scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now?

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Tough. As I've said many times before, people have experienced nothing short of personal hell and still said nothing lower than -10. If you can actually prove that your depression is far worse than the things that caused every -10 in this thread, then go ahead and ignore the scale. And if it's just humor... there are plenty of ways to make a joke without breaking from the -10/+10 scale.
Oh, and "you have no idea how I'm feeling so don't"? I hadn't even begun to care. But unless you're uniquely capable of being more depressed than any other WP user, I think it's safe to say that the -10/+10 that's good enough for everyone else is good enough for you too.

If you didn't care, then I don't know why you even needed to bother commenting. I didn't use the scale, because I couldn't correlate how I felt with a number, or indeed a negative number on this said scale, so I just put a random number. If you wanted this explanation before, then it's here now. I am unable to really identify with or understand my emotions in general, and so a number scale is even more confusing. I'll change it to -10 when I think I'm there. Is that ok with you?

Though in general I agree with your feelings on the subject, the whole point of this sub-forum is lost if you "don't care."

Yeah man I dont think its such a big deal at all..

If you can't equate your feelings to a number between -10 and +10, this probably isn't the best thread to be in There's probably a thread better suited to you lurking somewhere in The Haven, just waiting to be resurrected.

And as I said in my original post, I felt the need to comment because I've raised this issue with everyone else who broke with the scale, and as such I felt it was only fair to say something on this occasion - wouldn't want anyone to think I was picking on specific people.

...and you have, but beating on the issue to someone who likely isn't the state of mind to even consider your reasons for feeling as you do won't solve anything.

It maintains some sort of consistancy, meaning that people can have a better idea of how someone is feeling. If people start going off-scale, it's hard to know how some people are really feeling.
Also, sticking to the scale prevents certain attention seekers from trying to hog the attention of the other users by posting a six-figure negative number.

If someone criticises my decision to try and enforce the scale, I'll defend it.

Put it this way, if its off the scale then chances are its probably either really bad or really good.. Its just a more enthusiastic way of expressing yourself. Either way it will probably cause a problem if someone makes it one.. heh.

...of course, most people just *save* the extremes of the scale for times when they are feeling really bad or really good. If nothing else, sticking to the scale encourages people to put their problems into perspective - Asking themselves how much worse can it get, how much better can it get, and so on... This doesn't just let you decide which number to use, it gives you a chance to evaluate your situation - "yeah, this is really bad... but I know it could be worse, so it's not a -10 yet".

It isn't your place to police this thread.

And it isn't your place to tell me not to.
The thread title is "scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? ", and if people keep ignoring it, I'll keep on reminding them, because nobody else bothers to. Besides, until now I've never done any more than a friendly reminder, and nobody has ever had a problem with it. I wasn't looking for a full blown argument on this, nor was I looking to 'police' the thread - I'll leave that sort of fun stuff to the mods.

Only thing, it doesnt matter to the mods, so it certainly shouldnt for you. Is anything posted here really affect you?
Im pretty sure your the only one here who cares if someone conforms to the exact rules of the thread.

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Been watching old sci-fi show called 'Sapphire And Steel' which I love.
All of it has been put up on youtube except last assignment.

Did you actually manage to completely ignore my last post? All I've ever done in the past is point out to people that posting an off-the-scale number is rather disrespectful to people (and the emotions of said people) in equally bad (or worse) situations who stuck with it and only used a -10. If you want to keep on making an argument of this, go ahead, but I'm not going to quit responding so long as you're continuing to try to make me look like a bad guy.

You've made your position clear. People don't have to agree with it. How you have presented it makes it far less likely that people will be receptive to it. Start a thread, get people to discuss it, get people to think about it. You might find that you get better results.

I did. With this very same issue, on a different board. At first there was some arguing, but I don't think I've seen a number off the scale there since then.

You come into this with the goal of making sure people don't feel trivialized by the posting of others, and yet you've managed to do just that. You've put your views above the moods of others.

So they may feel really bad...but that doesn't matter, because they broke the scale, right?