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.
Two by two, hands of blue. Two by two, hands of blue.
River ,'Ariel'
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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victor infante - Feb 28, 2003 9:32:13 pm PST #6038 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2003 9:32:39 pm PST #6039 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
(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.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 28, 2003 9:35:06 pm PST #6040 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
(if there's content, it's not slutting)
Then it wouldn't be an "empty slut", would it be? That's what I've been saying!
I've got no problem with people crowing about their numbers in the middle of a longer post. But when it's simply number this, number that, it wears on the discussion, and it wears on me.
That's all I've been saying.
Laura - Feb 28, 2003 9:39:59 pm PST #6041 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I'm partial to the personal number slutting. Birth year and that sort of thing. Of course, nobody does number slutting like Nilly.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2003 9:55:08 pm PST #6042 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Then it wouldn't be an "empty slut", would it be? That's what I've been saying!
And what I'm saying, is that slutting is inherently empty. You seem to object to all slutting. Not most slutting, or slutting with content (since, oxymoron).
And I'm not trying to argue that away, just cavilling on semantics.
Personally, I don't care one way or another. Technically, I don't know if the # of posts is harder on the server than the size of posts, and where the lines lie there.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 28, 2003 9:56:59 pm PST #6043 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
And what I'm saying, is that slutting is inherently empty. You object to all slutting.
Forgive me for being unclear.
A post which is empty other than its (also empty, inherently so) slut.
Is that better? 'Cause that's what I don't like. No, what I don't like is twenty of them in a row.
(That was exaggeration. For rhetorical effect.)
John H - Feb 28, 2003 10:04:44 pm PST #6044 of 10001
I don't find it as annoying as RL does, but I do find it distracting. I vote for a higher standard too.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2003 10:06:19 pm PST #6045 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey! Stop voting!
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2003 10:06:30 pm PST #6046 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
We can't actually police random numberslutting. How the hell would that work?
Although I also think it's weird and annoying when someone gets all excited about getting, say, 6044.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 28, 2003 10:14:03 pm PST #6047 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
We can't actually police random numberslutting. How the hell would that work?
There's no way to police it, of course. But we've dealt with other things that couldn't exactly be policed, either. And I'm just saying, it's not an important thing, but it's very annoying to me, and if it's very annoying to some other people, then a spell of excessive and nothing-else numberslutting could become one of the things that people are conscious of as being annoying to others. I said self-restraint.
(I'm tired and headachey. Am I sounding really snotty here? I'm going to go to bed soon.)