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Oct 29, 2002, 4:42pm

I know at many time I hear that teen/young adults are a pain, cant agrue
without reuslting to vulgarities.

We have seen them shouted at, insulted and told to keep out of NG's

But when i read some of the input in some threads they show a responsiblilty
and reasoned input that some "older members" could take a leaf from their
books.

All the younger people I have had dealings with have shown respect and
interest.

Well done for showing the way.

Oct 29, 2002, 5:16pm

Thanks allot, im sure the others would agree with me. We keep the others who you dont want to meet locked up in cages with trojans on their computers stopping them from accessing this newsgroup. Part of the AWTeen PR setup :)

- Mark
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Oct 29, 2002, 5:20pm

And this is somehow more mature? The people that get insulted for their
immaturity deserve it, I think. It's not a response to age or whatever,
although it happens to be that the more-prone-to-mouth-off posters are in
fact younger, but that's not the entire case. I don't believe there's a
physical age difference in the AW universe, you're mature if you say much
with very little, and you're not if you say little too much. Someone who
curses off their mouth and complains and insults everyone at the sight of a
newsgroup post is saying too much (even though ironically, their posts are
two sentences long and are mostly expletives) and is immature, no matter
what world they inhabit. I think AWTeeners create the anti-AWTeen stereotype
among regular cits because there's really no concrete evidence here that
most people in this newsgroup hate AWTeeners and have expressed that
(especially since a lot of the posters here are AWTeeners, so how would that
work? *boggle*).

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"Nornny11 - The original wishy-washy man, this one can actually insult you
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Oct 29, 2002, 5:43pm

Really though, ive always said matruity should be based on the individual not the world, if you start lumping people into catagorys then you will certainally start getting the wrong conception about them (read 4 topics up)

- Mark
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Oct 29, 2002, 6:18pm

He didn't include you.

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Oct 29, 2002, 6:21pm

Thats nice

- Mark
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Oct 29, 2002, 7:21pm

I think i agree - there are idiots in every community, and there do seem to
be more in the younger communities - nut inthe end, thats just a
stereotype - and may not even be true.

Some people say that everyone matures sooner or later - i dont think this is
true, there are plenty of people who are immature most of the time and they
are of a grand age. Coversely there are many young mature people - on the
grand scheme of things anyway.

I also believe that people can turn maturity on and off at will or against
their will. Sometimes people will say things that dont seem very mature
when normally they are quite mature people. Also sometimes when i'm with my
friends - i purposely turn my maturity off and add soem irresponsible fun.
Thats the way all humans should and can be in my opinion.

- Ste

PS - Tell me if i applied that stupidity and were maturity one and the
same - i didnt mean to.

Oct 29, 2002, 7:59pm

It's just the stereotype that gets put on AWTeeners cause the young crowd
tends to be more immature (Obviously... they're young for God's sake).

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Oct 31, 2002, 7:00pm

"ncc 71854" <NCC-71854 at USS-Venture.Starfleet.UFP> wrote in
news:3dbefb26$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> He didn't include you.

Go back to your cave, you're a shame on your age.

KAH

Oct 31, 2002, 11:36pm

I hate to say this, but the idea of AWTeen lumps people into categories to start with. I agree with you though, and as a matter of fact was about to say the same thing before I saw your reply. Age doesn't determine maturity. It only tells how long you've had to work on it. Obviously, some people put more effort into it than others. I think it's nice that AWTeen world exists because sometimes people want to find others that they have something in common with and due mostly to the nature of the schooling system and the legal system, people in their teen years share a lot of very similar experiences. It also is a nice place to be able to go if you want to be relatively sure of avoiding "adult content" since it is unmistakable that such content doesn't belong there. I've had a lot of children tell me that one of the things they like about me is that I treat them like an adult. Not only teens but much younger children also. Personally I don't treat children as adults or adults as children or children as children for that matter, unless I see it as necessary at the time. I treat people as people. For example, I sometimes end up having to explain to a young child just why their parents have so much control over their lives and I usually find that the parents didn't really know why either... which is why they hadn't explained it to their kids. The end result tends to be a better understanding on both sides, and less resentment. Personally, I think it's a shame that so many things have to be tied to a specific chronological age, but it's the system we have and in spite of all it's inperfections it's not really all that bad. The trick is to realize that just because there are those rare times when we have to treat someone according to their age, the rest of the time we can treat them according to who they are as an individual.

TechnoZeus

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Nov 1, 2002, 6:34am

Crawl back into your hole. You're a shame for this world.

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Nov 1, 2002, 12:44pm

Actually, although I could be mistaken, I really think for the most part it's not a stereotype that's "put" on people who spend a lot of time in AWTeen, but rather one that is transferred to them because it already existed. A friends of mine ended up having to change his name a long time back because people stereotyped him as beeing gay based on the name he used. Well, he is and he's not ashamed of it either, but he got tired of gay men he didn't even know hitting on him and gay haters that knew nothing about heim except for the name he was going by sending him threats and insults. There will be prejudice against AWTeen and it's frequenters because there is prejudice against age and the name implies an age group. Stereotypes generally don't come out of thin air, and any tendancy people have to fit a stereotype only encourages prejudice, to those people who feel that all teens are immature or that all men are perverts or that all people with darker skin than their own are criminals or that all people in ANY group have some shared attribute that you assume they have because they're in the group rather than needing to see before placing them in the group, I urge you to please try to see past your prejudices and realize that judging a person by a label may be quick but it's usually not very accurate. Unfortunately, I doubt that message will reach many of the people it really needs to because if someone doesn't have the patience it takes to get to know a person, they probably will have a hard time finding the patience to read this whole message and actually think it through, so you may wonder why I bothered to write it. Well if a single hate crime can be avoided because one person learned, or one person who was judging people's maturity by age can learn to recognize that it's not hat simple, then that's enough to have been worth the time and effort I put into this message.

TechnoZeus

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Nov 2, 2002, 2:11am

AWTeen Maturity - Shown in it's strongest form.

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Nov 2, 2002, 6:58am

Appart from NCC isnt an AWTeener for the most part ;)

And I agree with your line of thought, he / she is not the best example of kids, and I think thats where the general community is getting its ideas from.

- Mark
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Nov 2, 2002, 8:46am

I appreciate your rebuttle, senetor mark, however this is not a political
debate, nor can a 13 year old actually partake in one. Pack your logic bags
and your thesaurus and go back to AWTeen so you can see yourself in bold
text again.

- Your Favorite Troll

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Nov 2, 2002, 10:36am

Be nice J. Please.

TechnoZeus

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Nov 2, 2002, 10:47am

Now didnt this quickly turn into a personal attack by someone who seems to claim awteen has no Maturity.

Part 1: I am not in the USA nor do I have any desire to, therefore by default I am not a senitor.
Part 2: Logic is used in the minds, not in bags, kindly rephrase your statement so it makes some sence.
Part 3: I only use PS in AWTeen at events.
Part 4: You shuold come to AWTeen some time, and see why its nearly always #1 - 2 on the world list, while AWDebate remains with about 1 person in it.

- Mark
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Nov 2, 2002, 11:06am

I can't resist this, so please don't take it seriously...

Must be a pretty one sided debate, huh?

TZ :)

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Nov 2, 2002, 11:19am

ROFL... Yepperz :D

- Mark
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Nov 3, 2002, 5:36am

pfft..you're a hopeless case.

Nov 3, 2002, 6:50am

....and your a hapless idiot.
Clean up your act before I send an e-mail to our old friend Flagg about
your...peculiar behavior in these newsgroups.
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