And I thought the threads a couple months ago by people not wanting to pay $4.95 were tedious; are we going to get this every time someone on a guest subscription hits their 30 day?
Damn, I forgot to include my little witticism about avatars…
If the only thing unique about you that draws attention is the fact that you found a 75x75 pixel .jpeg of Cartman in a thong, then you should maybe think about spicing up your posting style a bit more.
And since I’m here, I really don’t see much wrong with the OP, or his previous posts. He’s obviously a veteran of lesser, crappier message boards, and is confused that a board would charge members to stay on. He has this thread that communicates that, and a bit in his “hallo everyone” thread. Everything else he’s posted has been typical SDMB material. Personally, I think he’d be a fine member - not that it’s a democracy or anything around here. He hasn’t posted anything deliberately vulgar, he’s asked legitimate questions about the board a poster that doesn’t have access to the search command wouldn’t know about, and appears to have at least half a brain in his head. Let’s cut him a little slack.
**THIS ** is why this board is worth $14.95.
A-fucking-men. Had avatars or embedded images been including as perks for subscribing, not only would I not have subscribed, but I’d have burned down my computer and then danced on the ashes singing hallelujah.
I’m here for the content of the posts, not for the fluffy frills around them. Animated smilies will be the harbinger of the end. Beyond them lies madness.
$56K plus? Maybe he confused his modem speed with the board fees.
Or maybe he did the math involved with 3,800 members at a $14.95 membership rate. He wasn’t aware of the $4.95 early fee.
Dear PorkChop: Buh-Bye!
Maybe we can have a sticky: Please post here your explanations, in excruciating detail, of why you’re too cheap to pay 4 cents a day for membership here.
Then they won’t clutter up the rest of the board.
While I agree with the sentiments expressed by others in this thread, I’m afraid that there are probably a lot of folks out there who feel just like Porkboy. Which is a damn shame – as one of the things that keeps this place exciting and interesting is the steady influx of people…even loony people.
(And please don’t say we don’t need those people, cause we need ALL kinds of people. Even people you don’t like/are “asshats”/disagree with you – otherwise, how fucking dull would this place be?)
Are you saying that users with more posts should have more “credibility” than others, given through a hierarchy of titles? That might be fun on a different board, but it doesn’t make sense on the SDMB. I can think of a couple posters here with about a zillion posts to their names, but that doesn’t mean they’re an expert on everything. You don’t gain credibility just by posting a lot. RandomPosterX might only have one post to his name, but he knows just as much as RandomPosterY, who has 5000 posts, about seatbelt laws in Minnesota. Giving RandomPosterX a lesser title than RandomPosterY doesn’t help anyone. In fact, it might encourage people to engage in excessive drive-by posting, which is generally frowned upon.
No kidding. By that standard Handy (amazingly I saw only a few of his posts but all of them were incorrect or misguided to one degree or another) would have been our resident expert on every possible topic. Some people only weigh in on their ‘field’ I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen people registered since 1999 that only have a couple of hundred posts yet know every single detail of the topic they are addressing. I prefer to judge people by their posts then their ‘rank’.
How kind of you Mr. Admin for moving my post to the pit. It is a wish come true do i get two more? It’s nice to receive an overwhelming response from all of you. I’m glad I could spark a bit of dialogue, enough to even piss some of you off. Of course you’re going to defend your positions, you already forked over the $14.95 and there’ s no getting it back. I’m the perfect prey to pounce on aren’t I? Face it you were had! You’re using an outdated vbulletin board. Again I wasn’t chastising users of the board. I was writing against the admin and the board itself. But you all chose to poke fun at my name.
Why don’t you all overwhelimgly respond to some of my Other posts in the same manner you did this one… Aren’t you all smart well rounded people? apparntly not your lack of vocabluary indicates that! I’m not even going to bother quoting your mind less cursing, and swearing (we have enough of that on 98% of the web. I thought this was the one place that was fre of that, and that rational humans would solve their differences and debate with words.
Let’s not forget the head nodding, and mindlessly agreeing to one another (read back through the thread and see how many of you use the same lines as others). All the pit does is breed a bunch of mindless head nodders that agree to the same things. You aren’t any better than a party of monkeys.
You didn’t even address what I was getting at. All you can do is poke fun at my name ‘PorkChop’. That’s your best comeback? Thanks for showing me to the door (all of ten times). Sounds like groupthink has really come into effect in the so called “pit” (so much for livley hair raising discussion) do you all ape each other or do you have any unique views of your own. Clean out your potty mouths, and bring some constructive defence. Or do you all gang up on unwelcome guests?
I really don’t know where you’re pulling $4.95 from cite please. It’s $14.95 when i cheked on the subscribtion link in the initial post. I’m not too bothered with what happend here 5 years ago.
For a group of people that fight ignorance, you sure do breed a lot of hate in this place. Nowhere have I heard the mention of tolerance (I’m not the one cursing) I’m using english (granted I type fast and don’t use correct grammar or spelings). So you pay $14.95 to come here to vent your frustrations of the world. Thats your way of helping fight ignorance (more like promote hate and anger). The swearing is mindless. So what if people are still writing checks in the 21st century. The author of that post evidently found the half hour to type his ANGRY post to the SDMB. Typing HARD on your keyboard makes you feel good huh?
I would reply to all your critisims individually…but wait there are none. You were all poking at my name, my spellings and how i ought to get out of here. There must be a lot of truth in my initial post cause it certainly attracted your attention. Even the admin jumped right on that one and threw it in the pit so it may be ripped to shreads!
Again credibility ratings, avatars, spell check, more emotes are standard on many new board applications. You may hate them but i am sure the admin here will upgrade sometime to the new vbulletin that has these features plus more. So even if you’re into old school boards that may change.
Credibility ratings aren’t the greatest, sure someone who’s posted just 100 posts may not be as smart as someone with say 20 posts. But wouldn’t you agree it’s better than nothing, and incentive to post and participate in threads.
More emotes allow non verbal gestures to be communcated well.
Avatars needn’t be inappropriate. No need for thongs or any of that. Avatars are widely used and personalise a message. The new msn messenger uses avatars too, where you have a personal logo.
spell chek, sure why not? beats the hell out of cutting and pasing from MS word or whatever. Thanks for that solution whoever stated that. How clever of you to suggest that. Wouldn’t it be easier to have a little spell check button?
Are you luddites and going to challenge industry standard forum tools? Let’s just go back to smoke signals shall we… Put up a fight with vbulletin, phpbb, phpnuke and invasion boards. Oh and good luck to you!
Still here, eh?
Yes
Why?
I’ve really enjoyed the crashing. Now I await the burning.
PorkChop47, (snork) We’ve seen a thousand like you come and go. There’s no hate involved; we’re just having a bit of fun at your expense (since you painted a target on yourself). No one is bothering to point out a lot of erroneous assumptions that you keep repeating, because no one cares. If you don’t like it here, leave. Those of us who paid for subscriptions did so because it was worth it to us. What could that possibly matter to you?
Now wait a minute. I spent like fifteen minutes going through your entire post and responding point by point. I didn’t make fun of your name at all, as I’m quite fond of pork chops.
Also, the $4.95 thing came from when the SDMB first went pay. The special introductory rate for the first month was $4.95. That was only, what? March or April? So not too many of us actually paid the 14.95 to subscribe, for what that’s worth. Let’s see, what else? Apparently you’re offended by the profanity. I think you’ll find that the profanity in the Pit is rarely used as a substitute for clear language. When someone wants to make a point, generally, they do so fairly articulately, and sometimes (many times) supplement that point with salty language. I find it to be a good shit fuck ass time, personally.
Finally, spellcheck doesn’t correct poor grammar, or stupidity.