trevor the sheep on 23/4/2006 at 20:29
Gettin' MIGHTY hungry here.
DarkViper on 23/4/2006 at 22:10
I'm glad she didn't start a "hay guys I'm new look at meeeee" thread. Those are SO overrated these days. This is at least entertaining, as are the responses
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Mortal Monkey on 23/4/2006 at 22:17
Quote Posted by TF
internet
yes hello
metal dawn on 23/4/2006 at 22:46
hehehe
wait
bitch what?
I think I'm in love you simply for the Robert Patrick reference.
Q: If the aliens descend from their currently vicarious position and decide to start a thread similar in nature to this one, would it be fitting or not to rib them as well?
littlek on 23/4/2006 at 23:29
Welcome woodsiegirl. I lurk more than I post and I find that I am very careful what I post because of all the slaps and insults that can occur in here. I even swore off TTLG for awhile but...I still keep coming back. Kinda like a stray puppy. ;)
For the most part, these taffers are devilish but a lot of fun once you get to understand the humor.
So sit and stay awhile fellow tafferette. With more ladies in here, we might just get our own restroom.
metal dawn on 23/4/2006 at 23:35
Quote Posted by Mortal Monkey
yes hello
donde estas?
Quote Posted by littlek
I find that I am very careful what I post because of all the slaps and insults that can occur in here.
What? These
generous people help me understand my personal impairments...
tot metal dawn is a clueless retard tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot etcmopgoblin on 24/4/2006 at 08:24
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
But that's part of the tapestry here too, lest we forget, there used to be the ritualistic hazing of newbs by the likes of sailoreage etc, and although our form of it can seem somewhat harsh and perhaps nasty to those semi-regular TTLG posters, the fact is that 9 times out of 10, the new poster doesn't get it!
I've never really liked the newbie-hazing thing. Well, the bow upgrade was more or less harmless, but there has been a fair bit of nastier stuff. Although it is mostly used against people who have bad internet-manners or aren't following the conventions of the community properly, most of those people will probably be able to figure this stuff out better if they get an explanation of what they're doing wrong rather than a dozen replies filled with insults or "lol tot GET OUT". That might be fair enough if it's a person who has repeatedly demonstrated that they have absolutely no clue, but it's unreasonable to expect every new person to have read all the unwritten rules.
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And also, may I point out, that one of the management once said something along the lines of:
"if a new member immediately starts posting in CommChat, warning bells go off in our heads", now I know I'm repeating that out of context (originally I think it was to do with spam accounts) but I feel that it applies to the mentality evident here - this isn't the
same as the rest of TTLG, to be honest.
Yeah, but there's also a limit to the amount of off-topic stuff that is acceptable in the other forums. You've got to be able to have discussions about general stuff to get a community - without it, you'd get something more like a specialised club (not a bad thing as such, but a community is better and more likely to survive when interest in the initial subject starts to die out). A fair number of new people will want to discuss these things that aren't covered by a specific forum. Those general discussions have to go somewhere, and you can't realistically have two CommChats.
You could possibly have a sort of mini-CommChat for each forum group, but the advantages (creating a number of distinct and mostly independent communities) are balanced by the disadvantages (creating a number of distinct and mostly independent communities, and you'd probably end up with scaled-down versions of the original problems with some of them). I couldn't see that working at TTLG.
The other aspect of the problem is that the supply of new people drying up could lead to a gradual disappearance of the community. CommChat is too big to be a group of close friends, but also too small and centralised to keep running indefinitely as a community without any new people. If we chase away everyone who shows up, we'll eventually end up having already discussed everything that anyone wants to talk about. You know how every so often, someone says they reckon the community has been gradually declining over the previous <i>X</i> years? Well, if there aren't enough new people then that decline will actually happen.
