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[Noel's angel]

exactly, personal threads dont bother me as much, but people just start threads to have a conversation with their friends, and as far as im aware, that is not what phatmass is for

[Mrs. Bro. Adam]

[quote name='Noel's angel' date='Aug 28 2004, 11:06 AM'] but we shouldnt have to do that, no need to be so sharp [/quote]
I'm not trying to be sharp, just trying to look at it through the eyes of those that like the fluffy threads.

I, myself, use the subscribtion service and tracking service so that I don't have to go through all the fluff and search all the pages. But you also have to realize that it's a public board with hundreds of different personalities. To say that we should get rid of all personal threads and fluff threads isn't fair to them. To say that we should just allow the fluff threads to take over the board is not right either. For now, we just need to let the board take its course in its life. It'll come back with less fluff and more substance. Whatever doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger.

I really didn't mean to come across sharp, and if I did, I apologize. That was not the intent.

The intent was simply to give a solution other than saying that the threads should be banned, deleted, edited. There's two groups of people on Open Mic. The ones that come for the fluff, and the ones that come for the substance. Right now there's more fluffy people than substance people.

[Noel's angel]

ok, i understand, im not saying that we should get rid of ALL spam and personal threads, its just people should know when to stop, a bit of spam now and again is fine to clear the head, but there is too much at the minute and people are doing it for badness now

[VeraMaria]

Don't worry, noel's angel, in a while they'll be gone...

[Mrs. Bro. Adam]

Then I think the solution is to get more people of substance on the Open Mic, and flush out the fluff threads by posting, and keep posting on threads of substance.

[VeraMaria]

I think it'd also make it tidier if we could make about one "news" thread a day, where everyone can post news artciles. Because sometimes you have a bunch and I, for example, post them all separately, which really clutters up things. One a day maybe

[Noel's angel]

yeah, i think ur right, but the fluffers seem to be the ones who are posting all the time and it seems that theyll just keep making threads, but we should give it a go

[cmotherofpirl]

[color=blue]"open mic - babble on

Speak your mind about anything you'd like. Introduce yourself. Eat banana pudding. Mow my lawn for $5. This is where your phatmass addiction begins."[/color]


Open mic covers lots of territory and there is room here for everyone. Sometimes there are too many personal threads, sometimes there are too many news horrors posted as well. It balances out in the end. There are 1300 people on the member rolls now.

If you are interested in a particular topic, the tracking and subscribing options work well as Mrs B pointed out. I enjoy reading all the different threads here, because everyone is so delightfully different [ and wacky as well]

[VeraMaria]

Extrrremely wacky

Gotta love the Pham

[Mrs. Bro. Adam]

Well said, Cmom!

[Noel's angel]

ok, fair enough, i suppose we all have to tolerate things we dont like

[Pete-ster]

It wasn't about fluff hteads, but a particular person trying to fill up the first page with threads they started...

[the_rev]

Do we not like the games...

Do we not want any more word associations? Complimenting people?

[IcePrincessKRS]

ya know... the particular person in question doesn't post all that often and honestly... I enjoy it when she comes in and has a goof-off session and does stuff like that. Its been months since she did something silly like that. I don't care if they're "stupid", its a great relief from the squabbles I end up reading most of the time. A little silliness never killed anyone.

But thats just me.

Edited August 28, 2004 by IcePrincessKRS

[cmotherofpirl]

Word!

[Donna]

Yes, Cmom, I came out to play; and it generated hostility which [i]bewildered[/i] me.

(KMS! Bilbo-burglar greetings!).

But it's vain to say I caused hostility: I was only a straw that broke a camel's back.

There are others which find personal threads annoying.

Vera, I love your one news thread suggestion (tho a one-thread sounds too overwhelming and'd probably make me not look at it).

Pet-ster, I realized, that like at a party, with all its different conversations going on, if some housewife from heck barged into the room and disrupted everything, I might well [i]hate[/i] it.

OTOH, I might [b]love[/b] it.

I would hope, however, that I wouldn't be like Morph and still dissing, but maybe he's having a bad week.

Now if you gentlemen would kindly note, I am rarely here, and I shall stay far away from you when you're having a bad day.

It could've been much worse: I could've broken into yo' threads and been [i]unruly[/i].
But I would not do that (probably).

Yes, Vera, the luvvv is here.

[Iacobus]

Just give it a few hours. There are a ton of posts, bumps and new threads everyday. The avg life span of a thread on page one (without a bump or post) is a few hours. I wouldn't be overly worried. By time I got on this evening I saw maybe one thread.

[voiciblanche]

[quote name='Donna' date='Aug 28 2004, 03:10 AM'] read the threads I've posted this morn you'd see how meaningful they are. [/quote]
Hey, you're Donna. I've found you to be pretty cool, so I just didn't question it.

[voiciblanche]

[quote name='Mrs. Bro. Adam' date='Aug 28 2004, 09:14 AM'] The intent was simply to give a solution other than saying that the threads should be banned, deleted, edited. There's two groups of people on Open Mic. The ones that come for the fluff, and the ones that come for the substance. Right now there's more fluffy people than substance people. [/quote]
-sigh-

I miss the substance-and-fluff people. They've pretty much all either gone or have converted to one or the other. And the substance people tend to stay in the Debate Table rather than coming to visit every once and a while like it used to be. And so the fluff people come in and take over Open Mic.

Just my observation... I probably contribute to tons of fluff myself. I'm sorry if I'm terribly... terrible. -_-

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Donna' date='Aug 29 2004, 01:43 AM'] Yes, Cmom, I came out to play; and it generated hostility which [i]bewildered[/i] me.

(KMS! Bilbo-burglar greetings!).

But it's vain to say I caused hostility: I was only a straw that broke a camel's back.

There are others which find personal threads annoying.

Vera, I love your one news thread suggestion (tho a one-thread sounds too overwhelming and'd probably make me not look at it).

Pet-ster, I realized, that like at a party, with all its different conversations going on, if some housewife from heck barged into the room and disrupted everything, I might well [i]hate[/i] it.

OTOH, I might [b]love[/b] it.

I would hope, however, that I wouldn't be like Morph and still dissing, but maybe he's having a bad week.

Now if you gentlemen would kindly note, I am rarely here, and I shall stay far away from you when you're having a bad day.

It could've been much worse: I could've broken into yo' threads and been [i]unruly[/i].
But I would not do that (probably).

Yes, Vera, the luvvv is here. [/quote]
I am always happy to see ya.

AsLan rules and FrOdo lives!