Wow, is there any way we could get some of that Cervasian wisdom made into a sticky or something? It’s something I think everyone – including myself – should read.
Now I’m kind of nervous about how Cervaise is picturing me – a debonair chap in a silk smoking jacket drinking brandy, or a grouchy slob in a ratty t-shirt drinking Schlitz? Or maybe a precocious tabby with a diamond collar who a saucer of milk?
Seriously, that was a great post on posting.
See – I try to be witty, and I leave out a word.
Now Ilsa knows what it feels like to deconstructed.
Am I the only one disappointed to miss out on what could have been a really great pitting?
Ilsa, bud … could you please not change for just a few more days? And be rude to Cervaise a couple of times? It really would make a much better story for when you look back on it years from now.
Y’know, if there was ever a single post that summed up the SDMB, I think that was it right there. 
Great job, Cervaise.
Ward, I don’t think you were hard enough on The Beaver.
I hesitate to venture into uncharted waters, being the timid soul I be. But this sounds to me like a theory about past experience and the capacity to change, or experience itself. Seems to me that experience and theories about experience are dialectically related - meaning, to me, that there is a constant and reciprocal dialogue between them. The dialogue between experience and theories about experience produces reflective knowledge - it is constantly subject to correction or adjustment. Such a theory is intended to producing enlightenment in an agent such as yourself who holds them - enabling you to determine what your true interests are. It should be liberating, it frees you from self-imposed self-frustration and makes change for the better possible.
I hope so as, I too, have found you, many times, superficial in the extreme.
ilsa_lund is growing up and I’m part of it! ilsa, can I adopt you? 
What the hell is wrong with kids today? Why when I was your age I…
Did you have internet connectivity or me as your adopted father?
There is a reason for that. IRL, I am very busy and normally have a lot of work. This was my release, but I don’t generally have lots of time to devote to being all that I can be. I may seem superficial in the extreme, only because when I post, that is all of me that gets out. A quick joke, a light hearted insult, a few words on a film in CS. Even starting a movie thread takes me very little time, and I have to pretty much schedule a time to write it, generally not very long.
Astoundingly observant.
The main reason for my apparent flippancy and superficiality is my schedule, but keep in mind that I do graduate very soon. (From college mind, not high school. Not that I feel the need to brag, far from it, but it does have an impact on my character and sensibilities)
That is the main problem, I suppose. I haven’t been doing this. I have, as you mention later, been using the SDMB as personal entertainment. I really needed it for a while. I shan’t much longer, though, and I hope I can become a valued member.
I suppose that what it boils down to is that to me, this was “just a message board.” For many of you it isn’t. But I don’t really know any of you. I like many of you, I value your opinions, but I didn’t really care. I don’t think that it can ever be more than a message board to me, but I know that it really is a community. Understanding that, I can focus on treating this like the community of people it is and acting accordingly, even if I’ll never be in the thick of things, relatively speaking.
(Never Have I Because I, you can adopt me from the “Kiss My Ass Foundation.”)
Young man, no dessert for you! Now clean up your damn room!
I’m not a person. I’m actually an advanced AI studying for the Turing Test. How am I doing? You have valuable insights on human social dealings, which I shall attempt to incorporate into my heuristics. I have learned, for example, that humans do not like to be called “ugly bags of mostly water”. Even though that is what they are.
Oops, that was supposed to be a private thought. The memory I had allocated for private thoughts became cross-linked with the one for public thoughts. Sorry about that.
I’m not a monkey either, I already told you. Is there a modified Turing test to see if an AI can successfully emulate a monkey? I’m interested as a purely academic matter, you understand. I have no interest in actually passing as a monkey. They are also ugly bags of mostly water, just of a slightly different shape.
Dammit, did I say that again? Sorry, I shall activate my defragmentation program.
So, I’m still wondering why it’s not very bright to bump an old thread. I was under the impression that any unlocked thread was our personal playgound.
The older a thread is when it’s bumped, the greater the strain on the server as it searches through the database for the posts. Really long threads have a similar effect, which is why those tend to get locked too.
That’s a classic post Cervaise. It ought to be required reading for everyone posting on this board.
Read and heed, fellow monkeys!
Yes, what’s the story with that?
I tried to e-mail my comments to no avail. I just wanted to say, not that anyone should care, that the above post and the previous post by Cervaise are the first posts I have actually printed out. Though there is definately a great deal of fantastic information availible in these forums, this was, for me, the best advice for how to behave on the boards, bar none. I know this is the pit so I’ll add GREAT FUCKING POST, Cervaise. Thank You. I for one will do my best to consider your posts in this thread before each post. I know I will often fail, but I will try.
Lawd knows, Ilsa, I ain’t got no room to add my two cents here; I’m sure the number of people you’ve annoyed, with cause, doesn’t come close to the number of people I’ve annoyed, with even more cause.
Nonetheless, I’m very impressed by **Cervaise **'s advice, and even more impressed with your apparent willingness to accept criticism. Here’s to the future of the SDMB: may more of us consider Cervaise’s wisdom each time we get ready to hit the Submit Reply button.
(Would it be obnoxious of me to make Cervaise’s post my new sigline?)