I (and I'm sure a lot of other people) like this forum because the replies are generally longer, more well thought out and give care towards spelling and grammar. It's more centered around mature intelligent discussion than flame wars, 1337/ch4t5p34k or one-liner posts like a lot of the rest of LW is.

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Still missing you, LML. (1941-2007). ♥
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It's a joke. I'm hardly intellectual, but I passed.

This forum is a bunch of losers trying to boost their self esteem by using bigger words than other people.

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Oh, fuck, that happens everywhere, online and off.

And, what the hell? "Common folk"? We're not talking about royalty and a bum on the street, we're talking about the simple difference between someone who wants to take the time to read a thread/post and respond with something relevant and contributory and someone who just wants to aquire as many points as they possibly can. The Intellectual Test, IMO, is less about IQ and more about who wants to actually take the time to go through all that and , consequently, who is most likely to take the time to read a thread and think up a good reply.

A lot of things in life have requirements...jobs, schools, clubs, etc. That hardly means all those things are elitist, they're just striving to pull together similar people.

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"Under the hardness of her facade a woman's heart is still beating."

because at the moment people like you get to waste our forum space with bullshit topics like this (do you even realise your not the first to make this point?) and then have the audacity to tell us were snobs!

well, fuck you.   I say you shouldn't be in here, nor should hispanics.... I dont like them either.


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I just blew my own mind...

I seriously never noticed this until right now...

 

Ash Ketchum.

Ketchum.

Ketch um.

Catch 'em.

Catch them.

Gotta catch them all.

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No one would post this. Not that it's stupid, because I thought it was kind of funny, well worth the second it took to read it. But it wouldnt belong in something titled "the intellectual forum"

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Only the strong survive.

Also, I think that the diversity of LW's population is a major factor. It's not like we're taking a class of kids the same age from the same school and making a smart kid lunch table and a stupid kid lunch table. We're taking thirteen-year-old and putting them in the same online community as college students. In this case it's not a matter of snobbishly ignoring idiots, but simply acknowledging that a wide range in population will result in a wide range of education/ ignorance and trying to free some discussions from ignorance.

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Post edited at 11:31 pm on Aug. 8, 2008 by Tiroth

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Now the old king is dead
Long live the king.

Post edited at 10:13 am on Aug. 10, 2008 by katjassidekick

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Must be a devil between us,
  or whores in my head

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Imo, Its not hard enough...

because at the moment people like you get to waste our forum space with bullshit topics like this (do you even realise your not the first to make this point?) and then have the audacity to tell us were snobs!

 
well, fuck you. I say you shouldn't be in here, nor should hispanics.... I dont like them either.  
 

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If it was harder, someone who completely misses the point wouldn't be able to post in my thread, and would be able to post without reverting to petty insults and vulgarity.

So fuck off, cunt.

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"reclaiming public spaces as a space for public imagination
and enlightenment where they have become propagandistic
barriers to thought and awareness"

Anyway, I don't think the test was hard at all, if anything it just filters out lazy people that don't have the dedication to take a stupid test, which filters out the ignorant idiots of this site in the process.

I like the fact that people have to put in a little more effort to posting here than in the rest of the forum.  I didn't think the Intellectual Test was all that difficult, so most people should be able to post here if they try...