Rampant Inanity or an Ego the Size of the Internet?

[Dillinger]

I just looked through a dozen pages of threads. I found less than a handful I thought were even worth opening.

That has to be a new record for this place.

Interesting thing is... I'd estimate about 80% of those threads were started by the same 2 or three people.

Attention span difficulties? Inability to come up with more than one sentence on a topic? Incapable of realizing that most of those threads could have been incorporated into one or two threads? Rampant inanity? Just like seeing your name up on the board as the starter of as many threads as possible?

Damn glad I'm not around much at the moment since it doesn't look like I'm really missing anything.

 

[Rambling Rose]

ChilledVodka drank too much and vomited all over the place this week. The board was covered.

I'll try to get this cleaned up for you, Dill.

 

[Silverlily]

Ever met a person that chatters incessantly? I imagine it's kind of the same thing.

 

[Mischka]

It's time for me to go to bed. I read the title to this thread, and I swear the first thing that came to mind was a marathon of Leggo waffles, running-with-the-bulls style.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Damn glad I'm not around much at the moment since it doesn't look like I'm really missing anything.

Here, get as fluffy as the rest of us.

 

[Siren]

 

[patient1]

Rampant Inanity- Chilled Vodka, Yayatti, Unregistered

Ego the size of the Internet - Bill Gates, Steve Jobs,
Larry Ellison....& of course, Al Gore, who started it.

 

[Calamity Jane]

It's time for me to go to bed. I read the title to this thread, and I swear the first thing that came to mind was a marathon of Leggo waffles, running-with-the-bulls style.

Mischka... you do know that waffles don't actually have legs, don't you?

I wouldn't want you to have nightmares about waffles coming to get you or anything.

 

[Mischka]

They do too have legs. That's what the maple syrup is for - slows 'em down.

 

[Siren]

 

[Siren]

 

[Silverlily]

see I told yam Cowgal

Yams? What do yams have to do with any of this? I thought we were talking about waffles.

Though I do have a recipe for yams that uses maple syrup...

 

[Siren]

 

[Silverlily]

True, but it was a perfectly misplaced M.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Though I do have a recipe for yams that uses maple syrup...

Wow. I have a recipe for yams that uses Fluff!!! Amazing.

I just wanna know why I never noticed legs on my waffles.

 

[Cheyenne]

I just looked through a dozen pages of threads. I found less than a handful I thought were even worth opening.

That has to be a new record for this place.

Interesting thing is... I'd estimate about 80% of those threads were started by the same 2 or three people.

Attention span difficulties? Inability to come up with more than one sentence on a topic? Incapable of realizing that most of those threads could have been incorporated into one or two threads? Rampant inanity? Just like seeing your name up on the board as the starter of as many threads as possible?

Damn glad I'm not around much at the moment since it doesn't look like I'm really missing anything.

Last night was bad on the bb, but it helped me to get to bed earlier for a change.

 

[PacificBlue]

What? You didn't want to discuss the price of a 4.4 oz. tin of Beluga Caviar in the current edition of Williams-Sonoma catalog?!?!?

It's $389.00 plus shipping...in case you were wondering.

Fish eggs...yeech!

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

16,202 posts, Dillinger, and NO inanity?

Congratulations.

Should Dillinger have posted this on the officail complaint thread?
Or perhaps it should have gone somewhere else.

Does it really matter?

 

[brokenbrainwave]

is not life full of rampant inanity? why should a simple board be any different?

Think about it, 70-80% of the people one meets are generally idiotic or truly fucked up. The law of averages apply here also.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

You opened my thread didn't you.

 

[Dillinger]

16,202 posts, Dillinger, and NO inanity?

Congratulations.

Should Dillinger have posted this on the officail complaint thread?
Or perhaps it should have gone somewhere else.

Does it really matter?

Nope - ask around... Over 2 years here and no inanity. Silliness. Seriousness. Sex and slack. But inane. I don't do inane.

 

[Laurel]

Yeah, yeah. The board sucks. Lit sucks. Blah blah blah.

The reason a small number of posters is able to "dominate" the board is because no one else is starting topics.

If people started topics on things they wanted to read about, rather than waiting for someone to magically read their mind and do so, then the board would be a much more interesting place.

Just my $0.02.

 

[Laurel]

I just realized that I sounded kinda bitchy. Sorry.

What I meant was that things like this are a spiral. Say there's a plethora of (as an example) flirty threads. Serious Poster #1 logs on, look at the flirty threads, get annoyed, and leaves. Serious Poster #2 logs on, also gets annoyed, and leaves. And so on. Flirty Posters log on and post. As the balance gets more heavily weighted towards flirty, the chances of a serious poster starting a topic decreases. Eventually, the serious posters get annoyed because there are no serious topics.

Now, if Serious Poster #1 had just started ONE topic that he/she enjoyed, then that would've caught Serious Poster #2's interest, who would've added to SP #1's topic and maybe even started a thread of his/her own.

The board is entirely what you make of it. Each one of is responsible for it. If it's shit, it's partially our fault. Turning that around, this means we have the power to make the board into whatever we want it to be (to a degree - allowing that there will always we don't personally enjoy, but there can also be enough threads we do enjoy that flirty & serious can live in harmony).

No one ever believes me, but this is 100% true.

 

[peachykeen]

Ah, you know. Sometimes I tune in and it's like there are a dozen really interesting conversations going on at once, and I can hardly keep up, and then sometimes I drop by and everyone's starin at eachother blankly.

It's just kinda like life that way.

 

[LukkyKnight]

a plethora of obfuscatory threads

I just wanna know why I never noticed legs on my waffles.

It's the rampant inanity, it tends to obscure the less rampant anity.