I agree. This has been around forever and is one of the more obnoxious things about the boards, apart from the amount of time to load threads.
Must…resist…
I dont find it annoying. Just kind of curious.
In my opinion, what is most annoying about isn’t any quality of the phrase itself, but that what kabbes said is true. It’s used almost exclusively by people that weren’t anywhere near the boards when it started. I’ve never used it because it’s an inside joke that I am outside of – IMO it’s a pity more people don’t feel that way about it.
But Opal, what I really want to know (and I’m sure others are also wondering) is, how do you feel about it?
Is it annoying? Flattering? Tiresome?
Or do you feel like it doesn’t really have anything to do with you anymore, since a lot of people doing it are just carrying on a habit?
I pretty much feel that it has its own life. Half the people who use it don’t even know who I am so it isn’t really “about me” it’s more just “about itself”. It doesn’t bother me that people do it, but if they all stopped tomorrow I wouldn’t miss it.
- I think it’s funny.
- I like it, I don’t care what some of you say.
- Hi Opal!
- I will keep on doing it.
- It’s harmless, it doesn’t add that much more to a post, and isn’t used all that often anyway (how many times do you make a list a day?).
- The big-ass sigs some people display with every post are far more obtrusive than a cute little “Hi Opal!”
- Speaking of big-ass sigs, here’s mine. (But I don’t display in with every post. Usually just once a thread, if that.)
C’mon, surely a large part of the fun of a board
OG SMITE!
is to have occasional inside jokes, eh?
And a few of these as well …