CALLING ALL

Chatterbox: Down to Earth

CALLING ALL

CALLING ALL CHATTERBOXERS

 

Lately it seems there have been a lot of heated debates posts and anti-heated debates posts. This has lead to lots of arguments (on both types of threads) and a lot of comments wasted trying to calm people down. It is my personal opinion that we should come up with a universal Chatterbox symbol that means calm down. Like for instance, if I ranted at someone for several paragraphs, you guys would do (symbol here): Allison..... or something along those lines. This way we can peacefully tone down a certain argument or something without ranting about someone's rant. Am I making sense to anyone but myself? Sorry if I'm not, I do that sometimes. But I think this idea could save a whole lot of trouble on everyone's part. Agree? No? Maybe? What does everybuggy think? (And if you have suggestions for a symbol, that would be lovely, too; just make sure it's something all computers can do.)

submitted by Allison P., age 12, Florida
(May 26, 2009 - 3:16 pm)

back to the Down to Earth

That's odd.  I thought I just posted on here... but it says no one has.  Hmm...

submitted by Laura
(May 26, 2009 - 8:12 pm)

How about */* as the symbol?

submitted by PsyCOdUck29
(May 27, 2009 - 7:16 am)

How 'bout . . . nah, you need a Mac for that . . .   How 'bout "~!!!!!~"?  Number of exclamation points indicates how heated/offensive it is.  

Or "!0" for a bit heated, "!00" for too heated, and "!000" for way too heated?
Maybe we could do letters?  For example, there could be "GH!" for "Getting heated", "TH!" for "Too heated", and "CDWTH" for "Calm down: way too heated."
Or "GO!" means "Getting offensive", "O! O! O!" could mean "Offending!  Offending!  Offending!" and "CDWTO", "Calm down: way too offensive"?     
submitted by Trixy ✌ ♡
(May 27, 2009 - 9:41 am)

I like your ideas, Trixy ✌ ♡! How 'bout:

 

!0GH

Getting heated

 

!0TH

Too heated

 

!WTH

Way too heated

 

!TAWCTTYKCDP

The Admin will close this thread, you know! Calm down please!

submitted by Pirocks/Enceladus
(May 27, 2009 - 2:55 pm)

:)

submitted by Laura
(May 28, 2009 - 1:41 pm)

!TAWCTTYKCDP is too long for my liking. How about just 1:

Sealed(smiley lips sealed)

 

submitted by someone random
(May 28, 2009 - 2:57 pm)

Good idea. How about ~ ?

submitted by Cara C./CC, age 12, Duckland!!!!!!!
(May 26, 2009 - 9:55 pm)

I think that's a great idea, Allison. And I'm sorry my anti-heated debate threads are getting, er, heated. What about a smiley for the symbol? :) 

submitted by Lena
(May 27, 2009 - 7:46 am)

I like ~ .

submitted by Clair, age 11, Nebraska
(May 27, 2009 - 9:19 am)

Sorry, but I don't think the smiley would work because we use smileys way too much :). I like PsyCOdUck29's idea, and Clair's and Trixy's are also good.

submitted by Allison
(May 27, 2009 - 10:18 am)

I don't think we should use letters, some of us (me included) might not remember them ealisy.

submitted by nitehawlk, age 3.25, on a cloud
(May 27, 2009 - 1:20 pm)

I also am in faver of ~

submitted by Brynne, age 13, Flying away on
(May 27, 2009 - 1:49 pm)

Whoops. Typo. I meant "favor".

submitted by Brynne, age 13, Flying away on
(May 27, 2009 - 1:50 pm)

This is a good idea. Nothing too short, though- if a post just consisted of "[][]" or something, it might be ignored or overlooked. I like Trixy's idea of rating it, so that someone who was just getting a little heated or might start something heated isn't all offended even MORE if they feel they're being called heated.

Does anyone get what I just said? Like Allison, sometimes I only make sense to myself. :/

submitted by Mary W., age 11.37, NJ
(May 27, 2009 - 4:00 pm)

Yeah, you're probably right. I like this one */* from PsyCOdUck29.

submitted by Lena
(May 27, 2009 - 5:22 pm)
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