Let's talk about BigV's attitude
 

toward pointless fun threads. He's apparently very upset by them.

I'm sure he doesn't like me much then.

I don't like littering either, Jimbo. Although I think the pointless threads thing is a lot more like taking a piss in the punchbowl.

While everyone at the party is watching.

At least it's only in the punch, not all over the bar, dancefloor, parking lot, etc.

Urine big trouble now mister!

well..urine a moderator......merge them!

weed

BigV I wish you'd stop saying that.....I ain't got any in:(

need some weed seeds?

The thing is...and I know this might be controversial...but I quite like the silly threads. I think this world could do with more silliness and a little less absurdity.

I do click on these threads to see if anyone's posted funny, or sharp responses. I like that there is a (in fact more than one) meta joke running through the Cellar across a length of time. I find that really funny. I like 'running jokes'. Now okay, some of them fall flat, some don't quite pull it off, but some are very funny.

If you see a thread with a bunch of alliteration and the name of a dwellar you pretty much know what kind of thread it is. I tend to ignore them when I first check in in the morning (that's how I start my day btw when I am not at uni:P ...coffee and Cellar for about an hour) I go for stuff I was following that has moved on overnight, but I do eventualy get around to it: usually when there's been a pattern of them emerging on the new posts list.

Kind of spoils the joke a little when everytime you click on one you just see the same word 'Weed'. It was funny the first couple of times I followed a link, but now I just don't want to click on the silly threads because I already know what's there. Thereby rendering them dull.

Oh well.

[mr burns]ehhhckss-elent![/mr burns]

It's working.

I thought they were funny at first, but I think we might be reaching critical mass.

More like we're all at a party, and LJ tells wolf that there's something on her back - even though there isn't. Then Flint agrees that there's something on wolf's back, and I agree, and on and on.... Then BigV says "weed".

Wasn't that fun?

If I was a moderator, I would merge all of your butt cheeks together

depends where he weed.

i've been in gabbly for an hour. only zyppit's chatting with me.

take your need to hit the enter key there :)

If you were a moderator...



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Sorry, I just can't grasp the concept.:biggrindu

How is this current thread meme different from the Sandra Day O'Connor one back in 2005? You liked that one.

Dear glatt:

Your serious question deserves a serious answer. One dandelion is pretty. A yard full of them is a sign of neglect. One subject elevated this way (a collection of whole threads about a single subject, ala Sandra Day O'Connor) is/was funny. The droning, mechanical, UNcreative, relentless repetition of them is not funny.

You're right. I did like that one, back in the day. It was spontaneous, new and creative. I believe lumberjim deserves much of the credit for lighting the fuse on that particular fireworks display. What is happening now isn't dramatic fireworks. It's the 3rd (or 10th or 50th) consecutive hour of a string of firecrackers. Pop pop pop pop pop. The novelty has worn off. Sadly, novelty was pretty much the only thing the vast majority of these threads had going for them in the first place. They're thin to begin with and are now worn out.

For those of you who care about or are bothered by my complaining, I ask you: If they're just nothing fun threads to begin with, where is the loss? I can't stop you from posting them; I've no intention of impinging on your cellar-rights to free expression. And I'll continue to share that right and bear that responsibility. You say they're just bs and laugh. I just say they're bs. What's the difference?


I've commented on this very subject before. In that thread I present two ideas, both of which I complain about: excessive hatin' and clone threads. That day, the hatin' was more of a problem for me. Today, it's the clone threads.


edit: glatt, your link is busted. perhaps you were shooting for something like this. My handle does figure prominently amongst the thread authors.

You know what though, at least they're in the forum called NOTHINGLAND (mostly). 'Tis easy to stear clear if it really bothers you, the name says it all. People who don't like politics avoid that forum rather than posting "boring" in every thread -how is this so very different behaviour-wise?

Ok.

They also appear very prominently in the view called "New posts". It's not about walking between the piles, it's about cleaning them up.

EDIT:

Actually, to be more precise, I am not cleaning them up. I'm standing next to (in?!) them and pointing and loudly complaining "Crap!". They're there. I'm pointing them out. I (occasionally) make one myself. But I'm tired of them. Their presence is an irritation to me. That I'm put in a position to ignore them bothers me.

Ever live in an apartment or a dorm where the loud music, created in it's own private space, still intruded on you? That's how I feel here. Me and the neighbors, we have equal privileges. I just don't like what's going on. Wet blanket, humorless, spoilsport, "attitude". Whatever.

Bullshit! They are flowers, beautiful yellow flowers... and the plant is green. You bastards that are trying to make the whole world look like green AstroTurf, are just making the whole world dull and boring.

FLOWER POWER!!!

I gotta agree that the "New Posts" view is pretty tedious right now.

Fascist!

Florist!

The Answer then, Mr V, is not to perpetuate them, but write something interesting in the good ones. Or quit using the new posts view. ;)

I've been here a few days and have some friends that I'd never had other wise. BUT some of the post drive me, the rest of way to nutts.
Perhaps I'm just a dumb country boy. I know bullshit when I see it.
Good job Big V. busterb

Well i think we all know where i stand here. If anyone wants me to elaborate though, I'll be happy to. :)

i would like you to

That's why you're not a moderator.

I don't mind stupid pointless threads. I do mind when some days they seem to be the majority of what I see in new posts. Personally, I don't get it. Clone threads were funny for a minute. Goofy threads are fun, but how many can really justify their very own thread? I just try to ignore them and sift through to find the interesting (to me) stuff.

But hey, someone must be enjoying them, right?

LoL. Now that was funny.

Hang in there with me BigV. We'll keep the Word Association & Song Association threads at the top of the board until we fillibuster the low grade material. If that doesn't work, we'll petition UT to create a Less-Than-Nothing Land forum for the refuse and install lumberjim as forum moderator. :king:

P.S. In the aforementioned threads, consecutive posting by the same person is deemed acceptable for this noble cause.

I hope your heather wilts.

ha ha ha

Now there are some truly, utterly useless fucking threads. Posting in threads like that serves the sole purpose of moving the timeclock ahead a few paltry seconds; but it sure leaves a bad taste in your mouth to have wasted your precious keyboard strokes on such pointless garbage. Of course, I don't bust in there and make a dick out of myself. I'd have to be a total fucking dick to do something like that!

I just don't understand how so many cannot just seem to ignore what they don't want to participate in.
So confusing.

You mean like you and any thread involving religion?

Wrong. Religion doesn't mind it's own business. Is that not his whole gripe with Church/State Separation?

Of all the (seemingly) pointless threads, I think I like those by Shawnee (French fries) and Flint (Make the Monkey Walk) the best.

Thanks. Make the Monkey Walk was pretty abstract, but actually based on real-life subject matter.
In fact, my wife tells me that she recently saw an ad for a similar device...they're always stealin' my ideas!

Ya know what? I think I'm starting to like wolf.

starting?

it wasnt love at first type?

She will get inside your head. Wolf is good people.

If she agrees with you.

That's an immature and unfair thing to say. par

It's true. You're entitled to your opinion.

it's true that she ceases being 'good people' if she disagrees with you?

You have see me state that I dislike threads about religion? :whofart:
Can I have some of your dope?

There's a difference between avoiding threads you don't like and avoiding threads about something you vehemently disagree with or feel strongly about.

I don't like them. I've played along for a while, but they're getting very tedious and they're cluttering up the board.

Yep, I think the best thing to do would be to open a new forum for 'personal threads' or whatever. I used to sometimes post on a board where every member had their own 'kissy' thread where people could go and post mushy bullshit online crap to their cyber friends. I found the whole concept vomitious and avoided that forum like the plague (pardon the pun). It worked though because there was nowhere near the level of crap floating around the other forums because the people who wanted to play in those sorts of threads did so.

This week on the cellar, they're in several different forums and I think it's simply annoying to sift through the shit to find the stuff worth reading.

you mean like the 3 pages of you and dana, or ducks, or whoever.... chatting in the middle of an otherwise 'normal' thread? yeah. i could see that.

It's not the same thing and you know it.

ya, know what? i think we should all just shut the fuck up.

yeah, except you know that's not going to happen.

Don't you think it'd be a better idea to put these nonsense threads about particular cellarites in the one forum especially dedicated to those types of thread?

wouldn't make any diff to me. I browse by clicking the 'new posts' or 'today's posts' links. i pretty much completely ignore what forum a thread is in. I actually only notice it when i'm deciding where to put a new thread.

that's why i say it's better to have a thread about nothing than to shit up a thread about something.

but then i think........shut the fuck up.

it doesn't matter either way, really. what matters is that we are all good friends, having fun, laughing. or making fun of wankers like spexxvet!

So were you being sarcastic with that last line? Particularly the part about us all being good friends etc?

I don't think spex is a wanker.

OH well, no wonder I didn't get it. I saw that movie...unfortunately. I didn't tickle my funny bone.

That's the attraction of those threads: some of the nicer people hang out in them and you're not there. Good boy.