I <friggin> have a <grunt> long post that’s FUCKING SITTING FUCKING DOING NOTHING waiting to be posted to MPSIMS. I FUCKING KNOW THIS post will get through!
I am going to kill the SDMB if it doesn’t go through.
I know I said I’d never get mad at the SDMB for being too slow again. I lied.
You see I FUCKING KNEW! that would get through instantly. but my other post is sitting on the FUCKING start-bar going "duuuuuhhhhh mee, duhh, gooo wheerrrreeee??? the sdmbbb??? duhhh zzzzzzz snore !!
Well. that’s it. I’ve waited long enough I am going to break it apart and post it bit by bit (which is hard because there’s a big quote in it). You better look behind you a lot sdmb, and don’t go down any dark alleys because I am coming for you! I am going to kill you.
If you’ve hit the “submit” button and then it hangs, in all likelihood the post has gone through. Take a deep breath, check the thread with your other browser window and see.
It’s all in the name of art/spicing up conversations/being bad-tempered or dramatic simply for effect (not attention. I said effect)
I am really quite normal. It’s very easy to let yourself go on a message board, when you know you’ll never have to see the face of any of the other people on it.
It’s also really easy to take a breath and not blurt out the first thing that pops into your head.
The beauty of a message board: you can write, re-write, and re-write again before posting something to make sure it comes out coherent and “just right.” You-- theoretically-- have the ability not to look like a jackass because it’s not “real time” conversing.
The downside of a message board: everything you’ve ever posted can and will come back to haunt you. And people only know who you are from what you post. If a person does say something that makes him or her look like a jackass, it’s a permanent record, my friend.
I swear to god, if I see one more thread that’s 90% lobley talking to himself and 10% Dopers rubbernecking, I’ll…well, I guess I’ll stop reading lobley threads.
Why? I assure you that there are posters with very high counts who are not really respected or liked; they’ve simply stayed far enough inside the rules to be cordially despised without being banned.
Were I you, I would concentrate on quality over quantity.