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Hey hey hey, I build networks so people can talk to other people. I don't want them talking to me.
"Once I set this bad boy up there'll be about 8billion other people you can annoy"
I can't help but notice that you're attempting to communicate with other people right now.
Talking via forums is fine. I can always walk away and pick it up later. Can't do that with realtime communications.
It sounds like it would be hilarious to try though.
Actually how some some small governments work - “okay, the discussion today has gone too heated now so we all have to go cool down and continue tomorrow.
When I was in school we had to watch a documentary on our election process in Canada which included an interview with the speaker for the house of commons. He was fairly unique at the time because instead of screaming for order like his predecessors he would just keep calmly asking for it and not continue until things settled down. His rationale was that if he's yelling at them, that's just more yelling that teaches people it's okay to yell. He made a remark something along the lines of "you'd be surprised how many techniques for raising children carry over to adulthood."
Anyway seeing how our government was operated by a bunch of screaming (elderly white) men acting like toddlers was really an eye-opening experience about governance.
All my favourite speakers in the Australian parliament do exactly that. I especially like how disappointed they sound. "Order... The member for Bradford will resume his seat... The member for Bradford is warned... All who agree that the member for Bradford should get the fuck out, say aye..."
~Please~ ~don't.~
Try autism! I do that a lot. Sometimes I gotta calm down instead of going off on someone.
Or at least take the time to think about whether the topic in question is important enough to really give someone the business. The talk-business.
Some of us are dogs though, on the internet.
If you give them a point to point talk mechanism, you can even avoid things like... Overhearing people talking to each other (yuck!) and people leaving their homes to talk to others and oops they bumped into you (how awful!!).
“I bet you can eavesdrop on everything we say”
Omg ew no why would I do that.