"SHOULD there be an 'Outrage' button on TMP" Topic

Oh, and an Outrage Table as well, naturally.

If one feels outraged by a person or a post they complain to The Editor and if HE upholds the complaint then the posting TMPer gets a strike against his name and Dawghoused to boot.

And then the real fun begins – you stick his name on the Outrage Table. Yah Hoo!!!

After a long agonizing 2 seconds thinking about this I say not only NO but HELL NO.

Are you going to suggest ostracism next? That was pure democracy at its finest.

I might also add that Dear Editor is under no obligation to run every cockamamie Poll Suggestion that staggers to the bottom of the front page with a "majority" of the sock puppet accounts voting for it nor is he under an obligation to implement it should he be foolish enough to run it without rigging the results to give him the results he wants.

How about we make everyone have an avatar that we can put in virtual stocks, and then members in good standing can throw rotten fruit at them?

I agree with everything my great and good friend and cell phone sock puppet Winston Smith said.
Although it would amuse me to see the easily outraged sputter, the bad feelings would not be worth it.
We would get cries from some demanding to know who hit the OUTRAGE button on them etc.

If there was an outrage button then those outraged by the fact that certain peoples posting habits are pushing the items they like off the front page wouldn't be able to clutter the front page expressing their outrage…

Not rotten fruit, I prefer stoning.

A person has the right to be outraged anytime they like.. and I have a right to not pay any attention to them.

This is like quicksand! We keep sinking deeper and deeper and can't get out.

Isn't the complaint button the same thing?

The trangressors end up in the DH.

Of course if a particular denizon of under bridge living winds up a load of people so they get sent to DH instead, it doesn't quite work out that way. But such is TMP.

Your right to be outraged is absolute. However it should on no way bind TMP or me or the OFM.

Too restrictive.

We need to be able to rate every post on a scale of "1" (Meh) to "39" (sputtering, apoplectic indignity).

If we just collectively ignore those that outrage us, we will take their power and they will wither away to nothing. No feature needed, no poll needs to be voted on.

Bah! That's not real outrage. That's just making someone feel a little bit uncomfortable.

What about the 'OUTRAGE TABLE'? I really thought that would be the clincher for us furniture lovers.

I wish everyone would just let it go.

I would dearly appreciate a 'shrug' button.

I completely agree. Could it be nationally collated so we can see which nations posters outrage the most?

My money is on a country next to the world cup.

No there's already too much arguing on here we don't need another reason to fan the flames.

Given the the emotion inflation that the 'more offended than thou' brigade are prone to, I think we should future proof ourselves by going straight from 'offended', right over 'outraged' and straight to 'carpet biting'…

'I can't believe you made a joke about Bavarians liking sausages! I was once told that my grandfathers next door neighbour visited Bavaria once – you have insulted my people, my heritage, and our guardianship of all things offal related. I hereby inform you that I AM BITING THE CARPET IN OUTRAGE'

No, but definitely a "nuke button", for when people are really pushed over the edge.

Make it large, and red, and when clicked on, the screen goes black for a few seconds, followed shortly thereafter by a growing, mushroom cloud…….

After 15 – 60 seconds, determined randomly, the regular screen comes back.

Of course, we'll need a new stat for who presses their nuke buttons the most.

no.

The suggestion of having an "Outrage" button is outrages! I am outraged at the very thought of this outrages idea… an "Outrage" button… OUTRAGES!!!

How about a "Tempest in a Teacup" button?

Why is it that people who are outraged by something automatically feel it needs to be removed for their sake??

I come across something that offends me, I just don't look at it. So why do some people feel because THEY don't like something, then no one should be able to view it??

Wouldn't this feature remove ~60% of the Napoleonic Discussion board threads?

Cheers,

The Bandit

No.

Dear Winston Smith

Remember I suggested that already and everone didn't like it-- The Krell Machine I called it-- remember?

They didn't like it because once the horse is dead there is no point in beating him any more and people like to have victims, after all, what people want is their victims to feel pain and suffer, and if they are gone-- then-- aw gee, it's no fun any more.

Now… what is really desired is this.

1. Make up factions people can join. There can be the "Frieds of Sam" and the "Haters of Tango" and "The despisers of boobies" and "Napoleonette's in love with boney
's bone". You can get quite creative with the names, just like the middle east Islamo-fascists.

2. Anyone on one of these factions can blast anyone on the faction with them out of it for apostasy, blasphemy, treason, or liking Coke over Pepsi (or vice versa) and they are now placed with the infidel (which is everyone not in the faction).

3. ONLY people of that faction can talk to each other and post on that group. However, ANYONE "despised" or against whom they are outraged in those posts recieves any post directed against them, and you can say whatever you wish with no dawghousing.

4. To make it easy for people the umpire should develop a table of push-button curses and insults that people can avail themselves of and append to their notes. This can be anything from standard vulgar profane insults to intimations of motherly fondness for dogs, imputations of manhood and pederastry to more florid and artistic ones like..

A curse on they head, a curse on they feet, a curse on they face, which a bull did excrete.
May your troubles be many, your pleasures be few, be sure that this curse will yearly renew!

5. No provision need be made for agreement or blessings. No need to waste bills time in composing a table no one wille ver use.

They didn't like it because once the horse is dead there is no point in beating him any more and people like to have victims, after all, what people want is their victims to feel pain and suffer, and if they are gone-- then-- aw gee, it's no fun any more.

People also like to be victims.

Cheers,

The Bandit

It's already an outrage, why improve on it!!

I want a table of buttons… and a button table.

and an "Ignore stifle" button

and a "everyones name shows up as TANGO" button

and a diamond-encrusted pony-rocket, a fairy wand, and a sack of magic beans

and a "everyones name shows up as TANGO" button

Oh my gosh that would be cool.

And could the button impact a random user? So I hit the "Everyone is Tango" button and TMP starts displaying everyone's user name as Tango for some random TMP user (i.e. not the guy who hit the button).

It would need a timeout though so it didn't last forever, say 24 hours…

Cheers,

The Bandit

Can we get a nice set of Outrage Chairs to go with that Table?

And some drapes – if we get a new table and chairs we'll need some outrage drapes.

"everyones name shows up as TANGO" button

Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

How about we make everyone have an avatar that we can put in virtual stocks, and then members in good standing can throw rotten fruit at them?

You call that outrage? I want a bastinado button!

I am smashing my outrage button in an outward rage that i pciked upmy first ognore. Because you know I'm such a prolific poster that I'm rampaging, I say RAMPAGING, past Tango in number of posts.

Oh now wait, no I'm not. I hardly post at all.

Conclusion: people are odd.

… so, basically we are saying the OuTRaGE! is labeled "Submit"?

I would be partial to an "Unleash hell!" button.

What it would do, well that I am not so clear on.

But it would look cool.

Just so you're all aware, "Outrage" is a gay rights organisation here in the UK. I think they prefer T-shirts to buttons, but the more sartorially aware have been known to don blazers.

outrage.org.uk

Are you going to suggest ostracism next? That was pure democracy at its finest.

I don't think a "head in the sand" approach will help much.

2 now. The sheer bloody mindedness of people never ceases to amaze me.

We should have a poll if TMP should have a panel vote on banning other users. It is like jury duty except here the mob, oh sorry, panel, would get to self-appoint itself.

Just in case anyone should misunderstand to my joke about 'mobs' as being a 'group attack' against anyone, I am making the joke about a panel of people who presently doesn't exist and I think which I am the first to suggest…

Cheers,

The Bandit

A self-selecting mob with the power to ban people. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Oh, hang on …… aren't they called 'Editors'?

A self-selecting mob with the power to ban people. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Oh, hang on …… aren't they called 'Editors'?

French Revolution?

Cheers,

The Bandit

3 now, AND 2 more stifles. Hilarious.

Meh. Don't mean nuttin.

I agree completely. I understand their intention, but some people seem overly touchy and will stifle/ignore for apparently no reason whatsoever. Seems odd but there you go, thats humanity for you.

I hear ya. Hey guys? How about a "Sock Puppet " button?