AKA- Why I lurk.
1. Let's say your on a board that doesn't get tons of activity... Less than a page worth of new posts in a day. All of the discussion is about one particular thing. Then you post something like "Hey, I just got married!" And someone replies with a link to the off topic board. Because GOD FORBID you get some activity going around there. It just takes up sooooooo much bandwidth after all, and it forces the victim to suffer through another 0.0065 seconds of sifting through threads.
2. You can't slap people for being a moron.
3. No amount of arguing is going to change a damn thing, because everyone on a forum thinks they're the shit (including me). They argue about really meaningful things, like abortion. I'm sure some extreme pro-life guy isn't going to just suddenly "snap out of it". He's probably given the subject plenty of thought. Doesn't need your help. Never in your life will you hear someone say "Well I WAS a Christian, but some genius 17 year old on a Children of Bodom forum really changed my life". I've never been to the Children of Bodom board, but it's a good scapegoat. People that try to change your opinion. For example- I don't like Helloween. "DUDDE, WHA(RT ARE YOU THINKING! POSUR!" Then they go on to try to tell you the REAL meaning of Keeper of the Seven Keys, and try to tell you Kai Hansen PWNS, and it's just a big mess.
4. No, not trolls. Troll Food. Troll Food goes into the topic of an obvious troll and goes "fuck you, dude! *finger*". It's sustenance for the troll. It wouldn't be so fun for them if they didn't get fed. Then some guy walks in and says "No, you don't get it, that's just Marv. He's fucked up." But Troll Food doesn't contain animal brain pieces, so they continue the feeding frenzy.
5. Signatures that aren't funny, or really big. "Yay, just what I wanted to see, a CATFISH! SCORE!" And yet without a catfi- I mean, signature, you're nobody. Nothing stands out. That's why I don't get laid on this board.
I'll end it there for now. I don't know what compelled me to do this. Hopefully I'll change some people, but I know I won't.
1. Let's say your on a board that doesn't get tons of activity... Less than a page worth of new posts in a day. All of the discussion is about one particular thing. Then you post something like "Hey, I just got married!" And someone replies with a link to the off topic board. Because GOD FORBID you get some activity going around there. It just takes up sooooooo much bandwidth after all, and it forces the victim to suffer through another 0.0065 seconds of sifting through threads.
2. You can't slap people for being a moron.
3. No amount of arguing is going to change a damn thing, because everyone on a forum thinks they're the shit (including me). They argue about really meaningful things, like abortion. I'm sure some extreme pro-life guy isn't going to just suddenly "snap out of it". He's probably given the subject plenty of thought. Doesn't need your help. Never in your life will you hear someone say "Well I WAS a Christian, but some genius 17 year old on a Children of Bodom forum really changed my life". I've never been to the Children of Bodom board, but it's a good scapegoat. People that try to change your opinion. For example- I don't like Helloween. "DUDDE, WHA(RT ARE YOU THINKING! POSUR!" Then they go on to try to tell you the REAL meaning of Keeper of the Seven Keys, and try to tell you Kai Hansen PWNS, and it's just a big mess.
4. No, not trolls. Troll Food. Troll Food goes into the topic of an obvious troll and goes "fuck you, dude! *finger*". It's sustenance for the troll. It wouldn't be so fun for them if they didn't get fed. Then some guy walks in and says "No, you don't get it, that's just Marv. He's fucked up." But Troll Food doesn't contain animal brain pieces, so they continue the feeding frenzy.
5. Signatures that aren't funny, or really big. "Yay, just what I wanted to see, a CATFISH! SCORE!" And yet without a catfi- I mean, signature, you're nobody. Nothing stands out. That's why I don't get laid on this board.
I'll end it there for now. I don't know what compelled me to do this. Hopefully I'll change some people, but I know I won't.
err... sorry 
