Goddamnit, OCM. You know I need to edit my posts like 483 times.
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secondly, you all are cock fighting now. Stop it. This is why you arent getting new people in here. You start off with a good topic, say some good stuff, a few really classic one liners, grab your balls, hoot a while, and then it downgrades from there into bickering...
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You missed a few opportunities to use male-bashing language in there. Somewhere.
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you all are like a family who has spent too much time talking to each other.
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In some ways this is true. This is why it is important for those who just sit on their asses and shoot one-liners or carry on in asinine "post a shape" threads to be more active. It doesn't have to be intellectual, just make it interesting. Hell, I started a thread about falling down the stairs once.
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Originally Posted by tasineah
I have posted probably 60 some posts since I have been here in less than 2 weeks. I have had ONE person ask me to extrapolate on a post of mine. ONE. Not any of you have asked me any questions. Few have commented on my posts. Now I am an aggressive femme. I dont care if you do or dont. I am fine putting it out in public and moving on. But you know, I deal with people's psyches in my line of work and some people just wont feel accepted if left alone in this environment.
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Turns out it isn't all about you. It isn't all about anybody here. There are no "elites" here, just people who actively post and those who don't. This is a discussion forum,
somehow participating in actual discussions matter. Some of those who don't choose to whine about it. If you're butthurt about a lack of others being interested in what you have to say, perhaps you should consider how what you're saying comes across to others. In most cases (from what I've seen) you're like me: an extremist weirdo. Not everybody feels like engaging with someone like that. It's awkward.
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Originally Posted by tasineah
I have been checking out the new member's thread. You have gotten a bunch of new members since I dropped in. I can count on one hand how many hellos they have gotten.
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This is a good point. My manners suck. In real life and online. I just figure people will put things out there first instead of having to be asked. Perhaps I should invest more time in that thread in order to give the right first impression about the kind of people that are here.
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You'all are incestous. You're breeding amongst yourselves forgetting mules are sterile.
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And you've deduced this from what?
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As for money...in other forums, they had free memberships which gave people rights to posts and postings, etc. To get to the other fun stuff, you needed a paid membership. And there were levels, from cheap to top dog.
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I'm all for this. Nothing good is free and nothing free can last.
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and they also had banners and stupid advertisements . Big deal. It made the site money. I get flyers in my newspaper too and I throw them out. Ignore them if you dont want to see them.
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I hate banners, but as long as Firefox's AdBlock plus can thwart them I'm cool with this, too.
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Originally Posted by tasineah
and how many of you have invited anyone in here? Or do you consider this your sacred watering hole? Oh goodie. Lets all enjoy it until it dies a slow death, just between us and each other.
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Turns out a lot of us have. Others need to work on that. You can see how many people have been directly sent to the site by the "referrals" listed in their user profile. Mine is currently 2 even though I've invited 3 people here directly. Don't tell my buddy Manic Skafe, though. He'll call me a
sellout.
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Originally Posted by tasineah
Sorry, folks, but I have been on a forum who died. I told you what happened. I dont want to get close to you too and watch it happen here as well. My boyfriend invited me here. He has been here since he was a tadpole, so he says. (he has all his parts now) So I am trying to save it for him too.
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Then don't "get close." It's a friggin' message board on the Internet, nothing more. The solutions to "our" "problem" are listed in this thread and in numerous other threads starting back in 2004 (?) where Ye Olde TFP Demigods bitched just as much. The admins should pick a direction and move.
It's like the military: Good decision or bad decision? At least you made one. The only wrong choice in leadership is inaction.
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Maybe we should all take our own advice.