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POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 00:43
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I see Participant is quick to voice his/her/it's opinion on being able to post spam to this board, "Tiger Woods...."

It reminds me of the signs of what happens right before a board dies. Seriously, not trying to be melodramatic, but as a board is less taken care and real posting and posters dwindle, spam posts grow and start to out number the real information, real discussion.

There was a FireFlyDay board that went that way. I went back after a year and it was a ghost town, but the spammers were still posting spam posts with their bots. I've seen help desks go the same way too, over run and then abandoned. It gets to be too labor intensive to clean them up.

I hope that's not what we're seeing here.

Mike said: "Do I *wish* PN wouldn't use this site as the clearinghouse for all the crazy that's flowing out of his ears? Sure. And I wish it would rain gold coins, too. Neither of those is going to happen, so we stuck with PN. Might as well have some fun with him and his posts."

So is this becoming HIS board then? The Pirate News Forums?

I think PN has it right: we all need to start more threads ourselves (and ignore his more), and I'm down with a donation to Haken for sure (long over due).

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Dwindling has nothing to do with PN IMHO. There used to be a lot more/ frequent posters here: Auraptor, Finn, Geezer (who posts only occasionally now), Ghoulman, HK, Succatash, SargeX, Drakon, Soupcatcher, Citizen, Phoenixrose... Some of them came here to proselytize, not knowing what a stubborn cussed bunch we are. Others had deeply felt, sincere views for which they couldn't create cogent arguments. Still others, I think, felt that they had simply said everything they wanted to say, and didn't feel like repeating themselves. The initial attraction (Firefly) has faded. And, it's the holidays. Traffic is slow, folks have other things to do.

The reason why PNs posts occupy so much real estate IS bc other peeps are not posting, for various reasons. Boards go through ups and downs. this may be just a slow time, or perhaps it IS winding down for good, but don't put this on PN or Haken. The board has been lovely and the community has moderated itself very well.

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I gotta 1/2 agree with sig here. I'd disagree with that long a list, but rap, citizen, finn, sure. Some of those others were just "posting" as you are suggesting people do.

I try to refrain unless there's a new topic. I thought the private little war was newsworthy. Afgh thread I just created for Niki to rant, I do hand out soap boxes every once in a while.

This particular thread I'm afraid is essentially a personal attack thread, and I'm going to abandon it.


Mike, sure, he's not Cho, but the guy who fires 1000 times and hits 20 is going to do better than an ace with a single round and six shooter

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Mike, sure, he's not Cho, but the guy who fires 1000 times and hits 20 is going to do better than an ace with a single round and six shooter

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See, that's a fundamental point of disagreement between us, it would seem. I'm more for the "one shot, one kill" line of attack, versus the "launch 20 Hellfire missiles and kill over 700 Pakistanis, and call it a win if you get the ONE guy you were trying for for all those months." The latter is our current policy, by the way. If that's what you consider "better", I'd hate to think what "worse" looks like. ;)

The guy who fires 1000 times isn't necessarily doing "better", he's just doing more damage and hurting more people. That a few of them might DESERVE the hurt tends to not really be a great comfort to the family who just lost their 8-year-old son as a consequence.

Ya nam sang? (Y'know what I'm saying?)

Mike

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