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Perhaps Chris still has the SoapBox stored on an isolated machine in the basement (next to the caustic cleaning materials  ). You can ask...
I doubt upvotes would help much in content classification. Some of the most vitriolic statements received upvote in admiration for the way the vitriol was employed. This did not mean that they were "nice" statements.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I don't know CP's "internals", but if a vote can be tied back to a "voter", that says a lot.
For instance, there are some places I will never be visiting again based on the "vote".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Given that you can see the posts that you upvoted (in your reputation history), it is obvious that the site admins can do the same. I agree that opening this ability to the general public would be a serious breach of privacy.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Try https://www.ars-technica.com/[^]. It has a forum with few holds barred.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Yeah No
I like the idea of the freedom.
No Kid Sister a to worry about.
I only went there occasionally to read some crude jokes and have a laugh and enjoy them.
But it was a toxic place and the toxicity started to trickle out of there and project through to my favourite place on the internet.
That place is here in the lounge.
There is no place like the lounge.
Anywhere.
So best that it be gone.
Don't want to ruin or mess with the lounge.
I like that here I get to hear the valuable opinions and advice from people that I would probably hate in real life.
I don't want to give that up.
It is a freedom that I won't give up.
FES I still miss Dalek Dave and he was toxic but never threatened the lounge.
He just faded away. It was his choice. I didn't ever like him but I loved his posts.
Some people here though disappeared because of the soapbox as it started to be a bit of a bullybox.
I think that the community here is better off without it.
Still miss it a bit though.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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the Soapbox was essential if you needed to know which CP members were racist sacks of garbage.
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this post illustrates the double standard. Making derogatory comments about site members and nothing happening to OP.
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You have the same tools as the rest.
Report it (I did)
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about which CP members did i make derogatory comments ?
be specific.
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the sacks of garbage of course 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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and it wold be wrong to call them that.
i'm so ashamed.
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This is not an example of a double standard.
That was a general statement, nothing aimed at anyone in particular, and not a personal attack. That's what was happening in the soapbox, and is one of the reasons it's gone.
Here, I'll make a "derogatory comment about site members" similar to the OP's: Some people suck.
Do you see a double standard here, and a reason "something should happen" to me for making such an assertion?
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And this is one of the comment type that I was telling in my previous post.
Sorry, but totally out of place.
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lol what?
You are cleverly not adressing anyone in your comment, but this is exactly what I meant, a post with the only purpose to provoque people and the kind of post that would start the degeneration of a thread that has been relative neutral.
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Nelek wrote: You are cleverly not adressing anyone in your comment,
why should i be "addressing" anyone? i'm replying to you.
Nelek wrote: a thread that has been relative neutral
what on earth are you talking about?
it seems pretty unanimous that people regard the SB as "a sewer", "toxic", "poisonouse" (your own word), "crude". people here are described as "people that I would probably hate in real life"
and you're upset because i pointed out that it was full of racism ? in addition to everything above, it was full of racism. and that's a big reason why i stopped going there, long before Chris pulled the plug on it.
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Chris Losinger wrote: why should i be "addressing" anyone? i'm replying to you.
I meant in the original message, not the "lol" you answered me.
Chris Losinger wrote: and you're upset because i pointed out that it was full of racism
That's the difference, we were mostly speaking about a place or the messages. Should you have said it like this the first time... I would have told you nothing.
And I am not upset, I just didn't like your comment:
Chris Losinger wrote: which CP members were racist sacks of garbage.
You took the personal way directly insulting some people. There is a subtile difference between both approaches.
This is exactly the way to start a "fight" which was my point the whole time.
We could continue like this for long time, but I am not going to do it.
If you want to see the difference I tried to point you, perfect. If not... well, then don't.
I just don't want to get into the loop. So... Have a nice time
M.D.V.
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modified 8-Nov-20 12:49pm.
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Nelek wrote: You took the personal way directly insulting some people.
name them.
name the people i "directly insulted"
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Quote: We could continue like this for long time, but I am not going to do it.
If you want to see the difference I tried to point you, perfect. If not... well, then don't.
I just don't want to get into the loop. So... Have a nice time
Have a nice time
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Nelek wrote: You took the personal way directly insulting some people.
Bullshit. Name one person he personally insulted.
Nelek wrote: This is exactly the way to start a "fight" which was my point the whole time.
And your attitude expressed in this comment is EXACTLY why the SB needed to be closed. A few people in it took umbrage at other people's comments even when there wasn't anything to be mad about. Then the trolling began, and it was no longer fun to read for anyone except the trolls.
Have a good night!
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David O'Neil wrote:
Have a good night!
Thank you, you too 
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Hi again developers 
I study my first semester of computer science, and I like programming and computers but I feel like evrything is going too fast. We are jumping from one subject to another and we learn everything at once. We started to learn java in september and now we are jumping into PHP and databases, Swing, JavaFX, UML and professional software enginnering arcituctures, algorithms and propositional logic. I hardly managed to learn basic Java concepts and practice them and I already have to build Java Swing applications, manage databases and know common algorithms and on top of that train up my propositional logic-skills.
I simple don't have time for that even if I would like to. I watch the lectures online (Because of COVID-19 we have online classes), but I don't learn anything from them that is requiered to pass the exams. If you want to pass the exams the school books and lectures aren't enough. You have to learn from other sources. After reading 1000 pages of a book I realize that I only learn a tiny bit of what I have to know to survive. I feel like I only study, from morning to evening but yet don't manage to learn what I have to know in order to pass exams. And now I wonder... Is Computer Science only meant for people who are already programmers and who know everything about computers, or maybe I have severe ADHD?
Because I can't focus on so many tasks and subjects at once. It takes much effort for me to focus on one thing and then I have to jump to another and another... When I focus on one subject and one thing, I usually do well, and I pass my exams, but if I have to do many tasks, study for many exams I can't do it... If I would teach myself programming at home I could go up to this level and I think I could do well, because I really have intrest and motivation, but because of my CS I don't really want to do it anymore. I wonder how people who never wrote any code in their life manage to pass these exams.
I feel like people who didn't have any prior knowledge about programming when they started these courses do better than me. I don't know if it make sense to continue, becase my loan is geting higher and higher and I'm... getting dumber and dumber haha 
modified 3-Jun-21 21:01pm.
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CS is for a certain type of thinker. You can be smart, driven and focused and simply not be that type of thinker. My husband is all of those things but he tried CS and it didn't pan out for him. He wound up becoming a religious studies major, and then learning several languages. I struggle with just the one. But he'll never do CS. I'll never speak Mixtec.
I'm not saying that's necessarily your situation. I don't know enough about you. It could be that your learning style doesn't mesh with their teaching style.
Can I ask if you went in knowing any CS or was it all new to you?
For my part, I never want to uni. I was at microsoft at 18 but I also know I didn't have a lot of the ancillary skills necessary to do well in that type of academic environment, like just the rigor and the propensity for good study habits.
The reason I bring that up is it might be that you can code, but uni can't teach you.
For my part, knowing only what I know about you from this post, I would have a plan B in mind, and hopefully a minor in something really solid, but I wouldn't switch majors just yet.
I don't know if they have tutors for CS stuff but if they do, maybe see about getting one.
Real programmers use butterflies
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When I started studying at university I was preparing myself and read some books on Java. It was hard but I did learn the syntax and the basic concepts and how to make objects and what classes are and so on. But I feel like everything goes too fast. I have my own tempo. I understand what I learn and find it intresting but I'm a slow learner. I learn most effective by reading entire books. Lectures don't work for me at all. After listening to a lecture I still have very little knowledge and the teacher just talks and I can't push the stop button so if I don't get what he/she keeps talking. My focus is bad when I'm listening, because I easily get distracted so I prefer online courses or books so I can pause and think about what I learned. It's not that I don't get what I learn. It's just that no one will wait for me to and I'm really slow. When I already have learnt things I'm fast but my learning process is very slow and I simply can't catch up on the material. I have motivation, I enjoy what I'm doing but I'm too slow and I always behind and I fear that in the end will fail too many courses and have to drop out anyway and have a big loan that I have to pay off working as a cleaner 
modified 3-Jun-21 21:01pm.
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