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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...
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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*
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Messageboards are all about communication. Fluff and complaints are valid forms of communication.
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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.
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'Sok, Bok. I just have a reputation as a -- what is it again? "defender of fluff," I think -- to maintain. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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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.
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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.
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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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