Sally D & Others....
Thu, 12 Jan 2006, 12:17 amWalter Plinge32 posts in thread
Sally D & Others....
Thu, 12 Jan 2006, 12:17 amSTOP FILLING UP THIS FORUM WITH CRAP! Why don't you and your aspiring waapa friends get your own mailing list and email each other this rubbish?? This website and it's forums are meant to be about theatre around australia not all your dribble it's just wasting space! By all means live in your fantasy world, but do it somewhere else! Nobody cares and we don't want want to see it filling up our screens! So go somewhere else - l feel sorry for your lecturers this year, i hope you settle down once you arrive!
Banter away....but prepare ye for my response...
Sat, 14 Jan 2006, 11:11 amJanty wrote:
>
> This raises a very interesting point. Whilst a lot of what
> WAAPA people have posted on this site has been educational
> for people going into first year. As it does give them a
> genuine feel for the place and what kinda things go on there,
> however I can understand that people that are not involved in
> WAAPA and have no desire to ever be involved (ie are not
> future prospective students) may find it irritating. As over
> the last few months we have hijacked this particular forum.
And it raises some very interesting grammar. Only one proper sentence (the first one) in the whole paragraph. 'Educational' isn't the right word; I'd downgrade it to 'informative'.
> I must admit at WAAPA we do engage in a large amount of
> banter, not only is it entertaining, it is a way of
> constantly keeping your imagination fresh, increasing your
> vocabularly and a good excercise in lateral thinking. Kind of
> like debating a useless topic just for the intellectual
> exercise. So with us all spread around the country and not
> living in each others pockets as usual, we have to find new
> ways of keeping our banter up.
I love increasing my....what does this word mean?....vocabularly?
Nevertheless, as this typical response of mine shows, I too enjoy debating a useless topic just for the intellectual exercise.
I think you'd find that most visitors to this site would agree with you on the merits of intellectual banter. That's a major reason for much of the discussion here...it's not a pastime exclusive to WAAPA. And you're most welcome to join in. But as I mentioned in another post, if you participate in a public forum, you can't expect to remain in isolation. You're entering into a social situation and are expected to utilise some social skills.
Sure, this is a brilliant venue for you guys to all meet and catch up. But don't forget that you're going to be relating intimately and exclusively with each over the next three years; this forum is a great chance to not lose touch with reality, and to relate to the outside world.
I'm sure this wasn't your intention, but it seems a bit rude to enter a public domain, then attempt to shut it out.
> As we do live in a market driven, capitalist society the
> increase in WAAPA activity on this site may possibly be a
> good argument for adding a new forum classification in which
> people that weren't interested wouldn't have to wade through
> the pages of babble we leave for them. Just an idea, anyone
> know how we go about petitioning this?
How many WAAPA students are there currently? In all years, in all classes? I'll be conservative and guess 300, although I think it's probably far less.
How many people visit this site? Hard to tell, but the site gets around 550 visits a DAY.
In a market driven, capitalist analogy - you lose.
If you guys really just want a forum to talk amongst yourselves, then I'd have to agree with Showzfan...it would make much more sense to go away and establish your own. But I hope you choose not to. You all have interesting stuff to contribute, and you're in the right place to discuss it.
But as a community website, Theatre Australia aims to be inclusive, not elitist. That's why it exists: to share. If you're going to contribute, you need to be mindful of this.
> There is also the other debate, which is: If your not
> interested, don;t read it.
This argument has been used before, but the logic doesn't stand up to practical application. How do you know whether you're interested or not until after you've read it? Once you've read something that isn't appropriate for a public forum, how do you UN-read it?
If you're a visitor to this site, you already have an interest in public discussion about theatre. You've come here to read what is being offered. When you find your time has been wasted by private conversation that is not really appropriate for a public forum, all you can do is express your disappointment and point out a more appropriate way of going about it.
> But I do see both sides.
Hopefully, if you continue to banter with me on this forum, I'll be able to show you that merely considering TWO sides is seeing things from a rather limited perspective...!
Cheers,
Craig
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>
> This raises a very interesting point. Whilst a lot of what
> WAAPA people have posted on this site has been educational
> for people going into first year. As it does give them a
> genuine feel for the place and what kinda things go on there,
> however I can understand that people that are not involved in
> WAAPA and have no desire to ever be involved (ie are not
> future prospective students) may find it irritating. As over
> the last few months we have hijacked this particular forum.
And it raises some very interesting grammar. Only one proper sentence (the first one) in the whole paragraph. 'Educational' isn't the right word; I'd downgrade it to 'informative'.
> I must admit at WAAPA we do engage in a large amount of
> banter, not only is it entertaining, it is a way of
> constantly keeping your imagination fresh, increasing your
> vocabularly and a good excercise in lateral thinking. Kind of
> like debating a useless topic just for the intellectual
> exercise. So with us all spread around the country and not
> living in each others pockets as usual, we have to find new
> ways of keeping our banter up.
I love increasing my....what does this word mean?....vocabularly?
Nevertheless, as this typical response of mine shows, I too enjoy debating a useless topic just for the intellectual exercise.
I think you'd find that most visitors to this site would agree with you on the merits of intellectual banter. That's a major reason for much of the discussion here...it's not a pastime exclusive to WAAPA. And you're most welcome to join in. But as I mentioned in another post, if you participate in a public forum, you can't expect to remain in isolation. You're entering into a social situation and are expected to utilise some social skills.
Sure, this is a brilliant venue for you guys to all meet and catch up. But don't forget that you're going to be relating intimately and exclusively with each over the next three years; this forum is a great chance to not lose touch with reality, and to relate to the outside world.
I'm sure this wasn't your intention, but it seems a bit rude to enter a public domain, then attempt to shut it out.
> As we do live in a market driven, capitalist society the
> increase in WAAPA activity on this site may possibly be a
> good argument for adding a new forum classification in which
> people that weren't interested wouldn't have to wade through
> the pages of babble we leave for them. Just an idea, anyone
> know how we go about petitioning this?
How many WAAPA students are there currently? In all years, in all classes? I'll be conservative and guess 300, although I think it's probably far less.
How many people visit this site? Hard to tell, but the site gets around 550 visits a DAY.
In a market driven, capitalist analogy - you lose.
If you guys really just want a forum to talk amongst yourselves, then I'd have to agree with Showzfan...it would make much more sense to go away and establish your own. But I hope you choose not to. You all have interesting stuff to contribute, and you're in the right place to discuss it.
But as a community website, Theatre Australia aims to be inclusive, not elitist. That's why it exists: to share. If you're going to contribute, you need to be mindful of this.
> There is also the other debate, which is: If your not
> interested, don;t read it.
This argument has been used before, but the logic doesn't stand up to practical application. How do you know whether you're interested or not until after you've read it? Once you've read something that isn't appropriate for a public forum, how do you UN-read it?
If you're a visitor to this site, you already have an interest in public discussion about theatre. You've come here to read what is being offered. When you find your time has been wasted by private conversation that is not really appropriate for a public forum, all you can do is express your disappointment and point out a more appropriate way of going about it.
> But I do see both sides.
Hopefully, if you continue to banter with me on this forum, I'll be able to show you that merely considering TWO sides is seeing things from a rather limited perspective...!
Cheers,
Craig
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