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Post by lordroel on Apr 30, 2019 12:59:28 GMT
I do not know, but it will be chaos before we can adept to this new reality. For starters, reading what has already been written down in modern languages won't be possible at first. Also, '1950s Joe McCarthy ISOT to the 1980s'. He will be in a schock. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 30, 2019 13:11:10 GMT
For starters, reading what has already been written down in modern languages won't be possible at first. Also, '1950s Joe McCarthy ISOT to the 1980s'. He will be in a schock. On one hand, the '80s is in the midst of a conservative resurgence under President Ronald Reagan (the once-Democratic cowboy actor!). On the other, McCarthy will have to cope with new technology and media, as well as the liberalization of social mores that took shape in the previous few decades. And that's discounting how hated and distrusted he'd be by the uptimers once they realize it's him. |
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Post by Zyobot on May 1, 2019 0:01:15 GMT
'1910s Temperance Movement Reacts to Actual Prohibition'. The frivolousness, I think, stems from the fact that they'd obviously be deeply disappointed that outlawing alcohol turned into such a massively backfiring failure.
Billy Sunday, as one of the few who actually called for Prohibition to be reinstated after its repeal, would likely scream at the top of his lungs about it.
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Post by lordroel on May 1, 2019 3:10:25 GMT
What If Dogs could really talk.
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Post by Zyobot on May 1, 2019 12:45:19 GMT
What If Dogs could really talk. For one, their owners would utterly freak out and some would think they're dreaming. The news media would go bonkers over it and milk the situation for all its worth, maybe even try to get some interviews with the newly talking (and maybe even literate, too!) dogs. The scientific community would no doubt be baffled, working tirelessly to find out how the world's canines suddenly gained sentience and the ability to fluently speak human languages. Governments across the globe would try to get the inevitable chaos under control, and in the mid-term it could become a judicial case as to whether these talking dogs should be given the same rights, responsibilities and general treatment as humans. Dogs' rights groups would spring up and take to the streets as well. Anyways, that's all I have for now. I need to be somewhere shortly. |
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Post by lordroel on May 1, 2019 14:33:13 GMT
What if forums members are not allowed to post that 999 post as more would result in all of their 1,000 post disappearing.
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Post by Zyobot on May 1, 2019 14:52:30 GMT
What if forums members are not allowed to post that 999 post as more would result in all of their 1,000 post disappearing. People would go back and edit previous posts in order to keep the conversation going. Others might migrate to other forums due to the inexplicable, newly imposed cap of 999. |
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Post by stevep on May 1, 2019 14:59:48 GMT
What if forums members are not allowed to post that 999 post as more would result in all of their 1,000 post disappearing.
Presuming they didn't realise this until it happened a hell of a lot of frustration and anger. Also Lordroel suffering severe attrition of the scalp from all the head scratching as he tries to find out WTF!! 
If there was no solution or for some odd reason Lordroel made it the new standard I think most people would leave as it would make things bloody frustrating and effectively unusable for the frequent posters.
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Post by lordroel on May 1, 2019 14:59:48 GMT
What if forums members are not allowed to post that 999 post as more would result in all of their 1,000 post disappearing. People would go back and edit previous posts in order to keep the conversation going. Others might migrate to other forums due to the inexplicable, newly imposed cap of 999. What about creating new accounts and linking to the old accounts. |
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Post by Zyobot on May 1, 2019 15:31:19 GMT
People would go back and edit previous posts in order to keep the conversation going. Others might migrate to other forums due to the inexplicable, newly imposed cap of 999. What about creating new accounts and linking to the old accounts. That's sock-puppeting, isn't it? And I think it's a prohibited activity around here, too (though a 999-post cap might prompt the staff to allow it). |
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Post by stevep on May 1, 2019 20:25:17 GMT
What about creating new accounts and linking to the old accounts. That's sock-puppeting, isn't it? And I think it's a prohibited activity around here, too (though a 999-post cap might prompt the staff to allow it).
That might work although it would mean I'm now stevep7 or something like that. |
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Post by Zyobot on May 1, 2019 20:51:39 GMT
That's sock-puppeting, isn't it? And I think it's a prohibited activity around here, too (though a 999-post cap might prompt the staff to allow it).
That might work although it would mean I'm now stevep7 or something like that. By that standard, I’d be Zyobot2 or something to that effect by now myself. Pretty soon, the listed members count would become more and more misleading as the same people continue to create different accounts so that they can keep posting around here. |
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Post by Zyobot on May 1, 2019 23:23:06 GMT
‘WI Exclusive Content Became Accessible to the Online Public?’, i.e. WSJ subscription-requiring articles suddenly being visible to everyone on the internet in full.
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Post by lordroel on May 2, 2019 20:04:12 GMT
‘WI Exclusive Content Became Accessible to the Online Public?’, i.e. WSJ subscription-requiring articles suddenly being visible to everyone on the internet in full. And what happens to the people who pay money to get exclusive access to Exclusive Content. |
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Post by Zyobot on May 2, 2019 20:24:13 GMT
‘WI Exclusive Content Became Accessible to the Online Public?’, i.e. WSJ subscription-requiring articles suddenly being visible to everyone on the internet in full. And what happens to the people who pay money to get exclusive access to Exclusive Content. ...They'd have spent the money over nothing, I guess? You know, since the exclusive content will no longer be, well, exclusive to a certain audience. Hopefully, at least certain people would still pay content creators to keep them afloat out of generosity and acknowledgement that they probably won't produce that much more without financial incentives to do so. |
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