Hatrack River Forum: Which is more egregious: fluff or complaint threads

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Posted by Unmaker (Member # 1641) on :

Have you noticed that the very people who criticize fluff for clogging up the board create their own plaque on the virtual arteries of this site by adding threads in which to bitch?

This is of course compounded by metacognitive threads that ponder such inconsistencies...

Posted by peterh (Member # 5208) on :

Soooo, erm, which kind of thread is this?

I can't tell...

Posted by Unmaker (Member # 1641) on :

A little of each?

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

I prefer Silk threads myself.

Do you know how much fluff it takes to make a pound of thread?

Well, actually, about a pound of fluff.

Buy, hey, a pound is a lot of fluff.

Posted by Snarky (Member # 4406) on :

Pun threads are the worst.

Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :

So far, fluff threads outnumber grinch threads about 1 billion to 1.

Posted by peterh (Member # 5208) on :

Keep it up, Dog. You're swaying the balance of this one. [Wink]

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

silkworms don't make fluff

so there!

AJ

Posted by Unmaker (Member # 1641) on :

No, bellybuttons do...

Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :

Loving the fluff. Fluff comes and goes around here like the ocean tide. From what I've seen this afternoon...

Fluffs up!

Which suits me...can't swim in that deep water.

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

We're hitting the lower curve of our cycle here on the board. It's time for "I hate fluff and emoticon" threads, along with "I hate threads that complain about fluff and emoticon threads" along with "Let's Dobie ALL of these threads because they're taking up the whole front page anyway" threads etc.

Our homosexuality and political debates got a little heated, so the fluff returned, right on schedule. But, this grinchy part of the cycle is coming around earlier than forcasted. We haven't even had a month of fluff since the last flurry of 'serious' threads! Is the cycle becoming shorter? Moving faster?

Who knows? I guess it's just comforting that something in this crazy old mixed up world is predictable.

*stretches luxuriously and reads some more threads*

[Razz]

[ March 18, 2004, 04:09 PM: Message edited by: Narnia ]

Posted by Sevumar (Member # 4420) on :

Messageboards are all about communication. Fluff and complaints are valid forms of communication.

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

Just because message board software accepts these posts doesn't make it "valid".

-Bok

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Perhaps not, but the fact that the board's owners do sure does.

[ March 18, 2004, 05:01 PM: Message edited by: rivka ]

Posted by Sevumar (Member # 4420) on :

Communication is simply the act of transmitting a message. Validity is in the eye of the beholder. Running around screaming like a maniac is still communication, even if you don't think very highly of it or the person doing it.

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

rivka:

j/k [Smile]

The post above mine just sounded a little too whiny [Smile]

I didn't think this thread was that serious.

-Bok

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*runs around screaming like a maniac*

'Sok, Bok. I just have a reputation as a -- what is it again? "defender of fluff," I think -- to maintain. [Big Grin]

Posted by Sevumar (Member # 4420) on :

I'm pro-fluff, so I have to protect it [Smile]

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

I'm in rivka's army.

*salutes*

Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :

If we look at the roots of the word egregious, we have ex- out of, grex - flock, and ious, meaning I owe yous. I think more people fluff than whine, so whining is more out of the flock. Now Unmaker owes me $5.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*sings* We are the Folk-Fluff Army,
Every one of us cares!
We all hate grinches, war, and injustice --
Unlike the rest of you squares.

There is innocuous fluff,
But we regard it with scorn.
The folks who post it have no social conscience.
Why, they don't even care if Bob cracks a pun!

If you feel dissatisfaction
Fluff your frustrations away
Some people may prefer action
But give me a fluffy post any old day!

(with apologies to Tom Lehrer)

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

Ya know, I don't think there's really any point in getting annoyed - or at least voicing annoyance - with complaint or fluff threads. I learned my lessons from the world of Pooh:

Many of the Complaint threads are of the Eeyore variety. Life isn't right, it will never be right, it feels right for it not to be right. So what happens when you go in and complain about the complaining?

Two things: The response from Eeyore: "Oh, great, things were rough already. Excuse me for breathing."

Then, of course, others will point out that you, too, have become an Eeyore. [Wink]

I think of "fluff" threads as "Tigger" threads:

"Woo-hoo, this is fun! Look at that! That's hysterical!"

So you come in and complain.

Tigger's response: "Woo-hoo! You're funny!"

Shrug or surrender is my advice.

(Please - this was MEANT to be humorous and is not meant to make fun of any particular person on Hatrack AT ALL. We all have our Eeyore days - most of us, anyway. Hopefully, we all have Tigger days as well.)

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*bounces past*

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

I think the above spectacle has definitely proven that fluff is much more egregious than complaints.

Egregious. Fluff.

EgrEEEE-gious.

Man, I love that word.

-Bok

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

I think that it should be the word of the day. Someone post it in the word of the day thread!!

Thanks for contributing to the fluff Bok!! [Big Grin]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Spectacle? [Embarrassed]

Posted by Jacare Sorridente (Member # 1906) on :

Metacognitive threads are especially well suited for academicians. While fluff threads are clearly arterial plaque, bitching threads about the arterial plaque are not plaque themselves. At least based on the devolution of the current bitching thread, they are a coping mechanism which seeks to flush some of the plaque via vigorous exercise, especially interpersonal fighting.

What is now needed is a good angioplasty thread. I haven't yet figured out what that might be, but when I do I'll be sure to let everyone know.

Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :

rivka, spectacles are, uh, GOOD things!

yeah, everyone likes to go to the circus, right?

Or a public execution!

See, that's how I meant it... I think.

-Bok

Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :

Hey, Jacare

Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :

Can't help but love Rivka!

Posted by Jacare Sorridente (Member # 1906) on :

zgator- there is a very good reason I wanted you dead in that mafia game. I am growing to understand that more and more with each post.

Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

And again we have the wisdom of sndrake.

But where does Wol fit into all of this?

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

[Blushing]

Impressed that sometimes my irritation - or whimsy, depending on mood - can translate into "wisdom" - who knew? [Wink]

At least I didn't kill this thread, unlike another one I spouted off on recently. [Wink]

As to WOL - I dunno, how do you see yourself fitting into the picture, oh wise one?

[ March 19, 2004, 10:56 AM: Message edited by: sndrake ]

Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :

Jacare, in what way were you responsible for poor little willie's death?

I'm not trying to make anyone reveal clues, just rhetoricating. He was stabbed by the serial killer.

[ March 19, 2004, 11:09 AM: Message edited by: skrika03 ]

Posted by Jacare Sorridente (Member # 1906) on :

I didn't say that I killed him, just that I wanted him dead. I was attempting to lead a lynch mob to take Willie out when the serial killer made my work moot.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

A public execution?! [Eek!]

*runs for her life* [Wave]

Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :

quote:
Jacare wrote:What is now needed is a good angioplasty thread. I haven't yet figured out what that might be, but when I do I'll be sure to let everyone know.

Why don't we just have some nice regular anti-thrombotic threads that prevent the plaque from forming in the first place?

Posted by Jacare Sorridente (Member # 1906) on :

good call