People posting pointless posts to complain about people posting.

[bspeers]

I just had to say something about people posting pointless posts to complain about people posting.  I'm tired of it.  When we offer unofficial particular problems with the way people post--using endless alliteration, capital letters, pointless posting of petty bandwidth wastes, I think it wastes bandwidth.  It think if anyone points out a pointless post that proferrs pointed commentary over people's pointed posts, they should be punished.

I mean, whatever purpose, when a post complaing about the wasted ways people post pointlessly or people's typos, trancends two pages, the pointless posts have taken too much space for spaced out banter.  It becomes mindless moping mascurading as poweful polemics, or becomes being clever for the sake of being clever.

Sometimes it seems like people who point out pointless problems with pointless posts are themselves more pointless than the pointless posts they mean to point to.  Rather than release really random complaints complaining over people's posts, it would become less costly to be constructive quietly, than argue endlessly uselessly, purposelessly in "purple prose."

I hope sincerely that settles things.

[bspeers]

I think this is better when you read it in a python-esque complaint-letter way.

[Las Naranjas]

Hehe, I think it's funny that you found the second post neccessary, though it probably is.

[DGMacphee]

WTF?!

Who is this bspears guy??

Who does he think he is, coming to our community and posting a complaint about our pointless posts on complaining??

He's acting like he own the place or something!!

I'm going to write a new post to complain about him!!

[Snake]

Jesus that was some meddlesome mindbending.


--Snake

[Nacho]

I just had to say something about people posting pointless posts to complain about people posting.  I'm tired of it.  When we offer unofficial particular problems with the way people post--using endless alliteration, capital letters, pointless posting of petty bandwidth wastes, I think it wastes bandwidth.  It think if anyone points out a pointless post that proferrs pointed commentary over people's pointed posts, they should be punished.

I mean, whatever purpose, when a post complaing about the wasted ways people post pointlessly or people's typos, trancends two pages, the pointless posts have taken too much space for spaced out banter.  It becomes mindless moping mascurading as poweful polemics, or becomes being clever for the sake of being clever.

Sometimes it seems like people who point out pointless problems with pointless posts are themselves more pointless than the pointless posts they mean to point to.  Rather than release really random complaints complaining over people's posts, it would become less costly to be constructive quietly, than argue endlessly uselessly, purposelessly in "purple prose."

I hope sincerely that settles things.

Hey! That´s what ye´re doing now, Einstein!

[Las Naranjas]

[Psssst. Farlander, Check out the 2nd post]

[Nacho]

[Psssst. Farlander, Check out the 2nd post]

Oh! Now I understand it... It´s quite funny!  

[Andail]

Hooray, another issue of "Blake Speer's annual meta-humour hyper ironic mind-twister"

[Nacho]

Yes Andail... Pumaman is trying to implement one "ironic humour ahead" emoticon... I hope it start to work soon.

On a second thought, I think that that emoticon wouldn´t be a good idea, because 90% of the threads should have it, and that could bring bandwith problems.  

[Pessi]

Either way, Britney has a point. This forum is meant for all kinds of general discussion. It does not have to be intelligent or thought-out in the end, it only has to be entertaining. And I'm sure the unentertaining threads will fall down to the next page in only a day or two with the current pace of people posting.

So, I think that basically we get rid of the problem more effectively if we just contribute to the entertaining posts instead of the unentertaining (by telling they're stupid etc.).

Finally, I'd like to iterate the fact that I'm not any smarter about the issue even though I might want to seem like it. I've been there to point the finger on many occasions. However, through experience, I believe that it really is better to just concentrate on the good instead of the bad and things will sort themselves out.

Violence brings more violence and joy brings more joy. Or something. Yeah, anyway, just thought I'd get back to the actual issue because it seemed like we were just taking it as a mere joke when I think Spears kind of had a point too.

[bspeers-uh... a pirate]

2 points to anyone who can figure out the incredibly ironic allusion to a famous piece of music.

[Pumaman]

Perhaps we need a golden rule for the forums - "If you are not a moderator, don't act like one".

[DGMacphee]

2 points to anyone who can figure out the incredibly ironic allusion to a famous piece of music.

It's gotta be Chisel's Khe San!

[SSH]

Pirates?

Anyway, you are Sir Humphrey from Yes, Prime Minister and I claim my Civil Service Pension.