What's happening at the "other" board?

Hi All,

THe subject line just about says it all. The board suddenly seemed to lose several discussion areas and there have been no new posts for quite a while.

 

very little seems to be happening.
All the best!

 

I "stirred the tanks" there for awhile, but it got boring answering the degree mill shills and their purposeful mis-statements regarding the utility and recognition of degrees from some really bad schools. I found that by not answering them, it actually helped dry up their forum. No one to confront and all that. I just ignored a couple of comments directed at me personally, and that was that. After they're done convincing themselves that their diploma mill degrees are good enough, what else is there?

 

If you are registered and logged on you actually see more than visitors. Strange but true.

All frequent posters (rare indeed) on distancedegree.net must thank Rich for the truth and the light and his efforts to lead all on the path of righteousness. Rich and a couple other degreeinfo.com refugees made a determined effort to bring enlightenment concerning regional accreditation to the lost souls residing there.

I realize that Rich would never attack anyone personally. By his personal definition, subject to situational revision, everything he says is fact and everything anyone else says is personal.

Indirectly telling people that their degree is dog poo and that they're ugly too for the 100th time certainly discouraged a lot of people from posting.

 

Hmmm. I personally think what destroyed the forum was the ultra-conservative gay bashing. It destroyed any sense of community and drove a couple of the brightest and most prolific posters away. Without thier contribution there is little reason for others to post.

As for Dennis's comment, I think intellectual conversation is impossible if you just want everyone to agree with you. I think Rich greatly added to the conversation there. I guess they should have required sending a photo copy of an unaccredited degree before registration!

 

Did I miss something? Where and when did this ultra-conservative gay bashing take place?

 

Re: Re: What's happening at the "other" board?

Oh, and this isn't personal? And unsolicited? And not for the first time, either, Dennis.

Have I ever initiated any comment about you--other than responding to you first?

Your propensity to speak for others is interesting, too.

 

Re: Re: Re: What's happening at the "other" board?

I may have gotten just a little carried away in making my point.

I am DegreeInfo bullet proof. Two bachelors degrees from a provincially operated university, maybe a little slumming at a DETC school for professional development points, but no degree, yet. Add to this the fact that I infrequently say anything substantive and voila bullet proof.

Speaking for others - more like repeating others who won't post here.

 

Personally, I could care less who does or doesn't agree with me, who decides to tell me I'm not a novelist, who decides to tell me that my education doesn't appear to be of junior college level, or who doesn't like my alma mater.

It all boils down to how much time I have to pursue discussions of these matters. I can write a formal paper, do some contract work, or I can deal with any and all of the above, but I can't do it all, at the same time, without something being doing shoddily. So, rather than write shoddy papers and do shoddy contract work, I've pulled out of dealing with the topic of distance education, except to audit both boards once in a while, with the self-promise that I will not become engaged in time-sink behavior.

 

We at the Ari Fleischer School of Clarification would like to make clear that when Dr. Jackson writes, "I could care less..." what he means is "I couldn't care less."

 

Actually, I could care less, but I don't have the time to spare to actually get involved of the process of caring less. ;-)

Ahem.

 

My impression is that in the UK people say "couldn't care less" and in US people say "could care less." In Canada? They say "Eh?"

 

In Canada, we could care less about such distinctions. Ahem.

 

Normally I could care less but I believe at some points in my life I couldn't care less. Comfortable with both.

My illiterate alert goes off upon hearing irregardless.

 

And the reason for that is because, irregardless of who utters that one, it's clear they could care less about how he or she is perceived by one.

 

"Flammable" and "Inflammable" mean the same thing...

Nosborne, JD
(Who HATES "irregardless" almost as much as he hates the misuse of the apostophe in "it's".

 

You know, some DL courses for your alert might be just the thing...

 

This is another one that sets off the illiterate alarm. I almost used it in my irregardless example but checked Webster. Apparently in the US flammable is the preferred spelling in commerce, industry etc. Ouch!

 

The trouble with Distancedegree is that it was all about unaccredited schools--that was presented by many folks as its selling point over Degreeinfo, and it became the central focus of the forum (though I'll break the mold and say that this was certainly not the moderators' fault, and that I think they made a legitimate effort to broaden the discussion). I really believe that, beyond a certain point, unaccredited correspondence schools are just plain boring to all but a few. The non-GAAP sections of Bears' Guide are entertaining to read because John Bear is a darned good writer who can make this stuff look interesting, just like David Remnick made Kremlinology look interesting; but both areas of study tend to be a little tedious, if left to themselves.


Cheers,

 

"Flammable" is a word invented to avoid any possibility of confusion for safety reasons. Shouldn't be used in civilized society...