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These days I just chime in when its dealing with something technical in my field of expertise. Otherwise I'm quite content to read the boards.
My other sig sucks as well...
Obviously.
Well, of course everyone should be editing their post a bit before sending it in. Editing it to the point where you get frustrated and never actually post it probably isn't a great habit.
I used to be a G&T semi-regular until recently, when the whole atmosphere of that place just changed from a friendly, tech-minded discusson forum to somethign more akin to the GameFAQs forums. Disappointing, but I'm slowly dragging myself away from G&T.
He's pseudonymously Jack Kerouac, you buffoon!
:cry:
Yes, Lime'd for the truth.
It's the creepy topic and the lurker topic that gets people to poast here, so WOO!
Also, I fifth or sixth (or whatever number we're on) on poasting mainly in Chat Thread. I only stray when it's the creepy topic or a topic that peaks my interest (and that happens rarely).
I also worry about my grammar. So I try to keep it as short and as sweet as possible. (I'm paranoid about my grammar because of ADHD. My mind moves faster than my hands. Also, I've had this exaggerated image of DnD'ers having monocles. Once they see bad grammar, they're like " HEATHEN, RETARD, MUTANT! AFTER HIM! SACRIFICE HIM TO THE GODS." Yeah, it's a stupid mental image to have. But at least it keeps me from having a grammar of a dumbass.)
Oh and the post modernism thread made me go O_o because I had no clue what the fuck was going on.
Who decides what post modern and what's not. Seriously.
Poldy.
You're confirming all the lurkers' fears!
You're going to hell.
Hell.
-Terry Pratchett
Elk's past politics threads always drew me back in, oddly enough.
... and I cough for every crater that I could see, / on the surface of that coffin we've come to call the moon." Circle Takes the Square
At least you know I'll always love you.
I have a similar problem. I'll start reading a thread, and find something I want to comment on.... after I read the next thread. Internet forum ADD is a strange condition, but it's how I roll
Now, I'll just post a reply in the State of Israel thread and OOH LOOK SHINEYS....
SteamID : Harbinger EVE-O: Jarek Dryayen
There's something strangely poetic about that.
When you're not smooshing my ratses, anyway.
It really is neccesary though. I've seen too many forum posters (here or elsewhere, mostly elsewhere since they get eaten here) who'll say shit like "i dont ned grammar here lol I type good in english class but ths isnt class". No, dumbshits, you learn that shit in class so that you can go and apply it to real world situations like this.
Rargh.
Personally, right now I'm working at a job with internet access and an average of 4-6 hours of work to do in an 8 hour day. So here I am.
While I'm not a lurker (maybe if you're looking specifically at D&D), I do have some tendancies to write out complete posts, and then not post them. It's more like all I needed was to write down what I wanted to say, more than actually care about what other people think about it.
I wouldn't really respond to this except that I hear it relatively often despite its absurdity.
A) This forum isn't unfriendly to faith. This forum is very unfriendly to people who base arguments in faith, particularly arguments pertaining to policy-making, largely because this forum doesn't like people forcing religion on people through legislation or otherwise. I've never seen someone get attacked for being Christian or for being Jewish or for being Muslim, but I've seen lots of people get attacked for claiming that law books should be xeroxes of the bible. I've also seen people get attacked for lauding their persecution-complexes about.
2) You really don't have anything to say that isn't religious in nature?
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
Frankly, I didn't. I thought that, while some of the topics on the board were interesting and funny, all too often it broke down to these people prattling on and on about how awesome and smart they were, and how horribly fucked everyone else in the world was.
Through the use of rep points, new people were made to feel small and were viciously insulted for often no other reason than they forgot a period or a comma somewhere in their post.
So, keeping this in mind, I was very wary of posting here just in case such things were true on message boards all across the net.
I'm very, very pleased to say that I've found this to not be true here. I mean, people get catty and what not, but this place just doesn't feel so mean-spirited.
Still though, I tend to not post until I have something I feel I can contribute to a thread, or at least something that someone, somewhere will find moderately amusing.
I started lurking there around the same time as I did here. The only enjoyable/useful forums in my opinion were the advice board and the all star thread section. It has a very different culture to here though, much stricter mods who weren't really part of the forum more enforcers. I can see the benefits to it but I prefer the way this forum is moderated.
Actually, we had a religion discussion thread once that was supposed to be based on talking about your religion, not a debate about religion vs. atheism. It ended pretty early.
People who casually dis religion are given hi5s here, and it doesn't take much for them to pick a fight.
So I wouldn't say there is a neutral tone to this forum.
I would consider this a good thing.
Wait.
I consider it a good thing.
They really should be. It's kind of like how 9/11 conspiracy threads should be boring.
"Hey, what if...!"
"Evidence?"
"<Rambling nonsense>!"
"Sorry, no."
O_o :?:
I'm not sure I've ever seen a mind changed on this forum, but debating things is interesting and fun.
As for lurking, I lurked for years. I think it was mostly a combination of fear, and not having a steady schedule. Now I have a boring job, so I can check in every day. Before this, every time I joined a forum I was inevitably not really contributing after a week.
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In an unrelated note, I am replaying marathon and it is rocking my world.