POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!

[Swithin]

You guys need to practice your quotation formatting. It's becoming a nigh-unreadable mess.

It is a challenge!

[Swithin]

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Thank you for responding. Naturally I disagree and believe my comments in opposition to a like button were well-reasoned and sincere. I won't repeat them. ElCid
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And thank you ElCid. I certainly don't question your opposition, though I disagree with it. I only have a problem with your reactions, when the "No" vote wasn't in the majority.

Btw, I didn't bring up this rather prosaic point, but last year I had a problem with the keyboard on my MacBook. The space bar stuck, and it was very difficult to type anything that required use of the spacebar. Apple replaced the keyboard twice, free of charge, over a two-year period, but after a time, the problem recurred, and Apple wouldn't replace it. I was waiting for a new model, before I bought a new one, which I did in March 2022. During that time, I found the "like" button very useful, since it was hard to type text. I'm wondering how many people may be challenged in other ways and may find "like" buttons useful.

Unexpectedly, I received an email a couple of weeks ago, about a class action related to that keyboard problem (MacBook Keyboard Litigation Settlement). So I may get a few bucks out of it!

[EP Millstone]

Here is a visual aid that I hope will be useful to folks having trouble quoting posts.

This aid shows how to quote only LostHorizons' December 24 2022, 1:41 am message.


In this example, the top, time-stamped quote line is the start of LostHorizons' response "On one point I agree. This has been a mean spirited discussion and the like button won. Just give the button I say."

Everything between that top, time-stamped quote line and LostHorizons' response "One one point I agree . . ." should be deleted.

Result:

On one point I agree. This has all been a mean spirited discussion and the like button won. Just give the button, I say.

[Hibi]

When does the vote end today? Or is it already over? Today is my last day online for awhile. I might not be able to know till next year!

C’mon Hibi, don’t tell me you don’t have a smart phone or internet access away from your job.

It may be hard to believe, but I don't! I came in today to use the work computer for something. (I have a flip phone and no computer at home).

[Hibi]

a step which those who don't want to use it, don't have to.

Those who demand a: 'Like' button are quite free to go to: FaceSpace, Twitterings, Instaslut or any other trashy site which currently uses them. There is no objective reason to have one here.

The site was being used as an archive by members. It was quite fine at that. I remember no recruitment drive nor any promises made to attract new members. The admins went to great lengths to accommodate the influx of people desperately seeking refuge. This is how you repay their generosity of spirit?

It is quite uncivilized to enter someone's home as a guest and instantly start demanding they plaster their walls with posters of nude freaks, that rap performed by convicted criminals be played loudly all night and that a flagpole be installed on the front lawn so you can fly your hammer and sickle. What you are demanding is the online equivalent to those.

Y'all should be thankful that I am not an: Admin because I would likely ban several of those who agitate for this issue. The most I can do as a member is fear what asinine demands you will make next, devirginize my: 'Foe' list and hope that you soon tire of being trolls here and go to your kindred spirit's site where any old lung disease can become god.

This comment was UNCALLED for. I can't believe the negativity on this thread over adding a simple LIKE button!

[EP Millstone]

This comment was UNCALLED for. I can't believe the negativity on this thread over adding a simple LIKE button!

That's okay. Masha is now paying for her tantrum.

Note to Self: Send a "Thank you!" note to my friend The Witch Doctor for a job well done.

[ElCid]

I thought we were going to end the discussion on this topic.
The advisory poll has been taken and everyone has had ample opportunity to comment.
Now it is up to the Administrators to determine whether or not to add a like button.

[EP Millstone]

I thought we were going to end the discussion on this topic.

Why did you think that, ElCid?

If you don't like the discussion, don't participate in it!

[EP Millstone]

It may be hard to believe, but I don't! I came in today to use the work computer for something. (I have a flip phone and no computer at home).

Hibi,

I hope that you don't get in trouble for "playing on the Web" on company time and company equipment. Watch your back!

[Swithin]

Although I’ve been spending my posting time on the Classic Film/TV board, which I’ve grown to like, I do look in here once in a while. (On the other board, we are all newbies, so no one can accuse us of entering someone else’s home. And there are some new posters there whose posts I enjoy very much.)

Look, I know that it’s easy on these anonymous boards to get carried away and express oneself in an undignified manner. It does require a special kind of restraint to avoid that.

For me, it was never really just about a “like” button. It was my disappointment about certain responses. I understand that people have differing opinions, but how can people who have used a “like” button frequently on the TCM board suddenly become so vehement in their opposition to it? (I know people can change their minds, but so violently, and so rudely?)

Regarding the poll, one may recall that Movieman1957 posted that he had voted. Although he voted “no,” surely the fact that a moderator voted, adds credibility to the poll, and gives it an imprimatur! I will be interested in seeing the decision.

Taking a break from cleaning and cooking for Christmas dinner, I browsed our old TCM site and enjoyed seeing some of the wonderful posts you all made over the years. I hope they're being archived. I’ll conclude this post by quoting from one of my final posts (made on November 25) on the TCM board. I was surprised to notice that the anti-like poster who made that outrageous post here, actually liked the following post!
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"I joined the TCM Board 16 years ago because of my love for TCM. I was younger, my needs were different. I worked (and still dabble) in an arts milieu in which there were plenty of people to speak with, about classic films, but I enjoyed the additional anonymous connections here. Now, the attraction of the Board is really about the posters I've come to know and enjoy. Despite it's vastness and number of threads, this is a manageable Board, in terms of size, and it's the people who have kept me here.

I sometimes comment on The Guardian newspaper website -- it's vast -- but my rare comments there have nothing to do with the other posters: there are too many of them anyway, from around the world. It's a different experience. Some boards, like TheatreBoard, which focuses on UK theater -- are useful to me for information. But our TCM site is more about community, and at this stage in my life, that's what I'll miss when this board shuts down. So I'm glad that there will be at least a bit of that community on those two other sites.

Heraclitus may or may not have been right -- "you can't step into the same river twice -- δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης" -- but other philosophers have disagreed with him. But there is inevitable change. Perhaps A.E. Housman said it best. Terence Davies quotes Housman's famous lines in Of Time and the City:

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again."

[laffite]

Heraclitus may or may not have been right -- "you can't step into the same river twice -- δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης" -- but other philosophers have disagreed with him. But there is inevitable change. Perhaps A.E. Housman said it best. Terence Davies quotes Housman's famous lines in Of Time and the City:

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again."
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Wonderful post, Swithin. of which only the ending comment is shown. Lovely poem and has always moved me. I am at times (especially as I grow older and older and older, i am 78) to be so struck by a memory, of events, of good times and bad times, or simply a place in my past, that a certain paralysis of mind, a calm state of being mesmerized, descends upon me with inexorable fascination. I have not entered into an altered state or anything and it doesn't last long, that state of being, mind you; but the memory will go on nonetheless, and will wane in due course, not to be forgotten, nor be wallowed in. That simple poem evokes. Not having the power to revisit places of remembrances past is an affliction of old age (to me), and derives a certain pleasure, though mightily bittersweet. And yes M. Villon, Ou sont des neiges d'antan?

[Dargo]

Well, considering we seem to suddenly be in some sort of a "reflective" mood at the moment here gentlemen, HERE'S a thought for YA:

Ever wonder how they make that paint that does that???

(...well, I HAVE told ya before that I'm not much of a deep thinker here, now haven't I ?!)

[EP Millstone]

Well, considering we seem to suddenly be in some sort of a "reflective" mood at the moment here gentlemen, HERE'S a thought for YA:

Ever wonder how they make that paint that does that???

Wonder no more, Dargo!

How To Make Reflective Paint

[Dargo]

Well, considering we seem to suddenly be in some sort of a "reflective" mood at the moment here gentlemen, HERE'S a thought for YA:

Ever wonder how they make that paint that does that???

Wonder no more, Dargo!

How To Make Reflective Paint

[Swithin]

Wonderful post, Swithin. of which only the ending comment is shown. Lovely poem and has always moved me. I am at times (especially as I grow older and older and older, i am 78) to be so struck by a memory, of events, of good times and bad times, or simply a place in my past, that a certain paralysis of mind, a calm state of being mesmerized, descends upon me with inexorable fascination. I have not entered into an altered state or anything and it doesn't last long, that state of being, mind you; but the memory will go on nonetheless, and will wane in due course, not to be forgotten, nor be wallowed in. That simple poem evokes. Not having the power to revisit places of remembrances past is an affliction of old age (to me), and derives a certain pleasure, though mightily bittersweet. And yes M. Villon, Ou sont des neiges d'antan?

Thank you Lafitte. If we had a like button, I would use it. That's all that's needed to honour your lovely response. No words necessary.