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0bsessions:
The difference is, the drunk thread doesn't devour potentially interesting threads. The drunk thread merely shields us all from drunk posting, to an extent.

The blog thread had gotten to the point where people really weren't posting interesting things in general anymore because they were just posting it in the blog thread. "Don't read the blog thread" doesn't solve the fact that those of us who don't care about the minutiae of most of the blog thread posters have to either trudge through page after page of whiny, self absorbed bullshit mixed with inane and inconsequential personal anecdotes if we actually want to see any of the cool bits.

Seriously, I rarely ever read the blog thread, but I tended to keep up to date on the people I actively give a shit about through Meebo and Facebook. The same goes for most of us who skip the inane BS that that thread became.

CardinalFang:

The blog thread was still posting interesting things. They apparently just weren't interesting to you. Why is that a reason to kill it?

Can you please provide examples of the potentially interesting threads that the blog thread devoured. Also why if you read something you thought would make an interesting topic didn't you start a thread about the topic yourself?



--- Quote from: Eris on 20 Jan 2009, 18:50 ---But the problem is that people will automatically just tell people who start a new thread that they should go to the Blog Thread. Sure there are stuff in there that should be there, and there is also stuff in the blog thread that would make good threads. If Elizzybeth started a thread about her grandmother and wanted to talk about the grieving process then it would be an interesting thread and people could give their own experiences, but it was posted in the blog thread and any real potential discussion was reduced to simple condolences or offers to PM conversations, because her original post got lost in the masses of posts in there and people missed it.

--- End quote ---

I don't know Elizzybeth but perhaps she didn't want to start a thread about the grieving process. Perhaps the blog thread was exactly what she wanted. It certainly seems to be the case with other posters that the blog thread was exactly what they wanted. Why take it away on the off chance that some theoretical interesting thread is never started.
What I don't understand is what horrible power that the blog thread had that prevented someone from starting a thread about the grieving process after reading Elizzybeth's post.

The lack of new threads I think has far more to do with the rough treatment that they're given when someone is brave/foolish enough to start one.

I think it's just odd that the blog thread was started IIRC because of all the new threads that popped up with comments about someone's personal life. These threads were inevitably swamped by old timers yelling GET A BLOG. There was even a nifty graphic that was used and in at least one case a game of hangman was used to get the point across. So the blog thread was created and became very popular. Now the blog thread is locked can we look forward to cries of "GET A BLOG" again?

jhocking:
Well I've already said it once but I'd like to point it out again in order to maybe stop this argument about the blog thread:


--- Quote from: CardinalFang on 23 Jan 2009, 10:05 ---The lack of new threads I think has far more to do with the rough treatment that they're given when someone is brave/foolish enough to start one.

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I very much agree with this. It also seems that both jon, eris also agree with this. Regardless of how everyone feels about the blog thread specifically, it seems that we're all in agreement that we need to stop harshing on new threads. So how about we just focus on the part we all agree on?

In my own case, I am quite used to people starting threads that nobody finds interesting so they fade away without any responses (myself included; hell I may have just done it today.) I see nothing wrong with this; how about from now on, instead of shouting GET A BLOG or whatever, we simply ignore uninteresting threads so that they'll just kind of fade away?


ADDITION: Does anyone else find it ironic that this thread is getting a bit long in the tooth?

öde:
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