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Because people who have been here for a long time think this place is dying.
#4 and #5 seems the most difficult for people to do. It also makes most threads unreadable and unenjoyable for those that adhere to the advice in #4 and #5.
Pretty much this. I'll check on 5-6 threads here and spend more and more time on Reddit where it is easy to get away from the political crap.
I agree that some threads can become unreadable at times. When that happens to a thread I like to participate in (the main Trump thread for example) I close it and come back to it a few pages later. Usually that works; whoever was truly annoying has gone away.
Don't hate the playa......
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Missed your post about giving out likes at first. Before I saw that, I was a little worried. I thought there was some strife among the sisters.
Not according to historians or anyone with a sense of fairness or the concept of treating people of different races or nations as we would like to be treated.
So, everyone who's ancestors were Pawnee or Commanches or Sioux should be ashamed of them, given the amount of murdering they did? No one can be proud of their ancestors, if this is true.
That too.Dedfin said:
False equivalency. Never have seen one respected historian equate what Europeans did to the indigenous people here with inter-tribal warfare.
so, as long as they didn't kill as MANY, it's ok? Or is that it's ok, as long as it's inter-tribal?False equivalency. Never have seen one historian equate what Europeans did to the indigenous people here with inter-tribal warfare.
Nah, you follow 1-2 guys around and whine about aliases. You never whine about a liberal alias. For example, in this thread yesterday Dedfin was talking about stuff happening from Day 1 here at FBG. He's been around 9 months. Do you think he's been lurking since 2003 and decided to register last summer?squistion said:Hard not to when they immediately start from the standpoint of knowing a posters history or referencing things that happened in this forum eons ago. And they don't fool anyone with the claim they have been lurking for years but now just decided to start posting
All alias accounts should be banned (as per the pinned thread) including those that agree with my point of view.
Hey, I'm just trying to clarify at what number ashamed is demanded? Seems to me, in the grand scheme of the world, EVERYONE has been a plunderer. Why no hate for the ####### Norwegians? Vikings raped and pillaged at the top of the heap for eons (at least until Bud Grant took over...then they were a perennial #2)
I show genuine concern and this is the personal attack I receive? Good riddance!ClownCausedChaos2 said:
But yet you have a few CONFIRMED rogue accounts. Tone , dear Scooter and the latest to disappear fantasy football freak. C'mon man
Indeed. The "good run" lost momentum after those Hitler and Stalin guys were no longer around.
Liar. No confirmed alias accounts. It was claimed that two mods in the test forum confirmed Tone, but Tone didn't start posting in this forum until after the test forum was defunct, so it was literally impossible for the two mods (who, like Voldemart are never named) to have confirmed anything at that point.
In general I try to help out newb posters. I do generally wait a few posts though to see if it is alias shtick or not. They usually give themselves away pretty quickly. But if someone seems like a genuine new poster I have no trouble explaining shtick or why we do things the way we do. I am sure I have been played a few time but who cares really? Better to help and be played than be a ####.rockaction said:
LiterallyDedfin said:
Yeah, you were always more than willing to explain things to me and to play it straight. I try and do the same. Better to get burned than shut off all possibility.
WTF?ClownCausedChaos2 said:
What new posters? I honestly think the FFA doesn't have one genuinely new poster in at least 3 years, possibly longer.
I would disagree. This tendency to view everyone as an alias or whatever is a strange phenomena. I have had new people PM me after I gave them a little help thanking me. Telling me they feel it is hard to break in and so they don't post and when they do they start getting accused of being someone else or not a girl or whatever. We don't do welcome threads like most places. It's considered good etiquette on many sites to introduce yourself with your first post. Here we eat people alive for that.
A pinned welcome noobs thread might help a bit instead of a locked FAQ threadThat's because they can't get their ID validated. This place is the poster child for how not to grow subscribers and kill a business.
Great point.FreeBaGeL said:It's not the size of the threads that matters.
As massraider correctly pointed out, message boards are already a dying breed in this day in age. Post Gen-X folks aren't interested in something unless it's on twitter or snapchat. They're not interested in message boards. They're especially not interested in voting on which 80's song was the best on a message board. They're especially especially not interested in voting on which 80's song was the best on a message board when all the existing folks are wink wink nod nod'ing through the whole thing making dumb ref:e:rences they don't understand.
