’s difficult lusting after Kylie when you have a daughter at primary school. They’re both about the same height and waist size………something unsavoury about it.
Phil, what an interesting way to consider a forum. I agree.
Originally posted by BulldozerGirl
It is easy to arrange a meeting for everyone. How about Friday, February 27th, 12 noon – at the entrance of the St Stephen’s Green shopping mall. If you are a member here, go and stand there at that time and look at the people standing around you and see if they catch your eye 😉Glad to see you have chosen the Stephens Green Centre as opposed to the Green itself. I assume that is because if anything were to get out of hand we could rely on the Stephens Green Shopping Centre Security to help us out!;)
Thanks
Phil
ps: Thanks Alan, it is somewhat similar to a ‘space’ isn’t it!?
🙂Originally posted by BulldozerGirl
It is easy to arrange a meeting for everyone. How about Friday, February 27th, 12 noon – at the entrance of the St Stephen’s Green shopping mall. If you are a member here, go and stand there at that time and look at the people standing around you and see if they catch your eye 😉
Great for some not to have to work, isn’t it.:D
See archeire forum rates a mention in Concrete Boots section of Building design today.
Seven years late and with some crazy story about a scottish fisherman designing a castle for Cameron Mackintosh……….now, how unbelievable is that, Hugh?
Also Rogers tower is supposedly a
“minger”, eh SW101 😉Was it not you SW101 that so eloquently described Roger’s Leadenhall Tower scheme a “minger”
Well…………. it’s the talk of the town in London, obviously
This is fun.
Stephens Green Centre not the best place for this site BulldozerGirl – there’s a long history there…
Are you from the Internet – ha!
Paul, do the people who fund the running of Archiseek forum understand what it costs to provide this service?
I mean, with a decent amount of bandwidth, I imagine it would be possible to introduce more high resolution content, say for instance in a competition such as Carlisle Pier or something.
Apart from all of the work on your part required to upload all of that work etc, etc.
Perhaps even something like a user gallery, heavily controlled and moderated might even be possible? I.e. One could link to a decent size of image – say 800×600 and no more than 175KB Jpeg file, like on a lot of forums.
I am definitely not into Avitars as they soak up bandwidth good-o.
I mean, we tend to think so much about architectural space in terms of text here – the presence of some form of visual companion to that is obviously lacking badly.
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