There are Web sites dedicated to discussing the SDMB? [Archive]

RickJay

03-28-2006, 01:36 PM

In another thread:

CarnalK maintains a website with "commentary" on the SDMB and some of our posters. It includes links to exchanges, here, as well as links to off-site boards established for the purpose of making derogatory remarks about the SDMB or its posters.
Let me get this straight; you're saying this guy runs a Web site dedicated to commentary about a message board?

You're kidding, right? This cannot happen. Nobody could be enough of a loser to ron a commentary board about the toons on a commentary board. Even the worst basement nerd has better things to do. What's next, an online game in which you manage little geeks who play online games?

GorillaMan

03-28-2006, 01:39 PM

Yes, there's websites where the whole discussion is about how much of a waste of time the SDMB is, and how they're all amazed that anybody bothers with it any more. I don't think many of them have realised the irony of their situation.

Garfield226

03-28-2006, 01:39 PM

I can only assume you meant this for the pit and made a horrible error.

Ol'Gaffer

03-28-2006, 01:41 PM

I can only assume you meant this for the pit and made a horrible error.

I agree. Now excuse me while I go to another site and discuss what a total tool you are.

::points finger::

HA!

::runs away::

MessyPaint

03-28-2006, 01:45 PM

::points finger::

Betchya didn't expect that to happen. :cool:
damn coding

RickJay

03-28-2006, 01:54 PM

I can only assume you meant this for the pit and made a horrible error.
Actually, yes. Hopefully a moderator will move it.

Cornelius Tuggerson

03-28-2006, 01:55 PM

What's next, an online game in which you manage little geeks who play online games?
Hey that actually sounds more fun than the lumberjack/berry-picker stimulators like WoW and EQ2 .

Syntropy

03-28-2006, 02:03 PM

Actually, yes. Hopefully a moderator will move it.
I'm actually betting a moderator will close it.

vibrotronica

03-28-2006, 02:08 PM

Yes, there are a couple of other message boards devoted to the discussion of this message board. If you'd like to discuss them, please come on over to the message board I have established for that purpose. That's where the real action is these days.

Greenback

03-28-2006, 02:20 PM

So you posted on this board to discuss what's going on on that board which was started to discuss what was going on on this board...

I feel dizzy.

Anaamika

03-28-2006, 02:24 PM

So you posted on this board to discuss what's going on on that board which was started to discuss what was going on on this board...

I feel dizzy.
And no doubt they are now discussing on that board that we are discussing on this board that they are discussing on that board what we discuss on this board. :p

Robot Arm

03-28-2006, 02:24 PM

Hey that actually sounds more fun than the lumberjack/berry-picker stimulators like WoW and EQ2 .How do you stimulate a berry-picking lumberjack, or do I just not want to know?

kimera

03-28-2006, 02:28 PM

I don't see what's so strange about discusing a message board else where. I discuss it with my friends and we send each other links to the interesting conversations. In chat, we discuss various threads, posters, etc. If I didn't have these other places to talk about it, then I probably would have long ago lost interest.

Greenback

03-28-2006, 02:28 PM

And no doubt they are now discussing on that board that we are discussing on this board that they are discussing on that board what we discuss on this board. :p
I think I am going to be sick...

Someone stop the ride!

I just noticed your join date 'Mika. I may be mistaken but I thought I was here when you arrived.

ShibbOleth

03-28-2006, 02:32 PM

How do you stimulate a berry-picking lumberjack, or do I just not want to know?

DRE mean anything to you?

yellowval

03-28-2006, 02:34 PM

What's next, an online game in which you manage little geeks who play online games?

Sometimes my Sims play computer games and chat online. You got a problem with that?

Ethilrist

03-28-2006, 02:36 PM

I think I am going to be sick...

Someone stop the ride!

I just noticed your join date 'Mika. I may be mistaken but I thought I was here when you arrived.
She started out as Elenia28, if that helps any.

There are some people who post on the other boards who want to make comments on things they see here that they can't make here because (a) the comments aren't welcome, (b) the way they want to word the comments is unwelcome, or (c) the posters aren't welcome.

Anaamika

03-28-2006, 02:37 PM

*deep breath* I joined way back when as Elenia25 and then proceeded to diligently ignore the SDMB for the next couple of years,. Early 2004 I noticed it again and became an active participant. Joined as Elenia28. Finally in July I paid my subscription under Elenia28. Th[en I became aware of the board culture and asked TubaDiva to kill both usernames and make me Anaamika.

*breathes again*

I think I am going to be sick...

Someone stop the ride!
But now we are discussing that they are discussing...

lieu

03-28-2006, 02:39 PM

Actually, yes. Hopefully a moderator will move it.It'll make a nice sequential thread next to this (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364732) one.

GorillaMan

03-28-2006, 02:42 PM

Well, it took about twelve minutes for a link to this thread to show up on 'another board'.

Gangster Octopus

03-28-2006, 02:58 PM

Sometimes my Sims play computer games and chat online. You got a problem with that?

Not as long as your Sims doesn't play The Sims, cuz then the universe will probably fold back on itself and I don't really want that to happen. I don't know what it is, but I think it is bad.

Wolfian

03-28-2006, 03:07 PM

DRE mean anything to you?
:Grabs ShibbOleth's face:

Transmute. Does that word mean anything to you?

*deep breath* I joined way back when as Elenia25 and then proceeded to diligently ignore the SDMB for the next couple of years,. Early 2004 I noticed it again and became an active participant. Joined as Elenia28. Finally in July I paid my subscription under Elenia28. Th[en I became aware of the board culture and asked TubaDiva to kill both usernames and make me Anaamika.

*breathes again*

Oooooh. That makes sense.

yellowval

03-28-2006, 03:14 PM

Not as long as your Sims doesn't play The Sims, cuz then the universe will probably fold back on itself and I don't really want that to happen. I don't know what it is, but I think it is bad.

But they do! Oh, snap!

wolfman

03-28-2006, 03:17 PM

Not as long as your Sims doesn't play The Sims, cuz then the universe will probably fold back on itself and I don't really want that to happen.

Plus what if your Sim playing Sims got an expansion before you did. It would be like the scene of Spaceballs the Movie in Spaceballs the Movie

Anaamika

03-28-2006, 03:22 PM

But they do! Oh, snap!
so the Universe has already folded in on itself?

Figures.

OtakuLoki

03-28-2006, 03:24 PM

*deep breath* I joined way back when as Elenia25 and then proceeded to diligently ignore the SDMB for the next couple of years,. Early 2004 I noticed it again and became an active participant. Joined as Elenia28. Finally in July I paid my subscription under Elenia28. Th[en I became aware of the board culture and asked TubaDiva to kill both usernames and make me Anaamika.

*breathes again*
Oooooh. That makes sense.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's more confused by that explaination rather than less. ;)

'Mika, call yourself whatever you wish, for whatever reasons you find appropriate, I won't care. You're still neato.

Anaamika

03-28-2006, 03:35 PM

Blame it on Greenback. He asked, so I explained.

And thanks, Otaku. I think you're neat, too, but this thread is going to the Pit, so I'm not going to be too nice. :)

carnivorousplant

03-28-2006, 03:51 PM

Well, it took about twelve minutes for a link to this thread to show up on 'another board'.

So.

Well.

Ok, dang it, if one were going to google for 'another board', what would one google for? With? Over? Whatever.

GorillaMan

03-28-2006, 03:53 PM

Ok, dang it, if one were going to google for 'another board', what would one google for? With? Over? Whatever.
There's a link from the SDMB entry in Wikipedia. Or you could google 'snarkpit'.

Ghanima

03-28-2006, 04:29 PM

shamrock227

03-28-2006, 04:40 PM

Ensign Edison

03-28-2006, 04:54 PM

There's a link from the SDMB entry in Wikipedia. Or you could google 'snarkpit'.

Not anymore. It's been sanitized. I had to try like three different google combinations to find it myself, and was amazed to find that anyone cares enough about what a "retarded" asshole I am to take the time to tell strangers on the internet about it. But even so, it was kind of underwhelming. Mostly they just talk about how they hate trannies and fat people, and then whip themselves into a lustful frenzy over like ten board members whose popularity drives them insane with jealousy, or something.

No, it's probably not that. I think some people are just too dumb to do anything but react to triggers, and the snark boarders seem mostly to be triggered by anyone they think isn't normal, straight, and stunningly attractive like themselves. Push the button and the little clockwork monkeys dance. Vaguely interesting for a moment, but ultimately mindless and boring.

Spatial Rift 47

03-28-2006, 05:13 PM

If we link to the thread with the link to this thread in this thread, how will we know who is reading this thread and reading the link from this thread, and who is reading the linked thread and reading the link from that thread?

More to the point, if we link to the thread with the link to this thread in this thread, how will we know who knows that they're discussing that we're discussing that they're discussing what we discuss, as opposed to the people who are just discussing what we discuss, after having followed the link from this thread to the thread with a link back to this thread?

I'll just be over here picking a peck of pickled peppers ...

Wolfian

03-28-2006, 05:23 PM

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's more confused by that explaination rather than less. ;)
I was actually being serious. I remember the Elenias, but never connected them to Mika.

EE, yes and no. A good deal of the posts on the other board are trolling. Others are parodying trolls. I doubt more than a handful of the people really hate as many of the groups and people mentioned.

It serves a vital purpose, keeping the majority of the dumbness and hatred (real or fake) contained off the board. That board has stopped a lot more trouble on this board than it has caused.

And its' "Dance puppets, dance," nubcakes.

Ensign Edison

03-28-2006, 05:32 PM

EE, yes and no. A good deal of the posts on the other board are trolling. Others are parodying trolls. I doubt more than a handful of the people really hate as many of the groups and people mentioned.

It serves a vital purpose, keeping the majority of the dumbness and hatred (real or fake) contained off the board. That board has stopped a lot more trouble on this board than it has caused.

That may be, but I hardly see the purpose of a bunch of trolls trolling other trolls. They all agree too much for it to be just that. I think more people are bitter and nasty inside than we want to believe, and they only let it show when anonymous. Even if they're don't actually, like, feel hate all the time, obviously in order to get your kicks like that you can't exactly be Captain Compassion.

And just to note, the majority of people who cause problems for others through racism, sexism, homophobia and so on are just ordinary people who don't consider themselves hateful, not a bunch of Fred Phelps clones.