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  • #607211
    uneeq
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    You are never the last post in a thread, because if you’re popular, someone ALWAYS responds.

    If you’re unpopular, well, your threads will never become popular. In fact, the first post may be the last post too.

    I detect future irony.

    #910729
    HaLeiVi
    Participant

    Don’t let it get to you. Please. If nobody answered it’s because what you said was so profound that they were left open-mouthed. They were on that screen for ten minutes, typing and deleting, and eventually gave up on being able to add anything.

    Bindir dondat.

    #910730

    I love messing up jokes

    #910731
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    You’ll hang with the right cohort,

    You’ll be good at sports,

    Know the slang you’ve got to know.

    #910732
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    I know, that’s what happens to all my posts. I wrack my brains (I get up oily, to oil all those gears and start the thinkonator) to think of some corny good one. It always manages to stay put. Hurray for you, someone responded to your’s. (maybe)

    #910733
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    No, I want to be least popular. 😛

    #910734
    uneeq
    Participant

    It’s not that I’m unpopular, it’s just that my tribal instincts make me hate the REALLY popular guys. I think we all hate popular guys like Popa; he employs a professional team of highly paid trolls to help him come up with his new posts.

    #910735
    BaalHabooze
    Participant

    I think we sometimes have bits of ga’avahdig feelings and unhealthy thoughts. Beware – it is the yeitzer hara no doubt!!!

    Yes, it’s always nice and a good feeling if someone responds to your post, but if there ISN’T a response to your post, we usually tend to think negative thoughts, and perceive this as a blow to our ego. The Y”H gets us all worked up, and we take it very PERSONALLY – thoughts such as “hey, nobody likes me, or my posts?!” or “am I so unintelligent that I got not one response to my last post??” or “I guess I’m not as hilarious/intelligent/popular as I think I am”

    But in reality, it could very well be either:

    1)Nobody saw the post. (I don’t open half the threads in the CR.)

    2)people saw it, enjoyed it and left it at that. We don’t ALWAYS comment.

    3)We got too busy we didn’t have time to post.

    Etc. Etc. Etc.

    #910736
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    BaalHabooze:

    I didn’t see your post

    I also saw it and left it w/o commenting

    I forgot, I’m too busy to post

    I’m just wondering, are my posts from the half that you do open?

    #910737
    BaalHabooze
    Participant

    Zees- “I’m just wondering, are my posts from the half that you do open?”

    You are in some threads that I do open. Regarding the threads that I do NOT open, however, I wouldn’t know, would I? 🙂

    #910738
    frummy in the tummy
    Participant

    I gauge how popular I think a poster is before I respond to their comment on a scale of 1 to 10, and base the length of my response on that scale. All the posts I have not responded to are because the poster ranked a zero or lower. BaalHabooze managed to rank at a 2, and that’s why this post is as long as (65 words plus one parenthetical max for rank 2).

    #910739
    uneeq
    Participant

    I have a theory that the CR is WAY too uptight and self-conscious. I think if we have threads that we only respond with the first dumb thing that comes to our head, the CR would be in much better shape.

    I feel like I have to spend time thinking and rethinking the best way to write a comment, all for the purpose of not sounding like a fool in public. It ends up being an endless downward spiral, for as long as everyone writes smarter and wittier comments, the less the Average Joe can take part in the conversation without sounding like a fool.

    Therefore I ask for everyone to please write ONLY dumb comments unless the thread is discussing if a sound is a heard in an empty forest.

    #910740
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    That was such a dumb comment.

    (I took your advice, wrote this most dumb post, which means that your comment was really smart.)

    #910741
    BaalHabooze
    Participant

    FITT- are u sure I rank a 2 in the popularity catagory and not the intelligent catagory??

    I think ZeesKite ranks at least a 9 in popularity. In sanity however….

    jk 🙂

    #910742
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    Sorry BaalHabooze, I don’t rank anywhere in popularity. Noisy – yes, not popular. And about the sanity, I iterate and reiterate that I have nothing to do with it.

    #910743
    HaLeiVi
    Participant

    I have a theory that the CR is WAY too uptight and self-conscious. I think if we have threads that we only respond with the first dumb thing that comes to our head, the CR would be in much better shape.

    Yeah, I know.

    ++1

    1++

    _mm(sideways thumbs-up)

    #910744
    uneeq
    Participant

    Haleivi: Yeh, man, I love you!

    +2 for Dumbness!

    #910745
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    I hate having the last word, so I’ll write something nasty and the Mods would res{No, we’re not falling for it. We’re not editing this time.}

    #910746
    funnybone
    Participant

    Do people measure their success in life by how many people respond to their posts??

    Someone is gonna respond with “DUH! Of course we do!”

    #910747
    frummy in the tummy
    Participant

    No need to respond. You’ve said it for us.

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