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The market place of ideas

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  • 13-03-2015 7:02pm
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    NZT73
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 51 ✭✭


    Is boards not a great example of the market place of ideas?

    The ideas that people like and are successful continue, grow and get stronger and the bad ones will just wither and die. Is that not good enough? You produce a bad product, no one will want it, it goes on the scrap heap. A good product will take hold.

    Can we not let the market guide itself?


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    Desolation Of Smug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    I reckon no-ones gonna bail your thread out if it goes bust anyway..


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    Lord PuppyMcSnuggle of Cuddleshire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Lord PuppyMcSnuggle of Cuddleshire


    NZT73 wrote: »
    Is boards not a great example of the market place of ideas?
    I think it's more like a sports stadium where each side cheers for their opinion while booing the other one... and that continues until the time runs out.


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Every idea has been plagiarised upteen times,even the bad ones sadly.


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    strobe
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    NZT73 wrote: »
    Is boards not a great example of the market place of ideas?

    The ideas that people like and are successful continue, grow and get stronger and the bad ones will just wither and die. Is that not good enough? You produce a bad product, no one will want it, it goes on the scrap heap. A good product will take hold.

    Can we not let the market guide itself?

    It's a really good example of the worlds longest game of 'Na na na na na na, I got the last word! :p'. Not sure if that's quite the same thing.


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    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,805 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Thinly veiled,"I wish the mods would stop closing my homophobic threads" :D


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    dmc17
    Registered Users Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭dmc17


    NZT73 wrote: »
    Is boards not a great example of the market place of ideas?

    The ideas that people like and are successful continue, grow and get stronger and the bad ones will just wither and die. Is that not good enough? You produce a bad product, no one will want it, it goes on the scrap heap. A good product will take hold.

    Can we not let the market guide itself?

    Yes, but if you happen to produce a good product that just happens to be illegal, there will still be demand but you will not be allowed to sell it.


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    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    NZT73 wrote: »
    Is boards not a great example of the market place of ideas?

    The ideas that people like and are successful continue, grow and get stronger and the bad ones will just wither and die. Is that not good enough? You produce a bad product, no one will want it, it goes on the scrap heap. A good product will take hold.

    Can we not let the market guide itself?

    lay off the early drinking


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OP please come back and explain what you mean because there's nothing coherent enough to constitute either an argument or a hypothesis. What the heck do you mean?


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    Desolation Of Smug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    dmc17 wrote: »
    Yes, but if you happen to produce a good product that just happens to be illegal, there will still be demand but you will not be allowed to sell it.

    Like drugs? That's probably why no one sells drugs.


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,928 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Cedric Unimportant Logger wrote: »
    OP please come back and explain what you mean because there's nothing coherent enough to constitute either an argument or a hypothesis. What the heck do you mean?

    The way I understand it is he seems to want boards.ie to become unmoderated so that he is free to soapbox about how lgbt people are disordered and more violent.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,805 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Cedric Unimportant Logger wrote: »
    OP please come back and explain what you mean because there's nothing coherent enough to constitute either an argument or a hypothesis. What the heck do you mean?
    Calibos wrote: »
    Thinly veiled,"I wish the mods would stop closing my homophobic threads" :D

    ^^^


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    NZT73
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 51 ✭✭NZT73


    Someone say it better than me:

    The "marketplace of ideas" is a rationale for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market. The "marketplace of ideas" belief holds that the truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse.


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    NZT73
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 51 ✭✭NZT73


    Someone said it better than me:

    The "marketplace of ideas" is a rationale for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market. The "marketplace of ideas" belief holds that the truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse.


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,928 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    NZT73 wrote: »
    Someone said it better than me:

    The "marketplace of ideas" is a rationale for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market. The "marketplace of ideas" belief holds that the truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse.

    Maybe if you want an anarchistic free for all website where hate speech is unmoderated try somewhere else.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    conorh91
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    NZT73 wrote: »
    Is boards not a great example of the market place of ideas?

    The ideas that people like and are successful continue, grow and get stronger and the bad ones will just wither and die. Is that not good enough? You produce a bad product, no one will want it, it goes on the scrap heap. A good product will take hold.
    I would have thought your recent thread on homosexuality and genetics would tend to discredit this view. Good information, good research, badly misunderstood, backlash, thread closed.


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    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,849 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Maybe if you want an anarchistic free for all website where hate speech is unmoderated try somewhere else.

    Like that cesspit of hate known as /pol/? I swear I've seen a few trolls on here that seem to have come from there.


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    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    God bless 4chan :)


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    NZT73 wrote: »
    Someone said it better than me.

    Well, surprise surprise, that wouldn't be hard!


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    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    NZT73 wrote: »
    Someone said it better than me:

    The "marketplace of ideas" is a rationale for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market. The "marketplace of ideas" belief holds that the truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse.

    That someone being wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace_of_ideas

    Thanks for the copy and paste though, and managing to not say anything homophobic in your OP, for once.


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