Like any thread started by a Dweller is no longer owned by that Dweller. Sorry folks, but I still consider any thread I've started here to be my own.

a thread is only yours if you can take it away and go home.

yes, that is one example. Also much more tolerance here for abuse to posters, use of others' images; no avatar,not as much sex or flirting as some other places, a strange . . . er, unique attitude toward serious/non-serious posts, etc., etc., etc.

Not bad, per se, just different, like I said. I think because the Cellar has been around for such a long time, it has evolved its own unique customs.

in 20 years, are we all still going to be sitting around our computers talking to each other?

I think the word you are looking for is "superior." The Cellar is superior. That's why you are here. If the Cellar was simply "bad" or "different," you wouldn't be here.

if we are, bruce will have 117,100 posts

Well, as you probably remember, I was against the "no avatar" policy at first, but I quickly got used to, and eventually grew to like it this way. No thinking about which avatar to use.

If you are chatting with friends, and the subject wanders, do you chastize them for ruining your conversation?

That's the key to all the differences here, for those of you who still haven't realized it. Anonymity on the internet makes people into assholes. This place does everything it can to make you not anonymous. I'll readily admit, I don't much care or remember what a dwellar says until I have enough background information to connect it to a real person in my head. Doesn't have to be overly personal information, just interests, or mannerisms, or anything that makes someone unique.

Threads here are not messageboard threads, they are conversations. This is why people get irritated when others go off on meaningless chats--because it cannot possibly involve anyone else. It would be rude if it were in person. It is also why some teasing and meanness is more tolerated than in other places--because when you are close to someone, friend or enemy, you can say things you wouldn't say to a stranger on the street. Regular messageboards are for strangers on the street. Avatars are for posters who don't know each other well enough so they need a picture to help identify them. This place is a community.

that's why it's so perfect for me...

I am free to be made into an asshole through my own words and actions.



I used to be funnier, really. this had real potential....and i can still taste it...i just don't think i really nailed it this time. sigh...

Before I got into the Cellar the only message boards I used to frequent were game related (Battle Vortex or guild forums). I was kind of used to avatars but didn't tend to use 'em myself. I got out of gaming shortly before I started posting on here and stopped going on the game forums. About four months ago I started going on a couple of 'Politics' forums and a history forum. They all use avatars and I find them deeply distracting. They make the boards messy, and the screen confusing. I much prefer the simple aesthetics of the Cellar.

I also found their overuse of rules and moderation a little off putting. Threads that started out a one thing weren't allowed to just drift. If they drift the moderator jumps in and moves the threaddrift to a different section of the message board. There are hard and fast rules about what kinds of things you can post. So...if someone makes a point and somebody else posts an "I hear you" or "lol" that is considered unacceptable.

To me that spoils the flow of conversation. It's the difference between sitting around a table in a pub with mates and discussing everything under the sun...and sitting in a meeting with colleagues and discussing what is set on the agenda.

Ew.

Makes me wanna say Yay Undertoad!

:thankyou:

Question: do html tags work in the sig line? Like, say, pic links?

I'm just sayin', for those who are interested in avatars, well...

I have a membership on a Jeep Commander forum. It's lousy with avatars and sigs with pictures....

I started a little shit when i expressed my opinion that they were annoying...they pointed out the ability to 'not see' them in the control panel....and all was well again.

avatars and pictures just make pages load slower etc. I think it's better without them.

No.

yes