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Count me as one of the people who are sick of the tired old noob threads. The goat joke is stupid. (Also I’m just jealous because I didn’t get a “welcome Ghanima” thread when I was new. But I’m working through that.) I still think they are dumb threads but I don’t know if they are dumb enough to be closed right away.
Maybe the Mods could ban “Hey, I’m the new guy here. Where are the goats?”-type threads?
Doesn’t matter either way. Sometimes I’ll post to those threads, sometimes not.
I don’t see it as a big deal. It’s not like MPSIMS is swamped with them.
Maybe you should save the hostility for those who deserve it, Anaamica sure does not. I for one will tolerate anyone that is kind and well intentioned in the Pit or anywhere else. I say let them have their occasional party threads.
Why do we have to start a different thread to discuss other wasters of bandwidth like Tucker Lob and Wesley. They are more guilty than the newbie initiations. Or is this just a I hate Newbie initiations that isn’t about waste of resources at all?
Well, my take on the OP is that it is specifically pitting the “initiate the newbie” threads as well as the obsessive sub-culture that they have spawned. This is not to say that you cannot use this as a springboard for talking about resource waste and shit in peanuts.*
*My guess it that they would taste like peanuts, but probably be unsalted.
pokes head into link to figure out what the OP is talking about
takes a whiff
smells morons
punches self in head for describing actions inside asterisks instead of formulating sentences
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IMHO, the initiation with goat business has been done to death. Those threads now have the maturity level of a junior high school message board. Yes, I could avoid reading them, but it would be nice to be able to post a welcome message to a newbie without wading through that stuff.
I wonder what the newbies who get subjected to that stuff think about it.
If anyone who got welcomed with one of those threads is reading this, I’d like to hear what you thought about it? Did you think, “Gosh, what a fun place – I feel so special,” or did you think, “What a bunch of immature weirdos”?
Initiation threads are not serious? They are just people kidding around?
Do you realize for the last 2 years I have been on a “snipe hunt”? I was also told that I had to get a bucket of steam, a left-handed monkey wrench, a gallon of spotted paint and mail all of these to Dick Hertz and Mike Hunt.
Wow, 2 years of my life spent in this futile endeavor. :mad:
Maybe I can sell some of this stuff on E-Bay. (With my luck the winning bid will be from Jack Cass).
You forgot the 50 feet of waterline.
:wally
That was a very MPSIMS-ish thing to say. Fucking hell. I just finished bitching about this shit and then I turn around and do it. Sorry about that, guys.
Gotta admit, the linked thread reads (at least early on) like a #prison_sex chatroom.
Not that I’d know anything about that, you understand.
I imagine that any poster who announces their arrival in an “I just joined” thread is enough of an attention whore to enjoy the juvenile “initiation” crap.
Those types of threads are usually annoying, but that particular one makes me want to gouge my eyes out. The cuteness and staleness of the jokes combine into a critical mass of lameness that endangers my very sanity, and I didn’t even read more than a dozen of the posts.
Whomever linked it should really have posted a warning. Something like:
WARNING: Every post you read in that thread will suck an IQ point out of your head.
Wow, I agree with askeptic. This is just weird.
I really hate the stupid initiation threads, though. I wonder if people post in them just because they know that they’ve found the one person who hasn’t heard that moronic goat joke before. God, how incredibly lame . . .
I was invited to a board a while back and was asked to post in a stickied thread to introduce myself. I was covered in mustard and ketchup as per their initiation ritual.
I’ve never gone back. That’s just not the sort of thing I’m looking for in a message board.
At many message boards, an intro post is SOP.
Personally, I think y’all should just let the baby have their bottle. I never go into MPSIMS except when a thread title jumps out at me from the main page. And even then, I don’t know how to conduct myself, I don’t know how to turn off the aggression and become all sunshine and flowers. So I don’t post there (much). I’ve gotta say, though, that there are literally thousands of love boards on the Net and only a handful where you can discuss politics and philosophy with a variegated community. Maybe some people would be more at home on the Disney or Good Housekeeping boards?
Most “welcome newbie” threads are much less than a page long, and while I agree it would be nice to have more creativity in those threads other than the usual “canola oil and a goat” jokes, if you don’t want it to be the same five or six “idiots” in those threads, you could add your own contributions.
The thread primarily under discussion here is a different animal altogether. 20 pages???
I doubt there’s been even as many as 5 threads since I joined here that have reached 20 pages. This “new-ness!” thread has taken on a life of it’s own. It’s like those snowballs in the cartoons that bigger and bigger and bigger until their freakish size is a source of amusement and wonder.
The only sure thing is that, sooner or later, a mod will lock it down and it will fade into a well-deserved obscurity, remembered fondly only by those people who enjoyed participating in an honest-to-Og SDMB rarity.
The best way to keep a fun thing from getting stale is to add your own unique sense of humor to it. The worst way is to complain about it. IMO.
I think we have to accept that there are at least two boards on the SDMB, and that the twain rarely meet. If you don’t like MPSIMS, then don’t go there, simple as that. I hardly ever do, as I don’t tend to visit Cafe Society and IMHO. Different bunch of posters, different concerns. (Not much ‘fighting ignorance’.)
Ah well. Unless and until the board splits itself in two it’s just one of those things up with which we have to put. So to speak.
You really don’t pay much attention to me then because we agree on most things other than smoking. My opinion is you are a little quicker to get nasty though. (I would put a smiley here)
But was it “twee”?
Sounds like some motherfucker needs a hug. Come here and get your hug, bitch.