Penguin-Guru
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The debates we all know so well, now hopefully presented in a single, logistically appropriate place.
I am opening this thread because the Devuan thread was falling into chaos. I hope people will use it for all future SysD debate and keep the rest of the site clean. My first, and possibly only, post here will be a copy of my most recent post in the Devuan thread to get people started. If nobody actually has anything to say on this topic, that's fine with me. It's probably only useful if people are really interested.
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I believe these debates may be socially useful so please consider some general requests for the sake of utility and civility:
1: Be kind to one another. We do not all need to think the same way, this debate is only useful for honestly educational purposes.
2: Do not become unduly emotional. It is not useful because there is no mutual exclusivity; both sides of this debate have strong communities to ensure their continuity.
3: Use general common sense to present yourself clearly and do your own research before posting arguments or questions.
4: Reserve liking posts for posts that are objectively useful. There is no value to simply liking all posts that you personally agree with.
5: Provide citations when appropriate or on request. My initial comment will exemplify my preferred style of citation but really anything is fine.
6: Edit comments to strike-through(cross-out) invalidated comments for the clarity of future readers. I am not sure how to do this in the Rich Text Editor but this BBcode implementation uses the letter 's' in brackets and a '/s' in brackets to close the tag, like HTML.
7: Take the time to read, or at least gloss-over, this web page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies. It may be useful to reference it when appropriate to maintain order but not, for example, ad hominem.
These requests are based on my observations of previous hot-topic threads and, although I have no power or desire to enforce them, I believe they will make the discussion much more enjoyable and useful for everyone.
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I am opening this thread because the Devuan thread was falling into chaos. I hope people will use it for all future SysD debate and keep the rest of the site clean. My first, and possibly only, post here will be a copy of my most recent post in the Devuan thread to get people started. If nobody actually has anything to say on this topic, that's fine with me. It's probably only useful if people are really interested.
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I believe these debates may be socially useful so please consider some general requests for the sake of utility and civility:
1: Be kind to one another. We do not all need to think the same way, this debate is only useful for honestly educational purposes.
2: Do not become unduly emotional. It is not useful because there is no mutual exclusivity; both sides of this debate have strong communities to ensure their continuity.
3: Use general common sense to present yourself clearly and do your own research before posting arguments or questions.
4: Reserve liking posts for posts that are objectively useful. There is no value to simply liking all posts that you personally agree with.
5: Provide citations when appropriate or on request. My initial comment will exemplify my preferred style of citation but really anything is fine.
6: Edit comments to strike-through
7: Take the time to read, or at least gloss-over, this web page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies. It may be useful to reference it when appropriate to maintain order but not, for example, ad hominem.
These requests are based on my observations of previous hot-topic threads and, although I have no power or desire to enforce them, I believe they will make the discussion much more enjoyable and useful for everyone.
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