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Does ASR need a safe word?

pablolie

pablolie

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It seems we regularly fall out over trivialities, yet as a rule we are bonded here for the obvious.

I find it sad that on occasion I have bowed out of discussions with people because I have a very low trigger for yabbadadda ongoing debates even when previously I had enjoyed some members' (now blocked) contributions. Sure those were pig-headed (our community invites that) and while I thought mine were not, we all snap at some point.

But all in all I think we are here to advance the same notion (90%-ile which is better than the 80/20 rule) so the bipolar antagonism is self-defeating.

Should we have an ASR universally accepted safe word before going nuclear on each other which seems utterly self-defeating to me given we are trying to advance the notion of measurement-aware preference in audio?

PS: as an attempt to overcome this i'll unblock the very few people (<5) I blocked in the past except the jerk that called my Dad a Nazi whom I wish painful slow death.
 
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Personalities will prevail no matter the circumstances and situation. Bickering and frustration set in no matter how we try to back off. :D I get frustrated and I just back off but there have been a couple of times where I lost a loose screw and lashed out. It happens. C'est la vie and maybe this is a bit of the raison d'être too.
 
Doodski said:
Not nice at all and very unsociable at best.
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Most of all utterly inaccurate. My dad was forcefully recruited at age 15, went through every possibly nightmarish battle from 1943 until early 1945, and NEVER moved back to Germany after the fact. He was disgusted about what he'd fought for and his father his brother and his closest friends had died for. My dad was the most honorable man I have ever met in my life. He simply fought because of the situation. He was best friends for life with several of his "captors".
 
pablolie said:
Should we have an ASR universally accepted safe word before going nuclear on each other
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How about just nuclear? :)

FTC thread could have done with this... which I bowed out of towards the start, as it simply became circular and a waste of precious time. I made my points clear...


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pablolie said:
I have a very low trigger for yabbadadda . . .
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pablolie said:
Should we have an ASR universally accepted safe word . . .
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Cinnamon.


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Ignore Function is there for a reason. I don't participate a lot as my knowledge is much, much, much lower than most everyone here. But I've blocked a few for a variety of reasons. Like not seeing the same long-winded positions expressed over and over and over again.
 
Ken1951 said:
Ignore Function is there for a reason. I don't participate a lot as my knowledge is much, much, much lower than most everyone here. But I've blocked a few for a variety of reasons. Like not seeing the same long-winded positions expressed over and over and over again.
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To my memory I have never blocked anybody. I felt like that but I want to see everything good and bad.
 
pablolie said:
Most of all utterly inaccurate. My dad was forcefully recruited at age 15, went through every possibly nightmarish battle from 1943 until early 1945, and NEVER moved back to Germany after the fact. He was disgusted about what he'd fought for and his father his brother and his closest friends had died for. My dad was the most honorable man I have ever met in my life. He simply fought because of the situation. He was best friends for life with several of his "captors".
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Pretty terrible. While not the same thing I knew people drafted into the US armed forces for Vietnam. Those veterans were not well treated when that was over for the US. They were drafted, they could leave the country, go to jail or go to the military. They did what they had to where they were sent, but they didn't have all that much choice nor did anyone know what was happening there until years later.
 
About the safe word. I don't think it will work. A nice idea, but some people will use to get what they see as a capitulation from the other party rather than how it would be intended to work. Unfortunately, I think the mods have to be the ones who decide enough is enough.
 
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