luckily im not on face book,got sick of people being obsessed with themselves,"look at my photos look at my friends look at what i did today"....i dont give a fuck,get over yourself!!

Yep, sure seems like in a lot of cases there's no detail too private or inane for someone to feel like they should mention to everyone.
That and the whole picture whore thing - I'm pretty sure before facebook etc, for most people taking 100+ pictures of themselves/family within a month wasn't really a normal thing to do...I will never put a precious baby photo of my child on there, I will never feel the need to share family memories with anyone but those who have/will actually meet us. As for holiday and "watch us drink" pics, always seem a bit lame and "lookit me!! comment on how cool I am!!!"

I actually read on some yahoo junkpage article, the most stupid facebook related thing I've ever come across - and sadly enough I realised people actually do this.
It was an article on how to have/enjoy a great holiday.
Tip #1 was "Create Holiday envy over social media before, during and after your trip with photos & status updates whenever you can".
Really?
This helps people enjoy their holidays more?
Most ridiculous shit I've ever read.

Thanks man, yeah I think it's important to contribute where one can, and they just seemed like pretty easy ideas to go with.

that's true in many cases. There are even people who often like to schedule their daily or monthly activity considering their facebook account or how that would make an impression about them to others in facebook. Some even throw parties & make their holiday arrangements in response to "oh! it's been a while since I uploaded a photo album & people appreciate/LIKE it".

Pathetic Psychos!

I don't know what it's called but I think there's a definition as a mental illness for this sort of excessive attention/appreciation seeking habitual tendencies.

I don't know either, but we should come up with a term for it. Just for fun.

The Hilton Disease

operam meretrix (obviously latin for attention whore)


Etc.

I tried starting a recipe thread and it pretty much died right where it was. :cool:

Is that.... Robert Englund?

Yes, it is.

Well, then let me just get down on my knees and bow in the dust.

Awsome.

I also have pictures of me with David Prowse (the man inside the Darth Vader costume), Anthony Michael Hall, Nicholas Brendon (Xander from Buffy), and urgeok.

Thanks guys for the answer to my question about the forum's activity. I was wondering what was going on.

I don't even use facebook. I've only been there on the rare occasion to check some company posting pics of new products. It's a pointless site to me. I guess the people that use it enjoy or don't care about giving companies their private information so that company and others can make money off of them.

Just popping in to rebut some gross generalizations made by uninformed individuals in regard to facebook.

Let me say at the outset I don't care if you like it or not. Personal choice blah blah blah. However, to characterize it as nothing but a waste of time full of self-centered attention seeking idiots is pure ignorance.

Facebook, like everything else in life is nothing more or less than you you, as an individual make of it.

In my year on facebook I've won a hardback copy of Stephen King's "Full Dark, No Stars" and a hardback edition of a Neal Gaiman book, as well as three paperbacks of independent authors, all autographed. How did I win them? Trivia contests or other puzzle games.

I've befriended, and had personal, one on one conversations with Frank Hennenlotter, David Hess (just a few days before he died, RIP), Peter Strauss, Pee Wee Herman, George Takai, Wil Wheaton, and other less well known luminaries that were still exciting for me to make contact with.

Every single story I've sold so far has been because of a contact I made on facebook, and I expect many more.

Don't like lame facebook games? Don't flippin' play them!

Don't like pointless status updates of every little thing someone is doing? Delete them from your list! Facebook is completely configurable. Unlike forums, you're not forced to endure prattle from anyone you're not interested in. To be honest, I've met more dickheads and assholes in the two dozen people who frequent this forum, than I have in the several hundred people I've met on facebook. And they don't last long on my friends list. If you don't want to read stupid people's status updates, don't befriend stupid people. How hard is that?

Companies making money off me? Um, no. There are ads in the margines of a facebook page, that's true... but they PAY for those ads. I don't pay to see them. And so far, nobody has come in and forced me to click one of those ads...

If you hate facebook, fine, but maybe you should do it for reasons that accurately represent the service.

So long!

I feel that my response was a little overly negative and personal, upon thinking about it some more I've decided to make some alterations.

I said "a lot of" there is a lot of.
Never said nothing but...
Wasn't saying what I said applied to anyone and everyone that uses facebook. I use facebook, just not half as fanatically as most of the people that I've encountered.
I'd say to ignore that there's a pretty large attention whore population there would be pretty ignorant in itself.
In fact, none of us had a go at "all" or "most" of the people that use facebook.

There is also an ignore function here.
As for the status updates - I don't read them, though I have seen them.
Thus, I'm aware they exist - just like Wayans brothers movies, you don't really need more than 5 minutes to cast accurate judgement.
These kinds of status updates are the reason I have like 7 contacts on my facebook.
Also on that note, while I do not bathe in acid I'm fairly certain it's an experience I would not enjoy.

The reasons you say you use facebook don't sound like what I was referring to at all? If it's serviceable to you, do your thing. They sound like perfectly valid reasons I wouldn't poke fun at...which is why, I didn't include those kinds of things in my "list".
That said, the population I was referring to can do their thing too - because nothing I say about them or their activities needs to effect their lives.

Edit to reflect - Really its a shame, if you put aside all your hissy fits you were actually pretty good for the place.
Ah well. I was disappointed that your return was this way. If you're going to come back and post again that would be good, but do it for the right reasons.

Have a good 'un.

For the record, I absolutely stand by what I said about facebook being responsible for the decline in forums - it simply is. Regardless of the reasons, it's a fact.

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I've been a member of this forum since 2006, have over 10,000 posts to my credit.

Sorry to hear your chats with musicians seemed fake to you.

My experience has been the opposite.

Most things in life, as I mentioned earlier, are what you make of them.

i no..you just come back to say that though?
what was the point in leaving in the first place,i dont remember hissy fits, so to me you were(as cheecha says) good for the forum.spose i wasnt in the mod dramas though.

I like how this thread is going.. :rolleyes:

Aye! Aye! Professor Angra!:D

hahaha...we need to open a separate thread on "What to expect on Facebook?" and then merge the above posts in that thread.

the last posts usually would have been deleted by now for goin off track to the thread topic

who has the most friends on this site i have 1

Using Facebook to get published sounds like a good enough reason to join from where I plop and I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes the primary slush pile of the future.

They all have a case of LAM (Look At Me).

LAM sounds better.

But it's the same thing.

I had to go to internetslang.com to find out what AW means. Guess I'm not quite ready for Facebook.

and what does it mean

Attention Whore.

So have we made any progress on the ability to make new mods yet?

fortunato - any reply about the new admin thing too. Its just stupid not to have any admins who never post here at all.

Yeah, we're still waiting on ElGato to reply. zwoti's going to also ask him about getting a new admin, but he says the answer will almost certainly be "no". Which is really frustrating. It's insane to have a forum with no active admins. As we can see with this mod thing, it takes forever to get anything done.

Yeah thats totally crazy.

I just want to thank everybody that got behind me becoming a mod.

Hey, I find that offensive!

:D

Well there aint much interest in cabbage soup these days....

Ewww, gag! :D

Some advice for the new mods:

If you're going to have a successful run here, the first thing you'll want to do is decide on what rules you're going to follow. Decide them, sticky them and make sure you're all on board to follow them to the letter, regardless of the feelings around the forum. If a rule provokes outrage, review it and change it if necessary, but don't let a couple of old timers sway you if it's not. A big part of the failure of your current group (myself included) was the failure to decide on a set of realistic guidelines to enforce. It caused a lot of separation in our group and a lot of drama. If the members call you out, have a spine but not a big head. It's a thankless, unpaid job that you use your recreational time to do. The same members who applaud you for banning a troll one day will want your head the next for banning a friend/locking a thread.

To our members:

This isn't a fun job. It's unpaid, mostly thankless and done on our own time. We have a duty to you to make the forum a pleasant place to populate for both old and new members alike. For the most part, the mods do their best to make decisions based on the rules of the forum. As you have probably have noticed, there really aren't any. Be kind to your mods, but don't be afraid to call them out if they need it.

All in all, this is a really nice forum with a lot of fun people. I've made some friends here. I've been absent for a variety of reasons, but a lot has to do with what is outlined above. I've really enjoyed my time moderating/contributing to this community. However, if it's going to continue to thrive, there has to be some semblance of consistency with what is/isn't tolerated. Trust me; I deal with enough red tape in real life working for a large corporation that I'm all about reducing idiotic bureaucracy. That being said, there needs to be at least some semblance of order to the way we conduct our protocol. If the members here wanted 4chan, they would be there instead.

Regards,
-Flayed

Excellent advice, Flayed. Thank you. And it's great to see you again, even if it's just popping in. Hope all is well.

4 scumbags in charge is the goal here. ;)

WHAT:eek:....I thought you made the BIG bucks

glad I never submitted my name now

ANy luck on the admin thing?

I don't understand the problem since the current admin don't give a shit about the forum why would they care making a new admin that did?

Yeah, exactly. That's pretty much what I said to zwoti, and he told me he'd run it by ElGato when he finally hears back from him. Fingers crossed at this point, I guess. It really is asinine to not just make a new mod that will come around regularly.

Yeah I'm having second thoughts now. Thought I'd be raking in the mad paper :D

So we still don't have a new janitor? This place needs cleaning!

don't look at me! we simians are notoriously clean and tidy!