Comments on: Green My Hood

By: Jobs For 13 year olds

Jobs For 13 year olds — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:40:09 +0000

Training people and lowering bills is always a good start. I have a website that supplies jobs for 13 year olds and many of them leave comments about how they want to get a job to help pay the bills in the family. Anyway, great article.

By: Health_Campus

Health_Campus — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:20:21 +0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

Cheers,

By: hip hop fashion

hip hop fashion — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:58:22 +0000

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By: hip hop fashion

hip hop fashion — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:58:05 +0000

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By: squeaky

squeaky — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:10:15 +0000

Exactly. Thank you.

By: pastorrobin

pastorrobin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:32:13 +0000

DITE, I believe that you have violated the site's Comment Code of Conduct in the ways described::

I will express myself with civility, courtesy, and respect for every member of the Sojourners online community, especially toward those with whom I disagree—even if I feel disrespected by them. (Romans 12:17-21)

I will express my disagreements with other community members' ideas without insulting, mocking, or slandering them personally. (Matthew 5:22)

I will not exaggerate others' beliefs nor make unfounded prejudicial assumptions based on labels, categories, or stereotypes. I will always extend the benefit of the doubt. (Ephesians 4:29)

I will participate in community accountability by rating posts up or down based not on what ideas are expressed but on how they're expressed, and will flag posts that violate these rules of conduct. (Proverbs 12:18)

Therefore, I have flagged your comment and given a down arrow to your post, as Sojourners has asked.

To all other readers:

I'd like to suggest that when a comment occurs that does, indeed, violate the Code, we all simply respond to the writer by calling her/him out on it and refusing to converse any further. A person commenting in ways that violate the Code do not have any interest in entering into dialogue about the original issue; rather, they seek to dismiss and to shame the person(s) to whom the are responding. This diverts following readers' attention away from the original issue and onto the Code violator and/or other issues (e.g., below, genres of commentary and criticism, gender identities), and too often elicits a response in kind, resulting in further Code violating. Let's just be Jesus-like in our behavior: call-out and walk away! Blessings to all!

By: canucklehead

canucklehead — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:49:45 +0000

which of course begs the question – how much time would Jesus devote to a blog site? wwjb?

By: kevin47

kevin47 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:02:27 +0000

I think it's a gender thing. As a rule, men appreciate sarcasm and irony, whereas women do not. On a board with both perspectives, I think you need to err on the side of letting it pass.

By: squeaky

squeaky — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:47:02 +0000

Apparently we have different definitions of what intelligent, respectful, Christlike dialogue amongst believers on a Christian blog should look like, so there's no point in arguing about it.

By: kevin47

kevin47 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:25:18 +0000

Will I? No. I don't have a problem with sarcasm. I do have a problem with disregarding the argument being advanced, but that's not the case here, given the original author's lack of specifics. I think Christ is on the record having used sarcasm to illustrate a point. Would you disagree?

By: squeaky

squeaky — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:18:46 +0000

Sure, will you? It's hard for me to understand why this is something you disagree with, so please explain it to me. I'd really like to understand how comments like DITE's promote thoughtful discussion in a Christ-like manner.

I”m not at all interested in the “they do it too” argument.

By: kevin47

kevin47 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:03:27 +0000

Will you call out Sojo bloggers on their use of sarcasm, then?

By: squeaky

squeaky — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:50:50 +0000

And Christlike how?

By: squeaky

squeaky — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:48:34 +0000

Well, because, believe it or not, some of us value honest discussion. And comments like that do not promote honest, thought-provoking discussion. It's very easy to just take pot-shots at one another. Far more difficult to respectfully consider what another person is saying. And oddly enough, I expect the latter on a Christian blog. So, like it or not, I will continue to hold people to higher standards of discourse.

By: BuckeyeDon

BuckeyeDon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:41:50 +0000

So you think developing community gardens, removing lead paint, weatherizing homes, and cleaning up and beautifying eyesores in our neighborhoods are bad ideas?

Why?

By: DITE

DITE — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:35:40 +0000

I disagreed with his general idea generally. I'm assuming that I'll disagree with his specifics specifically.

By: DITE

DITE — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:33:17 +0000

Yes, much easier. And more fun.

By: BuckeyeDon

BuckeyeDon — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:09:27 +0000

"The very moment the author provides specifics on the budget for his urban-solar-powered-life-garden-lead-paint-reduction-project, I will give you a detailed report of disagreement."

DITE:
The logical flaw in this comment is that, even without seeing the kinds of specifics you are asking for here, you are already presuming you would disagree with Mr. Barber.

If you're going to disagree with him out of hand no matter what he writes, why bother saying you want details?

By: Eric77

Eric77 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:52:27 +0000

I hadn't seen that. If it's his plan to have the federal government finance his ideas I'd recommend that he start local first.

By: carlcopas

carlcopas — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:32:02 +0000

Squeaky,
that would require an effort to see things from Barber's point of view. Much easier to sit back and take sarcastic potshots. It's an old American tradition (think H.L. Mencken or, today, people like Rich Lowry).