Gus, I counted 62. I could be off, but off by 190?
Holy crap.
t takes hammer to weird in-head counter
t tables examination of what post filter was at work during skim
Still, better than 32% of the posts in 500 seems significant.
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
Willow ,'Never Leave Me'
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Gus - Oct 08, 2004 12:52:45 pm PDT #4548 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
billytea - Oct 08, 2004 12:54:01 pm PDT #4549 of 10289
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Still, better than 32% of the posts in 500 seems significant.
62 posts out of 500 would be 12.4%, wouldn't it?
Polter-Cow - Oct 08, 2004 12:54:59 pm PDT #4550 of 10289
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Still, better than 32% of the posts in 500 seems significant.
See, someone needs to do some research and find out what percentage demanded the creation of other threads that purportedly overwhelmed Natter. I think I recall someone saying that's how LOTR was created, but I'm not sure about the others like Movies, Music, and Lit, etc.
Lyra Jane - Oct 08, 2004 12:56:50 pm PDT #4551 of 10289
Up with the sun
Adding a half a dozen teevee threads just moves us closer to TWoPness.
I don't think anyone is talking about adding half a dozen threads; it will depend on the poll results, but one or two, possibly three, seems more likey based on the discussion, and even that is far from certain. I can kind of understand that if you don't want new threads at all, one is as bad as ten, but I want to make sure no one thinks six new threads are being seriously proposed.
Lyra Jane - Oct 08, 2004 12:58:33 pm PDT #4552 of 10289
Up with the sun
See, someone needs to do some research and find out what percentage demanded the creation of other threads that purportedly overwhelmed Natter.
Movies and music were created more because they were lost in Natter than the other way around, P-C. Our bandwidth fears were less pronounced, and it was the days before voting, so people who really wanted them were able to lobby and get them started. I'm not sure about LotR, but I think ti was similar.
Allyson - Oct 08, 2004 12:58:53 pm PDT #4553 of 10289
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
How many were Nip/Tuck related? Really. If we're going to go by what is talked about all the time, we'd need a, "I think I'm fat and ugly" thread, a "i really like my cat" thread, a "i hate my job" thread, and possibly a "FCM" thread.
DavidS - Oct 08, 2004 12:59:27 pm PDT #4554 of 10289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Are we stagnating now? What are the signs?
I'm not sure what the signs of stagnation would be or how to quantify that. However, I do know I value the critical discussion that has been generated by Book Club, and that rich, analytical bent has been in shorter supply around the threads.
That's what I meant when I said that it seems like this proposal is really about reshaping the board.
See, but the board changes shape over time anyway. We're just making a conscious choice in this instance about what shape we might want to try. I think it's a mistake to see this as anything other than us adding a new thread for discussing a new show. We have other non-ME shows that we discuss. It doesn't have to be us rewriting the Constitution. We're trying this out.
Lost in particular seems to have a wide appeal. I'm finding the white font overwhelming such that I have to skip hundreds of posts to get to any Natter discussion. And then when I catch up to the show, it doesn't seem possible to enter the discussion.
I don't threadsuck nor bookmark - that's just not how I use the threads or pariticipate here.
Burrell - Oct 08, 2004 1:05:33 pm PDT #4555 of 10289
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
We're just making a conscious choice in this instance about what shape we might want to try.
Which is fine as long as everyone is being honest about it, but I get the feeling that some of us see this as a change and others are less comfortable with calling it that.
It doesn't have to be us rewriting the Constitution.
PS, you know how you hate it when folks use the term "psychosis" to refer to anything other than the DSMR definition? Well, I get nutty when people start using political metaphors to describe friggin' board culture. OF COURSE it's not like rewriting the Constitution because we aren't a government. I think we are all pretty much in agreement on that one, right?
Topic!Cindy - Oct 08, 2004 1:06:07 pm PDT #4556 of 10289
What is even happening?
I think threadsucking and bookmarking are workable solutions. Just keep in mind that incorporating those methods will also change board culture.
Gus - Oct 08, 2004 1:09:22 pm PDT #4557 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
62 posts out of 500 would be 12.4%, wouldn't it?
Sure. Bring correct arithmetic into the discussion. Commie.
I'll go back to impressions. Scanning the latest Natter made me feel like it was mostly about a Lost episode that I missed.
When I finally get that episode, I will want to go back and threadsuck, to get what the cool kids were saying about the episode. This would be easier in a Lost thread.
Hey, George Jetson sprained-finger issue to one side.