It isn't threats, man. More like irritants. I mean, flies aren't terribly threatening (well, maybe in the Congo), but they get tiresome buzzing around your head when you're trying to do something.

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i get perturbed when grown-ups argue. stopitnow.

It's funny how subjective things are, experienced, as they are, through the filters of past experience that each of us, as human beings, are designed to wear. Isn't it? Each of us struggles to discern an actual person, from the scantest of evidence, bits of text with very little nuance.

Someone send me an email when this shit goes away. What's the max for ones ignore list?

Trying to wade thru the many threads you and 'Stevebsjb' is irritating in a very objective way. You two have not been giving anyone any 'actual human being' stuff--just a lot of junky static. I can say that if you let me get to know you--as an individual--I would be into that. To come here and start bullshit threads about less than nothing...not so much.

Give peace a chance. :eyebrow:

I don't know whether you were responding to me in particular, but that's not at all what I was saying. There are plenty of people whose first post fit right in. Others need some time to adjust to how this site's culture works. If someone can't adjust, they don't get the type of conversation they were hoping for, and get a bunch of talk about them instead of with them. If this lasts too long, most people get sick of it and leave on their own. A very few start to get resentful, and become abusive and nasty, and have to be removed. This story happens a couple of times a year, which explains why a number of regulars are so quick to get annoyed.

Not a sermon, just a thought.

I- I just wanted to know what "geek drumming" was. Not that I was interested in it, or anything...

Honestly, I don't fit in with "the clique". I also don't feel the need to "pay my dues", either.

We've been going light by AG standards. We are used to alot of board activity, IE the unpopular threads will go away by natural selection when they are "bumped down" by the threads that are democratically preferred. I couldn't have predicted that the "bad threads" would stay at the top so long.

And, I don't think you can "know" somebody in the span of one day, from a few text blurbs. It's something you come to, in time. Maybe we'll get there, if y'all don't run me off. Whatever happens, happens.


At any rate, thanks for the feedback.

Human feedback is what we are all here for, right?

This sounds very "wakachan"-esque. Bumping, sageing, etc. Activity determines what threads continue, what gets buried, kind of like how you can "dig" on Digg.

The Cellar? Everyone here drinks, everyone moves slowly.

I don't know what "sage"ing is...
...or what "wakachan"-esque means.

I am a sys admin, and I goof off all day, mostly. Unless something gets broken, or somebody Fs something up, or somebody doesn't know how to do something. I don't get paid to work, I get paid to be there and know stuff. My concept of a message board is that, ideally, there are alot of people making substantive posts, enough that the board moves, IE there are always new things to look at.

The only thing the ignore function is for, in my opinion, is to filter out non-substantive flooders. So, it is actually amusing to see my own posts percieved as such. You see, in my experience, posts that are unwanted simply go away off the bottom of the page, poof. It's all democratic and automatic. No snap judgments and name-calling necesary.

Mostly what I amused myself with here, today, was hamming up to the quick label that was slapped on AGers. You'll find that is not a great way to invite people to be themselves. But you know that, apparently, as I've read here that you periodically run off new users by being overly clique-ish. But that's human nature, I guess. Like I said, I don't fault you for it. You'll get to know me, if you give me a chance, and if not, then that's your choice. I hope everyone enjoys the time they spend here. I plan to.

thankgod they havent got onto the word ass thread.

cellar topics last if they are good topics. not if they are at the top of the page. a good conversation can last quite some time. but a thread about soccer and watching paint dry wont last long.

As I said, the dropping of unwanted threads is an automatic, democratic process.

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." --Adlai Stevenson

(Quote obtained from the bottom of the main page of The Cellar website)

so chill sit back and watch the culling process , it happens ,
if'n you aint got nuthen to say you will be culled !!!
unless you are a lurker or a linker .
Such is the Cellar !!!
So sayth Zippyt !!!!