FFF.not?
POSTED BY: stinkingrose
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 22:59
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Stinkingrose is not a newbie, she's been on the board for five years, joined shortly after I did.
Ritual is what happens when we run out of rational.
A sockpuppet?
Sorry for the error. I had been checking new users cropping up, and they're overwhelmingly newbies.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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Hah, no, we aren't related, nor are we the same person. If I understand it right, she grows garlic in her garden, and uses it to cook regularly, so she chose a garlic reference as her handle. Our friends in the Bar and Grill thread generally call her Rosie and call me Rose, to keep us straight.
I met her at DragonCon 2007, have photos of her and everything 
I have no sockpuppets, and if I did, I certainly wouldn't make our names almost exactly the same so everyone would jump to that conclusion. But I do remember when she joined, simply because our names are so similar. I kind of went, "Wait, I didn't post that..." and rubbed my eyes for a bit. I remember it (fairly) well.
Ritual is what happens when we run out of rational.
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I don't know why everyone keeps calling me sickpuppet or sickpuppy. I thought of going with River5426 but then I decided that would be too confusing, so I chose PirateNews instead. Like PirateJenny and PirateCat. j/k. I am not Meatpuppet. I'm also not the HappySockPuppet.
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I have socks. I am not a puppet.
Noob. 
I'm just bemoaning "kids these days and when I was your age".
Hadn't realized I had stumbled under a bridge, you can't tell from the page where I linked in.
I come here to visit the 'verse. I get enough of politics and conspiracies out in the real world.
"I want something that makes me feel shiny." - Beckett
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This is Real World Even Discussions forum. Might not that have been a clue as to why we discuss real world events and politics?
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If you eliminate RWED, you eliminate a lot of daily news that draws viewers. Just like network news only exists to draw viewers for sitcoms.
There's a ton of excellent fanfic on FFF to choose from. FF does live after all, every day. Which is amazing.
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Everyone's pretty much said it. New people still discover Firefly and still discover this place, but I imagine they spend most of their time in the FF forums, at least at first. As you said, you've had enough of politics and conspiracies, and this is the only forum (I know of) where those exist. I remember when I was a newbie (on another board), I wanted to talk about Firefly and everyone told me that, given it's been so long, most discussions were about other things, some Joss-related, etc. Over there, the equivalent of RWED was the most frequented forum, too, and I'm guessing it is on most FF sites. Just the way of the world. At least it keeps the sites alive.
I'm almost exclusively in RWED for just the reason it doesn't interest you; I find the conversations here stimulating and interesting, and very up-to-date, so I can find out a lot here (ignoring the obvious idiocy) that I either haven't heard or haven't YET heard on the news.
We're still Browncoats, or I'm guessing most of us, we just like hanging out with other Browncoats and talking about stuff--if it weren't for RWED I probably wouldn't stick around. Even I, only a couple of years since discovering FF, couldn't find much more to talk about it, especially much that hasn't already been gone over. I assume those in the FF forums take care of new people, since most of the rest of the other forums are about that. I'm quite happy here, hanging out with other Browncoats; when something pops up FF-related, I often go to the FF forums to mention it--only to find it's already been talked about!
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off 
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Originally posted by Niki2:
I remember when I was a newbie (on another board), I wanted to talk about Firefly and everyone told me that, given it's been so long, most discussions were about other things, some Joss-related, etc.
eeek, I remember that too (for me). It was before the BDM came out. Everyone had already seen it at advance screenings and had discussed it to death, and I was still wanting to talk about it. Very frustrating.
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By the way, the threads in RWED *DON'T* show up on the main page, either. So these aren't the "non-Firefly" threads that are taking over the foum, since they're invisible until you click into the RWED area.
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Not quite, they do show up in the top 100 discussions, with no indication of what forum a thread might be from.
Ritual is what happens when we run out of rational.
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