Civility - Revision history

Kevin Wang at 16:11, 6 January 2022

2022-01-06T16:11:01Z

Kevin Wang: /* Usage of "civility" */

2021-06-18T15:03:18Z

Usage of "civility"

Kevin Wang: /* Usage of "civility" */

2021-06-18T15:02:23Z

Usage of "civility"

Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt: fixing a typo

2021-05-25T16:13:19Z

fixing a typo

Kevin Wang at 15:21, 25 May 2021

2021-05-25T15:21:20Z

Kevin Wang: adding quotes to distinguish the actual word civility and its usage in quiz bowl

2020-12-10T06:27:22Z

adding quotes to distinguish the actual word civility and its usage in quiz bowl

Morgan Vincent at 09:36, 24 January 2017

2017-01-24T09:36:35Z

fix>QBWikiBot at 21:59, 24 January 2010

2010-01-24T21:59:53Z

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'''Civility''' is the act of agreeing with or, at least, passively assenting to, terrible ideas about quizbowl. It should not be confused with the non-quizbowl use of the term, which refers to interacting with all other people in an even-handed manner, and has nothing to do with what proponents of civility in quizbowl actually want to see.

Approximately 100% of people who want to see more '''civility''' in online discussion of quizbowl make sure to voice their concerns when [[College Bowl]] or the [[National Academic Championship]] are being targeted. These self-appointed discussion police are strangely absent when [[ACF]] or other forms of [[good quizbowl]] are being attacked.

Things that are perfectly civil according to proponents of civility include: Claiming that the PACE NSC questions are "only for the top teams," barring high school quizbowl players from improving themselves, defaming high school quizbowl coaches for protesting bad questions in your tournament, fixing matches in your tournament, accusing any team that beats you of cheating, plagiarizing questions, lying to teams about the existence and cost of tournaments in competition with your own, attempting to sue quizbowl out of existence, establishing policies which treat white and black people differently, scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region, and advancing fraudulent legal claims to establish a monopoly on quizbowl-like competition.

Things that are not civil according to proponents of civility include: questioning the legitimacy of the College Bowl national championship, asking whether moderators at a tournament should be cheering for teams that they consider themselves a part of who are participating in the tournament, discussing the NAQT distribution, asking non-quizbowl people to stop posting nonsense on the quizbowl board, saying that tournaments should not have fixed matches, explaining why bad questions are bad, calling policies which treat white and black people differently "racist," complaining about other people scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region, and discussing quizbowl on the Internet in any way.

[[Category: Quizbowl lingo]]
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 ===Usage of "civility"===
-The use of the term was very skewed. Approximately 100% of people who wanted to see more "civility" in online discussion of quizbowl made sure to voice their concerns when [[College Bowl]] or the [[National Academic Championship]] were being targeted. These self-appointed discussion police would be strangely absent when [[ACF]] or other forms of [[good quizbowl]] were being attacked.
+The use of the term was very skewed. Approximately 100% of people who wanted to see more "civility" in online discussion of quizbowl made sure to voice their concerns when [[College Bowl]] or the [[National Academic Championship]] were being targeted. These self-appointed discussion police would be strangely absent when [[ACF]] or other forms of "[[good quizbowl]]" were being attacked.
 Things that were perfectly "civil" according to proponents of civility:

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 *saying that tournaments should not have fixed matches
 *explaining why [[bad quizbowl|bad questions]] are bad
-*calling [[HCASC|policies which treat white and black people differently]] "racist"
+*calling [[HCASC#Ban from College Bowl|policies which treat white and black people differently]] "racist"
 *complaining about other people scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region
 *discussing quizbowl on the Internet in any way.

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 *saying that tournaments should not have fixed matches
 *explaining why [[bad quizbowl|bad questions]] are bad
-*calling policies which treat white and black people differently "racist"
+*calling [[HCASC|policies which treat white and black people differently]] "racist"
 *complaining about other people scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region
 *discussing quizbowl on the Internet in any way.

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 *questioning the legitimacy of the College Bowl national championship
 *asking whether moderators at a tournament should be cheering for teams that they are a part of in the tournament
-*discussing the NAQT distribution*asking non-quizbowl people to stop posting nonsense on the quizbowl board
+*discussing the NAQT distribution
 *saying that tournaments should not have fixed matches
 *explaining why [[bad quizbowl|bad questions]] are bad

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 "'''Civility'''" is the act of agreeing with or, at least, passively assenting to, terrible ideas about [[Quiz Bowl]]. It should not be confused with the non-quizbowl use of the term, which refers to interacting with all other people in an even-handed manner, and has nothing to do with what proponents of "civility" in quizbowl actually want to see.
-Approximately 100% of people who want to see more "'''civility'''" in online discussion of quizbowl make sure to voice their concerns when [[College Bowl]] or the [[National Academic Championship]] are being targeted. These self-appointed discussion police are strangely absent when [[ACF]] or other forms of [[good quizbowl]] are being attacked.
+This term is no longer in common usage.</onlyinclude>
-Things that are perfectly "civil" according to proponents of civility include: Claiming that the PACE NSC questions are "only for the top teams," barring high school quizbowl players from improving themselves, defaming high school quizbowl coaches for protesting bad questions in your tournament, fixing matches in your tournament, accusing any team that beats you of cheating, plagiarizing questions, lying to teams about the existence and cost of tournaments in competition with your own, attempting to sue quizbowl out of existence, establishing policies which treat white and black people differently, scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region, and advancing fraudulent legal claims to establish a monopoly on quizbowl-like competition.
+==Historical context==
-Things that are not "civil" according to proponents of "civility" include: questioning the legitimacy of the College Bowl national championship, asking whether moderators at a tournament should be cheering for teams that they are a part of in the tournament, discussing the NAQT distribution, asking non-quizbowl people to stop posting nonsense on the quizbowl board, saying that tournaments should not have fixed matches, explaining why [[bad quizbowl|bad questions]] are bad, calling policies which treat white and black people differently "racist," complaining about other people scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region, and discussing quizbowl on the Internet in any way.
+Bad quizbowl had the advantage of historical precedent, having existed in many places for many years prior to even the founding of NAQT, let alone the start of their outreach. This made the process of replacing these formats and their very conservative-minded administrators very difficult. One consequence of this process was that, during the early history of the [[forums]], arguments over which format was better were both frequent and heated. With few actual arguments, proponents of bad quizbowl began to use "civility" as their cudgel against the encroaching tide of change. Passionate arguments for how to improve the game of quizbowl and root out inferior products was construed as a negative by people who cried for a return of "civility".
 [[Category: Quizbowl lingo]]
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-'''Civility''' is the act of agreeing with or, at least, passively assenting to, terrible ideas about quizbowl. It should not be confused with the non-quizbowl use of the term, which refers to interacting with all other people in an even-handed manner, and has nothing to do with what proponents of civility in quizbowl actually want to see.
+'''Civility''' is the act of agreeing with or, at least, passively assenting to, terrible ideas about [[Quiz Bowl]]. It should not be confused with the non-quizbowl use of the term, which refers to interacting with all other people in an even-handed manner, and has nothing to do with what proponents of civility in quizbowl actually want to see.
 Approximately 100% of people who want to see more '''civility''' in online discussion of quizbowl make sure to voice their concerns when [[College Bowl]] or the [[National Academic Championship]] are being targeted. These self-appointed discussion police are strangely absent when [[ACF]] or other forms of [[good quizbowl]] are being attacked.
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 Things that are perfectly civil according to proponents of civility include: Claiming that the PACE NSC questions are "only for the top teams," barring high school quizbowl players from improving themselves, defaming high school quizbowl coaches for protesting bad questions in your tournament, fixing matches in your tournament, accusing any team that beats you of cheating, plagiarizing questions, lying to teams about the existence and cost of tournaments in competition with your own, attempting to sue quizbowl out of existence, establishing policies which treat white and black people differently, scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region, and advancing fraudulent legal claims to establish a monopoly on quizbowl-like competition.
-Things that are not civil according to proponents of civility include: questioning the legitimacy of the College Bowl national championship, asking whether moderators at a tournament should be cheering for teams that they consider themselves a part of who are participating in the tournament, discussing the NAQT distribution, asking non-quizbowl people to stop posting nonsense on the quizbowl board, saying that tournaments should not have fixed matches, explaining why bad questions are bad, calling policies which treat white and black people differently "racist," complaining about other people scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region, and discussing quizbowl on the Internet in any way.
+Things that are not civil according to proponents of civility include: questioning the legitimacy of the College Bowl national championship, asking whether moderators at a tournament should be cheering for teams that they are a part of in the tournament, discussing the NAQT distribution, asking non-quizbowl people to stop posting nonsense on the quizbowl board, saying that tournaments should not have fixed matches, explaining why [[bad quizbowl|bad questions]] are bad, calling policies which treat white and black people differently "racist," complaining about other people scheduling fake tournaments to compete with previously announced real tournaments in your region, and discussing quizbowl on the Internet in any way.
 [[Category: Quizbowl lingo]]
 [[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]