The Floor
Is it rude to take a phone call on speaker in public?
Fifteen seconds. The cheapest disagreement on the floor and one of the largest.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that a shared space belongs to everybody standing in it.
Runs while the room is still moving
1,592 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Nobody in earshot agreed to hear the other halfRude
- Hands-free is required while driving or carryingFine
- Volume, not the speaker, is what actually carries
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
No closing date has been set. The floor closes it when the room has stopped moving.
What people said · 3
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Dara K.@dara_k· 8 Sept
Every objection to this is really an objection to being near strangers, which is what a bus is.
Leila H.@leila_h· 9 Sept
Half the people objecting are listening to something through headphones. The complaint is about volume, and volume has a dial.
Sam P.@sam_p· 10 Sept
There is a difference between noise and a conversation. You can ignore music. You cannot stop following someone else's argument.
