Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
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Yeah, something like that.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
Re: Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
That's the for ya
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Re: Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
I will admit, I never did and probably never will understand why thread-necroing is so bad. *Shrugs* To me, it's more annoying to create a new thread-takes up more bandwidth and is derivative. But, that's me.
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Re: Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
It's not inherently evil - it's just this: You look at a thread that hasn't been active for 6 months. It's new to you, so you come up with a witty, salient, and insightful comment, and you post it. Now I see a new comment and go look, but I have no idea to what your comment refers, because I haven't seen the preceding dialog for 6 months.
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Re: Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
Mikey, you may have just created a causality loop by waiting so long to reply to this topic.
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Huh? He only responded a few hours after the other guy.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
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Oh. Well then. I guess the irony was too good to be true
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Pretty much.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
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Re: Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
Grundig wrote:Mikey, you may have just created a causality loop by waiting so long to reply to this topic.
by RK_Striker_JK_5 on Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:20 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5 on Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:20 am
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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Re: Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
Okay... although usually I just reread the last few pages or so. *Shrugs* And on other forums, I've seen people post topics and other posters put up "We've got a thread for that right here!" or something like that. So it's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other it seems.Mikey wrote:It's not inherently evil - it's just this: You look at a thread that hasn't been active for 6 months. It's new to you, so you come up with a witty, salient, and insightful comment, and you post it. Now I see a new comment and go look, but I have no idea to what your comment refers, because I haven't seen the preceding dialog for 6 months.
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Not all of us particularly want to have to read back through a year old thread just to figure out what one comment meant. If it's new information on the topic that hasn't been brought up before, then simply creating a thread and saying "Hey, I was looking over that old thread about X when I realised that no one had mentioned Y." is far easier.
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Seems silly to start a new thread over something that we already have a thread about.
Like Bush giving himself a bonus because he gave himself one last year.
That wacky guy!
Like Bush giving himself a bonus because he gave himself one last year.
That wacky guy!
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Re: Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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That and brand new transportation for himself. New armored cars, SUVs and a few helicopters and a remodel of Air Force 1. Good thing that US troops aren't in need of ammo, body armor or armored transports or armor plated Hummers themselves right!
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Re: Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics
It was the right time of year for dead threads to return to life and haunt us...Post by Mikey on Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:55 pm
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