Now I’m feeling cursed!

Jeez Wassa, I think you managers are just on a power trip; silencing the opposition and controlling the vocal!

I'm switching to that other letterboxing site, so I don't have to deal with that Green Tortuga anymore

Really Old Blue

I personally feel if people can view the agrees, then people should be able to view the disagree's. I just think its fair.

A new low on this board. People are now disagreeing on the disagree button.😕

I think the most useful items would be (from least to most expensive)
Ink pen
Lined notepad (keeping track of box numbers, solving puzzles, etc)
Markers/ink so hopefully everything doesn't become black immediately!
Charging brick

I don't find the logbook useful as I'm picky on what I stamp into. Low quality paper doesn't stamp well.

I really miss the smite button. It may not have kept things civil, but it was so satisfying!

nah, thats not it.

It's not even about conservative vs liberal, its about right or wrong.

Didn't this all start in the LGBTQ boards, but i do have to ask, what possessed you to go there in the first place? Just seems a little odd, just sayin'

Its like saying you want to ban drag shows and then go to drag bars every Friday night for a couple of pints.

The issue that I had with your post, is when you resorted to calling a marginalized community delusional. Do you honestly think people, both conservative and liberals, would be okay with that?

Maybe in Donalds world its fine, but for a lot o Americans, we do appreciate the diversity of this country and even embrace it. So we may get a little defensive when we see people put down others for no other reason then their own insecurities.


OK, but what makes you think that we would want someone who thinks we are delusional to help us find our next box.

yeah, i'll admit its super frustrating to me that i can meet people who are genuinely good and kind people and find out later on that they support a political party─or at the very least, an administration, because it is true that it isn't fair of me to globally label every single conservative as such, especially when there are some on this thread who have also been vocally against our current administration's choices, and i do apologize for that─that has done such horrific things.

the problem i find is that many (many, not all) conservatives say things like 'we can have differing opinions and still be friends', but what they are calling an opinion is actually a difference in morals and ethics. i'm not going to be friends with someone who supports a president who has actively legally blocked my rights to healthcare, travel, and even ability to just go pee in public spaces and generated a lot of misinformed hatred towards my community─it doesn't matter how nice they are, or if they don't personally mind trans/lgbt people, because what that support tells me is that they don't mind if people are needlessly suffering as long as it doesn't effect them personally, and i don't think that's morally right. even if trump was not as anti-lgbt as he is, i would not be friends with his supporters, because his racist and ableist policies are ALSO morally wrong, and the same thing applies.

so to be clear: i am talking about basic human rights here. i know what rights are, and i know what ones i am being denied by our current presidency. please do not try and imply that the rights im talking about are just 'what i want' (and if you weren't, my apologies, but it did come across that way). i have the right to healthcare, i have the right to feel secure where i live, i have the right to not be subjected to inhumane or degrading treatment, i have the right to not be discriminated against, i have the right to travel within and without of my country, i have the right to the freedom of expression, and i have the right to many more things *actively listed as basic human rights by the un in the 'universal declaration of human rights'* that the trump administration is actively denying or working to deny trans people.

i don't care one way or another about you being christian. i understand religion is important to some people, and helps ground them and helps them find purpose in life, and i have no problem with that. i do have a problem with the fact that many people in our country use christianity as a reason behind their bigotry. your bible and religious beliefs should not define what i am and am not allowed to do, and while I'm glad *you* haven't used it to do so, i'm sorry to say many other people in our country have done so and will continue to do so.

i promise you i would be perfectly comfortable having this discussion face to face, if it came down to it. i don't think anything i'm saying is because of a 'mob mentality', or particularly hateful or vitriolic. i hope you don't either, and i hope you understand that being kind is much more difficult when society at large has repeatedly, in modern times and historically, treated my community as less than human because we aren't 'normal' (whatever 'normal' really means)─if conservatives want queer people to be kind they should have listened when we were.

Thanks! I started reading Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry last night. I thought it was a fantasy, but I guess it's a romantasy (turns out the author has written tons of romance novels--for example, an intriguingly named holiday story called A Partridge and a Pregnancy). So far, my book is pretty good.

I recently read The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman. I love those Thursday Murder Club mysteries! Does anyone else like them?


Interesting! My sister and I stayed in Whitechapel in September. I think I would enjoy seeing the architecture drawings in that book, but not the crime drawings--too gruesome for me!

you called all trans people 'crazies' and 'delusional'. i think that's more of a name-call than calling someone a bigot for... following the exact definition of being a bigot.

sorry. maybe you didn't expect that we were here to see you insult us. but we were :(

for what it's worth, this isn't an uncommon feature across the internet; even youtube does something very similar where you can only see the number of likes on a video, not the dislikes. i haven't ever used a site that has seeing 'negative' reactions fully enabled, so i can't actually speak to if it's better or worse, but i don't think it's unreasonable

Although I don't recall ever seeing these before, I think a small, custom puzzle would be fun, especially if the completed puzzle showed a clue for a traditional box.

Also, a moist towelette or two would be helpful for those of us who are the primary inkers in our groups.

my mini signature stamp (my main one is too big for many logbooks) has changed three times over the past year─no one's said anything about it, so i think you're probably good :P

looking forward to seeing you in mailing rings, if that's an interest! i primarily do LTC and postal swaps, myself, and theyre loads of fun :)

Mayhaps, you should change your name to DARVOcks? ;-)

Yea, i remember when Youtube got rid of that option. Wasnt sure why though.

It really makes no difference to me, I can see both sides, but I am more of a masochist, I want to know who doesn't like what i have to say. 🤔😂

tbh thinking about it. youtube getting rid of it DOES make me want it back more. i do love spiting youtube

Gotta love the trolls. Hey, whatever gets them up in the morning...lol

I replied to you on FB, so I’m just saying hi here. Welcome!

I still have the magnet on my fridge from L&B in Groton. It would be fun have one from this one.

I don’t need a sticker.

Most events don’t have swag. This is a special every five years event.

Path tags are always nice.

Thanks, I know. I organized a meet-up earlier this month, and we had a couple of event boxes but no swag.

At the risk of needlessly prolonging this discussion, I ask sincerely. Why have a disagree button at all? If no one can see the disagreements, other than the one disagreeing, then it falsely appears to everyone else that agreement is unanimous. So the disagree button is not just useless, it misleads readers about the responses because they assume no one disagrees. Eliminate the disagree button, and let people click agree or not click agree.

I'm in favor of smiting.

This is true. And an important point. There have been posts that I see and consider disagreeing with but then think, what’s wrong with me? Am I the only one who sees this? It’s weird. Although, I remember a post in the No Kings tread that had 20+ dislikes. Is there a point at which when the number climbs high enough, they show?


Ooo, me too! I’ll go first… ‘Smite!’ 😉

That’s adorable!

I'm gonna do all y'all a solid and start disagreeing all my own posts, maybe enlist some aliases, too, so I & all my invisible friends make you feel more welcome. It will be an interesting social experiment.

Hello hello!

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my explanation. This is NOT what happens.

Only the FIRST disagreement is hidden (or maybe it's 2, I am unsure). If there are more, they DO show. This was to keep accidental "disagrees" and malicious "disagrees" (yes, we DID and DO have members that will automatically "disagree" with something another specific member posts. Childish, but true. Also for the confusion and dismay that it can cause with posts that have multiple points.

For MOST of AQ, which is (thankfully) not quite as contentious as this board, this actually works well, and has been around for many years with no problem. Most boards and posts are overwhelmingly "agreeable".