Amiga.org Vs Amigaworld.net........Give us your views!

[koaftder]

@Fraggle1

You seem to be taking the boards to seriously. If you told me my bog standard a3000 with no case and hacked up atx powersupply was lame it wouldn't even phase me or keep me from coming to the site. I just wouldn't care.

[koaftder]

It's easier to get banned from freenode than it is to sign into it. Things have been getting better since lilo got run over.

[koaftder]

@DonnyEMU

I hear you man. I agree with your over all point regarding free speech/exchange of ideas but we need to take into consideration that a website is owned by an entity, usually a person, sometimes a company or other org.

Freedom to express your self means you can stand on your own soapbox and say whatever you want, it doesn't mean another person is required to provide you with a soapbox.

What i'm trying to get at is, if you post something to a website that is not yours, you should have no expectation that your contribution will stick.

[koaftder]

Why on earth should Piru need promission to post something he saw in a public IRC channel?

[koaftder]

If I said something off the wall at the pub with my friends, you better beleive its going to get repeated.

Permission is not needed to quote something from IRC, usenet, this forum, etc.

I understand that by your personal rules this is considered impolite, but also understand that for many (probably most) of us it's completely unecessary.

We are not talking about a private message or email here.

[koaftder]

I have never seen a rule in an IRC channel asking people not to repost stuff in the channel. That would be completely unenforcable and retarded.

[koaftder]

When i was in highschool the family pooled their money to spring for a dual channel isdn line ( around '94 ). $300 a month, and i worked at taco bell just to have the money to pay my part. We setup a lan at the house, etc.

One day dad pops into my room and says, "Whats all this about making bombs and growing mushrooms?" It was at that moment I realised that the old man was sniffing the ether. My net habits changed after that.

I guess someday I'll be just like the old man....