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IMO this oversharing to larger groups issue is what is fundamentally breaking society. The way humans socialize depends on intermediate spaces, where we can engage in public conversations with a small group. Our brains are limited in how many people we can interact with, we know once it passes 150ish people our brains get overloaded and we become unable to effectively converse with people. For large groups we switch to more of an oration communication style where we talk at people instead of to them.
There were never any laws to protect these intermediate spaces because historical we did not need them. Technology limited us so global communication and surveillance was not a possibility. And we could control the spread of information outside the gorup using our innate socialization strategies of shunning and exclusive people who break the rules.
Then technology changed this, and the limitations which made intermediate sized group communication possible disappeared. Then on top of that people (social media) figured out that they can exploit the way large group commutation overloads our brains for profit. They use these socialization flaws in how our brains work to manipulate and addict us, not unlike how gambling exploits the flaws in our brain with respect to statistics and rewards. Destroying intermediate spaces where our brains are happy, to push us all into their spaces where they fan keep us stressed and unhappy but much more exploitable.
Old forums like CalgaryPuck are some of the last of these intermediate spaces, which is why it is so much more mentally satisfying to communicate here, it is small enough to know people. You can also see much better communication here between people who disagree, because here even the jerks are still a person and not the masses.
I think the recent posts on this thread inadvertently summarized this well: You post on CalgaryPuck for a conversation. You post on social media for internet points.
It is very natural and human to want to be able to have a public convention without it being broadcast to the whole world. Our inability to do that anymore is stressing us all put to the point where our ability to work together as a society is breaking.
I have no solutions.
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Last edited by Bandwagon Surfer; 08-06-2025 at 12:18 PM.
Reason: spelling
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I have been a member for longer than most. I post sparingly but love being connected and reading the content. I truly believe CP is a community and a safe place for good Flames information.
If we as a community that know about CP are fortunate enough to be able to see and be in the know on privy information from posters who have connections, that should be good enough. No need to put it out to the whole world.
I never go on twitter, but if needing attention, maybe twitter users could just say there is good flames info on CP and encourage people to join or check it out, rather than posting the juicy tidbits we that know about it are fortunate enough to see.
Insider information is generally so bland. I love getting some juicier stuff on here. I would hate for it to keep getting out to the whole world and force our CalgaryPuck posters to have to limit what they can post here in fear of ruining their relationship with a source or even jeopardizing a transaction. It would be great to keep getting interesting tidbits that make a lot of sense like we are used to.
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Maybe we hunt them down and kill them. Smash their skull with hammers while their loved ones watch as a warning to anyone else who would dare cross post on Al Gore's internet.
I don’t see any value in a witch hunt, not my intent at least.
It’s public, definitely agree with that sentiment, its just not twitter/x sized and meant more for us Flames fans because that’s my target audience.
Can’t stop people from sharing, totally understandable.
No drama necessary.
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Isn't the whole point of posting in a public forum to share tidbits with the public to engage in conversation? Seems real counterintuitive to criticize someone sharing stuff on here to other social media platforms.
My take is you should at least ask Royle9 and Sec214 first.
The people taking the info IMO are doing it to try to build their own brand and following on Twitter, and if you're going to do that then at least ask them for permission.
It's great that they sourced them at least, but if you're going to take somebody else's post and share it on a different medium then at least ask them first if they mind.
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Isn't the whole point of posting in a public forum to share tidbits with the public to engage in conversation? Seems real counterintuitive to criticize someone sharing stuff on here to other social media platforms.
True, but there is a large difference between talking amongst the confidence of friends in the park and soapboxing with a bullhorn on the same topic. Both are public but the intention and exposure is different. As mentioned, if our insiders wanted their tidbits on twitter they have the ability to post that themselves.
We need to lock the forum down until we can figure out what's going on. No new registrations and use the required social media information provided to track down the perpetrators and deport ban them.
FAP Agents will be vetting all new and existing members to ensure no oilers socks or twitter login information exists in your bedroom before viewing posts is allowed.
My take is you should at least ask Royle9 and Sec214 first.
The people taking the info IMO are doing it to try to build their own brand and following on Twitter, and if you're going to do that then at least ask them for permission.
It's great that they sourced them at least, but if you're going to take somebody else's post and share it on a different medium then at least ask them first if they mind.
I think that would be the courteous thing to do, but not required.
Does Sureloss ask permission from everyone he posts on here when he is aggregating news?
If you are attributing it, that's all that is required.
If you are putting it out there on the internet, you are basically granting some level of permission for someone to take that content, and re-post it, with attribution. If someone is taking it and posting it as their own information, that's different. But that's not what is happening here. That poster on twitter is aggregating information from across all sorts of sources. Nothing wrong with that.
You guys are silly, nothing like that is happening, lol. The insiders are posting their stuff publicly on a Flames forum that has hundreds of active posters and thousands of lurkers, including most of the local media. Expecting that info to never be talked about or reposted outside this forum is weird.
If you're willing to let thousands of Flames fans, including media view it here, then you're clearly okay with any risk associated with yourself or your source.
I remember at the time there was the New Jersey rumor on here, I'm pretty sure the guys on Flames Nation even brought up rumors from this site.
It is a public forum and anyone can see what you post. There are more people viewing any rumor on this website than a random tweet from a guy on Twitter/x.
