I've been on KMC now for a few years, and I've noticed a pattern in posting on the GDF: KMC goes in waves. Most of the time, we're in troughs, where people will post news articles or intelligent thoughts on some issues. When a political issue looms in the media, however, the GDF hits the crests: there are numerous threads focusing on a particular issue.
When I first started posting on the GDF, President Bush was the "crest issue": favorite Bushisms, Bush is retarded, Bush is turning the U.S. into a dictatorship, etc. This eventually died down and there was a healthy mix of topics. There have been other examples of this, such as with Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 election, etc.
When the GDF hits the crests, the forum gets a little bit retarded, but it's understandable--"hot" issues are going to generate a lot of thoughts, and threads usually will get focused onto one aspect of the issue over time, excluding most other discussion.
My gripe is that we on the GDF allow certain posters to push us into these crests. In the past, Whirlysplat would go on and post several topics about stupid, inane things centered around one issue (if I recall correctly, he made three different threads on homosexuality in a very short span). Quite frankly, when this happens, we look like a bunch of morons.
The past second-to-last crest was about race, and I believe that both FistoftheNorth and Czarina_Czarina worked in conjunction (not deliberately) to swamp the forum with idiocy. Right now, we're suffering under the "Czarina_Czarina's stupid-ass thoughts" crest that is intertwined with the "racism" crest.
(Oddly enough, Czarina_Czarina has to make every single thread of hers involve race, which is why the two crests are intertwined.)
Why do we put up with this crap? Why don't we have the mods make a "Czarina_Czarina's Brainturds" thread where Czarina_Czarina can yammer on and on about her stupid-ass bullshit like the sun having a walk-in while the indigo black girl sits on Czarina_Czarina's energy and makes Czarina_Czarina hate minorities? This would spare us the pain of her stupidity without resorting to the injustice--albeit relief--of a ban.
And it's not like this doesn't happen in other parts of KMC, mind you. Prior to Urizen's "reformation," the Religion Forum was littered with crap about Jesus being gay, angels being gay, God being a vampire, and other such ****wittery that only those such as Chris Crocker can top.
The topics can't really go into the OTF forum because, like it or not, they do (at times) constitute valid discussion points. (Also, the OTF is a horrible, horrible place that needs to get cancer.) It's just that they're so intrinsically stupid that we can't possibly take them seriously without spamming things like "STOP MAKING THREADS YOU ****ING IDIOT."
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Re: Why do we let one or two posters ruin the forum?
*sigh*
I agree.
This thread may get closed. I think that it is a very good idea to put Czarina's threads into one thread, like the did with the crazy doctor questions in the OTF. That was an extremely good idea AND that dudes spam isn't all over the place now.
Also, when you say crest, I think you mean trough...just sayin'.
i fail to see the bush connection. i understand the dimwittery, but you and WD moan and cry simply because of your side of the fence. the leader of the free world is more than a single topic. sure people will make general anti-whatever comments in hot topic threads. they are not duplicates though
so...if its like, "ok, bush says we're going to invade iran" or "bush was caught on video raping his dog barney", these are individual topics. i never recalled a spam of threads that say "i hate bush" for the topic. the worst is you'll see comments within those topics you dont care for. fine.
dont try to parallel it to CZ and FotN though. those are duplicate topics launched simply to provoke an ad hominem response and then of course the public self-crucifixion/sainting/egocentric rants/etc
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Last edited by Schecter on Sep 16th, 2007 at 07:51 AM
Everyone is free to voice what they think.No one here should judge anyone's threads.A debate is where everyone says what t hey believe.If all of us argee it would be quite boring and not being consider a debate at all.So come on give everyone a chance people be fair!jm
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