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1994. wonkers2 - 12/5/2008 10:04:52 PM Here's one developed by my youngest son which has all the bells and whistles. Participants are automatically emailed when someone replies to a published page or a comment they make in a forum. However, I still prefer the Mote because I get the feeling that I'm among friends rather than a forum with 10 million participants. The Mote needs a few more participants, but not a huge number more. I hope concerned and some of the others will return and that we will see more of VK.
About HubPages 1995. wonkers2 - 12/5/2008 10:42:43 PM Another thought--I occasionally look in on other discussion forums, and most of them contain a much higher crapola ratio than does The Mote. The level of discussion on many of the popular forums is pretty low. Perhaps I haven't seen the best ones. The ones I've seen aren't very impressive. This includes Slate which attracts a lot of participants most of whom sound like not very bright high school students, religious whackjobs and the like. Name calling and "flaming" is common. I haven't noticed any trolling on Slate. But I have seen complaints of it on another forum. 1996. wonkers2 - 12/5/2008 11:16:21 PM HubPages forums 1997. jexster - 12/5/2008 11:36:09 PM 
1998. jexster - 12/5/2008 11:37:28 PM AC and Capn Dirty can kiss Wabbit's ass
 1999. jexster - 12/5/2008 11:38:35 PM Wonkers gets a cut for those Hub Pages...
I say
LET EM ALL FAIL 2000. jexster - 12/5/2008 11:40:04 PM Any actions to rein in Jex's noise-to-content ratio is likely to displease and perhaps drive away Jex and his constituency,
I'm like a bad case of the clap VK..I ain't goin nowhere..leastwise not voluntarily 2001. wonkers2 - 12/5/2008 11:41:02 PM The Cap'n sez, "No ass kiss'n, but the Cap'n'd drink her bath water." {Where do you get this stuff?) 2002. jexster - 12/5/2008 11:45:05 PM Here's the deal...
Until Concerned returns (I miss him so!!!) I will lurk and not post until His Appearing on January 20th....
Let's see what happens! Will Wabbit lose 20 pounds of chewed bubblegum from her "fat white ass?"
Nitol 2003. thoughtful - 12/6/2008 12:05:27 AM so long jex...enjoy the holidays.
I won't miss all of your posts, but I'll miss a lot of them. 2004. wabbit - 12/6/2008 2:25:40 AM …wonders where Jexster found my photo… 2005. wonkers2 - 12/6/2008 4:33:58 AM Hahaha!
The Cap'n sez, "Jumpin Jehosaphat! That ain't how I imagined yer, Wabbit, dearie! Cancel the moonlight cruise til the Cap'n gets a bigger sloop!" 2006. wonkers2 - 12/6/2008 4:36:37 AM HubPages forum 2007. Ulgine Barrows - 12/6/2008 11:49:39 AM 2004....wonders why wabbit posted about 1998 in tiny fon.
That gal's ass is a wonderful thing. 2008. Ulgine Barrows - 12/6/2008 11:50:05 AM font! 2009. Jenerator - 12/7/2008 8:25:27 PM I left because of Jex. I post here occasionally, and have made the mistake of trying to communicate with him, but am constantly reminded of why I left.
If I was interested in reading listservs, I would subscribe to them - his spamming never ceases.
Furthermore, he is a delusional, hysterical ninny who can't discuss anything that he doesn't agree with. He cannot agree to disagree. He delights in disruption, he enjoys going on tirades.
He's sick, and he's #1 on my list of Most Annoying Posters.
Good riddance, Jexster. 2010. wonkers2 - 12/7/2008 9:24:32 PM The Mote would be a much less lively place without Jexter as it is without you, Jenerator. I hope to see more of both of you soon. As I said upstream most other forums are full of much more invective, spamming and ignoramuses than the Mote. Jex's antics are more apparent on The Mote than they would be on a forum with more participants. As someone suggested, one answer would be for everyone to participate more and to recruit more people. I am retired and have plenty of time on my hands to post as Jex apparently does. 2011. JJBiener - 12/7/2008 10:09:36 PM I was going through the posts for the last few days when I saw this by Wombat, "The Obama socialist death squads took Concerned off for reeducation. If that doesn't work...the kugel." I am pretty sure Wombat meant "cudgel", but the image of Concerned being struck with a baked noodle dish was too priceless to pass up.
2012. JJBiener - 12/7/2008 11:43:27 PM Wonk - "As I said upstream most other forums are full of much more invective, spamming and ignoramuses than the Mote."
I have been to sites as diverse as GOPUSA, Townhall, Huffington Post and Democratic Underground. What you say is generally true, and completely irrelevant. If we want to participate in that kind forum, there is an abundance of choices.
We created the Mote to be different. We had known each other for two years on the Fray and many of us had met and become friends with our fellow Fraygrants in real life. When we created the Mote, we made conscious decisions in its structure to make it different from other forums. To try to keeps the sense of community we felt and didn't want to lose.
As it is, I think a lot of us feel about the Mote as we do about that friend from college who married an obnoxious jerk and now he/she manages to disrupt every get-together with inappropriate behavior. 2013. wonkers2 - 12/8/2008 12:04:07 AM Are you sure it's "completely" irrelevant? Would you buy "partially" irrelevant? The point is that we all don't agree on what is "inappropriate" behavior and on a forum open to anyone it's hard to control the content of what people post. My impression is that most of us lean toward greater freedom of what to post. However, with freedom should come responsibility and hopefully collegiality and mutual respect. I think we have that for the most part even though the disagreements are expressed with vigor. Sometimes lines of comity are crossed, but mostly with tongue in cheek.
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