PM hate mail - Page 2

Good points guys! Imaginary rep for all! (boo)

.. err.. No imaginary rep for anyone! (boo)

.. Oookay, imaginary rep for some, miniature American flags for others! (yay)

ETA: Seriously though, I get what you mean Andre. I'm sure it'll die down soon enough. I promise not to contribute to the lack of contributing anymore

Because I like it when people actually converse? Because communication interrupted repeatedly and unnecessarily by people saying "wow, what you said is great" without adding much else is similar to LOL or whatever non-comment comment you can think of? I like discourse, not backslapping. I would rather read four thoughtful posts than forty "yeah, that was good" type affairs.

I thought it was obvious I felt that way. But Jet pilot gone out of control, ship captain on the ground. Stock broker make a bad investment when love has come to town!

Sadly, the signal-to-noise ratio on this board has steadily become worse over the years and most people just don't see that because they like the noise. But I guess that is probably true of the Internet as a whole as well. Que sera, sera.

Exactly. I've noticed this on quite a few other message boards as well.

One only needs to look so far as the popularity of LOLcats to see that the internet jumped the shark a while back.

So does that make you a member of the "states the obvious" club as well as it's president?

I don't know, that comes across as very'net hipster' to me. If someone types 'LOL' it doesn't negate a thoughtful post that comes after it. Hating it seems a little hyper anal - which I'm noticing a lot of in the members of this site...so...no surprise I guess.

I'd rather see an LOL then 40 posts 'in-joke' post whoring, which is far more common here.

Lyrically I’m supposed to represent. I’m not only the client, I’m the player president.

I've had this discussion before, and it gets people angry at me, so I'll bow out. But, that said, I'm happy rep is gone. As for in-jokes, it all depends if the in-joke is funny. Which is subjective. If it makes me a net hipster to want to have an interesting conversation, so be it.

Instead of repping someone, we should just dedicate a picture of a hot lady to them (or a hot slab of man for the women). No matter who gets the dedication, everybody wins. The thought of what people would do to replace neg rep disturbs me though.

Exactly. It wasn't always easy to find something via the World Wide Web in 1995, but normally when you did the conversation was the real deal. Things continued improving, but once the Internet community exploded things started to change for the worse.

Something happened to me today that pretty much sums up Internet 2008: A friend asked me to go watch a clip on Youtube from an episode of Family Guy. I don't watch the show, but she told me it would convert me. Fine. I went to Youtube to watch the stolen feed of the substandard TV show and found that there were ten pages for this clip. I clicked on the first one and instead of said Family Guy episode, I get video of some kid playing Halo 3 while making piss poor jokes. He titled his video game clip after an episode of Family Guy from two weeks ago knowing it would get hits. Joke's on me.

So now I am sitting at my computer wondering how the fuck I went from being a productive member of society to chasing episodes of a TV show I don't like online and then watching an unrelated XBox clip made by a kid. Fuck you Internet.

If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner playing with my abacus. My new motto is: "Luddite is alriiight."

When we had rep, it had to go because it was a distraction and if you wanted to tell someone "LOL" or "nice post", you could always do it in the thread. Now that we don't have it, people are doing that, and it is unacceptable. Then in a couple months, when no one acknowledges others' posts that they enjoyed and there's nothing but serious debate, we'll have the same people complaining about how nasty and petty the boards have gotten lately, and how they remember a time when the discourse was lively but civil, and we had us a community, man.

No, see, now you're supposed to send them a PM, which navigates you away from the thread. Then you have to go back to the thread and keep reading (and repeat as needed for comment-worthy posts). Eventually, when you've read all the posts in the thread, you should take some time to compose a concise yet pithy reply. Substandard replies will not be tolerated, and you will get a bunch of PMs telling you so (so as not to clutter up the thread). Thus the place will lose all humor and small talk, and only serious dedicated film fans will hang out. Thus CHD will revert to the "good old days" when it was a few die hards and all they had was serious film discussion. The rest of us will wander off to chat amongst ourselves over at icanhascheezburger.

Whoa.. okay Billy vs Rath has evolved into Post Complimenters vs Discussion Purists, let's not let the issue get out of hand. I don't think anyone is trying to do away with humor, smart-ass replies, or small talk.. we're kind of legendary for that stuff around here. But there has been a quantum leap (thanks James Bond!) in the amount of back-slapping posts since the rep system abandoned us. Yeah, I'm guilty of it too.

It's only natural. Everyone got used to letting people know they appreciated something funny or well written with a green box of joy (or the reverse), and we're just trying to continue spreading the love. That's a good thing, right? But I think there's also good reasoning behind the idea that, if you want to compliment someone on a post well-done, we should atleast try to add something to the current discussion while we're at it. It cuts down on clutter (if you can't/don't want to add to the topic, PM would seem the most appropriate route), keeps the conversation flowing, and can be appreciated by everyone.

Again, we only recently lost the rep system.. and it obviously will take people a while to adjust, but I really think the 'Wish I could rep you!' thing will die down naturally in the weeks to come, once it becomes less of a knee-jerk reaction to great posts. Everyone just needs to play nice in the meantime.

CAN YOU DIG IT?

(ETA: Radb - I like that idea! Please post a picture of a hot asian girl in honor of this post)

Possibly, but then we would never have gotten the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, and the world would be a poorer place.

Fuck, you beat me to it!

Dammit DARKMITE8, that's just irresponsible!
You know damn well the BH is only to be performed by a trained Warlock.

Who says he isn't?

In the good old days, the boards had a fraction of the members they do now. It stands to reason that as more people found it, the closeness of the community would diminish a bit and some of the conversations would get lost in the crowd. The good conversations are still there, it's just that rather than having them, some people want to spend most of their time abusing posters that annoy them.

I can dig it mang!!

I'm just going to buy a bunch of wooden blocks, paint them green, and mail them to people when I like their posts. Could everybody send me their address?

Maggie Q
You make my heart sing
You make everything...groovy

Maggie Q, I... think I love you


Best dedication ever, thanks! Between this and the 2nd picture of that Freddy vs Jason girl, I think we just helped better the world. Or, at least the thread.

Can't we all just, get along over pictures of hot women?

All this because on Christmas Eve, a few people took pity on some sad-sack. Goddamn.

A sad sack who is also a giant fucking fake.

And yet we still pay attention to him.

It's not nice or wise to talk about me behind my back. I am a trained Warlock, ya know.

Oh, did you mean...?

Fleed and Piano are both perfect caricatures of certain types of message board posters. Fleed is the overly nostalgic man-child who can't grow-up and Piano is the Internet blow hard who talks a lot, but never says anything of substance. When, or if, either of these guys get appreciation threads it is irony defined.

If Fleed turned out to be a real person, we'd need to bronze him and put him on display in the Internet Museum of History as a perfect specimen. Piano looked like a parody as well, but for all I know he could be a legitimate troll. Dunno.

It doesn't make me 'angry'. It does make me want to quite everything that you write back to you with an 'LOL!' attached to it.

Lol

Farmer Vincent's Fritters, I am a real person. I do not want to be bronzed though, If I were bronzed I would have to have a PhD so I could be Dr. Duke Fleed...Man of Bronze.

Also, I have eclectic tastes, which is why I appreciated the classics...G.I. Joe A Real American Hero, Rambo, Commando, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Hard Boiled etc. If I have to grow up to the point that I wouldn't appreciate the aforementioned programs and films...then I do not want to.