Chat room or Answerbank?

[isis4691]

Why do people use Answerbank like a chat room? If you want to talk/insult/flirt with each other why don't you all logon to MSN or another chat room.

This is a great site where we can all really help each other with aquired knowledge, but lots of you are insulting, or mickey taking, or even seem to post false questions.

Lets use the site properly shall we and not abuse it for entertainment value!

[bobtheturkey]

well i just come on here for a few minutes to take a break from reading the social infrastructure failings in modern day Angola and the comparisons thus drawn with the central african economy and its knock on effect to the african dung beetle farmer by moses kipjddhfgrtytksksksk

[isis4691]

Well Bob I think that you have just prooved my point!

[RATTER15]

Yes Bob, well done!!

[Octavius]

But Bob, in Angola the main agricultural exports, coffee, sisal and cotton, were produced on European dominated commercial farms, the mining sector was strong, producing diamonds, iron ore and oil, and there was a relatively large and diverse manufacturing sector. Today, after more than 25 years of nearly continuous warfare, the Angolan economy is in disarray and per capita output among the worlds lowest, in fact - for the last three decades. What was once a diversified economy has been gradually destroyed as a consequence of almost uninterrupted war as well as bad policy choices at central level that have resulted in escalating macro-economic instability. In 1975 Angola was self-sufficient in all food crops, the fourth-largest coffee grower in the world, a major producer of sisal and cotton and possessor of the richest fishing grounds in southern Africa.

After independence the government of Angola introduced a Marxist type centrally planned economy, nationalising property and extending state control across most sectors. Attempts at economic reforms in the face of serious imbalances were made but foundered. Faced with deteriorating economic and social conditions the government adopted a number of bold measures during, giving into long-standing International Monetary Fund demands and which were set to result in a substantial shift in economic policy. The government established a national emergency programme of humanitarian assistance to people displaced by the war and introduced measures to improve transparency in the management of government funds.

In the meantime the dung beetle and their famrers were just left in social isolation to scoop up all the poop.

Oops, sorry for chatting isis.

[Doc Spock]

Did you already know that octavious or is it the result of 12 hours research ?

[annie0000]

If you look at the blue banner along the top of the page when you are in your home page, it says that you can ask and answer questions and discuss topics of interest. So, this is not just a question & answer site.

You don't need to go into the more chatty questions. And it is amazing what people find a topic of interest! Personally, I don't mind having a look at some of the banter, though I don't get involved that much. I would never join up to a chat site.

I think that there is room for everybody here, but I get more annoyed with intolerance and rudeness rather than anything else.

[Octavius]

No Doc, like most of my posts, merely perfunctory.

Doh! Chatting again.

[jojojojoanne]

is it not human nature to some extent ( your point on entertainment value) dependent on the context and situation?(not nice but...)is it about human interaction?ways of communicating? as 'ab' is on line people perform the dual task of using speech as writing and vice versa and as always it is not face to face so therefore it is within an artificial setting and context, the wonders of the net!can this be reasonably censored?

[Craig007]

Hi, just spotted this thread.

How is everyone today?

I am fine by the way!!

All the best!! :o)

[Shadow Man]

I am well thank you craig.

isis2691,

1) Which ABer would you most like to bed?

2) What is your bestest pie filling?

3) Do fat pills work?

4) What do you think of immigrants?

5) Why am I green?

[Androcles]

1. So many ABers, so little time

2. Steak and Kidney

3. No

4. Which ones?

5. Because you ate too much of your bestest pie filling?

Just ignore the answers you don't like, isis4691, there is room for everyone on here!

[isis4691]

Ok, forget it I'm obviously outnumbered and sadly you've gone far to make your point.

My comment though is still valid and I sometimes think that answerbullies would be a better name for the site, as many of you seem to band together and trample all over some genuine postings.

[Ethel]

I keep out of questions that are obviously meant for banter and chat.

I have seem some 'bullying' here but it doesn't bother me as I don't know any of the people doing the bullying and they don't know me.

I don't even notice user names, so have no idea who I should be avoiding.

[neo.]

isis...in the search of your name you have 4 entries..all in suggs...so what exactly is your point...you post a sugg b4 you post any real Qs or As

[joko]

neo, searches only search the topic you are in not the whole site - unfortunately.

I agree with isis, a bit here and there and when in context with the question is ok, but sometimes the utter dirge being posted is ridiculous and tedious.

unfortunately isis, there is nowt you can do about it. you can report it if you like, but i wouldn't bother - they are like wallpaper bubbles - one disappears, another pops up.

[Octavius]

One person�s chat is another person�s grooming, one mans fun is another�s sexual misdemeanour, a debate can turn into a chat or a squabble, and some people just don�t have anything to ask other than �which AB is the best/worst� etc. It is difficult to determine sometimes what is just chat and what is genuine debate, but often the same names turn up in the same categories looking for a spat with another same name same category ABer just to throw insults and encourage other to take sides.

They say that bullies always come in fives as they share a fifth of a personality and a fifth of courage each. That rings true with some AB bullies and also with all those aliases that keep appearing to �ask� provocative questions or to make inane statements for a few minutes of headlines. But that is the internet for you.

Either ignore them until they go away, or report it as chat and let the Mother (AB Ed) decide. That�s all you can do really.

[ruby27]

Octavius
Is that a genuine quote. ( the bit about in fives) If so could you direct me to where I would find it in full.

thanks

[Figi]

Frankly, it is difficult to believe that some of the questions posed on this site are from people who have internet access (which they obviously do have or they wouldn't be here) - they are so inane and so trivial. In the time it takes them to post a question they could have Googled and found the answer.

[Octavius]

Ruby, all my own words, although I believe the original may have come from something Eddie Izzard once said.