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The 6 Most Insane Moral Panics in American History
What's wrong with kids these days? Not enough, apparently, since grown-ups seem to feel the need to just make shit up. Even the flimsiest evidence can convince parents and lazy journalists alike that there is some new, horrible threat to our moral character.
Often these turn out to be grossly exaggerated. Or, as in cases like the ones below, completely fucking retarded.
#6. Comic Books
We Heard About It From:
The Evil Genius Dr. Frederic Wertham.
The "Threat:"
1954 was a different time in America. The streets were safer and kids played just about anywhere they wanted. Coca-Cola was only five cents a bottle and every kid had a comic book rolled up in his back pocket. There were superhero comics, crime comics, romance comics and horror comics. If you forget the rigidly enforced social rules, the racism, bad haircuts and constant threat of nuclear annihilation, the early 50s were a pretty sweet time to be a kid.And then this fucker showed up to ruin everyone's fun.
Frederic Wertham. Or maybe George Burns. Who could tell?
Fredic Werthem was a respected psychologist who fought to integrate the mental health care system, refused to serve in a racial-segregated army and was a pioneer in working with troubled youth. Having conquered all of the real world problems, he then decided to devote his life to bullshit.
During his time working with young offenders, Wertham noticed that many of them were fans of comics. Forgetting his education and lifetime of experience as a scientist, Wertham assumed that comics must be somehow responsible for the trouble these kids were in.
His 1954 book, Seduction Of The Innocent, outlined what he saw as the depraved effect of comics on kids. Granted, some comics in the 50s--especially the horror comics published by E.C. Comics--were pretty gruesome.
Dr. Wertham is inexplicably shocked by the contents of Shock Illustrated.
But Wertham didn't just go after stories of cold-blooded murder and busty dames. Oh, no. We went after the superheroes, too.
In his mind, Wonder Woman was a lesbian who got off on bondage (we wish!) and horror of horrors, Batman and Robin were actually gay lovers. His evidence for Batman being gay? He wore a dressing gown. Honestly. That, combined with the fact that he had flowers in his house and had a butler, were proof to Wertham that Bruce Wayne and his young ward Dick Grayson were performing Bat-sodomy behind the scenes.
The lynchpin of Wertham's case against the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder (okay, that does sound a little gay) were panels like these:
Hey, if two dedicated crime fighters can't spend a little time under the tanning lights together, then something's gone terribly wrong with the world.
Leaving questions of Batman and Robin's perversions aside, Seduction Of The Innocent was a huge bestseller and the tempest that Wertham stirred up led to the end of horror comics and the introduction of the Comics Code, which basically meant that superheroes lost what little balls they had left, and Batman always kept a discreet distance from Robin- at least in public.
But it wasn't all bad. E.C. Comics, faced with the cancellation of all its horror and true crime comics, threw all of its effort into perhaps the single greatest corrupter of America's youth: Mad Magazine. Mad Magazine then led to the publication of Cracked, which eventually led to this very website. So, the next time you're enjoying an article about sexy cartoon characters you can thank the overactive gay-obsessed imagination of one Dr. Fredric Wertham.
#5. Rainbow Parties
We Heard About It From:
The Queen of Believing Anything, Oprah Winfrey.
The "Threat:"
"Rainbow Party." Doesn't sound too bad, right? It could be a coloring party for kids, or a house decorating get-together. Maybe some kind of friendly gay pride thing.
But no, according to a guest featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, rainbow parties were wild, oral sex parties that were being held by teenagers all over America. At these orgies, each girl would wear a different shade of lipstick and as they each serviced a lucky guy in sequence, it'd leave a "rainbow" of colors on his dong.
The story was so widely believed that sex educators across the country started to investigate. Simon & Schuster quickly published a young adult novel imaginatively entitled Rainbow Party to warn of the non-existent danger. Don't bother reading it. We flipped right to the end and the party never happens. Turns out the girl's dad comes home early, so the party gets canceled. Fucking douche!
It didn't matter, the damage was done. Once the teen literature industry dips its filthy beak into something, the moral panic is on.
But alas, as awesome as these parties sound, they turned out to be absolutely, tragically, untrue. According to that wicked cool newspaper for kids, The New York Times, sex educators couldn't find any evidence of even one rainbow party having taken place, ever.
Teens were aware of the slang, but no one had ever been to an actual Rainbow Party. And that's remarkable because it just sounds so totally plausible, and not like something a 15-year-old boy thought up during a masturbation fantasy. Relieved, the busybodies of the world went back to worrying about their neighbor's uncut grass.
#4. Jenkem, A Drug Made of Poo
We Heard About It From:
A bunch of dumb local TV stations and a bunch of dumber local sheriffs.
The "Threat:"
Could American kids ever sink so low that they would actually suck on the fumes from raw sewage to get high? If you're an American kid, you're probably saying no. If you're a small town cop who hates teenagers or a lazy local television reporter, you'd say "hell, yes!"
It started with a message board post from a kid calling himself "Pickwick" (Shitbreath was already taken) where he claimed to have made and tried the poop fume drug "jenkem," a practice that supposedly originates from Africa.
"Okay, so when you said you wanted to do some bowls, you meant actual... okay."
Soon the boys in blue at the Collier County Sheriff's Office took action.
They released a law enforcement bulletin claiming that "jenkem is now a popular drug in American schools" using the pictures that Pickwick had posted.
The only problem, besides the idiotic assumption that because one kid in the country may have tried it, it was now "popular in American schools," was that Pickwick made it all up.
His "jenkem" was actually a mixture of flour, water, beer, and Nutella. Nevertheless, the story spread like a foul stench through local media outlets and sheriffs' offices, until parents were told they should smell their kid's breath for shit when they came home.
There is still no record of anyone in the U.S. doing this for real (that we can find). Here is where you'd be tempted to scold the rumor mongers for planting the idea and thus encouraging kids to try it. But we're guessing even with detailed instructions most of you wouldn't be tempted to start collecting fermented shit in your closet. Not for this, anyway.


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U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom commended the work of local law enforcement Wednesday after a Partners for Justice training event with officers in Dodge City
The training session was one of 36 events in 25 communities that Grissom's Kansas district office has held since 2006, said Jim Cross, the office's information director.
At the events, Grissom covers a variety of topics including gang violence, human trafficking, internet crimes against children, officer safety and survival, seizure of drugs, and endangered children. Tackling these issues requires a dedicated police force.
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What options do you have against a bigger opponent charging like a lineman? (not just punching or kicking, but using his body-weight to overthrow you).
I note your question is tagged with just
There is an exercise in a number of Japanese arts (karate, ninjutsu, aikido and more) called Tai Sabaki. It involves doing the same repeated sequence of moves (whatever is chosen at the time, not like kata) while pivoting at the start of the sequence. Here is an introductory Yotube link, you can explore from there. The purpose of the exercise is to turn and face - or in your case deflect and face - so you are off the original line of attack, giving you a better angle to defend from.
In general though you want to avoid meeting the opponent head on. You can meet them head on if your technique is good, but this can take some training to master. For example, rather than delivering a mae geri (front kick) to the thigh from directly in front of them as they charge, you will have far more success if you step on a 45 degree angle and deliver the kick from there - this is what tai sabaki teaches you.
You will also find that Aikido specifically has ways of dealing with this, many of its throws are based on using the opponents momentum as part of a throw (once again this involves turning as you execute a movement, just like tai sabaki). If you are a practitioner of a striking oriented system you can still practice aikido - you will find it complements whatever you are currently training in and expands your arsenal of moves while teaching you better positioning and movement.
You need to do something like Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or Judo. These arts are great for taking a persons force and using against them. Ignore all these stupid wing-chun kung fu type of martial arts. I've trained in wrestling, BJJ and Judo against guys who are smaller than me (I'm 6ft2 92KG) and had my ass kicked by guys who have great technique alone.
Loaded question. Depends on many factors.
A) Do you have the option of running (and do you think you could outrun him)? If so, do.
B) Is he within kicking range (and are you a strong and accurate kicker?) A kick to a vital area (groin, ribs, solar plexus if you can reach) would be well worth your trouble. This has the added advantage of stopping him before he gets too close. Also, don't underestimate the value of a good stop kick to the shin. A stop kick is a kick used to prevent kicking or halt forward momentum (such as a heel kick to the shin).
C) If this person is barreling toward you like a lineman (a stupid way to fight), he probably intends to grab you and control you through grappling. You need to be effective at counter-grappling, that is, be able to grapple enough to escape. Biting, eye gouges, testicle-grabs, are all fair game (if this is a self-defense and not a sparring situation). If this person is a trained grappler, tap. No joke, tapping may trigger his unconscious response to let go, at least enough for you to get some breathing room and/or leverage, but don't count on it.
D) If you can, sidestep. He's barreling toward you like a bull, so be a matador. While you're sidestepping, make sure to hit him hard, fast, and multiple times, then run away as fast and as soon as you can. Be ready for him to put you back in his cross-hairs fairly soon though.
I think this question requires clarification. What is the specific situation in which someone is just charging at you like a linebacker? Who fights like this? I can clarify my answer if you can clarify the question.
Chances are, this isn't just someone charging towards you. This is what I characterize as "The Berserker". The Berserker is a guy who goes crazy on you. He's going to charge at you, probably screaming, flailing his arms around, and doing all kinds of kicks mostly at thin air as he's coming towards you.
The Berserker is one of the hardest, scariest types of attacks to defend against. Most martial arts have a pitiful, unintelligent answer to this. You're typically going to hear something like this: 1) Evade, don't be there, make him chase you. Or 2) come straight at him (maybe even with the same ferocity and energy). Both these strategies don't work.
If you try to evade a Berserker, he will merely turn and follow you. If you can run and get out of there completely, great. That's common sense. But most of the time, a Berserker doesn't give you much room and time to evade.
One Berserker I had to deal with once (unsuccessfully!) in my early college days was when I was in a narrow hallway. There was no room to evade left or right. And turning around and running wouldn't have worked, since he already had a head start on me going towards me. He would have easily caught up with me, and my back would have been turned to him. I opted to kick at him, but he easily blocked it, got in some punches to my head and body, and took me down. I was helpless. That made me think A LOT about this scenario.
That leads me to the second strategy I listed above: Confront him head-on with kicks, punches, knees, etc. Basically, you're taking an offensive strategy here. As I found out, it just doesn't work!
A Berserker will merely put all his weight into you. And you might land one or two strikes, but a Berserker is someone who's flailing around rapidly. He's going to nail you five times for every one you land. Don't fool yourself into thinking your martial arts expertise will allow you to make one good punch or kick that will just put him down immediately. It won't.
And if you yourself actually go into Berserker mode to counter his Berserker mode, then both of you are getting seriously hurt. There's no telling who will win. This is just a stupid defense. It could work, but it's not intelligent.
If you insist on becoming a Berserker to defend against a Berserker, make sure you are constantly moving around, mostly sideways, not back-to-front. If you stand still, you're giving him a target he can lock onto. By not standing still, by bobbing your head around, you're making it real hard for him to target you. While you're doing this, you need to be throwing punches like mad. Don't focus too hard. Just flail your arms like he's doing. Because statistically, one will land, and that's all you need. Your body movement is just buying time for one of your strikes to land.
But as I said, that's not intelligent. And it's maybe just as likely he'll hit you before you hit him.
No, the way you deal with this situation is by practicing this scenario over and over again. This is worthy of practicing a lot, because it comes up a lot in real life. And if you can get comfortable dealing with this kind of an attack, it will spill over into just about every other scenario you may encounter.
If the Berserker is coming at you flailing his arms and legs, but he's doing so slowly enough that you don't need to sprawl, then you can duck in under a punch (accepting that you might have to eat some hits to your face), and go for a take-down. You need to get up close with him, pressing your shoulder into his chest. Hold on to his torso with both hands. Tuck your head down. Stick to him. This will prevent his strikes from doing any real damage to you. Next, take your leg and hook it behind his leg. Then take him down.
If the Berserker is coming at you too fast for a take-down, you'll need to stop his advance by sprawling, followed immediately by anything that will take him down. Think about doing a single leg take-down, a trip take-down, a whizzer, etc.
Sprawling and duck-and-shoot style take-downs are your bread and butter. Practice these often.
So in summary, the basic strategy here is to control his forward advancement first, and then take him down. Once you have him down, he has lost his mobility. He's not as much of a threat to you and others at this point. You can then use that as an opportunity to exit, or you can go on to submissions and pounding.
This is a high risk, high stress, no time situation. It's scary. Your adrenaline will be surging. Your accuracy will be greatly reduced. Your ability to think will be mostly gone. Many things can go wrong. Even when things are going right for you, you'll probably still take some strong hits. That's why this is something you need to practice.
A strong jab (aka a "straight punch") or headbutt to the nose or the tip of the chin will momentarily stun your opponent, giving you time to decide to fight or flee.
You won't be thinking clearly enough to perform the five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique from Kill Bill or something you saw on a 70's kung-fu movie. The simplest, most effective way of dealing with an overpowering opponent charging at you is to stun him and make him think twice about what he's doing. Unless he's a professional boxer, he won't know how to deal with hard contact to the nose and will likely be shocked into incapacity. It also doesn't hurt that his eyes will be watering and there will be lots of blood. Ironically, a good boxer won't be charging you head-on anyway, so it's a pretty safe fall-back technique for this type of situation.
Source: personal experience. LOTS of it.
This actually happened to me. I ducked and threw my side into him very low causing him to flip over me. The end result was a concussion from his head meeting the floor, and 2 broken ribs for me, from his knee. Do not do what I did!
If you can just avoid the charges. It uses a lot of energy to charge like that. Tire him out by letting him do his thing. At this point I would just leave the situation I I could.
While I appreciate the fancy, exhaustive answers here, there is really a common theme that rises to the top:
If you aren't there, you can't get hit.
Move. Don't stand their waiting to do something cool. Even if you can't move completely, try to move so you can trip him. There's no need to do anything other than that here.
Chances are, if he's charging, you have some time to get out. Note the Tueller rule: An armed attacker can cover 21 feet in just 1.5 seconds. That should be enough time for you to decide whether to meet and potentially get bowled over by the freight train, or scram.
There's obviously some doubt as to whether the question is what can an untrained defender do or what should a reasonably competent martial artist do. For the former, assuming the fight's unavoidable I'd recommend stepping in suddenly and deep to catch the attacker before they're expecting engagement, using a palm strike, elbow, front thrusting kick or knee - whatever you think you can make work.
For a trained kicker - I recommend the side thrusting kick...
Like several other respondents, I've also been attacked in this style... someone charging from 15 or 20 metres away. I stepped in with a gliding side thrusting kick - the footwork moves you in a couple metres and the kick reaches out considerably, so you're meeting the opponent four or five metres in front of the point they expect to be hitting you (possibly more - they probably expect you to back away), when they're basically in the middle of a running motion or just starting to tuck down for a dive/tackle. Their own momentum makes them defenceless. I kicked through his chest lifting him off his feet and throwing him backwards to land on his back. He was about 10cm taller than me and of a solid "footballer" build. I had practiced this kick extensively against heavy swinging bags and other targets. You might doubt the kick could have enough power, but there was little feeling of impact - the kick can very easily do this. I deliberately held back from full "snap" power in my kick (i.e. reducing the peak power at impact and pushing him more / I tend to have to be angry to lash out with real intent to maximise damage, which is a rare thing for me), and I was wearing soft sneakers, but it took him a good two minutes to stand up, and he made no attempt to continue the fight.
I used a "checking" kick variation of this technique against another charging attacker - albeit smaller than me this time - he'd just robbed a shop and was trying to get to his car: he was pretty determined to land a "good one" quickly or scare me off - telling me he had a knife while searching his pockets - and after a couple ineffective swipes at me he charged and I checked his forward progress with a side kick to the hip - not trying to knock him down - again he turned and sprinted for his car. I was trying not to hurt him as I had been walking past the outside of the store and it was my girlfriend who said "go stop him, Tony" - I wasn't sure what he'd done and was initially planning just to talk to him. One of the times I had an endorphin reaction in a fight - you're so mellow it's hard to be aggressive, which isn't necessarily a good thing, but everything slows down nicely and it's so easy to control the situation.
So - side thrusting kicks are recommended. You can cover ground quickly to hit them at an unexpected point in their approach, the leg reaches out much farther than their fist could and your head's way out of their reach when you make contact. But, not many arts do them particularly well. See 2:50 onwards in this tutorial if interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTtyTOLqnoc
Learn to sprawl.
High school wrestling 097; go learn to sprawl. A good sprawl will move you out of the line of attack.
The real thing you need to though, is have guys charge at you with the intention of taking you down/whatever, and you doing a defense on a regular basis, say every day at 6pm at your local wrestling/grappling/Bjj school.
I hate to add to an already extensive set of answers covering just about everything but I wanted to add a small amount of perspective as a soldier on how you might deal with this situation based on personal experience.
I have to agree with many points made by others. 1) Steve is right, you are often dealing with a berserker or at least someone who is possibly without skill and is using the intimidation of their size and "crazy" to try and blitz you.
2) Funky is correct, you need a discipline in your bag that deals with momentum and using the enemy's force against them. Wrestling does that, so does Judo and definitely Jujitsu, BJJ would definitely qualify as an excellent option.
3) This brings me to slugster's point about a discipline such as Aikido which would certainly be excellent in this situation. As would any that deals with force redistribution and momentum shifting.
4) However, I would be very careful about Juann's advice, while a well placed jab with enough force CAN drop the target, if we stick to your provided facts of smaller target being charged by a bigger target linebacker style, chances are you won't be able to deliver a focused and powerful enough jab to stop him and you will likely end up busting your fist or wrist in the process and have the wind knocked out of you from the impact of his head/shoulder into your chest and hitting the ground.
5) Lastly, Wudang has a point, this leaves itself open to much interpretation because unless one is standing in front of a given situation, its hard to know what will work best. This is why you need to make sure you are well rounded and generally prepared in the hopes that you will have what you need to deal with each situation as it comes up.
All that being said, as someone adapt to such fights, I would wait until he was within arms reach, shift slightly to the side and grapple the back of his neck or swipe the back of his head to force his momentum further forward making him land on his face or if I am lucky to be standing near a hard object (pole, well, car) I can have him rammed into that. Once on the ground, I have more options to keep him down. If however more on the novice side, this would be a great time to start running to safety and avoid a prolonged fight altogether. Depending on the height disparity, you can also shift your center of mass downward and go for a leg sweep which would get him off the ground and his momentum would carry him into a pretty good face plant. However you approach it, its about understanding the situation and that comes with a little knowledge of physics and disciplines that use it most effectively. Once size doesn't fit all and that's why you need to expand your bag of tricks. Hope this helps tie it all in for a you a bit.
Aikido might come in handy. Since your opponent is strong and charging towards you, you can't use a stop kick or any other kick above the waist since it makes you unbalanced and you will be overthrown even if you landed a perfect kick.
So the best option would be to move away at the very end or use your opponent's speed and make him fall. One thing you can do is you can go down and kick him below knees to make him fall but this should be done at the very last moment.
In aikido there are moves which will use the opponent's force to make them. So you can try it
In Aikido, i learn that i could overcome bigger opponents/partners with huge charging forces by
We do drills in the dojo on these situation and i find the most effective one for me is either pushing or chopping their heads(back side) as they charge in, or basically just knee-ing them.


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How would Community Deals and ATC be different if users were anonymous?
Imagine no usernames and no avatars.
No identifying features.
Your # of Woots and current rep would still be visible though.
There would be no leaderboard.
I wonder how this would change the dynamics?
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I think for a lot of the active users, the personality and vibe of the postings would make it reasonably clear who was who. If the userbase was larger, it'd have a more profound effect.
I think the impact would probably be slightly more negative than positive, as people would probably snipe at each other more. Also, as it is I think it breads more of a sense of community.
Still, interesting question.
I like the idea but I would have to agree with @psaux personalities and vibes would be very clear and noticeable, especially around the very active members.
I must say however that I was very impressed with the focus of this question its a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of the questions posted in the past several weeks.
Imagine all the people...living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
That is an interesting thought. Imagine how the top deals section would change... I think ATC wouldn't change much because those active would recognize each other.
But...but...my handle is my identity. Without it, I would have an existential crisis and might cease to exist! Noooooo!
Eh, probably couldn't pick any of you out of a lineup anyhow. But I like the avatars and whatnot. Without them, it's like every other comments section on a local news site.
donkey porn would be everywhere.
@panthiest: I like the way you think... err.. I mean... er... I'm glad it's not.. ? Am I?
i'm no one either way.
Don't think it'd make much of a difference. As someone said elsewhere...it's "rigged" & "dying" anyway. And someone else said, long ago..."The bloom is off the rose." Or something like that. But what do I know? And who am I to say? <---both rhetorical questions.
...will quietly wait for the cheerleaders to come in and lead us in a woot chant now. /sarcasm
@iggz: Look at you! A "starred" member. ;)
Good question. Anonymity brings out the knives in a lot of people. People can be real piss ants at times. Other than the colored triangles denoting a busy/active member and giving a bit of reliable standing in the community, I think the whole leaderboard/reputation could go away without changing the basic Deals model. It might even cut back the amount of crap questions that clog the board. I don't mind non-deals/fun questions, but the ones that are obvious rep-drivers without a point are pretty worthless.
It would be worse. On the anonymous internet communities I've observed, such as Usenet and 4chan, most users act like cranky middle schoolers because there's really no incentive not to. Specifically to deals.woot though I think we'd see a major rise in spamming/shilling... sure, we have shills now, but at least they're generally easy to spot and usually get called out on it.
@no1: I see what you did there...
As for the question, I don't think I would like it nearly as much. I like being able to see the familiar "names" associated with comments -- agree though that I'd be able to pick out some of the more familiar ones, but it would be different...not sure if I think it'd be a positive change.
I'm not sure there's an ultimate answer to either side of the options.
I suspect having a name attached encourages some personal accountability, drives participation ("see your name in lights,"), and allows people to recognize content they wish to participate in more readily. On the other hand, you may get less honest questions, pandering to the scoreboard/community, and, sometimes, breed conflict. Not to mention, it becomes a fair bit more difficult to filter out spam.
I wonder about the potential for an anonymous submission mechanic, or allowing a flag for "no reputation gained." What about de-emphasizing the username? It could appear on mouse-over, or only after clicking through. Would weighting certains tags or types of questions to be worth less in score have a similar effect?
but then how would you know who to harass?
this is a terrible idea!
@gatzby: why is there a leaderboard at all? as long as there are broad categories that people fit into (e.g. "black triangles"), that would seem to suffice for establishing general credibility. displaying the finer gradations (scores) just encourages jockeying for position.
@pemberducky: just harass the accounts with wootstaff badges.
@no1: Is that bad?
@gatzby: depends on what you want, i suppose. you may get pandering to the scoreboard, and, sometimes, breed conflict.
@gatzby: I don't really see why it would be more difficult to filter out spam. I think it would be the exact same. Moderators would obviously still see the IDs for everyone and their job would continue as normal.
The ID would still be linked, it would just not be visible on the Deals side for members.
The IDs would still be visible on the standard Woot sites and still linked to their Deals account.
If I were Woot, I wouldn't want to retard participation because the leaderboard shows the same people all the time. The moment you put rankings out in the open and it is obvious that the same people are consistently ranked in a high position- there will be a decrease in participation. Competition immediately deceases.
Especially if other people are consistently participating as much as they can in a given day.
I think most of you are wrong in thinking that all the comments would become troll comments if people were anonymous. I think all you would see is an increase in participation.
If you go over to the Deals portion, it's pretty blatantly obvious that black triangle members vote up other black triangle member's deals, which in turn increases their reputation which then keeps them on the leaderboard with a black triangle. Hmmmm.
If you were to take the usernames out, this type of circle-jerk would become minimal because not only do black triangle members vote up other black triangle members, but they especially vote up other black triangle members whose username they know.
My main point is that Woot believes the leaderboard increases participation and good competition when actually I believe it is doing the opposite.
If anything, it is increasing participation and competition between the same 15 people who constantly cycle through the top positions which in turns decreases participation and competition between the many.
The best way to increase competition is to make people compete for something that isn't just attainable by few people. The black triangle alone is enough, but you would need to define exactly what the black triangle means.
There's a ton of different ways the Deals side could function.
@iggz: It becomes more of a challenge to spot it visually, for users and moderators alike. It's not impossible, just more difficult, which lowers the potential value of any question -- something that can happen now, too Basically, you can be suckered in to a "good question" without acknowledgement of source to be bombarded with crap content.
Imagine, user chsk48749 can pull from a body of questions they know will pass muster, then load their post with links to www.freevirusesandidentitytheft.com.ru/sasquatches/NIKE/PUMA/ROLEX, and blasts the New feed with that... they're anonymous now, so every question a user clicks on looks legit until the body is exposed as spam.
Anonymous versus real name is very much a battle being waged on the internet right now. You see Facebook and Google forcing people to taking personal accountability, but proponents of the old style still point to success like Slashdot, reddit, 4chan, etc. It depends on the goal of your community, I think.


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Doesn't sound too bad Robert, I wouldn't mind participating in something like that.
Doesn't sound too bad Robert, I wouldn't mind participating in something like that.
Why not. It seems a good idea.
The thing is it would be really hard to do transfers and things because everyone would have different opinions. Maybe whoever would run it could upload the database and let people look for a few players or the person running it could outline some potential targets and everyone would vote
Sounds like a good idea Robert.
Yeah .. .
couldnt you put a bit more of a twist or a change to it because it sounds exactly like the career thread to me at the moment
It could be called the 'I have a dream....' thread
make it quickly the threads gone silent without the off topic thread xD
Ok, Wallace v Roberts has been going for a while now. As we maybe came to expect, progress has been slow (especially for us Monkeys ). As i stands, there's maybe only another 9-10 weeks before the new game possibly comes out. As the current rate of progress, it would be a miracle if we made it to, and got established in the Premiership before then.
How about we mix it up a bit then? This would possibly provide the short term challenge people are looking for, and at the same time maximise the chance of success....(and I should say this is similar to Paul's 20/20 challenge)
How about, just for a one season trial, we let anyone who wants download the save. At the end of say a week, the best finish is the winner, they write the report, get the credit and we carry on from that point?
Some issues with this: it's hard to say how many people will participate and it's 'wasted effort' for anyone who doesn't win;
we wouldn't want multiple updates in the main thread from anyone taking part, so probably the winner would have to undertake to do one big year end report to make up for that - that would take away a lot of the interactivity of it.
What do people think? I'm sure this could give the teams the boost required in terms of success, but would it be to major detriment of the thread itself?
Want me to get us into league 1 or what? and it's a good idea.Ok, Wallace v Roberts has been going for a while now. As we maybe came to expect, progress has been slow (especially for us Monkeys ).
I'm against it tbh. It could easily end up meaning that someone plays the whole game and that stops the point of the whole challenge. It was always going to be slow progress as it is not just like a single player game but people had to adjust to the last few peoples tactics and players and make slight improvements along the way to get into the Premiership but if you do thsi then it will be really quick as a few people will be playing a season instead of just one person. Anyway that's just what I think, up to you and the others I suppose.
Right enough. Good thinking Robert.
Any suggestions as to what sort of twist could be put on it?
You could do a 'Rescue your favorite club' sort of thing, whichever your favorite club is, are now in BSS/BSN and have no money/players bad reputation etc
Paul, I've tried stuff like that before, and although I like the general idea, I hate having a history at a club - Since Dafs / Gundo's challenge, I love building a club from literally nothing. Now if you deleted your faves club history and started again with them, that would be cool.
I suppose you could probably do that Nep lol
how about, you take your favorite club out of the football league, then make a new club, called E.G Arsenal II, take the same kit and stuff, and have a poor reputation, starting from scratch, bit like Wimbledon did with the whole MK Dons thing
What do people think of dafuge's idea from the closed off topic thread? Personally I think it'd be a great idea for a group of us to decide as a group to take part in one of the excellent yet underused challenges. It would make it enjoyable.Originally Posted by dafuge
What are people's thoughts on this?
Any particular challenges you had in mind dafuge?
We could make like an official CSE Challenge for FM09 which could be sticked and then it could be a challenge that the all the community could take on. Also if we did it for FM 09 we could spend time making a really good challenge that would be very original.
Perhaps something really simple like the monthly challenges we had? It could be something as simple as everyone managing the same club for as long as they want.
Hi I'm thinking of starting some downloadable challenges, however I have a few questions...
1) How do I upload the save games?
2) what size database should I use?
3) And suggestions of the countries for doing the challenges in
1. You'll need to use a file hosting website, such as Filefront
2. The more detail you load with your game the better it will be, but it will also be slower. You really need to find a balance that suits you, which might take a bit of experimenting to find out.
3. Somewhere you've never been before is always interesting.
Hope thats contructive. Look forward to you coming up with something interesting
Thanks for your comments, I'm a perfectionist so I'm gonna think of a challenge to the best of my ability Probably be a couple of weeks into the holidays, could be sooner though because I don't know yet if I'm going to have a summer job yet which would obviously give me less time to think of some. Oh and Dafuge, you're the king of challenges, got any tips for me?
I would just like to know if there would be an interest in an online sign up/ challenge.
Basically, groups of four or something similar and play a season and you then get points for the where you finish like the tennis tour. I havnt work it all out but i would just like to know if people would want to join in. Looking for around 16 people who would be commited
Sounds confusing atm, but i'm sure you'd be able to explain it more if you started it
I don't know. If you ask me, you'd do that among a bunch of friends/acquaintances and decide the season winner amongst yourselves, it doesn't really merit being a challenge.
I'm stalking you Paul 'til you give me a hint of your next challenge
Anyway would anyone be interested in a series of challenges where you try to emulate a legendary managers career? Sort of like the Fabio Capello challenge that's doing the rounds atm, maybe a new one every month?
16 Players Split up into Groups Of
Group One: 1, 5, 10, 15
Group Two: 2, 6, 11, 16
Group Three:3, 7, 12, 9
Group Four: 4, 8, 13, 14
Once the groups are decided We begin the tour, Getting points on where you finish
Example: Spanish Open - La Liga
Each group can pick which team they want to go(different groups can go same teams)
Players will then have a week or two to complete the season .
Points will be awarded on the position they finished judging on their media prediction, not sure if i will allow the top teams yet but judging on interest i will devise a whole plan
Oh I've just had an idea for something that I think could be really interesting give me 15 minutes to write it up on notepad then I'll tell you more about it.
A series of short weekly challenges where opponents try to get higher scores in their challenges,
so in the group stages they would all compete for 4 challenges, after that the top two from each group go through to another
group of 4 where they again all face off against each other, when they reach the quarter finals it's one on one. they face a tougher challenge than before
and the winners go through to the semis. The seis are tougher than the final also. After that the two losers from the semis would face each other in the third
place playoff while at the same time the big one is taking place!
You think you're the best on the CSE Forums? Prove it, Win the CSE World Cup!
Heres the format I was thinking of.
32 players
Group Tables decided randomly - Groups A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
Top two from each group go on to next set of group rounds
down to 16 players - Groups A, B, C, D
Now for the knockout rounds
the 8 remaining players go through to the quarter finals
Then The Semis
And At last the moment you've all been waiting for.. THE WORLD CUP FINAL!
What do you think guys?
By the way sorry about any punctuation/ spelling errors, It's taken straight off my notepad
I think getting 32 would be hard, perhaps basing it on the European Championships?
16 COULD happen.
Also shouldn't there be 3 challenges in the Group Stage since only 3 games are played?
Oh yeah good point I always get it mixed up, Euros it is then, but if theres alot of interest (Which I doubt lol) then I will make it a World Cup 32, should I post it or is there anything else that anyone thinks I should consider, also Paul do you wanna be the first man on the list? (After me of course )
I'd reccomend thinking up some challenges beforehand, perhaps giving each person a 'Country' and they have to compete challenges within or with that Country, but obviously they'd have to be sort of fair, like if it was to win the World Cup, having Brazil would be a lot easier than having San Marino etc. But of course it's your challenge.
And yes, i'd be more than happy to be the 'second' man on the list
Nah I was thinking a challenge that both people compete in with the same points system e.g. the IMPOSSIBLE chalenge you just set us! lol, that would be fairer I feel, but I have no objection to giving them countries, but it would just be superficial. Wouldn't be Brazil though they're not eligible for the Euros
I know, that's why I said if it was to win the World Cup
Also as this is my first challenge do you wanna help me out a bit? maybe like a joint challenge where we share our ideas for what challenges to do next? Obviously I'd do most of the work as you're busy with the 20/20 challenge. Then I feel it would be of a much higher quality with me and an experienced CSEer on board, failing that if any experienced CSEer could PM me a couple of ideas it would be much appreciated, especially the one and only Dafuge
Ah right I thought you meant that as a challenge
I wouldn't mind helping you with things, just PM me when/if you need me
Ok thanks for that Paul, I might put the challenge up now, wait until I have 14 more contenders and then give out the challenges, could you PM me any ideas you have that aren't already in your random thingymajig for your 20/20 challenge please?
I'll have a think
Top Man , :thumbsup:
This is just a quick scout around, on account of my upcoming holiday, but I'm thinking of making a Welsh Superleague sign-up, similar to the Peru one that was here a couple of months ago. So far the player rules I've got would be;
*3 Welsh people, one of whom MUST be playing for a Welsh team (Cardiff etc. Don't count)
*2 more people from anywhere in the UK
**2 of the 5 brits must be under-23
*2 'wild-card' entrants who can be from anywhere
**Again, one of these must be under-23
Would people be interested?
Maybe, a bit confused, can you give me some more details please mate?
For those of you who were upset about the recent deletion of the off topic thread, I've created 'The CSE Forum Group'
This could be used as an alternative to the off topic thread to keep in touch and discuss unrelated matters.
You can find it via my profile if you want to join.
The basic idea is from this thread. There would be 17 spaces, and each player would create clubs, kits, chairman and favorite people, and select players and managers. The clubs would have equal budgets, reputations, training and youth. I would then holiday through the seasons and give reports.
Sounds good so far, PM me if you start it up
I was thinking of an idea that came from what a few forum members were talking about earlier in the week about taking your supported club from the bottom back to the top.
I was thinking (probably for 09 as there are so many challenges that still need completing) if anyone would be interested in this only with a little twist, for example if your supported club were arsenal you'd delete arsenal completely and recreate Arsenal FC or something like that this would mean you can create the clubs history from scratch, but, heres the twist what you would have the option of doing to stop it just being a club from scratch challenge is you could pick something like to keep their finances or reputation or a player of the original club from each position. Maybe if it was finances or rep it could be toned down abit to stop it being too easy, this would have the added effect of finding out what could be considered most important for success.
Please give any critisism and say whether you would be interested as maybe a side challenge to your current challenge your attempting or for 09. Bear in mind if there is enough interest in starting this i could well start it as soon as possible.
Constructive critisism is very welcome and also ideas to add onto this.
I'd love a league where all the prem teams are deleted, then the top 4 don't exist and I can rebuild Everton KEIOC (Which is what I'd call it) up to the top where they truly belong. Maybe have the choice of keeping a couple of your youth players of your choice and a reserve player of League 1 ability maximum?
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In fact I might do that, I feel that anyone that only knows football from the Sky era has really missed out (that includes myself) so for the English top flight to return to it's previous state. Wanna do it together Mocko666? I certainly can't do it on my own atm because I'm wrapped up in my CSE Euros challenge and the 20/20.
Sorry for triple post
I'm gonna do it alone to test it out if thats Ok Mocko? Just do it with Everton
Im not sure about all the prem teams being deleted maybe levelling them out with money and rep etc.....
But the challenge would be to rebuild your club back to the top, what do you think about maybe keeping some finances OR reputation and depleting the one you choose not to keep. Sort of like how Wimbledon became MK Dons and had to rebuild.
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what if you looked on wikipedia in the football years section and reversed all the league positions to the ones from like 1986, then put the values and reputations of the clubs more realistic for the time.
nah it's too easy, I'm gonna do Everton KEIOC (could come true in the next few years) give it a rep of 2000, a new stadium with a capacity of 6000, set Kirkby United (As I will rename Everton FC) to move to the TescoDrome in 2011, set Everton KEIOC to move to Goodison in 2011, give them a reasonable financial status of about 1-3 million EDIT: And put them in the BSS obviously
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But I just can't make myself delete my beloved Everton...
Is it just me or are the forums slow atm?
how about instead of deleting them you set up teams in the bsn and bss with slightly higher rep than normal and have them for all the premiership teams eg afc derby and afc fulham ect. The challenge could be to lift your team above the original.
just seen the everton one which is basically the same as my idea accept you do it for all the premiership clubs at the same time
Yeah, I'm just doing it to let off steam about our dickhead chairman though...
Tempted to create a database with all prem clubs in blue square premier only each prem club would start with something different for example a star player of 150 CA or a young player with 200 PA etc.... or big stadium, or high rep etc......
I would then upload the database and you could take on one of the challenges of trying to overtake the original club.
The original club does not need to be deleted however i was thinking whatever happens to the new club e.g large stadium, the opposite could happen to the original prem club e.g reduce stadium size.
All comments welcome
How about that AFC for every team in the premiership thing, BUT its a sign up first come first serve so you pick which team you wanna be, you get to pick 3 good players (in an age range or whatever) and then the manager of each of the actual premier league teams becomes the manager of the AFC team. It'd be.. interesting xD
Right I've finished the DB, will post some screenies when I've loaded it up
lmao its jeffers the one cap wonder, in blue square north where he'll be by the time he's 29 in real life xD
well he does owe us...
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...KEIOCTeam2.jpg the teams filled out abit now looking forward to this now, I'm gonna put it up as an experiment tomorrow.
Loaning players from Liverpool, the fans wouldn't be too happy
I'm not too happy either but I've already poached Evertons youngsters so it was the RS or Tranmere as a parent club
Me and Robert are trying to come up with an idea for a sign up which would involve both of us being able to do updates at the same time. We are struggling to come up with any original ideas though and could do with some help.
So what I would like to know is what you guys would like to see in a sign up?
Would it involve clubs or players or both?
Your thought please.
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I think you could have like a nation sort of thing, say you do a 'Take a Crap European Nation to Glory' one of you takes Andorra, the other San Marino. Then changes names etc, and have the people sign up to be from either country, and have it so the country which (in seperate holiday games) wins the World Cup and European Championships first?
Just an idea
Thanks for replying, Paul.
I think that idea is a bit too much like DodgeeD's though and we want something that has never been done before.
yeah I thought that, and a club thing would be too similar to the Paul Wallace thing
Yeah I know.
We are just looking at rough ideas though now as to what people would like to see in sign ups so that we can eventually come up with an idea that everyone shoud like.
Perhaps you could base it on a film or a tv show sort of thing?
We've thought about that as well and think that there is too many of them about at the moment.
We both like your first idea though and may do something along the lines of that
I think there is too many sign ups based on a tv show. Ridleys and I may do your first idea about the two teams
Contenders come up face to face with a chosen set of star CSEers?
Do you think that we could get say 20 people for each team though? because we may be pushing it a bit but that is like the minimum we can really have for each team
WW's sign up includes 40 people doesn't it and look at the popularity of it!
I think you could get 40, you're both regular and respected members of CSE, shouldn't be too hard tbh
Who's starting the thread?
I'd reccomend Robert for obvious reasons (nothing to do with the fact Ridleys has had many failed sign ups )
Oh well, I think Frazza has beaten my record of the amount of failed sign ups by now
btw to anyone reading this I am NOT stopping my predictions thing. Before we started the thread I think we should edit everything so all we need to do is add the players in and we need to decide on a few things for the way we run it
How about a 'parallel universe' sign-up? You collect the information for 20 or however many players and start a game with the exact same database and set-up and see how the games pan out differently. When my first attempt at my sign-up crashed and I re-started, it got me thinking that the AI throws up different things in each game that have an effect on player's careers/ the fortunes of a club. It could be interesting to compare how the players fare in two different games on different computers. If you two then sync your updates so there are more or less at the smae point, it could make for some interesting reading.
Seeing as James is going out now we will probably sort it all out tomorrow
I thought about it as an experiment a while back but I figured it would be a lot of work for one person. If two people (Ridleys and Robert 296 maybe or two others) each run one game with the same data and settings, it's feasible. The two running the thread could state some aims for which direction the club (if there's a club) will take and what will happen to the players. There's also the chance for some banter between them as they try to outdo each other as well.
I was thinking of doing something sort of similar to this. Except it will be international management instead.
I was going to holiday until whenever the Euro Championships are being drawn and then getting 16 (15 depending on Germany situation) people to sign up for 1 of the nations and each of them fight it out for Euro Championship glory.
Would be interested to know what you think and if there are any questions i'd answer them for you
you can 'sort' out the Germany situation mark, WW did it for his Eurovision Sign Up
I'll do it with someone if you want.


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16 May 2012 11:44 PM #1
access a model property from a field convert function
i add a property to a model with default value 50 before it is instantiated like shown below.
var propertyValue = 50; this.myStore.getModel().addStatics({ modelProperty: propertyValue, }); this.myStore.load();
//i omitted the rest of the snippet for the ease of reading
fields: [ {name: 'id'}, {name: 'distance', convert: function (value, record) { console.log(this.modelProperty) }, }, ],
17 May 2012 1:17 AM #2
Try this:-
var propertyValue = 50; this.myStore.getModel().addStatics({ modelProperty: propertyValue, }); this.myStore.load();var propertyValue = 50;try
this.propertyValue = 50;
also remove ',' after propertyValue in addStatisticssword-it.com, Sencha Developer House in Turkey - Istanbul University Technopark Suite 204.
17 May 2012 5:08 AM #3
thanks sword-it for the suggestion. however the question was not so much about how can i put the property in the model, but rather how can i access it from the fields convert function? as i said also when i put the property hard coded into the model i am not able to access it form the fields convert function.
11 Sep 2012 6:09 AM #4
The static property or function will be added to the Model (class) is my guess, but not to instantiated objects of that model. So in your convert function you'd use it along the lines of
function convert(v, record) { var adjustedValue = MyApp.model.MyClass.myStaticProperty + record.foo ; return adjustedValue; }


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