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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Johnny C on 27 Feb 2008, 23:57
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So there are a lot of new people on the forum as of late.
I created a little thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,19315.0.html) over in the Comic Discussion forum essentially suggesting that, when they feel like it's time to start exploring the other areas of the site, that they spend some time getting to know the community.
I am essentially going to trust that this is the case, and further I am going to trust the regulars on this side of the forum not to bite the new folks.
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John, what have you done?
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I'm gonna wager that 99% of the people in the comic discussion threads will never venture outside them.
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People know there is a world outside their basements, and that world contains lovely things like ladies/gentlemen, scrumptious foodstuffs, marvelous beverages, serene sunsets, and super-cool eclipses of the moon. Still, people remain inside and live off of pre-packaged food, and why?
Because it is safe. Because it is sufficient. Because there is no need to go any further than necessary.
Furthermore, the world is full of murderers, thieves, cheats, and liars. And some stuff can give you food poisoning and hangovers.
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Or, in simpler terms:
There are some hot chicks in the photo thread. Odds are that Jon'll hit you over the head and take your wallet while you're there, though.
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I'm gonna wager that 99% of the people in the comic discussion threads will never venture outside them.
A scant few forumites break the 200-post mark.
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yes but somehow there are still so many new people oh my fucking shit
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I've got a low post count as I really don't have much to say most of the time. Probably true with other people as well.
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subfora is a nice plural of subforum
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Jefe, what is a plethora?
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I'm glad Johnny brought this up. We need some new folks for one simple reason - I'm running out of women to sleep with.
It's true, folks. Things are getting desperate. Last week tommy P.M.d me asking me to send him photos of myself in drag. It was actually really awkward. I mean, how do you explain to your housemate that you need to borrow her clothes like that?
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You know, I'm a total newbie here, but I've had fun so far. No biting comments save someone questioning my music choices :P <3 you guys!
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I am going to trust the regulars on this side of the forum not to bite the new folks.
What if they want me to?
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I am new, and I like it here ^__^ It gives me great pleasure to read the theories on the story aswel as lurking and posting around the forum.
mmm forum.
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Odds are that Jon'll hit you over the head and take your wallet while you're there, though.
That was never proven, god damn it.
Otherwise I'm going to start sleeping with your girlfriends instead.
Fight you, you foppish bastard.
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I'm gonna wager that 99% of the people in the comic discussion threads will never venture outside them.
We can only hope.
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Now now Joe, don't be a hater. Be a lover.
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I'm a lover, not a fire.
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I think somebody needs a hug.
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I'm a lover, not a fire.
I nominate this for post of the year.
Also, I'm going to go seduce a terribly awful looking lady, lead her on, mail her flowers and chocolates, and take her to meet my parents, just so Tommy will sleep with her.
Two can play at the game of petty, and I usually win at petty spite.
I would totally hurt a person for Tommy to sleep with an fatty.
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I see that all these new people have already broken Harry and turned him into a dirty fucking hippie.
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I nominate this for post of the year.
It's only February, I still have plenty of time to craft something like last year's post of the year.
also, your plan is for win.
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Remember, we can't judge the people on a forum we never actually read.
That's what they do in the Arts & Craft section.
Hey, people do read Arts & Crafts! Well....some of us crafty people do! We talk about knitting and stuff! And Yelley made an awesome crocheted octopus! I don't think I'm doing much to promote that section now!
And I will not bite any new people's heads off. Unless they do something to piss me off. But even then I'll try to be polite when I do so. Actually, I like a lot of the new people that have been posting down here. We're on a good wave right now.
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Oh. Ice burn.
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We're becoming a hive mind.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/jhocking/cyborate.jpg)
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/jhocking/roman.jpg)
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I would hope that the people that the suggestion/warning are aimed at would read it. At the same time, I believe the very people that would choose to spam the forums with stupid are the ones that wouldn't bother reading it.
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We don't need new people
We just need Kieffer back
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Eh, I rather like this forum so far. And I was around for a little while before the massive "holy-shit-fay-and-sven" influx happened. Hopefully I've not made myself out to be a complete buffoon thus far.
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We don't need new people
We just need Kieffer back
Hey!
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You can stay.
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You have to stay. You belong to us now. There's no turning back!
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I guess I am one of the, oh, about 10% of newcomers who post regularly on other messageboards, so I'm pretty knowledgable with all the rules of normal forums and member politics and stuff.
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Is it bad that it makes me laugh that there's 'forum politics'? I just can't take this sorta thing that serious.
Also, I haven't minded it so far, I come back and forth every once in a while, also the hive mind thing, someone needs to do something with pictures.
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Eh, usually it's just a matter of recognizing what sets people off. Around here it seems that everyone is really nice until you make some kind of asinine and dismissive generalization about wide groups of people. At that point the daggers come out.
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Exactly. Those goddamn elitist bastards.
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I'm sorry for being mean to the 4chan people. I just hate them real bad.
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That's because 4chan tends to give fourming a bad name...
Although, I'm not sure if you can really call 4chan a "fourm"...I dunno.
As for the influx of new people...I apologize for being rude to them, I know it's not really my place and all that jazz, but seriously --is it so hard to read rules and introduce yourself --especially if you're going to post in places other then the WCT? Jeez.
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I'm the other way around. As in, I'm the opposite of someone who needs to be careful when posting anywhere other than WCT. I made a conscious decision to stop posting there, because it was making me rather an asshole.
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I didn't read the rules. I thought it should be pretty obvious what goes where and that being new means you should be polite until you get into the swing of things if you never lurked. (I lurked for a while before posting.) But maybe I am/was used to forums like the ones I was on before joining this one which were made up of meat life friends and were friendly anyways. Edit: However this was just me personally. The rules in the Hi, I'm New forum in the topic started by Jeph are pretty important. The other two were made by the people who were officially designated for a time to greet new posters, but really are less relevant. Yes, it's nice if a person follows all the rules, but really, as long as you follow the guidelines that matter, I don't see what the big deal is.
Basically, if people don't act stupid and have good spelling/grammar, it shouldn't be hard to get involved here when older posters aren't being dicks.
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I just can't take this sorta thing that serious.
Different people post on different kinds of boards, and there are different sets of rules for each board. When different kinds of threads evolve (Photothread, Mediafire thread), they develop different sorts of rules and customs that could exclude people who don't board there often. Some people say that they don't post on the music board because people up there are "too mean" and some people don't post down here because it's become somewhat of an insular, cliqueish hugbox.
I do think the term "forum politics" is ridiculous, especially all those silly threads about people running for office. Jesus, people.
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Mmmmm, cliqueish hugbox.
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hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is katy but u can
call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol...as u can see im very random!!!!
thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^_^... i like 2 watch
invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our
favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but
i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!!
lol...neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of
commentses!!!!
DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again ^_^ hehe...toodles!!!!!
love and waffles,
* ~t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m~*
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Insular, cliqueish hugbox.
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Admit it, Troll. You actually outright pulled that off of another forum, didn't you? Probably DeviantArt or something.
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4chan.
Awesome
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I know I've seen that before... I think it was a Myspace bot...
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Forum culture is a definite real thing. I actually kind of want to become an internet anthropologist because it's such an interesting topic. The culture of the QC forums is vastly different from 4chan is different from SA and there's subcultures besides. And these cultures grow way quicker than the historical meatlife equivalent and transcend nationality, religion, and race.
Goddamn I went into the wrong major. I am so danged interested in this stuff.
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I know I've seen that before... I think it was a Myspace bot...
MySpace...Bebo...Anime fourms...any other website that you can possibly introduce yourself at and then some... (Just google "t3h PeNgU1n of d00m, crap load of sites...)
Edit: Just found this, and I'm a little "wtf?"... http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Katy (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Katy)
Edit2: Ooooh...it's a 4chan thing. I get it now. :roll:
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Goddamn I went into the wrong major. I am so danged interested in this stuff.
A friend of mine (who I'm coincidentally meeting for dinner tonight; he's visiting) is basically studying internet anthropology in grad school.
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that 'penguin of doom' thing actually created a Hi, I'm New thread a while back, if i'm not mistaken.
or maybe it was just a real, live idiot. i don't know.
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I remember it, so it came here, as I do not frequent 4chan at all.
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i remember it and i don't even know what a 4chan is.
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We don't need new people
We just need Kieffer back
Tommy needs people to sleep with, dawg. I do not think Kieffer would be down with that, see, because Tommy is not hot enough for Kieffer.
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He would be if he didn't shave.
It's his own fault, really.
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well, that and i think it may also have something to do with that old phrase "been there, done that"
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I've basically written a thesis on this very subject over the last two years.
Unfortunately it is scattered across six forums with no linear chronology.
Also it is liberally peppered with dick jokes.
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The number of people on seems to have gone down from the five rows that it was
That reminds me, what ever happened to the Art Challenge in the Art Forums?
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i remember it and i don't even know what a 4chan is.
You are a fortunate creature.
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VERY fortunate.
That reminds me, what ever happened to the Art Challenge in the Art Forums?
I haven't seen Ally around in a long time, but if you want another one, PM me and I'll make one.
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Pardon me, but I'm commandeering this thread in the interest of a common grievance against us all: Blue Kitty's avatar.
It is spastic and highly irritating, while offering no apparent benefits besides being spastic and highly irritating. I move that it be changed, post-haste.
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Last time I checked 4chan wasn't a sub-forum of QC. Why the fuck do people talk about it around here so god-damned much?
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My old professor did ethnographies on webforums, specifically Indymedia. It was pretty dang interesting to hear how the internet has helped spur social activism! Only I think Indymedia is a web site with a forum. or something.
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Wait, we have a comics forum? I thought we all just hung out in hurr and tried to e-make-out-with each other.
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Sorry to derail your derails, but I'd just like to say that, Johnny, I have to congratulate you on the excellent job you're doing as a mod. In this short time I feel you've already done a lot for the community, without becoming overbearing or preachy. I salute you, good sir.
What I'm trying to say is - have my babies?
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Man I dunno what you're talking about. Johnny is a fucking tyrant. He eats babies, dawg. This is serious shit.
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I wonder if he stops just to consider the taste...
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Johnny is a fucking god amongst men. I mean, see for yourself:
(http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9618/johnnychq2.jpg)
Compare yourselves to him and you will find yourselves lacking. The other dude in the photo is even showing the proper respect!
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Man I dunno what you're talking about. Johnny is a fucking tyrant. He eats babies, dawg. This is serious shit.
Are you trying to imply that you can't eat babies and still be a good person? That is called prejudice, katie, and I'm shocked that you would say such a thing.
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Johnny's dandy and all, but remember: in the deep of night, when you awake in a cold sweat as you realise that all your childhood dreams are slowly dying and your heart is drying day-by-day to a cold, bitter husk, and you just need someone to hug you to make it all seem okay, there's only one mod you can turn to.
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GHOSTBUSTERS
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Wait, we have a comics forum? I thought we all just hung out in hurr and tried to e-make-out-with each other.
You are shockingly accurate.
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Graham?
Sarcasm is a sign of insecurity, tommy.
I think you need a hug.
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I bet felating Johnny C would be the bees knees!
Hey, wait your turn!
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Pardon me, but I'm commandeering this thread in the interest of a common grievance against us all: Blue Kitty's avatar.
It is spastic and highly irritating, while offering no apparent benefits besides being spastic and highly irritating. I move that it be changed, post-haste.
I think it's hilarious. Then I get a headache from watching it too long. I say it stays!
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Guys, there's enough of my dick to go around. Please, no fighting!
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Johnny is a fucking god amongst men. I mean, see for yourself:
[picture!]
Compare yourselves to him and you will find yourselves lacking. The other dude in the photo is even showing the proper respect!
I am trying to figure out if the guy is actually in awe of Johnny's awesome and his cool shirt or if he is cowering and begging Johnny not to stare at him with his death-ray red eyes of doom.
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I'm pretty sure "other guy" is Tommy and that he just wants a taste of Johnny's dick.
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Hey, wait your turn!
Even if that were true, again:
(http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9618/johnnychq2.jpg)
Could you blame me?
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I completely wish that every woman I've had a failed relationship with would have had that attitude.
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I would not fail you Johnny.
Or Jon, apparently!
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It's back! Hooray!
Oh, Dan's dancing, multicolored dinosaur avatar. I missed you so.
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I didn't read the rules. I thought it should be pretty obvious what goes where and that being new means you should be polite until you get into the swing of things if you never lurked. (I lurked for a while before posting.) But maybe I am/was used to forums like the ones I was on before joining this one which were made up of meat life friends and were friendly anyways. Edit: However this was just me personally. The rules in the Hi, I'm New forum in the topic started by Jeph are pretty important. The other two were made by the people who were officially designated for a time to greet new posters, but really are less relevant. Yes, it's nice if a person follows all the rules, but really, as long as you follow the guidelines that matter, I don't see what the big deal is.
Basically, if people don't act stupid and have good spelling/grammar, it shouldn't be hard to get involved here when older posters aren't being dicks.
i've been boarding since the 90's (which typing this aloud makes me feel ultra dorky), and I've never understood why the spelling/grammar thing is such a big deal. it's in no way a representation of someone's intelligence. i know a bunch of a super geniuses who can't spell/conjugate to save their lives. it would be silly for me to think less of them b/c of it. on boards though it seems as if people think that stanford-binet scores should be determined by a ninth grade spelling bee.
Graham?
Sarcasm is a sign of insecurity, tommy.
i hope for my shrink's sake that this isn't true :(
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I am essentially going to trust that this is the case, and further I am going to trust the regulars on this side of the forum not to bite the new folks.
HAHAHAHAHA, oh that's funny.
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Poor spelling may not be a sign of stupidity, but at this point, so many browsers have a spell check function that it IS a sign of laziness. Like Anyways points out, on a more personal level, it strikes me as being somewhat disrespectful. If you don't care enough about what you're saying to make sure that it's said correctly, why should anyone else care enough about it to make sure it's read correctly?
Or maybe I'm just an English major grammar nazi. Regardless, I like all the good spelling and grammar on this board.
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Compared to many other boards, 4chan in particular, the spelling and grammar is impeccable.
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I'm not a huge fan of nitpicking since it's often more pedantic than helpful, but I'm also a firm believer that coherence is a virtue. In my short time here I've never seen a newbie get flamed to death over a dangling participle anyway, so I'm pretty comfortable saying that whatever unspoken standards we have in place are reasonable.
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Compared to many other boards, 4chan in particular, the spelling and grammar is impeccable.
Dude, anything looks good if you compare it to 4chan.
Poor spelling may not be a sign of stupidity, but at this point, so many browsers have a spell check function that it IS a sign of laziness. Like Anyways points out, on a more personal level, it strikes me as being somewhat disrespectful. If you don't care enough about what you're saying to make sure that it's said correctly, why should anyone else care enough about it to make sure it's read correctly?
Or maybe I'm just an English major grammar nazi. Regardless, I like all the good spelling and grammar on this board.
Also, I find myself agreeing with Elizzybeth. It's not hard to to use inbuilt spellcheckers, or to use basic grammar (periods, commas, capital letters) - not doing it just makes it look like you don't care, or that you're just plain old lazy.
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I like leading by example when it comes to spelling, capitalization, etc. because I refuse to read anything that is so shoddily written that it's almost incomprehensible because of all the glaring errors everywhere. I just assume that it's the same way with other people.
Also, guys, I know it's real cute and popular to antagonize 4chan and talk about how terrible and stupid it is, but seriously? You just show your ignorance to the fact that not every thread is stupidity feeding off of stupidity. Note also that even 4chan has standards regarding internet shorthand.
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I don't think anyone is taking proper grammar as a sign of intelligence, or bad grammar a sign of the opposite. It's more on a level where it's annoying because it sends off a message that states "I couldn't be arsed to type this post up properly, it's not worth my time" or similar. It might be considered a childish approach, but I consider it as much a respect thing as anything else. I really could care less about it if you don't actually know how to convey what you're trying to say, but "2" for "to"/"too"? "cuz" or "b/c" for "because"? Come on. I haven't seen a lot of it on these boards, but the tendency is definitely growing.
Given your long habit of posting, I guess you've probably realized a lot of fora have rules, both written and unwritten - you try to follow these, at least until you know when it's accepted not to. Know the rules before you break them, and all that. Doing your best grammatically without using a dictionary is the norm here (and has been for a while).* Following this rule is a polite thing to do, and we all just want to get along, don't we? Why should we not type properly?
*Well, that's how it's always appeared to me - people tend to have pretty good grammar in here, at any rate.
edit for spelling, ironically.
Yeah, I have noticed a more "mature" approach to the writing styles here than on almost any other board I know. It's almost to the point that I want to make a poll about what age everyone here is because almost no one types like a 12 yr. old girl from Peoria, which, on the internet, makes me feel as if i'm in the presence of a bunch of middle-aged economics professors.
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Where it's much more likely that you are surrounded by uni students, top-end high school students (some are younger), young profressionals and some older people who actually learnt spelling and grammar at school. They don't seem to teach it anymore as far as I can see...
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They teach it, but nobody pays attention. And after a few years, they get down to the stuff that really doesn't make a difference, as far as I can tell. Things like the different formats (MLA vs... forget the name), the proper use of semicolons (I am with Vonnegut when it comes to semicolons), and they still never teach you how to remember the difference between its and it's.
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Ah, for me the difference between MLA and Harvard is pretty much the difference between passing and failing an assessment (the APA is very picky about their standards). And as for the difference between "its" and "it's" I direct you to the Strong Bad Emails. There is one in there that has a pretty good neumonic for remembering it.
"Ohhh if it's a possessive it's just I T S but if-it's-meant-to-be-a-contraction-then-it's-I T APOSTRAPHE S!"
Works like a charm.
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i've been boarding since the 90's (which typing this aloud makes me feel ultra dorky), and I've never understood why the spelling/grammar thing is such a big deal. it's in no way a representation of someone's intelligence. i know a bunch of a super geniuses who can't spell/conjugate to save their lives. it would be silly for me to think less of them b/c of it. on boards though it seems as if people think that stanford-binet scores should be determined by a ninth grade spelling bee.
It's not that hard to use proper punctuation, grammar and spelling. If they can't spell or conjugate to save their lives, then with no disrespect intended, it's quite a stretch to call them "geniuses."
I wouldn't say that it automatically makes one think less of the person, but it certainly makes me not have any interest in reading their post except for comedic purposes.
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Man, this thread.
Seriously. What the fuck is this shit?
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The plural for genius is genii but this genius is the masculine equivalent of juno, (pl. junones). We now use this Latin word to describe great intellectual prowess. Incidentally,
these jinni also granted those under their tutelage intellectual prowess.
Ah, for me the difference between MLA and Harvard is pretty much the difference between passing and failing an assessment (the APA is very picky about their standards). And as for the difference between "its" and "it's" I direct you to the Strong Bad Emails. There is one in there that has a pretty good neumonic for remembering it.
"Ohhh if it's a possessive it's just I T S but if-it's-meant-to-be-a-contraction-then-it's-I T APOSTRAPHE S!"
Works like a charm.
I honestly don't need mnemonics to remember simple things like that but what's MLA and Harvard?
Judging by the names, doesn't like I'll need to know it.
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They're formatting standards for academic writings.
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Judging by his writing in that last post, he's right. He'll never need to know that.
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How did this thread go from "Post at least halfway intelligently" to "omg no typos alloud u gaiz!!! OOPS I TYOPED! O noez! I did it again!" and stuff about Harvard?
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I agree, let's bring it back to "Post at least halfway intelligently". For reference, the above post is a good example of what not to do.
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I can't help it, Spaceman, I'm genuinely curious as to how it happened.
Then again, I'm hardly the poster-child for intelligent posts. But I'm working at it. It's just hard to get silly out of my personality.
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It's not Harvard the school exactly, as it is the Harvard formatting standards. You've heard of MLA, ASA, APA maybe? Different professions use different ways of referencing and citing your sources.
No one said anything about typos, as everyone has a typo here or there. I think the majority of posts are about why they think obvious spelling, grammar and basic sentence structure mistakes are disrespectful to the discussion, and to the other posters. They're pretty obvious now with the inbuilt spell-check and everything, so it's definitely not hard. Though I have gotten spelling-slapped by Katie once for spelling "definately". Oops!
Basically, you can be silly while still being comprehensible! Most people here do it pretty well, I think.
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Oh that's right, I use the Harvard style at school, stupid me.
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I know nothing about spelling and grammar nazis.
*Stares at avatar*
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I used that avatar last year...it's a great avatar.
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An avatar is a little picture or animation you use to represent yourself.
That picture is old and has been used a few times here before. I don't think it is something you made.
I guess this just means we have differing values on how we presents ourselves.
I feel painfully avant-garde with my imperceptible pink square.
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I USED that avatar last year...it's a great avatar.
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Slick, has anybody actually noticed that you have an avatar before it is pointed out to them? It took me almost a minute it to see it, even after you pointed it out.
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I don't know if it's a great avatar, for the reasons Slick mentioned, but it's certainly a great animated gif. As for this being a particularly grammar conscious forum, I've never noticed it, but that's probably because I spent a pretty long time actively posting on the Jeopardy! forum...
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I posted in the Flying Spaghetti Monster forum a few times (like 20).
That forum is pretty goddamn boring.
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Pastafarians are rather more flaccid than you'd expect
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Incidentally, I just caught up on Strong Bad emails yesterday!
Guys why has this thread devolved into another grammar-nazi penis fencing contest? Or, rather, why is it starting to go that way, I guess, because it's not nearly as bad as some of the ones in the past. It's barely relevant!
Also if Jeph ever mods me no one will have to worry about improper grammar or spelling on these boards ever again!
Well, actually I would leave Khar's posts as-is. For posterity.
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Ah, for me the difference between MLA and Harvard is pretty much the difference between passing and failing an assessment (the APA is very picky about their standards). And as for the difference between "its" and "it's" I direct you to the Strong Bad Emails. There is one in there that has a pretty good neumonic for remembering it.
"Ohhh if it's a possessive it's just I T S but if-it's-meant-to-be-a-contraction-then-it's-I T APOSTRAPHE S!"
Works like a charm.
You forgot the "scalawag".
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Incidentally, I just caught up on Strong Bad emails yesterday!
They're still making those?
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JEPH'S FORUM REPORT CARD:
I used to at least read everything in Comic and General Discussion but now I actively hide from those boards because they freak me out too much. I'm glad they're there, otherwise people would just say the same stuff somewhere where I don't have mod privileges, but I can't read them. F- THE INSTRUCTOR IS AFRAID OF THE CLASS
Music Discussion is awesome, I am genuinely kind of proud to have spawned a place where people talk about music in such a fashion. A++ WOULD READ AND POST IN DAILY
I really have never looked in Arts & Crafts. It could be Nazi guro porn for all I know. C IS FOR KNITTING AND THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME
Comics & Drawings would be good if people posted there more, but whatever. D YES EVERYBODY LIKES CALVIN AND HOBBES, PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP, AND ACHEWOOD
Movies and TV shows etc. gets a C because I don't think I have posted in there more than once. The only show I really get excited about (ie, boners) is How It's Made, anyway.
The video game board was great when I was addicted, crack-like, to Mass Effect. Also I wouldn't know about Zero Punctuation if not for that forum. B+, would be an A except for the perennial Mac vs. PC threads.
HURR is pretty good and has its moments of awesome. B, could be higher but I don't have time to keep up with everything and current events/blog threads bore me to tears.
Hi I'm New gets a C for fulfilling a thankless task in an adequate manner.
The hidden Mods/Admins forum gets an A- for excellent but infrequent content. HINT: WE ALL MAKE FUN OF YOU BEHIND YOUR BACK
OVERALL: With just a little more effort, the QC boards might just qualify for that scholarship. Also I am putting ads up in here sometime soon because of all the bandwidth you guys eat.
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Well, actually I would leave Khar's posts as-is. For posterity.
Otherwise, you'd be doing us a great disservice.
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Jeph, the bandwidth isn't as delicious if it's not coming directly out of your pocket anymore.
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Come for the comics, stay for the delicious bandwidth?
I would like some yum sauce with my bandwidth, please.
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i got some yum sauce for you
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:-D
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Oh noes! I'm going to suffer the same fate as Sara. (That is an allosaurus, right?)
Damn my insatiable appetite for yum sauce.
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Yum sauce isn't all that yum, in my opinion. I much prefer honey mustard.
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The only show I really get excited about (ie, boners) is How It's Made, anyway.
Man, the narrator for that show is the most boring dude ever. I feel like I'm in 3rd grade when I watch that show, watching some crappy film about how they vulcanize tires on some antique projector from the 50s they they got with a government grant to inform children in the 50s how they vulcanize tires and also you're gonna die of radiation.
Give me Mike Rowe any day. That dude is all man and humor. He is sculpted out of the purest form of testosterone. He is like an old school demi-god of a man. I would like to arm wrestle him. And then when my hand hits the table, as it of course would because you cannot possible compete with that level of man, he would look into my eyes and suddenly jump across the table, pushing me to the floor, his rough, stubbly chin brushing against mine as he forced me into a passionate kiss. His arms, so strong picking me up and turning me over as his rips my pants off. His hands, rough and calloused grabbing me as he rams his gigantic dick(it is like, 14 inches at least) into my wanting ass. And I would cry from the pain and joy of such an act.
Such a beautiful act.
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Rather than an allosaurus I believe that is a badass pony whose existence is explained by the pony island thread, defunct for a month or two.
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Also I am putting ads up in here sometime soon because of all the bandwidth you guys eat.
I will email you bandwidth money.
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I'm kinda surprised ads didn't go up sooner. Quite a few of us are shit terrible about linking to gigantic images rather than posting or resizing them.
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Didn't the forums have ads for a while anyway? Whatever, I don't mind. Especially Google ads, because they're occasionally hilarious.
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yep.
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/951/streptfh9.gif)
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God, they really DO sell anything on the inter-nets.
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Man, the narrator for that show is the most boring dude ever. I feel like I'm in 3rd grade when I watch that show, watching some crappy film about how they vulcanize tires on some antique projector from the 50s they they got with a government grant to inform children in the 50s how they vulcanize tires and also you're gonna die of radiation.
The thing I like about the show is its randomness. "Today on 'How It's Made': Ice Skates, Sitars, Mobile Homes and Moist Towelettes."
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Yes, changing the height/width of an image in html does not change the file size. Also, It looks fucking terrible and should never be done.
I am fairly sure that Whipstitch actually meant resizing the image in photoshop or some other program, since that would actually reduce use of bandwidth.
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Yeah, I did mean in photoshop etc... Funny thing though; most of the few images I've posted that have been resized were actually only resized via the forum's capabilities because I do a lot of my posts at the library in extremely short blocks of time and hate spamming, which is also why I'm generally more likely to link to large images than actually post them. Seriously, responding to a picture with a picture is the devil.
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According to dnScoop (http://www.dnscoop.com/):
The estimated value of a single link on www.questionablecontent.net is: $491 /month
If you were to sell 8 links on www.questionablecontent.net, you could generate $3928/month in revenue for your website.
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Man I dunno what you're talking about. Johnny is a fucking tyrant. He eats babies, dawg. This is serious shit.
Johnny C likes Chinese. (http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-3-29/53482.html)
I am putting ads up in here sometime soon because of all the bandwidth you guys eat.
huh I totally didn't notice until just now that the ads are gone. Didn't you used to run an ad banner at the top of the forums?
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I am actually afraid of what the ads would look like in some of the Comic Discussion threads.
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yep.
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/951/streptfh9.gif)
If their like this, why worry?
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I am actually afraid of what the ads would look like in some of the Comic Discussion threads.
Aaaaand we've come full circle.
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According to dnScoop (http://www.dnscoop.com/):
The estimated value of a single link on www.questionablecontent.net is: $491 /month
If you were to sell 8 links on www.questionablecontent.net, you could generate $3928/month in revenue for your website.
Fuck you, Jeph, *I* am putting ads on here.
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Wouldn't that be for the front page and not the forums?