The guide to aspergers syndrome kerfuffle

[CaptainAce$$]

Anything that can be found elsewhere shouldn't be talked about ever right

No one would post anything then.

[FlyingJesus]

That was my point using sarcasm in an autism discussion is probably not my greatest idea to date, I apologise

[CaptainAce$$]

That was my point using sarcasm in an autism discussion is probably not my greatest idea to date, I apologise

Oh, sorry I didn't know it was sarcasm.

[Inseriousity.]

If an argument has gone on for some time then sometimes the moderator just moves all of it from the start then goes through it and restores the sensible posts. I obviously can't speak for the moderator in question but if he deems your posts acceptable, I'm sure they'd be moved back. Despite that, I've just gone to read the argument and I personally find the actions of some members a bit disgusting tbh.

[sex]

where is my guide to asparagus thread
i lost it

[Samantha]

So people shouldn't write guides? Unsticky all those language ones in Education and Employment, unsticky the ones in the Anything about Trading and furni ones then and just waste peoples time who wrote them? Ok that seems fair.

It is an opinion to deem the thread stupid or not but really I found it informative and it made some open their eyes (sorry no pun intended) to what aspergers actually is. If you didn't like it then fine but you didn't have to bring it to that thread.

[buttons]

it might just be me but i found the examples given really helpful because i've never really understood asperger's and it was given from someone with experience, so yeah very helpful. it's not even doing any harm so i don't see the problem, if someone was to come and talk about an eating disorder would they be given the same replies? probably not as aspergers isn't something you can change and they're seen as "different" in a normal social environment. didn't see any of these bad posts but i very highly doubt it was because they thought the thread was pointless, more because they wanted to try be funny otherwise they would have left the thread as you would have any other? it has sparked some discussion so it's not "pointless" nor do i see how raising awareness of a common problem is so bad...

[Empired]

As said above somewhere (I think), what more can you say that's polite/positive than "thanks for the tips"? The thread didn't give anyone anything to discuss, which is against forum rules isn't it :S -
A7. Do not post pointlessly
~ Do not posts threads which only allow for short, one or two word answers and do not promote active discussion.

[Samantha]

it might just be me but i found the examples given really helpful because i've never really understood asperger's and it was given from someone with experience, so yeah very helpful. it's not even doing any harm so i don't see the problem, if someone was to come and talk about an eating disorder would they be given the same replies? probably not as aspergers isn't something you can change and they're seen as "different" in a normal social environment. didn't see any of these bad posts but i very highly doubt it was because they thought the thread was pointless, more because they wanted to try be funny otherwise they would have left the thread as you would have any other? it has sparked some discussion so it's not "pointless" nor do i see how raising awareness of a common problem is so bad...

Yeah didn't R0BB13G's thread get members being rude to him because he had something he couldn't change? Not sure if you were here for that. I see where you're coming from Jen and I agree with you.

Like you said an eating disorder would probably get members asking if they really have it or not, like the many insomnia threads there are in that forum.

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As said above somewhere (I think), what more can you say that's polite/positive than "thanks for the tips"? The thread didn't give anyone anything to discuss, which is against forum rules isn't it :S -
A7. Do not post pointlessly
~ Do not posts threads which only allow for short, one or two word answers and do not promote active discussion.

I think guides are overlooked at surely? As some guides are locked anyway .

[Empired]

I think guides are overlooked at surely? As some guides are locked anyway .

Yeah, maybe it would be better if this was just locked. I found it kinda pointless tbh because of Google, but I can see that if you hadn't thought about it before, it would raise awareness and actually make you think. There's no need for it to be an open thread though, because as I said above, there is nothing to say x(