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WCDT: 2211-2215 (18-22 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
RyanW1019:
--- Quote from: Milesb on 19 Jun 2012, 05:36 ---What's in the black bin?
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Everything Yelling Bird left behind.
Also, I love today's comic. In my opinion it's the best one in a few weeks; the whole intern sequence has felt awkward to me. Glad to see Marten retaking control of the situation, and the "training montage" joke in the title cracked me up for some reason.
Regarding the forum discussion, my experience with the MMO forums has given me a high tolerance for trolls, although I ended up adopting an extremely sardonic tone to deal with them. It's one I ended up overusing a couple times on here against people who weren't really trolls, just said something I disagreed with. But I think I've been mellowed again by this forum.
I don't think moderators can really fix a bad forum short of razing it to the ground and starting over. Purging bad posts or members just creates bitterness among the rest of the community. The only true way to keep a community clean is to have it made up of members that don't let trolls get a foothold in the first place, which is what I think has happened here. I know parts of this have already been pointed out by other people on here, but I wanted to get this off my chest. Thanks, guys.
Emperor Norton:
My opinion of the worst part of the forum history (the breakup arc):
(my background with the forum first for perspective: I was a lurker for a long time, then, when I went to register, it happened to be during the time the mail server was misconfigured. I then continued to just lurk the forums, until finally I was able to register when the registration mail was fixed)
Normally, people trickle into a forum at a slow pace. As they slowly trickle in, they adjust to the existing atmosphere because they are a massive minority on the forum (people not yet acclimated).
But, with the large buildup of people who wanted to join, but were unable to (which by the way built up some huge annoyance, I was pretty annoyed about it myself, especially when I had sent several emails and such about it and was never even justified a response. I'm not reactionary though, so all I did was go, eh, whatever and move on with my life) coming in all at once, the atmosphere of the forum was somewhat chaotic due to the lower ratio of older members to new members than a forum usually has.
There wasn't an atmosphere for people to conform to like there was before and after that period in time.
Combine that with the older members getting very comfortable with a closed system, the moderation in this part of the forum being nearly nonexistent, and the arc that was going on in the comic at the time, and its really rather surprising it wasn't worse than it was.
I really don't even think of it as being about terrible people so much as a shit situation created by a lot of little factors added together to create a large problem.
Dr. ROFLPWN:
Awwwww yeah training montage
I was mildly worried we would have a Tuesday still filled with Birthday Pony
This worried me because Birthday Pony's visage is mildly frightening
Delator:
This comic is awesome, but it makes me realize that we really don't see enough of Marten at work. When we do it's usually just him and Tai talking, rather than any sort of day-to-day workplace stuff. Marten's job might be considered too boring, but I could see some hijinks to be had. It's a college campus after all.
Half of the rest of the cast works at CoD too, so the focus is often there. I guess CoD's business model is more interesting to watch. :laugh:
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So the interns have met Faye and Hanners, and already know Tai and Marten...
...which cast member do they meet next?
My money's on Steve, with or without Cosette.
Mr_Rose:
They will next bump into (literally in at least one case) Cosette, who will be helped up by Marten then forced to explain why this action makes her blush so.
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