Are you a big shot in The Cellar?

[SteveBsjb]

Originally Posted by jinx

I'm noticing this common theme, from all the individual people who frequent the AG board, that top=good. Is that fairly common on other boards? Is it true here? I never made that association.

Is it true on AG even when all the responses are negative?

Really the common theme is: "If you want to see a thread (or type of thread) disappear, don't post on it."

If you see clone threads you don't like or bumped threads you don't like or threads that seem ridiculous to you, just assume you don't get the joke, and skip over it.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

If you do not like Steve’s threads, avoid them.

And if you don't like spam, just delete it.

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

In the mean time when you post in them not only are you acknowledging them but also you are keeping them at the top.

So folks who don't agree should just shut up? I don't think so. (Besides...this isn't a clone thread. :-))

Nor does recent activity indicate anything but recency. If the AG style is to be hypnotized by site stats, then no wonder quantity is valued over quality and everything flushes through there in minutes like shit through a shark. Like a crowded room where everybody jabbers at once, and eventually everybody is screaming to be heard.

[SteveBsjb]

We don't have site stats on AG, and they mean nothing to me here, nor does posting often mean I like "seeing my name in lights". It's only a message board. Everything does not flush through AG in minutes. How would you know? Good posts last, boring ones don't.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by SteveBsjb

We don't have site stats on AG...

If thread display is ranked by activity or recency, obviously you do. In a smaller pond like this one, you have the opportunity to convince yourself you're a bigger fish.

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

If you don’t understand or like it and wish to put us down for it then perhaps you need to search your inner self for the acceptance of others. If you were able to make a name at AG you would be more than welcome to make any kind of thread you like.

I "understand" it just fine, nor do I have a problem "accepting" it...at AG. I already know 'way more than I care to about AG just from the blather about it here...and based on it I have no desire to go there. Folks who do enjoy the AG style should go there and enjoy it. I just think having The Cellar swamped with it just because AG's become a word flood would be a tragedy.

I feel no implicit collectivist obligation to "accept" stuff I don't like. So go examine your "inner self", mine's doing just fine, thanks.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

I feel no implicit collectivist obligation to "accept" stuff I don't like..

[TiddyBaby]

i can get real big with viagra.

[seakdivers]

I'm pretty sure that everybody on this board just sits around waiting for me to post one of my witty witticisms.

I could be wrong.....

[TiddyBaby]

*goes to get new brwsky and nachos and cheese dip*

*Kicks bar b cue pit into action*

*WAITS for seakdivers, to put on the music*

[SteveBsjb]

Originally Posted by seakdivers

I'm pretty sure that everybody on this board just sits around waiting for me to post one of my witty witticisms.

I could be wrong.....

Very true.

[Rock Steady]

Originally Posted by SteveBsjb

Really the common theme is: "If you want to see a thread (or type of thread) disappear, don't post on it."

If you see clone threads you don't like or bumped threads you don't like or threads that seem ridiculous to you, just assume you don't get the joke, and skip over it.

This is really stupid. This place has been here a dozen years and you want to post a New Rules sign. Seriously, I'm from NY too. And, yea, I gotta problm wit dat.

You bump treads here mutha fucka and my cousins Carmine and Joey go ova and break ya friggin wrists, ya gaba dusta. Then let's see'ya type.

[Rock Steady]

As for your poll, this forum is very much listen first, egalitarian, support others, anti-attention whore, ... Very much in contrast to the flame-everyone FC-spinoffs that I was used to. Very much better here.

I can recommend several existing communities that already use rules closer to your own. Why bother the good folks here?

[SteveBsjb]

Rock, I will post how I like. I am not posting to bother, annoy or anger anyone. If you don't like it, I don't know what to tell you. Here are your choices:

A) There is an ignore feature.
B) You can just ignore me without the feature.
C) You can continue to post against me.
D) You can petition to get me banned.

I suppose only choice D will work.

This thread was a joke, and some people get it, some don't.

And, no, if most people here don't get my jokes, I won't leave.

Originally Posted by Rock Steady

Seriously, I'm from NY too. And, yea, I gotta problm wit dat.

You bump treads here mutha fucka and my cousins Carmine and Joey go ova and break ya friggin wrists, ya gaba dusta. Then let's see'ya type.

Nice try with the jokey mobster/Italian American style threat. That makes us even; my humor isn't funny to you, and this "joke" isn't funny to me.

[Flint]

I see we've moved from simple "site-ism" or "my posting style is better than yours" to full-blown racial stereotypes. Isn't it funny how people attribute this seperate set of qualities to themselves or other on the internet, as if being a jerk on the internet doesn't clearly indicate that you are a jerk in real life. I wish we could drop the whole internet pretext, what we are dealing with here are basic human tendencies.

[Happy Monkey]

Mafia isn't a race.

[Trilby]

Oh, no! It's an Italian-American Mexican Stand-off!