World Flying Community Off-Topic Discussion (Part 3)

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 6:07am

Wanna hold a satanic ritual?

Brody_Swiatek · March 2, 2021, 6:14am

, no thanks

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 6:46am

Um, @Adrian_K, that was uncategorized debating. Not aviation debating.

Flightistic · March 2, 2021, 6:47am

Zach · March 2, 2021, 6:48am

We are aware of that. Recently we have seen an influx of #uncategorized-debating topics. Not #real-world-aviation topics. Please remember that is is a AVIATION forum. Not a #uncategorized-debating forum.

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 6:49am

Yes, I understand, but then what would be the point of an uncategorized debating channel?

Zach · March 2, 2021, 6:49am

We want people to debate about things other than aviation but not as much as we are seeing at the moment.

Adrian_K · March 2, 2021, 6:49am

Lets take this to a lovely PM.

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 7:06am

This does not negate the popularity of #uncategorized-debating, even in an aviation forum. In fact, the aviation games debating section less topics than uncategorized debating. On average, the aviation debating channel has 34 replies per topic, while uncatergorized debating has 43 replies per topic. If this doesn’t sound significant, take into consideration that the most popular uncategorized debating topic has a total of 473 replies, while the largest aviation debating topic has only a mere 210 replies. The community involvement in uncategorized debating is much greater than in aviation debating.

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 7:06am

Anyway

Nugget:

My best example of a bad teacher is my 5th grade teacher, who I’ll call “Mrs. Divorce”.

Mrs. Divorce is the pinnacle of awful teaching. It’s amazing that god didn’t wipe her off the face of the earth decades ago. She was transferred to my grade and it’s obvious she hates children. She would not grade according to the syllabus. Hell, she didn’t even follow the syllabus. She would not grade us on what we answered, but rather, if she liked us or not. There was this time that during a test, me and another kid, Kiara, answered exactly the same. Kiara got 97%. I got a 61%. When I went to protest the grade, Mrs. Divorce literally told me to my face," Deal with it yourself". Luckily, since I was friends with Kiara, I reported it to the principal and Mrs. Divorce was apparently lectured about it. However, instead of giving me a 97%, she gave Kiara a 61%. We’re not friends anymore.
It’s also important to note that Mrs. Divorce was pregnant. I overheard from my friend, Lana, that her husband divorced her after she gave birth to her 2nd child, and then was impregnated by a previous coworker she cheated with. She used her pregnancy and kids to justify her awful teaching. She would act hormonal and pretend to faint in class. She was a huge attention seeker, constantly asking the class if she was beautiful. She had a group of “favorites” in the class, who always sucked up to her. The other 25 of us that weren’t favorites averaged about 75% in class. The favorites averaged 105%. I’m guessing this is because of her grading system.
She was extremely judgemental and would constantly bully the other students and teachers. She would say something along the lines of," You will never achieve anything", and ," No wonder all the other kids hate you," right in front of the class. Of course she never said this to the favorites, she would say to them," Why can’t the others be like you". We had the annoying class points system, where we would earn points for completing jobs. She gave all the highest paying jobs to her favorites, while the other 25 of us were either used to deliver her takeout or were unemployed.
I heard from my girlfriend that her class protested after she failed all of the students (aside from the favorites) on a state test. Everyone, even the favorites, protested to the principal. As punishment, Mrs. Divorce threw a fit and apparently slapped one of her favorites. Mrs. Divorce is apparently now fired and on probation.

Zach · March 2, 2021, 7:10am

This is an AVIATION forum. Even if we were getting 1K+ replies per topic in that category that does not go along with the forum reason. If you want to have a uncategorized debating forum create it yourself. Just because it brings activity does not mean it’s good for the forum.

Zach · March 2, 2021, 7:10am

This is a aviation community and that’s final.

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 7:10am

Then why is there an uncategorized debating category if it’s not good for the forum?

Brody_Swiatek · March 2, 2021, 7:11am

Check the Features category. Also according to Zac they don’t all have to be closed.

Zach · March 2, 2021, 7:11am

I’m well aware of that.

Zach · March 2, 2021, 7:14am

What I mean by this is that what if a user who was looking to join looked around and saw a bunch of random topics yet very little aviation topics. There goes the chance of the user joining. I’m ok with a topic every week or so in that category but not every day.

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 7:19am

Does this mean we need to delete the off topic discussion, features category, or meta because it say’s pretty much nothing about aviation and talks about either

a) An off topic discussion
b) New features beneficial to the forum
c) Questions concerning the form

No, we keep these topics and categories because they help the forum run smoothly, without any serious arguments.

Zach · March 2, 2021, 7:20am

You are correct. If we could see more aviation categories everything would be fine.

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 7:26am

The ratio of aviation and forum related topics to off topics is 115/67 (if my math is correct).

Nugget · March 2, 2021, 7:28am

Off topics include the #general category as well