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I think we all agree here that the reputation system is not a "I demand no ban / I demand ban" thing... It wouldn't even matter since there's already a warning bar made for it.
The rep system seems more like a "what people think about your posts in average". You can still post and people would still read your posts no matter how many reputation points you have.
... It would really be sad if people get intimidated by the reputation system. People who probably are a bit too afraid to risk losing all their respect just from some disagreed opinions. Opinions are always worth sharing no matter how different they are... They could be fun to read. (And for some people, fun to rate them as well).
Reasons for posts that are randomly down repped could be... maybe personal hate? Maybe accidental since we cannot undo them? Maybe just a "hah what a cheap post"? Or "I don't agree" / "I don't like her way of expressing her opinion"? Etc...
+repped can be so random as well, too many to list out but I can come up with an example: 411 section is the most peaceful section where arguments rarely happen. It's like everyone could be so friendly to each other there to the point that I'm pretty sure there's gotta be AT LEAST some "Hey let's +rep each other's replies!
" going on around there...Can't really take this system too seriously.
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Now speaking of SouthernBelle82, I gotta agree with peppermintsugar.
I have argued INTENSELY with her long ago about a pretty nerdy subject (it was my first and last time arguing with her, it's not worth a 2nd time). I had no idea about her "monster-non-give-up arguing skills". But it was expected to turn out like this when I found it out. When I argue with someone, I tend to use some intense expressions to put a strong impact on my arguments, without offending or attacking the other person. SouthernBelle82 took it to another level (opinions attacking my intelligence and knowledge), so I made her have a taste of her own medicine to the point she started complaining that I was attacking her. I simply just took her attack, tweaked it a little bit and turned it against herself. I did not comment on that though. She likes to go off-topic by bringing up random details to argue around with. Prime example:
Me: You can have a look at [puts source link] (or "proof", as she likes to say it).
Her: Oh thanks for giving me the permission on what I can do and what I can not do.
It became a problem when she did not even learn to understand a thing from my reliable source link. First thing that came to my mind right after that was "Am I arguing with a low IQ here?!".
Another problem from her is that she's not "open" to other people's opinions. Which is what makes her seem like she's having hard time trying to understand our arguments. Being open is more polite and respectful, though we don't necessarily have to FULLY believe, agree or accept an argument. Cautiousness could still remain at least.
Arguments could move on or stop by just saying "If it really is like that, then it's cool..." (this would likely stop further arguments, because it sounds like agreement) OR... "If it really is like that, then [brings in further arguments]" <--- This is far better than arguing the same craps in circle (SouthernBelle82 style), crossing the limit where it becomes a pollution.
I hope you guys know what I mean.
That pretty much explains a lot about what happened to her.
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Hey girls, just random... Assuming that you're single, what would be the best way for a total stranger to get to know you and keep in touch with you if he's not so bad looking and he "seems" interesting? Sounds creepy but it could be a sort of fantasy too...
Like when an interesting not-so-bad-looking girl I don't even know looks at me with a little smile, making me dream of her walking to me and asking for cell number or something... HAHA... (but not to ask for a date right away! wth ) -
It might be really hard to achieve a title like that.She's in the 2000's.The 'quote-and-reply-to-everyone's-post' tactic seems like a tedious task.You would also have to risk the chance of developing RSI from typing so many negative and ignorant posts.
Her way of quoting and replying were resulting in some multi-posting spree in a row (where mods warned her many times about it, yet she amazingly still kept going).
So imagine, 5 posts in a row where each post was like -10, you get an awesome -50...
If all of them were merged into one post, she probably would have just got -10 (because the same people could just down rep "once a post" and that's it hahaha!)... Plus, she recently was "on fire", by posting nearly 24/7 (well of course not exactly 24/7, but it just gave away that kind of impression), honestly, I saw her arguing lightning speed online every damn time I got online to read stuff around... That explains her -2000 from her persistent repetitive arguments that went in circle... That's some great efforts that I admire, I gotta admit ( with those kind of efforts, I could have done many cooler fun things... like when a dog could do so much more cool and useful stuff than trying to bite his own tail in circle all day )... I remember in one of her posts, she said she was sleeping at night while thinking about how ridiculous Soompi people's arguments against her were... and the rests were blah blah... That was pretty intense! (Don't wanna be like her)*This post was the summary of my observation on SouthernBelle82, yet I did not follow her everywhere to observe her, but she just happened to post in every freaking threads I'm looking at. Can't imagine if I was looking in every single thread...*
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But red symbolizes fortune. When lunar new years comes around everyone's all dressed in red.
More red = more power. There's nothing shameful about having lots and lots of reds. Be proud!
I went from 197 to 274 in a day. Awesome right?
Try to catch up the almighty SouthernBelle82... Not even a super troll can do that! Even if she's now banned, her reps in red still increased...
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So far ever since this system existed, I've +repped everyone on Soompi... But I've never -repped anyone (even if there are some posts I don't like)... <--- Exception to SouthernBelle82... When she goes over the limit...
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I believe the sun should start to shine brightly once again, by now, and life goes back to normal . . .
The weather today was... beauuuutiful.
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It just shows what people think about your posts... Good/bad, agreed/disagreed, etc. For some few others, it would be like "This person is pretty cool / Damn I hate this person"...
But unlike YouTube, posts don't disappear when they're over 5 in the minus...
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^ Nice record!
I have 47 or something, the ironic thing is I bet none of those are from my general posts or even the ones where I'm trying to be helpful, but the ones where I'm arguing with a certain person.
I think I know who that person is... Someone who has like 15 times more rep points than you do, but in the minus...
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Wow, for being in my busy moments and posting very few random posts, I'm surprised I went up to 25... If only we could redeem those points into dollars...
But then people in the minus will have to owe some money... HAHA! -
nope, i just get my french friend garrett to translate stuff for me.
funny thing is, he hates french.
modesty-modestie
women-filles/femme
black-noir
beauty-belle
not sure how accurate these are ;p
It has already been translated... without a mistake. Yours still has some mistakes. Sorry.
Tell your friend Garrett to keep his eyes opened next time. You too, because apparently, you didn't know it was already translated perfectly.
Women is "femmes"... You forgot an S because it's in plural...
Filles is mostly "girls"...
Beauty is "beauté".
That's the most accurate you can be.
Beautiful would be "belle" though.
Hah.
Ohhh xD;;; haaha I feel like a noob not knowing skype xD;;;; but yeah, either way my parent's are gonna like kill me if I mic/webcam =3=lllllll TT_TT so unfairrrr.Hahaha... It's good when you have some important people you don't live with, and that you wanna communicate with them just like that instead of using a phone... Hand free!!! (Unless you really have a mic that you have to hold haha)... I have a typical gamer headset...
But ahhh... Webcaming is understandable if your parents get mad (especially with strangers) but why not mic? They don't wanna hear you talking with people? xD I mean, a lot of strangers-strangers talk on the phone (telemarketing craps mostly xD... OH and some dating services HAHAHA!)...
The advantage of using a mic is very good to practice our speaking...
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omg!!~ Yayyyyy!! Thankks!!!<33 But only if your not busy =]
um....skype is a problem coz my parents are gonna kill me for webcam-ming >3<;
but email/msn is good =]
No no I didn't mean skyping with webcam, just with mic (by just making a call)... HAHA...
But ah well, we'll end up blah blah-ing on msn soon anyway...
Just that we're both busy at the moment and we're in different time zones...What NPB-XK said but if you want an equivalent expression in french it's "l'habit ne fait pas le moine" (the clothing doesn't make a monk lol)because I think in french we don't use the literal translation of the english expression in essays
Oh yeah I agree with that idiom...
It fits in an essay perfectly for sure...
But if you wish to say that to your friends, I don't find it "virile" enough if you know what I'm sizzling...
Like...
A: "Oh ce film a l'air tellement mauvais..."
B: "L'habit ne fait pas le moine."
It sounds kinda nerdy...
While the other version would be more directed towards the person like how the English version intends to be...
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^ I'd be a volunteer if you'd like... We can even skype haha... You can PM me your email/msn...
can somebody translate this to french: don't judge a book by it's cover.thanks
It would be umm, if you say that to one person:
Ne juge pas un livre par sa couverture.
Or if it's toward many people or to one person in a very formal way:
Ne jugez pas un livre par sa couverture.
Yep that's pretty much it...
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^ Minus the absence of accent (on passé composé) because of your non-French keyboard, there was just one mistake I've spotted... Je faisais mes devoirs.
It can NEVER end with T when it's from the first-person singular "JE"...
But the whole tips about passé composé vs imparfait are great... I personally even find it hard to teach... I think that's the most accurate way of making the difference...
Just that there are some few exceptions depending on the context of the sentence (very rare fortunately).
(from the auxiliary verbs Avoir -to have- or Être -to be-)
Il allait à cette école.
You can fit in "He used to go to that school".
Il est parti à l'école.
He's gone to school.
Now the very rare exception is something like...
Il allait faire ses devoirs mais il a disparu.
This is only where the "used to" doesn't fit... as that sentence means...
"He was gonna do his homework but he has disappeared."
But English seems so flexible you can just say "he disappeared" while in French, "il disparaissait" can't even fit in that sentence at all, not even a single bit...
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Does Chrome still have that spying issue that it did awhile ago? Google reported back every character each person typed in and all of this personal stuff to the point where the German government even warned about it. I tried it once and I liked it (even though I barely noticed the speed difference from Firefox) but I uninstalled it quickly after I found out all of this controversy behind it.
p.s. Please only answer if you know for sure, thanks
Google keeps every traces as cache from anything you use from them with them (and stuff that are accessible publicly). It's in their archives and their bots are scanning everything.
It's up to you if you trust them.
They do not watch every computer movements you make. But traces can be kept when you use whatever that is Google related. Fortunately, they don't monitor them. Their bots probably.
A lot of of stuff you use online, (not only Google), but for example, a toolbar you installed from any company/website. They can have the traces of everything you've done with that toolbar (especially if it has a search field, the toolbar main admin can know what you've been searching there). BUT if you do not want anything like that, make sure they have a TERMS OF PRIVACY. If they don't have it or it's a very poor terms of privacy, most likely they can track down whatever you do with their stuff. But if they have a strong terms of privacy and yet something wrong happened to you and you really think it's their fault, you can sue them for a lot of money... <--- Not an easy case because you'd need some good proofs and a lot of things can be tricky in the computer world.
According to my own lawyer, Google's terms of privacy is pretty strong...
According to my crew in the lab and myself (since I'm a hacker and I like to test securities), I say that Google doesn't monitor Google Chrome users. They do not hold any keylogging functions or anything like such. I say that they can just know what features people use most from Chrome, what gadgets/add-ons/whatever people use, what people have been typing in the search, etc... Google won't get a thing about what you typed in other websites (passwords, bank numbers, etc).
In this situation, I say people are safe. And Germany is being too sensitive on this matter.
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My real full name (not gonna reveal it) means "The Final Sunset" (or The Last Sunset)...
It makes me sound like I could bring the end to the world...
But hey I'm also the last kid in my family... which is probably what made my parents be like "Alright, this is our last kid, so we should name it -The Last *Family Name*-... It is our final time making babies around."
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Thanks.
That's exactly what's happening... It shows she's still thinking about me in a way because when she had a problem with her new guy, she begged me to be back with her, or at least, to be her "best friend", which is something I completely refused... xD Told her she has it her way, I'm having my way now. Never gonna get back with that girl after what happened. -
^ I find that she just wants another bf to keep her company for now while you're gone a plausible idea. She's being pretty selfish if she's doing that.
Talking about selfish, she said it would have been selfish if she didn't tell me all that and that she went to have a guy with her all these times until we're reunited (without letting me know). She said she told me all that because I'm everything for her, that she loves me so much she had to tell the whole truth... Sad truth though...
In my own perspective, if I was her "everything", she should have kept herself strong and faithful until we're together. But it seems like we don't match with our point of view / feelings on that. So I just move on and never look back (except for few things that made me write here so I could learn more what I've been missing). I still think it's selfish of her as well, at some degree. But I thanked her for telling me everything.Woah this was a long read, but this is how I see it, they're not ready to settle down at the moment, and wanna have some fun, something less serious? But when they're ready to settle down and start looking for a husband material kinda guy they'll come looking for you again.Haha... Then how about that guy? If the relationship isn't taken seriously, then the guy is likely to be "used", don't you think? Ahh it's complicated. I even asked her what she'd do with the guy if I get back there for her... She said she doesn't know yet but she'd find a way. Personally, I'm like uhhh screw this... It feels like asking "What are you gonna do with the corpse?" - "I'll find a way, probably dump it in the river". (Ok sorry that was a random nonsense example). Feels like desperation if I still have pride to love her while she's with another guy until marriage or something. Dunno, I'd rather not love her or even have a single feeling for her.
I know there are better girls out there. I'm not even looking for marriage...
Just a long stable and faithful relationship.Whenever I start a relationship with a girl, I make sure I'm clean and I have no one in my heart (unlike all of my ex). Once I'm in a relationship with a girl, I find a way to adapt and make it work well between us. If it's working well for a long time, I would seek for a way to have a future with her. Nothing about my ex should interfere...
Are there a lot of girls who think like me at least?
Thanks for reading. *Bows*
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What does that mean when a girl tells me she still has me in her heart and wants me as a husband EVEN THOUGH she's with another guy at the moment?
Like... The girl is with a guy but she wants to marry me later... wtf?
The reason was because I'm distant, no longer seeing her much... And that I was the most perfect guy in her eyes.
The only thing that makes me not perfect was my physical presence that she said she's been missing so much.
She begged me to understand her...
It's... my ex after we broke up.
And I said... "Sorry I don't understand *BLEEP*ches".
Because really, I imagine myself being in relationship with a girl and thinking of marrying another, no way that is sickening to me... I don't know how she can do that.
But I'm still curious... I've asked many girls if they can explain to me and they had the same thoughts as I do...
Few girls who tried to understand her said that... she's promising? Yeah but why doing that? Ahh well...
Some admitted that the situation is so complicated and it pains some girls to the point it can make them have corrupted heart...?
Some said she is just trying to move on and tell me those things as some words to comfort me... (if so, then it doesn't work on me because I always seek for logic).
Some said she just wants to have a closer boyfriend to always be there for her until she's ready to hunt for me later (even if I'll be taken by another girl). <--- Because apparently, some girls can handle things like that pretty well although it's ugly to me and it disgusts me.
Sorry, long post. So... Were those the only answers for me to understand her better (and few other girls like her)? Because... I don't think I'll ever understand her if that's the case... Maybe because I'm too faithful once I'm with a girl, so I can never understand that perspective with my heart.
The weird thing is... It happened with most of my ex... They all want me as their husband later... (Because I had to leave for some trainings and my absence pained them too much but I no longer do that nowadays). Emails, skyping with mic+camera apparently wasn't even enough until I returned... Am I cursed or something?
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Le spam a décidé de se pointer par ici sans raison.
Intruder alert! An English spammer spotted in a French thread!
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if i dont wear anything that doesnt have a pocket i put my money and cigs in one boob, and my cell in the other
In your BOOBS? Now that's undercover style...
Do they have passwords as well, with keypad? One boob has a rack for some cigs? Awesome... -
Any name!
My child will have no name, no identity! That's how he will be recognized!
"Hey ... let's go out!"
"... is awesome!"
"His name is..."
When there's no name in a sentence, that means it's him...
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Je crois que pudeur serait un synonyme dans un sens mais pour être beaucoup plus précis, je suis d'accord que "modestie" irait beaucoup mieux pour "modesty"...
So I'd say "modestie" for "modesty" as well...
I don't even use the word "pudeur" much myself... To me personally, I don't know why but that word always just makes me have weird thoughts from its sound... It's like as if it was a fusion of "odeur" and "pue"...
Odeur qui pue... which means an odor that stinks... But that's just me. True definition of "Pudeur" would come close to "Modestie" but "Modestie" would fit more perfectly for the word modesty.Also because it can be "modeste" for "modest" as well...
Cette femme là est modeste...
That woman is modest...
Woman = (La) femme
Women = (Les) femmes
as women is plural...
@Bluehachimitsu - Une faute d'inattention, c'est tout...
Je sais que tu le savais aussi. -
My parents had 9 years difference...
There must be some kids out there who have parents with well over 50 years of difference... I know it.
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^ it's "Si", not "Ci" I'm sure you knew that..
Btw I'm from Montreal too!
Tout une erreur d'inattention xD
Montreal for the win!
We're a lot in here...
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anyone know how to say the golden garden in french?
i've been taken french for like 4 years so I should know but I just wanted to make sure I was on the right track.
le doré jardin?
no?
You reversed it...
It should be "Le jardin doré"...
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" going on around there...
Like when an interesting not-so-bad-looking girl I don't even know looks at me with a little smile, making me dream of her walking to me and asking for cell number or something... 
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If all of them were merged into one post, she probably would have just got -10 (because the same people could just down rep "once a post" and that's it hahaha!)... Plus, she recently was "on fire", by posting nearly 24/7 (well of course not exactly 24/7, but it just gave away that kind of impression), honestly, I saw her arguing lightning speed online every damn time I got online to read stuff around... That explains her -2000 from her persistent repetitive arguments that went in circle... That's some great efforts that I admire, I gotta admit ( with those kind of efforts, I could have done many cooler fun things... like when a dog could do so much more cool and useful stuff than trying to bite his own tail in circle all day 
But then people in the minus will have to owe some money... HAHA!
That's exactly what's happening... It shows she's still thinking about me in a way because when she had a problem with her new guy, she begged me to be back with her, or at least, to be her "best friend", which is something I completely refused... xD Told her she has it her way, I'm having my way now. Never gonna get back with that girl after what happened.
In my own perspective, if I was her "everything", she should have kept herself strong and faithful until we're together. But it seems like we don't match with our point of view / feelings on that. So I just move on and never look back (except for few things that made me write here so I could learn more what I've been missing). I still think it's selfish of her as well, at some degree. But I thanked her for telling me everything.
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I'd have to say... Bringing up bad memories can be used as a lesson for ourselves and for others in some ways. They could be used as something to understand more. They're full of clues and explanations.
But bringing up bad memories too many times will haunt you (or "eat you up"). That, I would agree. And I think now I have said enough about that woman and we can hope there's no more of it. I've put everything on the table and I certainly won't remember the exact arguments I've had in the next couple of months. It will just be nostalgic to meet a similar one again.
As for hiding posts option from the reputation system, thanks. I certainly did not know about that. I was only thinking about the default settings. I guess I can turn "blind" for a while and not see too many recent posts if I "hide posts below 20 points". Sounds peaceful...