uk browncoats no fun
POSTED BY: miike
UPDATED: Sunday, August 10, 2008 20:51
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erm diddnt I just say I wasnt going to post there again maybe someones a little less literate than they think they are ,any how reading your posts here I think you have already proved my point ............
October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
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Miike,
Sorry you felt you had a bad experience on the UK board but, quite frankly, you dictate the kind of experence you have anywhere you go in life not other people, so maybe you needed to sit back and watch what was going on for a while before you jumped right in with posts that others found very hard to understand.
Anyway, as you've already mentiond you won't be going back there so there's no point in coming over here and moaning about something you'll never have to deal with again. Quit bitching and move on.
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Yes, but you've missed my point. That you still got angry about it over here in the first place - as Casualty says, just let it go.
I don't see how any of your "points" have been proved. I just don't like to see one of my favourite places to hang out being tarnished because of incorrect so-called facts being thrown around the place.
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show me one of my incorrect facts that i have posted, all my points are my own personal opinion and experiences gained while being on that site for a short time. To be honest i would have let this thread die but i am only continuing to answer your own disinformation about myself,plus the thread title was uk browncoats no fun which is true how can you have fun when every time you post you get a snipy remark about your spelling p.s what if someone who was dyslexic tried to post on your site how would they be treated October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
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KATEJONES
Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 07:49
And yes, I used to post here all the time (although apparently so long ago I've forgotten my original log-in details!). It was the first Firefly Board I joined but gave up on it because, guess what, I found it was becoming "silly" . We all have different ideas as to what makes an enjoyable forum I guess.
I don’t see the need to squabble about one site by dragging opinions about another.
If this place is ‘silly’ why are you here now?
I don’t think you’ll find many who think this site has posting troubles. The more ‘cliquey’ side of things is taken care of by dedicated threads – which are actually quite fun to read as long as they are not the only threads actually moving.
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Exciting new crime
(And can I add, the lack of moderation is the exact reason I hardly ever even look here. There's nobody to report objectionable posts/material to, and I've found enough here that I've wanted to report in the past to drive me away.)
If you hardly even look here – how do you KNOW?
How far in the past? There are no threads/posts that I would describe in the same way except maybe this one. Not even the over-heated Real World Forum – and besides, there’s no need to go to that sub-forum if you are here for Firefly/Serenity.
Again this seems an unnecessary dig at the very site you are using.
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oftentimes we manage to have those conversations without actually posting half of what we're thinking
Back in my time this was known as infra-dig. If you can’t understand new posts – have you ever wondered if they can understand yours?
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Most of us have been there since the board began, so it might be hard for newbies
You see we are so un-moderated that actually we consider ‘newbie’ a very offensive term – and if you look around you will notice it doesn’t get used. If you dig into the correct sub-forum you will find the long thread where this was thrashed out (again) last year.
And you are overlooking the fact that someone may apparently be new – but might have been lurking, possibly for years, before deciding to post. A hostile or cliquey atmosphere will just prevent people from ‘officially’ joining. You both make a great deal over the idea that you’ve been around for a long time. Heads up – so have a LOT of us.
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and just look at Whedonesque where you're really taken to task for missing out a capital letter or a full stop!
Which is also discouraging. Some people are DYSLEXIC and may struggle with their posts.
I was myself told off for a brief post with no capitals (like that is gorram important).
Ok, well as it happens I suffer from a medical condition that recurs from time to time (like now) and results in me only being able to use one side of my body. Typing is extremely hard – and I have to give up using capitals because I can’t see well enough to check I’ve used them correctly. (You have NO IDEA how hard I’m trying not to frakk up this post).
For someone who has been posting for 15 years – being told off by someone younger for a tiny error in amongst a horde of comments by other people is not just unfriendly, it’s ridiculous. I have left that site.
Nobody here uses text speak – and we are pretty patient with folk who have ‘personal’ styles of writing – because, you know what? If you encourage and support people then they stick around and gradually their language use improves.
Now Miike may post in a fashion that annoys you – and others may do too. So what?
Are they being offensive – are they swearing? (You’ll notice a distinct lack of curse words here – where we can gorram and go-se till the cows come home.
Obviously if you rile someone they get angry and they might post in an even more meretricious way – just to spite. I don’t condone such behaviour AT ALL – but the best thing is to prevent it in the first place.
The reason I favour FFF.Net is that not only are there long and in-depth threads about a show and a movie that I love b
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thanks dude you put all my thoughts into a more intelligent and erudite way than i ever could all the best and i think this will be my last post on this thread thanks again wytchcroft you are my B.D.H October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
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Originally posted by wytchcroft:
If you hardly even look here – how do you KNOW?
Uhm, because hardly ever and never are not the same thing? The site hasn't changed since I stopped checking it out regularly.
Miike was politely requested to post in a manner we could understand. And he got angry that he was being asked to do so.
The person he was defending, well, some of their posts actually WERE offensive.
I'm not trying to suggest that somebody being around for a long time makes them better, or have any more right to be a member. But at the same time, if a community is pre-existing and clearly runs in a particular way, happily, it's just good manners to respond in the same way.
If somebody has indeed been lurking for a long time and then still joins in conversations in a manner that doesn't fit, that makes it worse, in my eyes.
And when it comes to considering "newbie" an offensive term - in my opinion, that's a ridiculous frame of mind. People are new to places - doesn't make them any more or less valid, but they're still new, and that's all there is to it.
I think there are more people than you would expect who very much do think this board has "posting troubles", and that's why they don't post here. Myself included - I'm only here now because I don't like my "home" being slagged off without being given the right to respond. Which I am doing.
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Originally posted by wytchcroft:
Back in my time this was known as infra-dig. If you can’t understand new posts – have you ever wondered if they can understand yours?
No, I can't say I waste time wondering if hypothetical people understand a conversation I'm having with somebody else. If such a person exists and they wish to know more, they're welcome to join in and ask. It's like being at a party and hearing a conversation between two friends. Those two people certainly aren't thinking, "Ooh, I hope everybody in the room can understand me!" when they're talking, just on the offchance somebody else is listening in. It's a public arena, so you're not going to discuss something private that you don't want the world to hear, but you can't possibly expect everybody to understand everything.
That's a completely different issue from not being able to understand the posts because of the way they are written. If somebody came to the UK Browncoat board and started speaking Spanish, I'd request they spoke English. It's exactly the same when we request people use punctuation so that we can understand what they're saying. It doesn't have to be perfect, just understandable!
Finally, this comment interested me:
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Originally posted by wytchcroft:
The reason I favour FFF.Net is that not only are there long and in-depth threads about a show and a movie that I love but has been noted elsewhere this site is supportive and friendly from the get go. The ‘remit’ (if I can use that term) is never put anyone off – firefly needs fans, what’s gained from excluding people.
Because I certainly remember finding this site incredibly hard to join in with, much moreso than other long-existing forums I have joined in the past.
And that's not even considering how hard this place is to navigate.
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