# Tuckerfan - How bored are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603 "2005-06-30T23:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/101 "2005-07-07T00:23:11Z")
One problem (for me) with the multi-link Tuckerposts. Even though the topics are extremely interesting to most of us, they don’t usually generate a lot of discussion and sink out of sight almost as quickly as one of my OPs. There are times when I can’t make it to the boards every freaking day. If I miss a singleton post, no big thing. OTOH, if I miss a mass posting … ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/102 "2005-07-07T06:41:28Z")
> [@Rhubarb](#): > > There are times when I can’t make it to the boards every freaking day. If I miss a singleton post, no big thing. OTOH, if I miss a mass posting … You search for all threads started by Tuckerfan in MPSIMS for the past week or month. You paid to use the search function, so use it! ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/103 "2005-07-17T23:54:38Z")
Tuck, don’t let this discourage you. I’m a fan of your posts here and other boards. Your science knowledge and perception of things to come astound me. (even though you’re faster than me in posting) Keep it up! (posting that is) Jack ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/104 "2005-07-18T00:28:16Z")
For what it’s worth, I tend to click on a **Tuckerfan** thread. It’s a guy thing maybe (all space, old cars, and other stuff we like). Has anybody checked **Tucker** ’s long term thread-starting average (rather just than in an hour or so)? Some folks start threads more than others. **Tuckerfan** would start more than I do, for example. Nonetheless, I don’t think he’s in any way excessive. And I like his posts. Not worth a pitting, IMHO. **Tucker** ’s a valued Doper. If he kept doing it, maybe, but strike this one off as a statistical anomaly. $0.02 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/105 "2005-07-18T00:33:26Z")
Cripes. I have committed the cardinal doper sin of only reading the first page before replying. Though, I genuinely somehow thought it was only one page, and missed the 2 and 3 links. Glad it seems to be sorted, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/106 "2005-07-18T06:53:01Z")
> [@Jake](#): > > Tuck, don’t let this discourage you. I’m a fan of your posts here and other boards. > Your science knowledge and perception of things to come astound me. > (even though you’re faster than me in posting) > Keep it up! (posting that is) > Jack I’m not just discouraged, just been busy, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/107 "2005-07-18T07:16:03Z")
Tuckerfan is the man. Word to your mother. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/108 "2005-07-18T07:45:01Z")
Anyone who starts space threads is fine by me. I don’t make the time to chase down every single new development, but I’m glad someone does. ---
**Author:** ![Conan\_the\_Librarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Conan\_the\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Conan_the_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/109 "2005-07-18T08:44:51Z")
So does **Tuckerfan** do this on an hourly schedule? I mean I could understand if every couple hours there was a flood of TuckerNews, but if he was cruisin’ the net and found a string of interesting thing… Well no harm done. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/110 "2005-07-18T09:05:53Z")
> [@The Hook](#): > > Bah! > > It’s not like he linked to the [Eye of Sauron](http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7564) from outer space. Alright, who was fucking with the Palantir? I thought we had that damn thing locked up. Anyway, I am a big fan of space stuff. I have a Hubble image calendar over my desk, and rotate in some shots on my Windows desktop. If it weren’t for **Tuckerfan** , we wouldn’t know that Tau Bootis is [a very funky planet](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6198339&postcount=6). (OK, so someone else came up with the phrase, but it was his thread.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/111 "2005-07-18T13:23:04Z")
Have I posted in this thread yet? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/112 "2005-07-18T14:18:40Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > If people only posted things which they thought that everybody would respond to, there’d be no posting at all, since each of us are interested in different things, and none of us are interested in every single thread that’s on the board. That’s true, but understand that when most of us post about a topic, its intended to foster some sort of discussion. The link-and-a-quote posts are more like a form of broadcasting. You might do some research before making the post, but from what we see, it looks like little effort went into the post. You’re posting about a subject that some here mgiht see as popular. Like **Miller** said, though, if I made posts like this every few hours … > [@](#): > > [http://www.mlui.org/landwater/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16892](http://www.mlui.org/landwater/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16892) > > Michigan Public Land Review Draws Praise, Little Criticism > > A decade after a northern Michigan state senator questioned the purpose of holding on to the state’s vast domain of publicly owned land, the Department of Natural Resources is conducting a painstaking, county-by-county assessment aimed at consolidating those lands and managing them more efficiently. … you can bet that I would go down in flames, and that NOBODY would be here to defend me. (There’s only a couple other planners here, and I don’t know them off-board; I doubt they’d be rushing to my defense, either.) I’d be doing the exact same thing as you, but just becuse the subject matter is different, people would be begging the mods to ban me for post padding, cluttering IMHO, making general announcements, violating the “don’t be a jerk” commandment, and so on. Now, if I followed up the URL and a quote with some meaningful commentary of my own – something that went beyond “cool” – it would be less likely that I’d get flamed. Some Dopers might be upset because I’m starting a lot of threads about an esoteric topic few here are interested in, but it’s unlikely I’d be pitted. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/113 "2005-07-18T16:43:18Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Have I posted in this thread yet? Yes, way back on page three, post 111. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/114 "2005-07-18T16:51:37Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > You’re posting about a subject that some here mgiht see as popular. Like **Miller** said, though, if I made posts like this every few hours … … you can bet that I would go down in flames, and that NOBODY would be here to defend me. (There’s only a couple other planners here, and I don’t know them off-board; I doubt they’d be rushing to my defense, either.) I’d be doing the exact same thing as you, but just becuse the subject matter is different, people would be begging the mods to ban me for post padding, cluttering IMHO, making general announcements, violating the “don’t be a jerk” commandment, and so on. Just to be clear, while I do think your hypothetical planning threads would be ill-received, I don’t think that’s any reason for **Tuckerfan** to stop posting his clearly popular space threads. Double standard? Sure, but who really gives a shit? ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/115 "2005-07-18T17:15:56Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > If it weren’t for **Tuckerfan** , we wouldn’t know that Tau Bootis is [a very funky planet](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6198339&postcount=6). (OK, so someone else came up with the phrase, but it was his thread.) Hang on. A guy who titles a thread “Planet Makes Star Its Bitch” is the topic of a three page pitting? That title alone exonerates **Tuckerfan** for all crimes up to multiple genocide. You the man now, dog. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/116 "2005-07-21T04:03:43Z")
I just wanted to say I appreciate **lightingtool** ’s OP. Without the links to **Tuckerfan** ’s threads all together, I might have missed them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603.md?page=5)