What to do with chit chat?

[Rusty Shackleford]

Ok, so yes, ill agree the "___ a poster above/below you" threads got out of hand. and some really dumb stuff is posted in here. some of the complaints actually do bring one thing up. they are flooding chit chat.

i notice there are some decent topics which get sidelined by spamming of stupid stuff... so... im going to provide a few options and see if we can get a vote on this.

if im breaking rules then delete it.

[Sam_b]

What does a vote achieve, and why would you be the one selecting the options?

[Rusty Shackleford]

to get discussion going?

[Il Medico]

I think SamB should become the revolutionary commissar of chit-chat and purge all counter revolutionary trolls from its ranks.


Hail glorious comrade Sam B!

[Fawkes]

Someone should start a "Start a discussion on the future of chit-chat with the poster above you" thread.

[leftace53]

At first I lol'd at Fawkes' posts. Then I :rolleyes: at Fawkes' posts. Now I facepalm. Wonder where this will go next.

[Rusty Shackleford]

probably further down hill. the thread is already lost.

[leftace53]

i am a degenerate. I also enjoy lively intellectual conversations. I vote for a sub sub forum for us degenerates, and this for lively intellectual conversations that have not been fulfilled throughout the rest of the forum.

[Quail]

It's chit chat. Everything goes downhill!

[Fawkes]

probably further down hill. the thread is already lost.

1. If you want to start a serious discussion, you can't expect it to happen in chit-chat
2. This is chit-chat

[Il Medico]

i am a degenerate. I also enjoy lively intellectual conversations. I vote for a sub sub forum for us degenerates, and this for lively intellectual conversations that have not been fulfilled throughout the rest of the forum.
If you put all the degenerates in a subforum, there will be no one in chit-chat.

[Rusty Shackleford]

1. If you want to start a serious discussion, you can't expect it to happen in chit-chat
2. This is chit-chat
yeah i know. i even said so in the serious discussion thread. im not ignoring the laws of chit-chat i wasnt expecting much either :lol:

[leftace53]

If you put all the degenerates in a subforum, there will be no one in chit-chat.

Don't worry, I swing both ways.

[Il Medico]

Don't worry, I swing both ways.
What with all the Bi jokes lately leftace?

[Ele'ill]

Someone should start a "Start a discussion on the future of chit-chat with the poster above you" thread.


Or start a thread with 'vote to purge the poster above you'

[leftace53]

There's only two.... I think.
And I don't know, today's been an odd day for me.

[Fawkes]

At first I lol'd at Fawkes' posts. Then I :rolleyes: at Fawkes' posts. Now I facepalm. Wonder where this will go next.

:D

After a year of not posting here, I had to come back to reclaim the territory I once held reign over as an ex-mod of chit chat.

[Ele'ill]

We should all agree to not make silly threads that often.

Silly posts are ok so long as they are not regular or more importantly- detracting from the thread or forum

[Quail]

What with all the Bi jokes lately leftace?

leftace53 is secretly a religious separatist!:rolleyes:

[Il Medico]

leftace53 is secretly a religious separatist!:rolleyes:
I knew it!


But seriously, I only asked cuz I just read like four post by her that were all bi jokes.

[leftace53]

I swear there were only two.... Maybe.

[Quail]

I know you're bi too :p

[Il Medico]

I know you're bi too :p
I take it leftace ninja posted and you were talking to me.

[leftace53]

I swear, everyone should be bi, so that I don't have to be turned down by girls just because they don't go for girls. :lol:

[Il Medico]

I swear, everyone should be bi, so that I don't have to be turned down by girls just because they don't go for girls. :lol:
this. just with da boyz.

[Fawkes]

This happens constantly, it isn't a new thing. People that have been here a while can probably attest to the fact that every few months, something like the "poster above you" thing happens. I'm pretty sure this isn't even the first time that it happened pertaining to threads about the poster above you. In short, it happens, whatever, it's chit-chat, then it naturally dies down. There's no need for a separate forum or even more guidelines in this place, just learn to not take yourself quite so seriously, particularly on the internet of all places.

[Quail]

:mad:
I swear, everyone should be bi, so that I don't have to be turned down by girls just because they don't go for girls. :lol:

Fucking sucls when the girl you like isn't bi... Or you don't do her because you're worried about what your parents will think.. :(

[Rusty Shackleford]

This happens constantly, it isn't a new thing. People that have been here a while can probably attest to the fact that every few months, something like the "poster above you" thing happens. I'm pretty sure this isn't even the first time that it happened pertaining to threads about the poster above you. In short, it happens, whatever, it's chit-chat, then it naturally dies down. There's no need for a separate forum or even more guidelines in this place, just learn to not take yourself quite so seriously, particularly on the internet of all places.
this obviously means that chit-chat acts like the capitalist market system. therefore i think chit-chat should then be outright removed.

[leftace53]

:mad:

Fucking sucls when the girl you like isn't bi... Or you don't do her because you're worried about what your parents will think.. :(

oh man, if I cared about what my parents thought... life would be... different. to say the least. Sometimes I wonder though, what if I did care.

[Tablo]

We should just all agree to quit posting so many threads.

[Quail]

oh man, if I cared about what my parents thought... life would be... different. to say the least. Sometimes I wonder though, what if I did care.

My parents are so homophpbic.. I told myself I'd only tell them if it got serious. I don't want to deal with the crap I would get unless the gf is serious.

[Il Medico]

My parents are so homophpbic.. I told myself I'd only tell them if it got serious. I don't want to deal with the crap I would get unless the gf is serious.
Same thing with me. My family is extremely homophobic. The only people who know are my cool aunt and my parents. Quite simply because the rest of my family would probably disown me. (They did actually disown my aunt when she married a black man back in the late sixties. I hate my family sometimes.:( )

[leftace53]

My family just wants grandkids - they won't get any from me no matter which sex I like. They will be dissapointed if I have some long term thing with girl, and I've told them I'm Bi, but they seem to think its a phase.

[leftace53]

Oh yea, and I'm not allowed to date - either sex. :lol:

[Il Medico]

My family just wants grandkids - they won't get any from me no matter which sex I like. They will be dissapointed if I have some long term thing with girl, and I've told them I'm Bi, but they seem to think its a phase.
that is my parents. pretty much word for word. (except the relationship with a girl, they want that.)

[Quail]

Oh yea, and I'm not allowed to date - either sex. :lol:

Lolwut how do they stop you?

[Il Medico]

Lolwut how do they stop you?
If you read her post, it is pretty clear that they don't.

[leftace53]

well they don't. they just tend to not know. I mean, I don't technically live with them anymore so its whatever, but I was here over the summer, and I didn't care much for dating/had a boyfriend (nope, they didn't know about him) for most of the time I have been here. I guess they just don't want to know their little girl is all grown up.

[mollymae]

i like stupid conversations

[Devrim]

I'd get rid of chit-chat completely.

Devrim

[Dimentio]

We should all agree to not make silly threads that often.

Silly posts are ok so long as they are not regular or more importantly- detracting from the thread or forum

Is there anything to detract from in the first place?

[F9]

Close stupid threads Closed