i wonder if this is a care post or a benji post...but i was thinking about this in regards to some earlier posts about newbs and people who won't post outside the thread and so on....and i know some people who joined us after the collapse times noted that they appreciated me trying to explain The Bore "attitude" and specifically this garbage bin thread months ago, especially in delineating how we approached A Problem Like Maria Roberts, and that it made them feel less reluctant to post around and send in the required dick pics to demi
I can't believe that on a Saturday night this thread reaches peak intellectualism.
like before NeoGAF.com imploded, and especially before the 2016 election took over that forum and thus this thread (which was my fault, and Vom who learned it from watching me), that was kinda this thread in general, the garbage bin version of the random talk thread where the subjects of the moment related to NeoGAF.com links, and some nights the "late night garbage bin" thread would go in some interesting places
the primary difference, and what i think some old timers are expressing displeasure about in other terms, is that since we had a number of you new folk joined us en masse, good or ill or neutral (the latter who sicken me), and are sticking around en masse, a lot of that randomness of the thread has given way to some endless rehashing of let's call them, certain topics, on an almost daily basis
not that we never did that before, but the cycles never seemed as intense nor immediately recurring, especially as people got settled in
so like link to resetera thread bout dumb politics -> maybe a few semi-serious posts on that connected topic are appropriate but when you loop over to the next page it's time to consider shifting the discussion to the politics thread or because that is semi-unique, perhaps making a thread on the subject that can be shoved down in the list of threads in a week or so after people get tired of it...either that or wrapping it up as overdue
if it comes back up because the thread has new dumb posts to make fun of, or the nintendo cult shitstorm is still going on or whatever, making comments on the topic aren't disruptive but if you start having the same argument again with the same people it kinda does
not to pick on Cindi, but I'm going to use her as the stand-in for a series of recurring, seemingly endless and way too careposting resulting innerthreads that keep dropping in here, now yeah a lot of starts off from an Era post link but it's fundamentally the same topic and a lot of it is some posters demand to know something and Cindi is most qualified to respond and repeat...it seems a lot of you really want to talk about that shit, and Cindi seems either obligated or happy to help you out, further posters also try to help, and probably even other posters probably are if this wasn't the garbage bin thread, maybe consider exploring your new feelings about yourself in a thread for it? Maybe start a thread asking about how to engage in social interactions in the social studies warrior dominated era?
The Bore isn't like GAF/ERA. People not interested in that shit, are not going to come running into your thread to hit you with a chair and sacrifice you to The Provider at Carousel. They may actually read the thread, then shit on you and leave, or start arguing with you, but people for the most part are not going to complain about shit being kept in a thread for it. (And I'm starting to use "shit" to loosely (haaaaaa!) move from our apparently twice-weekly trans 101 with Cindi sessions to mean anything someone might consider a shit topic.) Unless you totally lose your mind from incongruity with this reality like Creepy Stalker or Oscar did. Then of course I have to doxx you* and after that if you don't stop then one of the Forum Tools has to make you disappear. But otherwise you can argue and debate that shit until your hearts content or it gets forgotten about.
Basically, the main impulse in this thread is to keep it moving, keep it light, high in fiber, deploy likes extensively, like posts, continue liking posts, ensure that posts are liked, etc. If you're starting to feel the need to throw down on a subject, there's a better place for it, like say the forum outside this thread. If you need to debate theoretical frameworks, better but similar place for it. If you need bird themed porn curated by TVC...well, okay, few better places for it. You got me on that one.
And yes, this kind of post is pretty counter to all of that whole don't take this thread as seriously as you are message that's trying to be rammed home lately, but the actual test is a least squares, er I mean, the actual test is whether or not I seriously care post further on the topic other than like a year from now having I forgot I did this already.
*Note: I will do or have done this anyway. It's a sickness. I can't help myself. It's just...besada...shit; I'm still permabanned by besada...every time I think I'm going to wake up back in the NeoGAF.com OT circa 2011. When I was on The Bore after my first ban, it was worse.
