Because I consider it inappropriate to complain about other Dopers in any other forum. This forum allows those who disagree with me to express their disagreement without fear that they will be running afoul of the rules.
And if your title doesn’t say “Moderator”, you really don’t have business saying things like this.
How many were not porn sites?
Why idiocy? Why not ignorance? I don’t frequent any other boards and I’ve heard others comment similarly. I can see someone making that honest mistake.
Yeah, somehow I missed that it was a podcast; I had a brain fart and thought it was a radio show. Still, they have 40,000-listeners according to Randy, which makes me think “wider world” still fits as in “they can’t all be SDMB members.”
I dunno. I think with the current election and the explosion of awareness of YouTube and political blogs like Daily Kos and Huffington Post, to the point that they’re mentioned all the time on the 24 hour news channels, you could argue that certain corners of the internet have far more relevance to pop culture than they did even just a couple of years ago. If you weren’t on the internet, you didn’t hear the rumors about Trig Palin, for example, until residents of “the wider world” of TV realized they were getting scooped. The relative ease of creating a presence on the web (as opposed to becoming “somebody important” on TV or radio) is changing the nature of fame and pop culture, as well as the specialness of getting a mention by someone other than your friends. The wider world is paradoxically getting smaller and larger at the same time.
It was estimated early this year that the podcast audience might reach 65 million by 2012. Will a reference or a shout-out on a widely-heard podcast have the same importance then, as a reference on a large-market radio station today?
None of my replies, of course, are intended to suggest that I think the SDMB is the uber-repository of cool kids and everybody just WISHES they were us. That’s just silly, and I hope I haven’t given that impression.
Half the time, I think this board is a conspiracy affiliated and originating with the History Channel and Nat Geo. Which, considering Cecil’s old school Program on A&E is not such an extrapolation.
Because of the high probability that heated disagreements would break out. I’m suprised by the sanity and reasonableness of the responses, actually.
Your contribution, if it can be called that, is a definite low point for the thread though. Officious junior modding usually turns out really well for the self-appointed Board Police.
Quoth Veb, former Pit mod, who thinks the thread’s placement is fine and sensible. Where the hell ELSE would it go, MPSIMS? ATMB?
But that’s for every podcast everywhere. How many thousands or hundreds of thousands of tiny podcasts are out there that only have a handful of listeners? And how many of those 65 million are spoken for by the major “old media” podcasts like those found at ESPN or NPR?
Podcasts are a nice start, but they’re not popular culture yet.
I think this board is to Pop Culture as a Flying Ostrich is to Joust.
Wettengrund.
Why would I want this to be like /b/? I’ve got /b/ for that.
Sure there is. I’m here.
A vital component that always survives no matter what lands on it?
I can’t figure out the analogy, either. Maybe enemy? But you fly on an ostrich in Joust. shrug. I don’t know.
Personally, I like the fact that the SDMB is obscure. Most of the in-jokes fall flat for me for various reasons; although I do like the “Once, in 1960, for 20 minutes” thing because I’m a Bill Bryson fan and I saw the thread it started from.
We’re a diverse lot here and that’s good. And frankly, if this place was really popular like Fark or Something Awful, a lot of the posts would look like they were written by hyperactive 15 year olds who can’t spell, punctuate, or form a coherent argument that doesn’t involve accusations of homosexuality- Just look at Yahoo Answers or the Comments on YouTube for some idea of what the level of discourse here would look like if we were the London Heathrow Airport of the Internet…
Several years ago I remember someone posting that a fairly famous musician (John Mayer?) had said “Hi Opal!” between songs at a concert. Said poster seemed to think this was a clear shout-out to the Dope and not, you know, the musician saying “hi” to someone named Opal. I thought that was pretty funny.
Um. The Straight Dope will continue to flap along after popular culture has been blown off it back by…a different culture, with a lance…riding a different message board?
Obscure analogies for a thousand, please, Alex
Shit. I am on the impressed side of the bell.
I got to admit though, jsgoddess, I do sort of cringe everytime I see someone posting something about getting a shot out by random celebrities on tv or whatever.
Makes me feel all uncomfortable, like, hey, don’t pull the rest of us down with your desperation for inclusion in the cool club! Some of us are already cool, without John Stewert doing a secret Doper Sign on his show.
I did say “widely heard”. Insert whatever definition of “widely heard” within that estimate of 65 million in 2012 you like.
And I’d argue that no, podcasts aren’t bastions of popular culture yet. But the potential is there for the future as it already is for blogs and YouTube.
You realise of course that by posting this pit on this board that no one of any consequence is ever going to read your post or even know about it.
Seems like a bit of a wasted effort really.
Okay, then what’s the pterodactyl?
And are the lava hands censors?