What does it take for one's thread to have may posts and hits?

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Have you all noticed most of the long threads has nothing to do with the original content?.

God dam hijackers everywhere,lol

 

[Bubba]

God dam hijackers everywhere,lol

:search:

 

[Cardinal Fang]

Well how about you be a kind gentleman and be the first to post yours here.

I don't know how this is supposed to help.

Happy now Sarah? :biggrin2:

 

[Cardinal Fang]

Hahahaha he can borrow mine anytime

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :biggrin2:

 

[Pietro]

:biggrin2:

 

[Goodfella]

Here and why not.

 

[bobistheowl]

To the OP:

I don't usually open threads that have spelling mistakes in the headline, in this case, 'may' instead of 'many'. It's like, if you were working in HR for a company hiring, and someone spells Resumé as Resame, I move on to the next. I miss the odd good one, but I don't have the time to read most of them. If I'm hosting Let's Make a Deal on TV, the guy dressed like a Mormon missionary won't catch my attention, but the lady in the chicken suit probably will. The title has to interest me, and this one doesn't.

The guy who started the thread, Bubbles? something like that, I can't tell, he doesn't have any posts on this page. He could fix the thread title by double or triple clicking it in the forum scroll list, and when the title is selected, he can edit the text. Only the thread starter or a Mod can do that.

Oops, sorry, It's Bubba. I scrolled right past him because of the avatar. What's he doing? Is that a pistol to his head? Is he on the phone? I'd need 640x480 screen resolution to tell, and it's not worth scrambling my desktop icons to do that.

 

[User-E]

I must have missed the memo where we appointed bob as Head Post Critic for HUBGFE. Hmmmmmm

 

[Miserable]

I must have missed the memo where we appointed bob as Head Post Critic for HUBGFE. Hmmmmmm

Being miserable comes to mind.

 

[User-E]

Being miserable comes to mind.

Are you feeling miserable today Miserable? ;/Waving://

 

[papasmerf]

I must have missed the memo where we appointed bob as Head Post Critic for HUBGFE. Hmmmmmm

I know darn well I sent you the memo................check your spam folder.
And if it is not there check the cheese file.

 

[oldguyzer]

Where's the bacon?

 

[papasmerf]

Where's the bacon?

Was on the turkey

 

[bobistheowl]

Seems to me you need to get bob to post.

We are drawn to bob like moths to a flame.

I must have missed the memo where we appointed bob as Head Post Critic for HUBGFE. Hmmmmmm

Sarah, here are some things to consider:

Tech:

I have DSL internet, and I still use Windows XP. I stay with the DSL, because I own the DSL modem. Things like download speed don't influence me; I can acquire files quickly enough, as is. I use a number of apps and games that don't work with Windows operating systems later than XP, and I don't like the interface with the later versions.

I use Windows 7 where I teach, and I don't like it, and neither do my students. Many of the tasks we used to do regularly have been eliminated, moved, renamed, or hidden from plain sight. I find it to be "dumbed down". I like some of the new features, like the thumbnail icons for image files, but I miss the menu bars. It takes me longer to do things, even when I already know how.

I hate what they did to the Windows Search, and to MS Paint. It's as if your help question is "How do I do this?". and the answer is "Why don't you do this instead?". It's the same feeling you get when you go in a store, and ask the clerk "Do you have <something very specific>", and he tells you other things that he has that you didn't ask him about, or if you ask someone how far away a place is, they say "About two hours.", assuming that you meant traveling by car, when I'm looking for an answer in kilometers or miles. It's like the guy in the restaurant who grinds the fresh pepper, and you tell him you will tell him when to stop, and he stops on his own, more than once. I don't want my computer to think for me. I want to have it execute commands, and I can do than with XP, but not with 7.

I don't want to switch to a MAC, because that would effect my apps as well. I use a 1990's font making program, that doesn't work with Vista or later, nor with some Windows automatic update from February, 2014. I had to buy a second computer, with Windows XP, and the Office 2007 programs and my font making software as the only additional installed programs. I don't have that computer connected to the Internet, cause I don't want anything on the Internet to cause my app to fail again, (repeated removal and re-installation of the font making App, on different drives, made no difference). It's one of those old 'horizontal tower' computers, with an A: floppy disk drive, which I thought 'oh no!' at first, but it's beneficial because it saves space by being under the monitor. It was $140 from my repairman; he buys them new, but unsellable in stores, and cannibalizes them for parts.

That computer is super quick, and I can leave it on for weeks at a time. I have to use a flash drive to move files between the computers, because you have to be connected to the Internet to make a LAN. There probably aren't many person computers, or business ones, for that matter, that aren't connected to the Internet. One day soon, that might be illegal.

I also have a horrible recent plugin for my antivirus. I'm going to try to uninstall it, but I'll have to disconnect from the modem to do that, because you can't turn it off while it's running, and it starts with the operating system.

I often have 40+ windows open, including folders, browser, images opened in MS Paint, maybe a Free Cell or Hearts game open, etc.

Windows no longer supports XP, and the effect of Internet on my other apps has gotten worse. I can't run my bit torrent client and Internet at the same time for more than about 30 hours. If I used a new bit torrent client, it would wipe out my downloaded list, from which I can find the location of any one of those files, if I still have them, in two mouse clicks.

I could get a third computer, just to avoid delays, but I don't want to give up the features I use most often.


Personal:

When I use the word 'you' in posts, It always means 'all readers', or 'a specific group of individuals previously described", depending on the context. If I am quoting someone, and mean 'you' specifically, I'll underline and/ or bold the text.

I read message boards for entertainment, and for information and opinions that interest me. I post on message boards for those same reasons. I often write in the middle of the night, and frequently spend a lot of time on individual posts. I very rarely read replies less than a few hours later, so when my threads are at the top, it's only because no one else was posting then. By the time anyone reads them, I'm doing something else, most of the time.

If I'm writing a longer piece in 'waking hours', I'm not monitoring posts in a second window, so my light may be green, but I'm nowhere around. I probably didn't sign out when I minimized the Window.

I don't read most of the threads, and some of the threads, I'll read intermittently, but only the current page, because most of the posts from past pages are no longer important. A good example: In Sports, a hockey thread, somebody posts 'the score is now tied', and nobody reads it until the next day'.

I don't like emoticons because they are impermanent. By the time I read them, the feeling they were conveying is most often no longer felt. If someone has an emotional reaction to the post, I don't need to know that. I attempt to give you folks something to read, that you consider more valuable that the time you spent reading it.

I don't expect everyone to read everything I write, but some chose to do so. I don't read everything that anyone writes here. Some people write a lot of things, but I don't know who they are, because they write in threads that I don't read. We probably have different interests, or some in common that haven't collided yet.

I don't expect everyone to understand everything I write. I don't want everyone to understand it. Most people could understand most of them, but not by skimming over them. That's intentional. The people who are least likely to understand the posts are often the same people who will skip past a post because it would take too long to read, and they'll miss an emoticon in a different thread.

Unless I'm banging a woman, or I'd like to, or I'd like to bang her friend, or she's family, somebody's emotional state, on a message board, doesn't interest me in the slightest. That interests a lot of other people very much, (or, alternatively, some people seem to think that it does), but I'm not one of them. That applies to all men, all of the time. It that's all you have to say to me, don't bother. Enjoy your laugh, but you don't have to show me that you did. Sometimes I have to play a Free Cell game, while I'm waiting for the page to refresh, and I don't get any entertainment, information, or opinion out of it, because by the time I read it, the feeling is gone, and I've lost a minute because somebody wanted to tell me they laughed. I've found that about one post in 100 that's less than three lines long is worth reading, to me, by the time I get around to it. I certainly hope no one is writing anything solely for my benefit, unless they are quoting me.

If somebody says something they think is funny, they shouldn't have to point that out with an emoticon. To me, that's like a laugh track on a bad sitcom. If people can't tell if it was supposed to be funny, without adding the emoticon, it wasn't.

I find emoticons to be inherently hypocritical about half the time. Someone makes a post like "I think you're an idiot", and follows it with Shit-eating-grin #3. Grow a pair, or guard the harem is an expression I use in real life, on the rare occasions when it's warranted. That sort of passive-aggressive nonsense disgusts me.

I don't necessarily believe everything I write, when expressing an opinion. I never, however, express an opinion that is the opposite of what I actually believe, but a lot of my opinion pieces are ironic, and intentionally open to misinterpretation, if not understood, or if read superficially. If you understand why the post is made, it helps in the understanding of the post itself.

Some people may think it's dishonest to write an opinion I don't necessarily personally hold. That's the nature of law and debate; you don't necessarily get to choice the side you want to be on - like in a military court, or on JAG, where sometimes you prosecute, and sometimes you defend.

Most of my posts should be read as if someone was speaking to you. Reading them as spoken word dialogue, as opposed to written prose, is beneficial. When I use long run on sentences, it mimics speech. They sort of things I write are the same sort of things I say in real life, and they provoke identical reactions. I have a polarizing effect on almost everyone. Some people like me a lot. Some people dislike me intensely. Some people like or dislike me a bit. Very few people who've spent any time with me form no opinion whatsoever.

I often get along well with people who don't agree with anything I say. I usually don't get along with people who attack me because they disagree with my ideas. Rather than engage in conflict with them, I usually make every effort to avoid their company. I don't dislike them, but I don't want to like them, either.

I place almost no value on apologies, but I place great value on remorse. I grew up in a home where no one ever apologized for anything, unless compelled, and since those are insincere, they mean nothing to me. To me, an insincere apology is solely for the benefit of the speaker, or a prize to the recipient, who is fond of seeing other people grovel. I'm not like that. If someone deserves an apology, they'll get it, and the action will stop, or the apology is a lie, and probably a premeditated one.

I don't make promises, unless I intend to keep them. The last time I made a promise that I didn't keep was in 1985. Lots of people have made promises to me in that time that they didn't keep. If they don't keep a promise, the reason why doesn't interest me much. I'm primarily interested in results, whether or not any effort was involved. If I have an employee who's nice, friendly and fucks up a lot, I'm going to see him as a fuck up first and foremost. I'll look for opportunities to give him tasks that are difficult to fuck up. If it takes me as much time to check his work as it does for me to do the work myself, I'll do it myself, even if I already have too much to do. I don't apologize on behalf of other people, and I don't make excuses, if I sign off on a junior's mistake.

Once I was invited to a party in Niagara Falls, and I had already made plans for that night, so my friends postponed their party for a week. On the night of the party, I was way too early for my bus, so I went out for a couple of drinks. I lost track of the time, and missed my bus. I took a cab to the party from Toronto, (about $120, off the meter, and $15 tip; the driver didn't serve me food or drink). It was an average party; I wouldn't have paid $135 to buy a ticket, but I valued my reputation more than the money.

I write opinions sometimes that I think are worth contemplating, whether or not they are popular, or conforming to an incorporated but undigested approved catechism. There are other people who hold similar opinions, but their voices aren't raised, because they are intimidated by the possibility of criticism. Just because someone, or more than one person disagrees with me, doesn't mean I'm wrong, particularly when no effort is made to show why they think I am not right. As anyone familiar with Monty Python's Flying Circus can attest, contradiction is not argument.

No one learns anything useful when everybody's opinions are the same, because you're being told things you already know. Alternative opinions, however, can challenge some individuals to assess whether or not what the believe is actually true.

Keep in mind, The Truth has never been more important that that which is perceived to be True, ie: the court of public opinion. People form beliefs and opinions frequently based not on facts, but on assumptions that may not be based on facts. Example: OJ Simpson might not have killed his wife Nicole and Ron Goldman. I think he did, but that's beside the point. Only OJ knows that with certainty. If he didn't, then it doesn't matter, people have convicted him in their minds. Johnnie Cochran didn't need to believe that OJ was not guilty to defend him. The primary purpose of Law is not to punish the guilty, it's to ensure that the not guilty are not punished, for something they didn't do. Anyone who has the Hollywood Suite movie package should take the time to watch Twelve Angry Men in the On Demand until December 1.

The emphasis now is to assume guilt upon accusation, for the sake of the victim, which presupposes that the accusation is true. Otherwise, the accused is the victim, and no individual is held accountable for the error.

If I quote a seemingly insignificant passage of a longer text, or some small typing or grammar error, I'm not nit-picking. I'm using it as a springboard for some shtick, or to provide some information that I think a lot of the people reading did not know.

My posts are usually 100% factual, 100% bullshit, for comic amusement, opinions, or mostly true, with some bullshit portions that should be obvious.

Sometimes I'll write a long piece solely for the benefit of one person, and I don't care if anyone else reads it.

 

[User-E]

I've struck out lately. Does it need naked women pictures/ intellectual questions or just something you can all relate to?.

Didn't I see a post somewhere about Smerf Inc getting paid a whole lot of moolah by MM to pump up the views on the Naked Sticky Thread? Hmmmmmm

 

[User-E]

Didn't I see a post somewhere about Smerf Inc getting paid a whole lot of moolah by MM to pump up the views on the Naked Sticky Thread? Hmmmmmm

In fact, there are rumours that MM's had his nose stuck up papa's ass for a while now. :unknw:

 

[papasmerf]

Didn't I see a post somewhere about Smerf Inc getting paid a whole lot of moolah by MM to pump up the views on the Naked Sticky Thread? Hmmmmmm

there was no need
we bought it lock, stock and barrel.

exploring the property proved profitable

 

[papasmerf]

Even the new property has thus far been good to SMERF LLC.

 

[User-E]

there was no need
we bought it lock, stock and barrel.

 

[papasmerf]

Just three of SMERF LLC's holdings.

Trans World Shipping

Livestock

And our newest venture Organic Water sales.