Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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I oppose slumbernutting for anything that doesn't have three zeros in it. Seriously. It's stupid and it sucks bandwidth and time for us all.
Big ol' fucking wrod.
This is something I want to re-bring up as soon as we've stopped talking about how we're going to talk about things and we've actually started talking about them. Because, you know, when it's a new thread, and after having counted off the first fifty posts, people are still going for 200 and 202 and 222 and 252-- it starts to wear thin.
Ahem. Numberslutting for 6000 is no uncooler than slutting for 6666. (Less, if you want my complete honesty).
Maybe you want less slutting, but if you only slut for what you like, and me for the ones with the sixes and Nilly for the ones with seventeens, well, nothing's changed, has it?
A general recommendation against slutting is one thing, but trying to uniformly mandate the sheer beauty of digits? Pure evil. Never going to fly.
t dignified
I've only ever slutted for 10000.
No, seriously?
Raise
the standards for a slut. The signal-to-noise ratio is getting, to my mind, really fucking annoying.
seriously? Raise the standards for a slut. The signal-to-noise ratio is getting, to my mind, really fucking annoying.
Seriously? There are no standards for a slut.
And that works on more levels than I'd intended. But honestly, how can there be? It's a silly frivolous thing. Recommending against is one thing, but the idea of truly cool numbers is imposing subjectivity and taking it oddly seriously.
No, of course I don't mean we make
proscribed
numbers for slutting. But I'm asking that there be a little more self-restraint exercised, because I feel there's sometimes more empty slut than there should be.
You see the irony inherent in that, though?
Me, I opine -- don't slut without an orgasm -- let's have some content, people! Jizz! Jizz!
No, of course I don't mean we make proscribed numbers for slutting. But I'm asking that there be a little more self-restraint exercised, because I feel there's sometimes more empty slut than there should be.
Remember the porn counts? Remember all the people putting in extraneous porn? Numberslutting is the new porn. People will get tired of it, or at least will tie it to more substantial posts.
You see the irony inherent in that, though?
What? In asking people to restrainedly slut?
It's very funny. But-- content, that's exactly what I'm saying. Append a note to the bottom of every otherwise-interesting post explaining why you love that post number so much, certainly. But a thread that just goes, "Slut!" "Slut!" "Slumbernut!" "Companion!"-- gets annoying.
Ah, such are the ways of numberslut fandom. It starts out, and you're part of a select few that are privy to the ways of numberslutting. You enjoy numberslutting. You sign on to numberslut message boards and natter about numberslutting. You go to a few numberslut cons. Then, there's a whole rash of articles on numberslutting, and the next thing you know, everyone's doing it, and it's just not as cool as it once was.
(if there's content, it's not slutting)
(IJS)
I'm not contending your issue or your motive, just saying I agree with Elena. Stuff gets old on its own calendar.
