Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Lilith __,
Sure, and a big factor with the comments sections on many sites is that all the other comments are silly, misinformed and/or pointlessly argumentative, so why would you even bother, regardless of what gender everyone is?
The question that leaps to mind is "why doesn't that put the men off?".
Personally, I have to say that I enjoyed a pointlessly argumentative period early on, but feel that I've moved on. I wonder how many others have done the same, and is there a gender difference on that?
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Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…, in reply to Steve Parks,
(Not that I have any interest in reading it myself.)
That goes for 99% of what's in the Library, for me. But it is a big place.
Grats on 1000 posts btw.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
I mean, you can post, but no one will really respond because they've all naturally moved on to the in-group chat and so your post is kind of off-topic.
Definitely noticed that. There's a hot-time. But equally, I've never had a complaint for reintroducing a topic. There's often a lurker out there with a killer post who hasn't been beaten to the punch by those of us who can type at a hundred words a minute, who engages right then. I feel like stamping a mark on my wall when that happens.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Russell Brown,
This may have earned you one of my Special Golden Foil Tickets to Foo Camp :-)
Beat me to it. Bart, meet Foo.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Lilith __,
Me, I'm always wondering, why aren't more women joining in? Here more than most places on teh internets, where the reasons why women don't join in are fairly obvious!
Or perhaps not so obvious, in hindsight. I think there's a lot of factors, and it's not just feeling threatened by angry internet commentators (many of whom are women). To avoid any mansplaining (but more because I don't actually know), can the women here articulate what their fears were prior to that first crucial post? I know what mine were, but they could be quite different.
Re mansplaining, I find it odd that it's got nothing to do with being in mantrol.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Bart Janssen,
You know it would be nice to have more of them join in.
Always. But the thought of them there is still very nice.
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #2:…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
The obvious argument against is that it doesn't permit people to have a local MP they can take their problems to, but in practice parties designate their list MPs to a geographical area anyway.
I think that side of things is massively overrated. I can't imagine going to my local MP as first port of call for any issue except, maybe, a local issue. And here's the thing - I don't really have local issues much. If I do, I change location.
It seems to me a real hangover from times when relocating was hard, and travel was limited. Any day I travel, I'm crossing dozens of electoral boundaries, and just because I don't happen to live in Auckland Central doesn't mean it doesn't affect me, and my opinion is valueless.
There are many more dimensions upon which direct choice of representation could be of value than simple location. Why we have to have half of our political representation officially dedicated to it, I don't know. To be brutally honest, the concerns of Avondale and it's surrounds are probably closer to around 5% of my interest in my political representation.
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #2:…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Yes, but it's almost always boy meets girl.
Yes, the dynamic between Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins just oozed an urgent horizontal desire.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Which, if that's the kind of thing you want, why have comments at all?
So you can have sycophants and Patsies!
There was a great example on one of the local blogs recently, (which I won't link to) of someone querying the use of the term mansplaining, and the writer not taking to kindly to it, and basically bullying the commenter into submission.
So they were demonstrating, then?
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #2:…, in reply to uroskin,
It's a pity the "Pure Proportional" system isn't an option in the MMP referendum.
It isn't, but if MMP gets the big thumbs up, I understand that tweaking it is next on the agenda.
I'd much rather read texts that have had some considered thought behind them.
Mind you, there's no guarantee of that, just because it's text. But you can get through it a hell of a lot faster than TV can. I find (not by choice, it's just panned out this way) that I go to text for non-fiction and TV for fiction, where the exact opposite seems to hold - in movies you get to the mood/point a hundred times faster than with a book.
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