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cheezedood21
I would actually like to hear Elaus' opinion of his topics. And the fact that he has not presented something to defend himself with, allows the flame to keep burning.
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150529
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Orranis
What if we all acted like Elaus? The board would be full of disjointed, one-post threads. What would be wrong with that? Well, there would be no conversation, there would be no communication, and there would be no community. It takes mutual participation and common interest to build a commmunity. Since Elaus provides no particpation, and provides nothing of true interest to the greater population, the community is having extreme difficulty accepting him. He is, therefore, the self made outsider. Whenever this person then posts something on the board, while not causing any harm, it drives the same contempt in the hearts of the community that spam mail does. What harm is that 'free satalitte tv' card that comes in the mail every day, or that annoying phone call from the telemarketer? Nothing tangible. So why do people detest spam? Why do we have the national 'do not call' registry? Because people do not want these intrusions, no matter how trivial. No one is physically harmed by them. They are not 'serious', but they are definately unwanted. They are not desirable. This is the same manner that Elaus approaches us. He provides us a continual stream of unwanted, dead-end, uninteresting, trash threads that he has no interest in participating in.
So I ask again? What would it be like if we all acted like Elaus? It would destroy what we have here. If all I ever got was spam mail in the mail box, I would stop checking my mail. Much like that, people will stop coming to randomness if we allow spam threads.
Motivational Speech/Argument! Roll your D20, requires at least 15.
MyTie rolls a 20/15, plus one from charisma bonus.
Critical success!
Perfectly put.
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Orranis
I would actually like to hear Elaus' opinion of his topics. And the fact that he has not presented something to defend himself with, allows the flame to keep burning.
He just did. Unfortunately it was filled with selfish ^&*!@#-baggery. Just because you don't mind doesn't mean we don't either.
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273605
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Interest
What if we all acted like Elaus? The board would be full of
disjointed, one-post
threads. What would be wrong with that? Well, there would be no conversation, there would be no communication, and there would be no community. It takes mutual participation and common interest to build a commmunity. Since Elaus provides no particpation, and provides nothing of true interest to the greater population, the community is having extreme difficulty accepting him. He is, therefore, the self made outsider. Whenever this person then posts something on the board, while not causing any harm, it drives the same contempt in the hearts of the community that spam mail does. What harm is that 'free satalitte tv' card that comes in the mail every day, or that annoying phone call from the telemarketer? Nothing tangible. So why do people detest spam? Why do we have the national 'do not call' registry? Because people do not want these intrusions, no matter how trivial. No one is physically harmed by them. They are not 'serious', but they are definately unwanted. They are not desirable. This is the same manner that Elaus approaches us. He provides us a continual stream of unwanted, dead-end, uninteresting, trash threads that he has no interest in participating in.
So I ask again? What would it be like if we all acted like Elaus? It would destroy what we have here. If all I ever got was spam mail in the mail box, I would stop checking my mail. Much like that, people will stop coming to randomness if we allow spam threads.
Yet I'm still here, posting a load with a fanbase cheering me on.
-.-
Publicado por
Malgayne
Yet I'm still here, posting a load with a fanbase cheering me on.
-.-
I hope you'll forgive me if I say "I've wondered about that too". :)
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392412
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Interest
Yet I'm still here, posting a load with a fanbase cheering me on.
-.-
I hope you'll forgive me if I say "I've wondered about that too". :)
You know his huge posts about raid instances? Yeah. That and the fact that he's good conversation at times. Sure, he gets a bit annoying with filling the whole first page with his posts, but at least he contributes with a good number of them.
Eh. I have yet to finish my People's Palace thing. I'm at a major block on what to do with the Royal Quarters.
Publicado por
MyTie
Yet I'm still here, posting a load with a fanbase cheering me on.
-.-
I hope you'll forgive me if I say "I've wondered about that too". :)
Interest irritates me, but like others said, he is capable of conversation. He does contribute. I'll never probably "like" Interest, as in, I'll probably never ask him to join me for waffles or anything. My irritation comes when he buries my debate thread in forum games. Then, even then, I don't stay irritated at him. I think he has gone through an effort (perhaps even subconscious) to avoid burying my threads. For this, my distaste for him has healed to the point of just being neutral.
On top of that, Interest seems to be the only person on wowhead who is flame proof. He never flames anyone, and he doesn't even seem to notice when he himself is flamed. It's intruiging.
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Interest
Yet I'm still here, posting a load with a fanbase cheering me on.
-.-
I hope you'll forgive me if I say "I've wondered about that too". :)
Interest irritates me, but like others said, he is capable of conversation. He does contribute. I'll never probably "like" Interest, as in, I'll probably never ask him to join me for waffles or anything. My irritation comes when he buries my debate thread in forum games. Then, even then, I don't stay irritated at him. I think he has gone through an effort (perhaps even subconscious) to avoid burying my threads. For this, my distaste for him has healed to the point of just being neutral.
On top of that, Interest seems to be the only person on wowhead who is flame proof. He never flames anyone, and he doesn't even seem to notice when he himself is flamed. It's intruiging.
Actually, I do know if I get flamed. I just shrug it off.
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MyTie
Actually, I do know if I get flamed. I just shrug it off.
This too. You are the one and only person who does that. For that, you get points from me.
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393249
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MyTie
Great post Vanstorm. I agree with mostly everything. The part I don't agree with is:The problem is that you want this forum to be all about YOU and what YOU want.There is plenty in the forum that I don't like, but I don't have a problem with. Take that sports thread, for example. I don't really talk sports, ever, but I don't take issue with the thread simply becuase it isn't "me". The threads that Elaus posts are disliked by a significant enough of the randomness goers that they create controversy. Let's not make this about
me
, because it isn't.
Now, about the general acceptability of his theads, it's all just opinion. I gave me, you gave yours. I don't think you are wrong and neither am I, just like my wife wasn't wrong. We just disagree. I don't think we need to go up in arms against eachother because of this, do you? My wife and I get along just fine, despite disagreeing on things.
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148723
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393249
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Squishalot
The simple fact that most of Elaus' threads do get responses indicates there is a market for them in this forum.
The fact that the topic receives replies has almost nothing to do with whether the thread should be here or not.
Positive replies, not just 'gtfo already!' replies.
Otherwise, where on the forums would you propose they go?
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165617
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Publicado por
Malgayne
The second you begin to censor what is and is not considered "pointless" or "useful" is the second that a forum just becomes a message board of what a couple people that run this site thinks is a-ok. Tisk tisk.
Also, shame on you Malgayne! I think it was totally inappropriate to call out Elaus out like that and say that its, "just another Elaus thread which serves little purpose", even if it is part of a question. It is a loaded question and you failing to look at the other, thoughtful threads that are on Wowhead as well. I think if anything, if we want to have a discussion on randomness then we should have to pick and choose our words as carefully as we.
Irony, since I have been one of Elaus's staunchest defenders. :)
The statement wasn't intended to be a shot at Elaus. It was intended to make it clear to the other posters that I was asking for opinions on his behavior. You're right, though, I should have made more of an effort to keep this in the realm of the hypothetical.
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