2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

These negative reactions, I reckon it's easy to police on AN forums, just need admin. to monitor the strange members, the members that continuly use these reactions, keep an eye on their activity or we could report them, then admin. could give them a warning if these members continued to abused. 

 

I've given out around 10 negative reactions over the years and these were only given to stalkers I had, I soon gave up, I reckon these weirdos like receiving them, giving them pleasure. 

Well, I've been stalked for years, at some point it was a

routine to open TV in the morning, and see 7 negative reactions to the 7 posts of the day before ????

As you say, counter-reactions are silly, it feeds the negative energy of those haters.

I preferred the forum without reaction emojis.... actually I've been posting and reading less after the introduction of the emojis. 

 

I tend to read the posts not the comic strip emoji comments 

Its not rocket science to know if you play to the crowd you will receive likes, if you don't it was, sad or confused, you reap what you sow, so why have emoji at all 

To evaluate reaction or massage fragile egos

 

 

28 minutes ago, 473geo said:

I tend to read the posts not the comic strip emoji comments 

Its not rocket science to know if you play to the crowd you will receive likes, if you don't it was, sad or confused, you reap what you sow, so why have emoji at all 

To evaluate reaction or massage fragile egos

 

 

Everything is fine for me.

The use and the abuse of emojis, together with the quality and the quantity of the posts, contribute to show a clear picture of the forum demographic.

Thankfully, the serial haters are a tiny minority.

 

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Interesting that Facebook allows many emoticons, YouTube only one option Like is shown

 

 

I have to admit I never used fb. But those emojis seem to cover most reactions. 

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

These negative reactions, I reckon it's easy to police on AN forums, just need admin. to monitor the strange members, the members that continuly use these reactions, keep an eye on their activity or we could report them, then admin. could give them a warning if these members continued to abused. 

 

I've given out around 10 negative reactions over the years and these were only given to stalkers I had, I soon gave up, I reckon these weirdos like receiving them, giving them pleasure. 

I have to admit I don't get the problems with sad and confused.

I.e. if someone tells me how great god is and then I click on sad or confused, is that really a problem? It's just my opinion, not more and not less. I find it hard to believe that someone would be upset only because one more farang reacted negative.

If I would i.e. write that I am happy because my wife just had a baby and someone would react with sad, then I might think: why did he do that? But would it upset me or ruin my day? Sure not. 

 

And if someone, on purpose or just because of lack of wisdom, would post wrong information, then I think it is good when people react with negative emotions. Because if a reader who wants to learn reads something with a couple of confused reactions, then such reader would be warned that that information is possibly incorrect. Win/win. 

1 hour ago, mauGR1 said:

Well, I've been stalked for years, at some point it was a

routine to open TV in the morning, and see 7 negative reactions to the 7 posts of the day before

Obviously I don't know all the details about all the reaction to your posts. But maybe the problem is that you interpret something as "stalked" when in reality the reactions are just what they are, reactions.

 

Without going into detail, sometimes I see that this god thread still exists. And just for fun I click on it. And then I see maybe one page full of "information" about god. Sometimes I don't know if I should laugh or cry or be confused or sad about all that "information". So maybe I act accordingly. And if half of those post are from you, then it's no surprise when you see all those reactions.

At least I don't look first if you wrote something confusing or someone else wrote it. If it is confusing, then maybe I click on confused - independent of who wrote it.

 

I just checked, you posted until now 2,748 times in that thread - almost 3,000 times!

 

 

 

If you post so often in a controversial thread then you, or anybody else, should not be surprised about people who think what you write doesn't make sense.

Maybe you should write about god in some christian forum. Maybe you get 1000 likes over there or 2000 hallelujah or whatever they use to agree with you. 

 

10 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

have to admit I don't get the problems with sad and confused.

I.e. if someone tells me how great god is and then I click on sad or confused, is that really a problem ?

Nope, but when one does it serially, he's showing his true colors. 

It's like throwing the stone and hiding your hand. 

I completely disagree with many of your opinions, but i am open to a honest debate.

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Obviously I don't know all the details about all the reaction to your posts. But maybe the problem is that you interpret something as "stalked" when in reality the reactions are just what they are, reactions.

 

Without going into detail, sometimes I see that this god thread still exists. And just for fun I click on it. And then I see maybe one page full of "information" about god. Sometimes I don't know if I should laugh or cry or be confused or sad about all that "information". So maybe I act accordingly. And if half of those post are from you, then it's no surprise when you see all those reactions.

At least I don't look first if you wrote something confusing or someone else wrote it. If it is confusing, then maybe I click on confused - independent of who wrote it.

 

I just checked, you posted until now 2,748 times in that thread - almost 3,000 times!

 

 

 

If you post so often in a controversial thread then you, or anybody else, should not be surprised about people who think what you write doesn't make sense.

Maybe you should write about god in some christian forum. Maybe you get 1000 likes over there or 2000 hallelujah or whatever they use to agree with you. 

 

Thanks for the stats, yeah, I've a knack for being unpopular, but i concede that you are not one of those serial stalkers, and you are welcome to dislike my opinions. 

47 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

Everything is fine for me.

The use and the abuse of emojis, together with the quality and the quantity of the posts, contribute to show a clear picture of the forum demographic.

Thankfully, the serial haters are a tiny minority.

 

Yeah, the demographic here is that not many guys believe in god and lots of guys get drunk and play with the girls. For me that makes me feel like home. If I would be an evangelist, then probably I would feel like an outsider... 

That reminds me of that guy who, years ago, was standing on the corner of Nana and shouting to everybody about god and sin and all that. I wonder how many sad and confused looks he received. Probably thousands every hour.

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

That reminds me of that guy who, years ago, was standing on the corner of Nana and shouting to everybody about god and sin and all that. I wonder how many sad and confused looks he received. Probably thousands every

Lol, i could have easily been one of the confused onlookers ????

 

7 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

Nope, but when one does it serially, he's showing his true colors. 

It's like throwing the stone and hiding your hand. 

I am confused.

You see who reacts and maybe you see that I reacted negative to 10 posts. And then you write about "hiding your hand". Who is hiding? You can see for every emoji who is responsible for them. Members can't hide, even if they would want to hide.

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I am confused.

You see who reacts and maybe you see that I reacted negative to 10 posts. And then you write about "hiding your hand". Who is hiding? You can see for every emoji who is responsible for them. Members can't hide, even if they would want to hide.

Obviously, but apparently not for you, i mean "hiding " from a honest debate.

I wonder if you are familiar with the concept of honest debate.

It reflects the dynamics of the society in general: when the dishonesty exceeds the honesty, the society (and the debate) ceases to exist.

11 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

Obviously, but apparently not for you, i mean "hiding " from a honest debate.

I wonder if you are familiar with the concept of honest debate

Most things I do not care to "debate" about.  These forum topics allow you to "comment" so I may put in my "opinion" on a subject or topic as a comment.

Do not desire a debate as I am retired and not usually trying to convince someone what is best for them or if we need a vaccine, or who to vote for, or where the best pizza is  etc...

Accept the world as it is and enjoy reading other people take on things, but have no interest in a debate 

I do tend to get sarcastic and play the devils advocate on some peoples claims or comments, but that is just my style sometimes.  Not out to change peoples minds on here ....  for the most part  55555

8 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

Obviously, but apparently not for you, i mean "hiding " from a honest debate.

I wonder if you are familiar with the concept of honest debate.

It reflects the dynamics of the society in general: when the dishonesty exceeds the honesty, the society (and the debate) ceases to exist.

Yes, I am familiar with honest debate. But I also know that we all have our personal views and what we personally think is honest is maybe not so honest for other people.

I.e. for me it seems that about 70 million Americans support a liar and his outrageous lies. And I am also sure if we would make a survey and ask them if they "are familiar with the concept of honest debate" many of them would say, yes, they are familiar and they want an honest debate. Often our perspectives are very different. 

1 minute ago, Skallywag said:

Most things I do not care to "debate" about.  These forum topics allow you to "comment" so I may put in my "opinion" on a subject or topic as a comment.

Do not desire a debate as I am retired and not usually trying to convince someone what is "best" or if I should get a vaccine, or who to vote for, or where the best pizza is  etc...

Accept the world as it is and enjoy reading other people take on things, but have no interest in a debate 

I do tend to get sarcastic and play the devils advocate on some peoples claims or comments, but that is just my style sometimes.  Not out to change peoples minds on here ....  for the most part  55555

Fair enough, i am here for the debate, and i play the devil's advocate too, if i think it may be useful for the debate.

 

52 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I have to admit I don't get the problems with sad and confused.

I.e. if someone tells me how great god is and then I click on sad or confused, is that really a problem? It's just my opinion, not more and not less. I find it hard to believe that someone would be upset only because one more farang reacted negative.

If I would i.e. write that I am happy because my wife just had a baby and someone would react with sad, then I might think: why did he do that? But would it upset me or ruin my day? Sure not. 

 

And if someone, on purpose or just because of lack of wisdom, would post wrong information, then I think it is good when people react with negative emotions. Because if a reader who wants to learn reads something with a couple of confused reactions, then such reader would be warned that that information is possibly incorrect. Win/win. 

It's obvious that you've never been stalked.

 

There's a few stalkers on the AN Thai political articles, there's a few strange members commenting on those articles. 

 

I made comment on how weird it was to make negative comments regarding Thai political issues. 

 

This baffles me, it makes no sense to me, nothing we can do as foreigners, these members are just getting angry and jumping up and down for nothing, school boy attitude. 

 

I used to get annoyed reading the whinging and whining, the complaints. I made a comment, general name calling, no specific members but I got a point penalty that never expires. ????

 

I refuse to read the Thai political posts anymore, keeping well away. 

 

3 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Yes, I am familiar with honest debate. But I also know that we all have our personal views and what we personally think is honest is maybe not so honest for other people.

I.e. for me it seems that about 70 million Americans support a liar and his outrageous lies. And I am also sure if we would make a survey and ask them if they "are familiar with the concept of honest debate" many of them would say, yes, they are familiar and they want an honest debate. Often our perspectives are very different. 

That's very fair, i appreciate your common sense.

Just fyi, nobody, not even the bible fanatics,

in 3 years, on the God thread, ever claimed that God is an old man sitting in the clouds. 

So it's a flawed argument from you.

 

 

7 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

That's very fair, i appreciate your common sense.

Just fyi, nobody, not even the bible fanatics,

in 3 years, on the God thread, ever claimed that God is an old man sitting in the clouds. 

So it's a flawed argument from you.

That's what some priest tried to tell me in school.

I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now, even if now some like to tell me/us that that old guy is not really in the clouds but more like the hidden master of the universe. 

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

That's what some priest tried to tell me in school.

I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now, even if now some like to tell me/us that that old guy is not really in the clouds but more like the hidden master of the universe. 

Thanks for the explanation, i don't agree,  but i support your freedom of thought.

On 9/14/2022 at 5:05 PM, CharlieH said:

The 'laughing" emoticon has now been reinstated.

 

 

Thank you, from all of us ‘little people’. 

11 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Yes, I am familiar with honest debate. But I also know that we all have our personal views and what we personally think is honest is maybe not so honest for other people.

I.e. for me it seems that about 70 million Americans support a liar and his outrageous lies. And I am also sure if we would make a survey and ask them if they "are familiar with the concept of honest debate" many of them would say, yes, they are familiar and they want an honest debate. Often our perspectives are very different. 

I may not agree with every position you take, including this one, but I hope we can get back to a point where we can at least be civil to one another and agree to disagree. And not hate each other for merely having a difference of opinion. 

11 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Yes, I am familiar with honest debate. But I also know that we all have our personal views and what we personally think is honest is maybe not so honest for other people.

I.e. for me it seems that about 70 million Americans support a liar and his outrageous lies. And I am also sure if we would make a survey and ask them if they "are familiar with the concept of honest debate" many of them would say, yes, they are familiar and they want an honest debate. Often our perspectives are very different. 

Extremely well done , you managed to bring American Politics into a thread about emoojis , although its not clear as to whether you are referring to Biden or Trump 

10 minutes ago, DBath said:

I may not agree with every position you take, including this one, but I hope we can get back to a point where we can at least be civil to one another and agree to disagree. And not hate each other for merely having a difference of opinion. 

I think most people who try to communicate with each other accept different opinions - at least in general.

The problem are those people who don't want to communicate with each other. Some people just like to point fingers, or maybe even guns, at those others. And they don't want to listen at all what those others have to say. And with all those online bubbles that seems to get worse all the time. 

11 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Extremely well done , you managed to bring American Politics into a thread about emoojis , although its not clear as to whether you are referring to Biden or Trump 

????

12 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Yes, I am familiar with honest debate. But I also know that we all have our personal views and what we personally think is honest is maybe not so honest for other people.

I.e. for me it seems that about 70 million Americans support a liar and his outrageous lies. And I am also sure if we would make a survey and ask them if they "are familiar with the concept of honest debate" many of them would say, yes, they are familiar and they want an honest debate. Often our perspectives are very different. 

I would say it’s much more than 70 million, especially given the ridiculous disaster of the current administration. If you can’t see that then I doubt we could ever agree on anything re: politics, but hey whatever floats your boat. As bad as Trump was/is Biden is a dumpster fire. 

13 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Obviously I don't know all the details about all the reaction to your posts. But maybe the problem is that you interpret something as "stalked" when in reality the reactions are just what they are, reactions.

 

Without going into detail, sometimes I see that this god thread still exists. And just for fun I click on it. And then I see maybe one page full of "information" about god. Sometimes I don't know if I should laugh or cry or be confused or sad about all that "information". So maybe I act accordingly. And if half of those post are from you, then it's no surprise when you see all those reactions.

At least I don't look first if you wrote something confusing or someone else wrote it. If it is confusing, then maybe I click on confused - independent of who wrote it.

 

I just checked, you posted until now 2,748 times in that thread - almost 3,000 times!

 

 

 

If you post so often in a controversial thread then you, or anybody else, should not be surprised about people who think what you write doesn't make sense.

Maybe you should write about god in some christian forum. Maybe you get 1000 likes over there or 2000 hallelujah or whatever they use to agree with you. 

 

I find your opinions about God to be offending, but hey that’s on you. I grew up in a poor neighborhood and while I don’t agree with many of the teachings in the Bible or the men who crafted them, I do believe in God. I didn’t have a father so for me God is the only father I’ve ever known. The reason I believe in God is because he’s always been there for me unlike my fellow man or my real father. Nothing you or the other ‘science followers’ say is going to change my way of thinking, but good luck to you. Maybe I’m wrong and you will have no consequences to pay for your beliefs when the time comes, but I’m going to stay with my beliefs, no matter how delusional you might think they are. 

1 hour ago, DBath said:

I find your opinions about God to be offending, but hey that’s on you. I grew up in a poor neighborhood and while I don’t agree with many of the teachings in the Bible or the men who crafted them, I do believe in God. I didn’t have a father so for me God is the only father I’ve ever known. The reason I believe in God is because he’s always been there for me unlike my fellow man or my real father. Nothing you or the other ‘science followers’ say is going to change my way of thinking, but good luck to you. Maybe I’m wrong and you will have no consequences to pay for your beliefs when the time comes, but I’m going to stay with my beliefs, no matter how delusional you might think they are. 

Thanks for your answer.

Sure, continue with your believes. I don't have a problem with that (and I know you wouldn't care if I would have a problem with that).

I know that the idea of god is a guidance for many people and it brings them some comfort. And those are obviously good effects.

Why do we have Like and Thumbs up options? they are pretty much the same

1 minute ago, scubascuba3 said:

Why do we have Like and Thumbs up options? they are pretty much the same

Agree, let's replace one with a hug ????

On 9/11/2022 at 3:20 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

I agree.

But let's also keep in mind that these online forums don't have fixed rules and even if they would have such rules many people would ignore them.

I.e. is there a clear rule when I am allowed to use "sad"? Should I use it when there is a story about someone who died? Or for a comment where the user clearly has no idea what he writes about? Or when someone tells us about his new girl who is different?

Who cares, let's just use those reactions how we like to use them. I am not going to complain if I see lots of confused or sad icons. It's not important. 

I recently asked Support what is the difference between Like, Love it, Thumbs up and Thanks, and when should I use them. Is this question Childish time wasting Nonsense or a valid question? i also asked for emojis which are opposite to the ones offered.