Well no shit, Sherlock. Oooops, I meant, Konrad the Great. If thine puerile, holier-than-thou rant had not been partly directed at my GQ thread I would have taken a glance, rolled my eyes at your imbecility, and moved on.
I have a newsflash for you, K the G (can I call you that, Konrad the Great?): I’m female. I wear panties. That was not much of an insult. Thanks for playing, K the G. Try again later :rolleyes:
And if you do return to play again, please answer my previous question:
I would very much like to know from whence you get your definitions of the forums, sire.
Whoa there. I’m sensing a lot of anger here. You’d think I just disputed the very concept that makes your lives meaningful.
Go lie down on some grass… soak in the sun… eat some ice cream… You people need to release your pent-up frustrations. Feel the wind on your face and relax a little…
Do posting standards really matter that much to you? Is it an insult to your entire belief system if I question them? Do you wake up at night and rub your genitals against the monitor while reading “How do I change my wallpaper?” threads?
So hostile…
sandyr: Am I supposed to be embarassed because I didn’t know you were female? Also, if you’re trying to act educated by using old english don’t write “thine” in one sentence and “your” in the next.
Hah hah hah! Pretty funny thing to say for a guy who tried to anally dictate the posting standards to the entire board community.
She’s not pissed because you ‘questioned her very meaning of existence’ or somesuchshit. She’s pissed because you acted like a grade-A, googly moogly, my-head-is-so-far-up-my-heinie-that-i-can-see-my-pancreas wanker! either apologize or stop posting to this thread trying to defend yourself, cuz otherwise you will make yourself look more assholish as the time ticks by.
Actually, I used “thine” and “your” in the same sentence, although in different clauses. Considering the you just made, however, I am quite happy I added the “puerile” in there.
I wasn’t going to post to this, until I read this:
Someone who has started a thread about how he finds it infuriating that people post questions that aren’t meant for Cecil to this Board is now asking everyone to relax.
Chris, you should keep your list of pricks and your list of asses separate, or confusion will abound. Personally, I use the ever famous ‘bastard’ list and avoid the confusion and cross referencing all together.
Wrong. This board is what the Adminstrators, Moderators, and we, the members, make of it.
You are certainly welcome to continue your crusade to change the makeup up the board as it currently is, including the posting habits to GQ. But you will fail. So you have two choices - accept it, or continue the “rage against the machine”.
If the Administrators and Moderators decided so, the makeup of this board would change. But currently, they have a very active and alive community consisting of a tremendous range of intellectual backgrounds, wonderful personalities, and varying life experiences.
If manhattan ever wanted GQ to change, or wanted to change the posting guidelines, I’m quite sure he’s capable enough to do it without any additional help (unless, of course, he wants myself as a co-mod, hint hint?)
Yup. Try to point out a problem and suddenly you’re “dictating posting standards”. That’s right, let’s just all be a bunch of hippies and do whatever the hell we like. No reason to have standards. After all, just because the board is paid for by the Chicago Reader to help Cecil out with his column doesn’t mean anything. Let’s just turn it into our very own ask-the-expert web page.
Can you show me where in my post I said that I was “infuriated”?
yojimbo: Yes, I answered those questions. What’s your point? I wasn’t saying that people shouldn’t answer them, just that they shouldn’t have been posted in GQ.
That’s the whole point. Even long-time members are posting requests for personal advice in GQ now because everyone is doing it. How long before we’re going to have people asking for help in their relationships posting to GQ? It’s going to turn into an Ann Landers message board.
But hey, don’t let anyone tell you there’s anything wrong with that. If they do they’re just fascist bastards trying to dictate posting standards for the entire community.
Sorry Konrad, I don’t see it. Manny takes good care of his forum. Any questions for advice are moved without delay. Questions with factual answers are fair game in GQ. If someone is asking " How do I do this?" it’s a question. If they ask " How would YOU do this?" it’s a little gray, if it gets off-topic it gets moved. If they ask “Do you think I should do this”, off to IMHO or GD.
So people post to the wrong place occasionally, nothing to get fussy about. Shit happens, Konrad. I have to side with evereyone else - GQ is described as a place to ask questions FOR THE TEEMING MILLIONS (and possibly Cecil) to consider. You keep missing that first part. Not all questions in GQ are supposed to be for Cecil. It is a forum for questions with specific answers, regardless of how mundane the question may be. (At least that’s how I interpret the description of the forum) Questions asking for peoples view on something go to IMHO. Sometimes those get mixed up. It’s not done to turn the board into an Ann Landers site, it’s just a mistake. If the sole purpose of this message board was to feed input for Cecil’s column, then they wouldn’t have bothered establishing the forums MPSIMS, IMHO, or GD - all forums that, as far as I can see, contribute exactly Jack Shit to Cecil’s columns.
If this happens, I have believe manhattan will do his job and move the thread to IMHO or MPSIMS.
You’re the only one who sees a problem, yet you continue to tell everyone else that they’re wrong. Posters post to the wrong forum, even the long-time posters. That’s not a problem, it’s a mistake. In your OP, examples for this “problem” consisted of posts that were simple, direct questions involving simple, direct answers. Sounds like they belong in GQ to me.
In general, GQ is not where Cecil gets questions. I’m not gonna say he’s never gotten a question from GQ, because I haven’t read every GQ post, but for the most part, Cecil gets the questions in his columns from those sent to him via mail or e-mail. I’m sure he gets more than enough to fill a weekly column–in fact there have been GQ threads that have started with a “I sent this to Cecil and X sent me back a suggestion that I post it here instead, because Cecil has questions coming out of his ears right now” type of note in the OP.
Second:
Setting aside the fact that if we thought it had a chance of becoming a column, we’d email it to Cecil, when did you suddenly become telepathic enough to know what everyone else who reads the boards thinks is interesting and/or enlightening? Also, are these questions discussing topics that are less “of general interest” than:
“Does anybody actually like Circus Peanuts?” (Wait, wouldn’t a topic like that be moved to IMHO?? It’s not worth a column!)
“What’s up with gay marriage? Why do we have marriage laws at all?” (That topic would probably get moved to GD. gasp)
“Is it true what they say about gerbils?” (That one might even get locked…)
“Where did Bullwinkle go to college?” (TV show question…MPSIMS material.)
Kat beat me to it. In a nutshell, if you want a question answered by Cecil, you send him an email and maybe he’ll answer it. If you want answers from the message board, you post a question to the message board, duh. “How can I make this picture into wallpaper?” Is a question. It’s general. The fact that you think it was a worthless question does not enter into the equation.
There are computer tech people on the board, there are lawyers on the board, there are top 10 rock musicians on the board, there are vetrinarians and doctors on the board, there are magazine columnists on the board. If your question falls into any of these areas of expertise why not ask it? If it is not in any of these areas, there is most likely someone who can answer it anyway.
My point is if you feel so strongly about this subject why post a reply without a tag on that you think the thread should be somewhere else also are you not encouraging the gradual degradation of GD by answering ?
The threads will be moved to the right place . If the posters who are doing it continue doing it they most likely will get warned to stop . Manhattan keeps a very tight ship in GQ and I don’t think you have to worry too much about it becoming a Ann Landers message board .
BTW the info given earlier is correct . The reason I started posting to this board is because I mailed Cecil a question and got a mail back saying he had a lot of questions sent to him and most likely would not be able to answer it . I was supplied with a link to the MB and told that a lot of knowledgable people post here and maybe they could give me an answer . So your Let’s just turn it into our very own ask-the-expert web page comment isn’t too far off . Does that depress you ?