The big problem with this board is that there’s not a lot of visual cues to let you know who you’re dealing with.
All too often you may find yourself in agreement with people who are different that you, and you may find youself disagreeing with people who are like you.
For example, as a conservative straight white male I have once or twice accidently found myself accidently in agreement in a topic with a gay liberal!
Fortunately I was able to catch my mistake in time, recant and avoid the embarassment of dissing the rest of the white male conservative posters in my clique.
Recently, December himself forgot that Stuffy was black! My God, imagine the embarassment!
While I can’t speak for December, I see this as a problem inherent to this message board community.
I mean, here you are talking to this other poster, as if they were a normal human being just like you and all of a sudden you find that their a completely different color!
It’s extremely difficult to try to evaluate somebody’s arguments when all you have is their words to go on.
How are you going to know whether you should agree or not? How are you going to know if the arguments have any merit? How will you know who your enemies are? Your friends?
To solve this problem and to make sure we all stay where we belong I’ve devised a system, that I hope the Administrators of this board will make mandatory.
Here it is:
You start with the default font size and color. If you have over 5000 posts you get to upgrade to large to show that since you’ve been around posting a lot, your arguments are more important than other peoples.
If you have less than 1000 posts you must use the small font to show that you’re not as important. Similarly, if you make over $50,000 a year, you should post in bold to show the fiscal weight that your words carry. If you are unemployed you need to post in italics so that we can make fun of you and tell you to get a job. If you’re not an American you need to have your posts underlined so that we know that you’re an outside agitator. English people, Australians, and Canadians are exempt from this requirement since you’re really just like Americans anyway, however if you’re in Puerto Rico you must comply.
Simple?
Good. Let’s continue.
If you’re black, you should post in either chocolate Sienna Sandy Brown or burlywood depending on your skin tone, so we can evaluate the blackness of your arguments accurately.
Liberals need to post in deep pink
Gay people should post in teal
Women should post in silver because you can’t really see it.
Asians should post in orange.
Communists in red.
The environmentally obnoxious should post in green, and vegetarians should post in seagreen.
Now you may ask what color should I post in if I happen to be a black, gay, female, liberal, vegetarian?
What if I don’t fit into a category?
If either of these things is true, then I think you need to take a good hard look at yourself and decide whether or not you should be posting at all until you get your act together.
Thank you.
