Sharks circling..
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »Ok ..bedtime for me ....please keep it positive people..
Nobody's answer is right or wrong ....how you conduct yourself on here is up to you..let's try not to hurt each other ...ok
Sweet dreams are made of fondue.
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I'd like to weigh in on this thread...I was drawn to it because I'm a parrot head and "circling sharks" caught my eye, but clearly it is about something else entirely...to that end, in my experience, it seems rather difficult to engage in discussion when the same 20 or 30 people seem to dominate every thread I open, and you are all involved with each other and inside jokes and everyone seems to simply ignore any newcomers. It's not typically a very welcoming experience...
I should probably stick to more serious discussion about actual fitness and diet and support and motivation, rather than looking to engage in 'chit chat'...
Just thought I'd throw that into the ring...Thanks, Jo, for bringing it up.
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I will add that I feel like some people really do need to lighten up a bit. 90% of my comments on this site are completely tongue in cheek and sarcastic. I know there's many like me who come here to kill time and have a bit of fun. Personally, I wouldn't hurt anyone's feelings intentionally to save my life so if I ever have done that I sincerely apologize.
That being said......there may be some pots calling out the black kettles in this thread. I've hidden some of them because they like to egg on arguments constantly. Look inside yourselves y'all.12 -
vikinglander wrote: »I'd like to weigh in on this thread...I was drawn to it because I'm a parrot head and "circling sharks" caught my eye, but clearly it is about something else entirely...to that end, in my experience, it seems rather difficult to engage in discussion when the same 20 or 30 people seem to dominate every thread I open, and you are all involved with each other and inside jokes and everyone seems to simply ignore any newcomers. It's not typically a very welcoming experience...
I should probably stick to more serious discussion about actual fitness and diet and support and motivation, rather than looking to engage in 'chit chat'...
Just thought I'd throw that into the ring...Thanks, Jo, for bringing it up.
If you want to chit chat you should chit chat away. It is hard thought when the inside jokes pop up though. We should make up our own
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Karb_Kween wrote: »Yeah its basically like everybody wants your blood here...
c'mere...let me taste you....
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »Whilst chit chat is meant to be fun..Ive noticed a number of threads collapsing into blood baths...
Are we becoming less tolerant?
Should we run people off with different perspectives or Leave them be?
Whats your take on it ?
Every posters post is valid to them ...
Please keep it friendly..
To be fair, this happens under every forum topic. I've actually noticed that most of the "usual's" here are respectful. I actually think it's worse under other forum topics.2 -
The debate thread isn't much better. It might be a little worse if you dont know what you're getting yourself into. Every forum room has its own personality and regulars
Recipes and Food and Nutrition is generally nice. I frequent those when Chit Chat is lagging and I'm bored with Fun & Games0 -
I will add that I feel like some people really do need to lighten up a bit. 90% of my comments on this site are completely tongue in cheek and sarcastic. I know there's many like me who come here to kill time and have a bit of fun. Personally, I wouldn't hurt anyone's feelings intentionally to save my life so if I ever have done that I sincerely apologize.
That being said......there may be some pots calling out the black kettles in this thread. I've hidden some of them because they like to egg on arguments constantly. Look inside yourselves y'all.
Well said. Exactly my thoughts as I read through all the replies here.3 -
So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.10 -
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LiftingLady5 wrote: »if sarcasm has to be left out then I won't be allowed to play! Thats my language.
Like most...
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »Whilst chit chat is meant to be fun..Ive noticed a number of threads collapsing into blood baths...
Are we becoming less tolerant?
Should we run people off with different perspectives or Leave them be?
Whats your take on it ?
Every posters post is valid to them ...
Please keep it friendly..
Do you really have 145,240 post? That's got to be a mistake.
And, sharks circling.....?
I'm hearing music from Jaws and having images of that big old shark circling me and showing its big ole teeth.....4 -
Pack mentality. That's all it is. When people first show up here and post tentatively and in an introductory way, they're generally looking for acknowledgment and acceptance. Some find it, some don't. Like anywhere (schools, churches, workplace, neighborhoods) alliances are made and groups are formed.
When the responses get sharky and the circling begins here at MFP, it's noticeable that the same groups travel together and respond en masse in a thread, especially when the OP shows vulnerability or is new. There are plenty of winks and nods and elbowings that reference, in coded language, conversations that are had on walls, private groups and in PMs.
It ain't pretty but it's conventionalist conditioning and more the rule than the exception pretty much everywhere. Individuals who don't align themselves with clicques and packs don't seem to dog pile in the same way.
Anyhow, that's how I see it.
Great thread topic by the way. It should get interesting.
Oh for goodness sake.
I've noticed that certain people gravitate toward certain types of conversations (I know I do), so what you see as pack mentality could just be......
The same people showing up in the same types of conversations.10 -
So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough0 -
LiftingLady5 wrote: »if sarcasm has to be left out then I won't be allowed to play! Thats my language.
Like most...
Get out of my head!0 -
Pack mentality. That's all it is. When people first show up here and post tentatively and in an introductory way, they're generally looking for acknowledgment and acceptance. Some find it, some don't. Like anywhere (schools, churches, workplace, neighborhoods) alliances are made and groups are formed.
When the responses get sharky and the circling begins here at MFP, it's noticeable that the same groups travel together and respond en masse in a thread, especially when the OP shows vulnerability or is new. There are plenty of winks and nods and elbowings that reference, in coded language, conversations that are had on walls, private groups and in PMs.
It ain't pretty but it's conventionalist conditioning and more the rule than the exception pretty much everywhere. Individuals who don't align themselves with clicques and packs don't seem to dog pile in the same way.
Anyhow, that's how I see it.
Great thread topic by the way. It should get interesting.
Oh for goodness sake.
I've noticed that certain people gravitate toward certain types of conversations (I know I do), so what you see as pack mentality could just be......
The same people showing up in the same types of conversations.
I gravitate towards the people who are sarcastic b!tches like me. I love it when I find my people, it's like a treasure.
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So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough
I just shut down an outdoor forum I owned that I start in 1997. I have been a moderator on a political discussion board and a few gun boards since 2002, as well as moderating a few other public boards similar to this area.
I used to run a Dial-in BBS back in the late 80's and 90's (First modem was a Hayes 300 baud). I ran the Unix chat and discussion servers on campus since that time as well. Being in education I also ran VAX/VMS hosted terminal services for the Internet resources back to (some ARPANET), BITNET, TELNET, LISTSERV, and GOPHER. That was before any GUI, so I still ahve my orignal Netscape .9 beta installer for Mac, which changed everything.
I took my first programming classes on TRS-80 computers and learned BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN. That was 7th grade in the early 80's.
My favorite was my TI-99.
Been doing this for a very long time. I am that computer nerd. lol.6 -
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So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough
I just shut down an outdoor forum I owned that I start in 1997. I have been a moderator on a political discussion board and a few gun boards since 2002, as well as moderating a few other public boards similar to this area.
I used to run a Dial-in BBS back in the late 80's and 90's (First modem was a Hayes 300 baud). I ran the Unix chat and discussion servers on campus since that time as well. Being in education I also ran VAX/VMS hosted terminal services for the Internet resources back to (some ARPANET), BITNET, TELNET, LISTSERV, and GOPHER. That was before any GUI, so I still ahve my orignal Netscape .9 beta installer for Mac, which changed everything.
I took my first programming classes on TRS-80 computers and learned BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN. That was 7th grade in the early 80's.
My favorite was my TI-99.
Been doing this for a very long time. I am that computer nerd. lol.
My dad worked for IBM. We had a pc junior and we were the first family with a modem. We did all those dial up BBS. I even was sent to computer summer camp in probably the very early 80s. My dad though fun games were let's learn how a computer works games.0 -
Meh...I've been here for over four years and belong to several other online communities...this place is tame in comparison to any other online community I've ever been a part of.1
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So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough
I just shut down an outdoor forum I owned that I start in 1997. I have been a moderator on a political discussion board and a few gun boards since 2002, as well as moderating a few other public boards similar to this area.
I used to run a Dial-in BBS back in the late 80's and 90's (First modem was a Hayes 300 baud). I ran the Unix chat and discussion servers on campus since that time as well. Being in education I also ran VAX/VMS hosted terminal services for the Internet resources back to (some ARPANET), BITNET, TELNET, LISTSERV, and GOPHER. That was before any GUI, so I still ahve my orignal Netscape .9 beta installer for Mac, which changed everything.
I took my first programming classes on TRS-80 computers and learned BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN. That was 7th grade in the early 80's.
My favorite was my TI-99.
Been doing this for a very long time. I am that computer nerd. lol.
My dad worked for IBM. We had a pc junior and we were the first family with a modem. We did all those dial up BBS. I even was sent to computer summer camp in probably the very early 80s. My dad though fun games were let's learn how a computer works games.
Ha! I was so cool, I used to ditch computer class to go outside to smoke..my thinking was, and I'd say it to anyone who was listening : "These computer things are just a fad anyways, they'll be gone next year!"1 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough
I just shut down an outdoor forum I owned that I start in 1997. I have been a moderator on a political discussion board and a few gun boards since 2002, as well as moderating a few other public boards similar to this area.
I used to run a Dial-in BBS back in the late 80's and 90's (First modem was a Hayes 300 baud). I ran the Unix chat and discussion servers on campus since that time as well. Being in education I also ran VAX/VMS hosted terminal services for the Internet resources back to (some ARPANET), BITNET, TELNET, LISTSERV, and GOPHER. That was before any GUI, so I still ahve my orignal Netscape .9 beta installer for Mac, which changed everything.
I took my first programming classes on TRS-80 computers and learned BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN. That was 7th grade in the early 80's.
My favorite was my TI-99.
Been doing this for a very long time. I am that computer nerd. lol.
My dad worked for IBM. We had a pc junior and we were the first family with a modem. We did all those dial up BBS. I even was sent to computer summer camp in probably the very early 80s. My dad though fun games were let's learn how a computer works games.
Ha! I was so cool, I used to ditch computer class to go outside to smoke..my thinking was, and I'd say it to anyone who was listening : "These computer things are just a fad anyways, they'll be gone next year!"
Haha. When I went was doing my course for legal secretaries one of the teachers gave short hand classes because computers were a fad. She was convinced they would give you cancer. In the computer classes the instructor would leave the room leaving instructions to just ask Alison should they need help1 -
My dad worked for IBM. We had a pc junior and we were the first family with a modem. We did all those dial up BBS. I even was sent to computer summer camp in probably the very early 80s. My dad though fun games were let's learn how a computer works games.
The sad part, or maybe the blessing, is that with all the breaking technology we didn't have a lot of photos and other documentation of our youth as such. Would love to see just how geeky I looked back then.
My first programming course there were only 7 people. I remember our first assignment still...it was to draw a box around the screen. So it started with FOR X,Y commands. You only had a resolution of, like, 128x128 or less, so it wasn't to difficult. The you could use CHR$ sets to add endpoints and such.
Good times.
It was taught by Mr. Jacway, who I was good friends with until he passed away back in 2003.
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So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough
I just shut down an outdoor forum I owned that I start in 1997. I have been a moderator on a political discussion board and a few gun boards since 2002, as well as moderating a few other public boards similar to this area.
I used to run a Dial-in BBS back in the late 80's and 90's (First modem was a Hayes 300 baud). I ran the Unix chat and discussion servers on campus since that time as well. Being in education I also ran VAX/VMS hosted terminal services for the Internet resources back to (some ARPANET), BITNET, TELNET, LISTSERV, and GOPHER. That was before any GUI, so I still ahve my orignal Netscape .9 beta installer for Mac, which changed everything.
I took my first programming classes on TRS-80 computers and learned BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN. That was 7th grade in the early 80's.
My favorite was my TI-99.
Been doing this for a very long time. I am that computer nerd. lol.
Wow! That brings back some foggy memories. I still have a TI-99. 0 -
GnothiSeauton23 wrote: »So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough
I just shut down an outdoor forum I owned that I start in 1997. I have been a moderator on a political discussion board and a few gun boards since 2002, as well as moderating a few other public boards similar to this area.
I used to run a Dial-in BBS back in the late 80's and 90's (First modem was a Hayes 300 baud). I ran the Unix chat and discussion servers on campus since that time as well. Being in education I also ran VAX/VMS hosted terminal services for the Internet resources back to (some ARPANET), BITNET, TELNET, LISTSERV, and GOPHER. That was before any GUI, so I still ahve my orignal Netscape .9 beta installer for Mac, which changed everything.
I took my first programming classes on TRS-80 computers and learned BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN. That was 7th grade in the early 80's.
My favorite was my TI-99.
Been doing this for a very long time. I am that computer nerd. lol.
This just made me swoon.
lol. Not normally the response being a nerd gets.
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GnothiSeauton23 wrote: »So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough
I just shut down an outdoor forum I owned that I start in 1997. I have been a moderator on a political discussion board and a few gun boards since 2002, as well as moderating a few other public boards similar to this area.
I used to run a Dial-in BBS back in the late 80's and 90's (First modem was a Hayes 300 baud). I ran the Unix chat and discussion servers on campus since that time as well. Being in education I also ran VAX/VMS hosted terminal services for the Internet resources back to (some ARPANET), BITNET, TELNET, LISTSERV, and GOPHER. That was before any GUI, so I still ahve my orignal Netscape .9 beta installer for Mac, which changed everything.
I took my first programming classes on TRS-80 computers and learned BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN. That was 7th grade in the early 80's.
My favorite was my TI-99.
Been doing this for a very long time. I am that computer nerd. lol.
This just made me swoon.
Me too!0 -
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GnothiSeauton23 wrote: »So sarcasm must me left out but we keep the overwhelming assgrabbery? Do we rid the forums of those and moderate to make sure everything is about fitness, that it is politically correct, and that the responses only reply with things that the OP wants to hear or fit in with some enforced norm?
After 20+ years of admin'ing and moderating forums, here is what I know. It is a natural cycle that:- people come to a forum
- become a regular, instigate/assgrab/and folly with the best of them
- they get sick of it and lose that warm fuzzy feeling because of the futility of it
- and they fight the very thing they participated in and eventually move to a new place to start the cycle over again.
The normal time frame is usually 2 years.
Some can tolerate it longer.
20+???? I call bs. You aren't old enough
I just shut down an outdoor forum I owned that I start in 1997. I have been a moderator on a political discussion board and a few gun boards since 2002, as well as moderating a few other public boards similar to this area.
I used to run a Dial-in BBS back in the late 80's and 90's (First modem was a Hayes 300 baud). I ran the Unix chat and discussion servers on campus since that time as well. Being in education I also ran VAX/VMS hosted terminal services for the Internet resources back to (some ARPANET), BITNET, TELNET, LISTSERV, and GOPHER. That was before any GUI, so I still ahve my orignal Netscape .9 beta installer for Mac, which changed everything.
I took my first programming classes on TRS-80 computers and learned BASIC, PASCAL, and FORTRAN. That was 7th grade in the early 80's.
My favorite was my TI-99.
Been doing this for a very long time. I am that computer nerd. lol.
This just made me swoon.
Agreed, I was thinking about reporting you for talking nerd dirty Tim. 0 -
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