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

[Roj]

Personally, I enjoy both sites. A lot of work goes into them, and it shows.

Of course I can only speak about the threads that interest me here. Of those threads, Amigaworld generally has much quicker responses to news and forum posts for some reason, but a lot of it is quick "great, grand, and thanks a lot" type stuff. AO generally has slower and fewer responses but they seem to be more insightful and more thoroughly organized. AO doesn't have the initial onslaught of the congratulatory-type posts that AW has. There' s nothing wrong with that necessarily, but to me the congratulatory messages should be kept more private.

I love the Amiga and have no real preference of one site over the other, but recently I made the "mistake" of voicing a simple observation about MorphOS hardware as it compares to AmigaOS and its hardware in an AmigaOS-oriented topic on amigaworld and got a tasteless Abuse threat for voicing such a vicious pack of facts. And that's fine. I just find myself somewhat less interested in Amigaworld if such a position of silencing any opposition is to be taken by its most ardent supporters. Silence speaks volumes.

I also wish there weren't quite so many spelling errors, but far be it from me to be the grammar police. It's not that I'm pedantic or anything. It's just easier to find things with search tools when all the nouns and verbs and stuff have been spelled correctly. :-)

[Roj]

Likewise, in this "free Internet world", people assume (badly I'm afraid) that they have the right to say whatever they want, then whine and complain when it offends someone. The Internet, in a very big way, is contributing to the delinquency of society as the very kids who were just getting into computers when the Internet came into popularity are now becoming parents themselves.

Trouble is, having not been taught etiquette, debate, and how to responsibly handle free expression, these "kids" who are now becoming parents have no idea how to raise a responsible child.

I sound very old when I say this, but it's nonetheless very true. Society's ability to co-exist with one another is shifting rapidly into chaos, and it's the ability to get online and slag each other off without fear of reprisal which seems to be at the base of it all.

(continuing off-topic)

This is good stuff, and I agree with nearly everything you've said, Wayne, but I don't think just the ability to verbally hammer others without reprisal is the cause. I'm sure the real cause runs much deeper and is topic for a different forum. There are still many things that are perfectly legal, yet remain socially unacceptable. We're getting to the point in our society where our governments feel it necessary to instate laws that cover every little corner of life because people just can't straighten up and fly right on their own.