Jackson Heights Life
Get Connected => Neighborhood Chat => Topic started by: jonphilmitch on December 27, 2021, 11:46:39 AM
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If anyone is interested, please feel free to join the Jackson Heights Discord server. Discord is a chat platform. It's more akin to the chat rooms of the old days than a forum. It has "servers", which are like little communities. Inside the servers are "channels" for different topics. For example, we have channels for "general", "food and drink", "Meetups", "parking spaces", and "rooms for rent". Discord works in the browser or as a desktop/mobile app. Link to the server: https://discord.gg/YAZt4y8Uhx (https://discord.gg/YAZt4y8Uhx)
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Thanks for making any alternatives to this site. The graphics look kind of light and tweeny. Is that the intended demographic?
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Yep, Discord is totally for the tween demographic.
Tik Tok may be the next suggestion..?
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Yeah. We have so many bored tweens here in JH. Some on this board and they'll like it. Meanwhile Heather Cox Richardson on Substack is a thought provoking read. Nice to be outside the traditional machinery of news and commentary which is something I appreciated from this soon to be gone site.
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Heather Cox Richardson is brilliant. reading her every day is good for the soul.
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Yeah. We have so many bored tweens here in JH. Some on this board and they'll like it. Meanwhile Heather Cox Richardson on Substack is a thought provoking read. Nice to be outside the traditional machinery of news and commentary which is something I appreciated from this soon to be gone site.
My observation of this forum is that it's far more opinions on topics rather than any real news.
Which is fine.
But individuals' opinions being confused with actual news... is not so great.
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is there a single neighborhood chat board anywhere in North America that's focused on real news?
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is there a single neighborhood chat board anywhere in North America that's focused on real news?
No.
But thinking that opinions on a forum board are actual news is a delusion for those in a bubble.
That's the real problem.
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here's an instance where i wish the forum would have had a simple agree/disagree option. because you're correct, and there's really not much else to add.
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This is the first and only forum I have ever been a part of.
And as such, I reiterate, that this forum has taught me so much about the inner online thought processes of people, opinions, anger, kindness, group-speak and human flaws.
Thank you again to the moderators for this incredible learning curve on online protocol and behavior.
I leave the forum far wiser and much more knowledgeable about the online world than when I started.
And I take that into the future.
Much appreciated!
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I get a lot of "real news" - the local kind, the neighborhood news here. And it seems that Shehkar prefers tweeting which is something a lot of us managed to avoid. Maybe a tweet interpreter would run interference and post on another site so that we could keep informed without the treaded tw...
Opinions are great too if, and only if, they are substantiated and not just pablum spoken again and again in the same tone with the same language. A good debate sharpens the mind and clears the brain. I have heard talk of reinvesting in local newspapers and of someone starting a new one in Brooklyn. Maybe we will have a similar good fortune here in Queens? With hyper local news segments and posting for those not device driven. Dare to dream.
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I get a lot of "real news" - the local kind, the neighborhood news here. And it seems that Shehkar prefers tweeting which is something a lot of us managed to avoid. Maybe a tweet interpreter would run interference and post on another site so that we could keep informed without the treaded tw...
Opinions are great too if, and only if, they are substantiated and not just pablum spoken again and again in the same tone with the same language. A good debate sharpens the mind and clears the brain. I have heard talk of reinvesting in local newspapers and of someone starting a new one in Brooklyn. Maybe we will have a similar good fortune here in Queens? With hyper local news segments and posting for those not device driven. Dare to dream.
My observation is that online... contrary opinions are called pablum by certain posters. These posters should look in the mirror. Their own opinions are equally pablum.
Their monotonous negative pablum is being met by similar toned, but contrary and apposite positive pablum.
One recurring lesson from the online world...often folks can dish it out...but they sure can't take it.
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in debates, online or otherwise, people believe they are making statements that are "positive" (or "correct" or "helpful"), and believe the opposing viewpoint is "negative." it's a knee-jerk reaction, and it's human nature, not learned behavior.
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Yes.
Positive and negative are relative.
And an online environment makes this obvious. (It's a philosophical discussion. Does absolute truth exist? Probably not. According to Godel, not even in Math.)
People online definitely don't communicate as they do in real life.
From Grindr to this forum, the style of communication online is specific to the environment online.
People's character traits, like wanting to correct others, for instance, ...which may be a control issue...do come through of course.
But an online environment is certainly a parallel world to reality.
Does it have similarities to online gaming...but with words? Maybe.