RM: you’ve missed the point entirely (big surprise?) which is that a lot of GD people don’t hit MPSIMS. Therefore they’d never know that they could vote for “best expert explanations” or whatever. As for what validity it has, well sometimes it is nice to recognise people for their contributions. The concept is just a bunch of high school crap, like the Oscars or the Nobel Prize, but hey, we can do it too. It isn’t hurting anyone.
For someone who claims that this whole thing is just for shits and giggles, you really are taking this criticism very seriously.
And now you’re threatening to close the whole thing down. Christ, Opal, not everyone is going to fall in love with your ideas. A lot of people really like what you do at the TM Homepage, others don’t like it and many posters have never even been there. It all evens out. So don’t over-react everytime someone has some negative comments.
I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I’m lucky if I can find a half an hour a week in which to get funky.
Damn – you’re right, Opal. I am feeling so much more love and enjoyment now. Isn’t it wonderful how these kind of things bring everybody together in a spirit of good will and cheer?
The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Well, like I said, as much as you want. If you don’t want to spend hours of your life voting, then I guess you just won’t get to pick the winners! So there!
Voting only once? You’re not from Chicago, are you?
Rock on, Alphagene. Opal, I know you’re going to take this the wrong way, but here goes: Listening to you whine and bitch about the TM page is at least as annoyhing as listening to anyone else whine and bitch about it. Obviously the administrative staff here doesn’t believe that the sun rises and sets on your page, and you’re going to have to get used to it. If you think it’s too much work or hassle, then just stop doing it and quit threatening to take the site down everytime someone from the SDMB staff glances in your direction. If you think the benefits outweight the problems, then sally forth and keep on truckin’. Personally, I think it’s a hell of a site, but if it was gone I’d get by and I dare say most others here will too.
Well, feel free to bitch at me – I feel better for having said it regardless.
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
People, people…settle down now, this isn’t worth getting upset. Shure 'nuff, if someone doesn’t want to participate, scroll on past. It’s the same as skipping a topic that doesn’t trip your fancy.
Strictly my own humble opinion here, so don’t get your shorts in a bunch, but I thought it was nice that the survey was divided up. Some folks only use one forum and let’s face it, each forum has its own focus and standards.
People with a flair for debate, or research or just plain ol’ venting can be separated out from the purely social MPS. And in the end, it’s just a break in the grind as Opal said: nothing more than that.
I don’t post a lot in GD or GQ, but I do read them. It was nice to give a metaphorical tip of the hat to folks who’ve impressed me with their erudition, logic or just slashing way with language.
The OP is well taken, but I just can’t for the life of me get too upset about this one way or the other.
Er, I think you are behind the times now, Opal is now calling you a “frigid bitch” in the Hey Tuba thread in About This Message Board. (Sorry I am not sure how to make a link.)
A hat with bells on is not funny, it is the jester underneath.
I rather like the idea, myself. Seeing as how we are only dealing with words on screens, nobody can see the laughs, smiles, nods of agreements, thoughtful expressions, grimaces, vomiting, convulsions, etc. that their posts induce, unless the reader chooses to express them somehow. Therefore, it is nice to be recognized as funny, witty, on the ball, excruciating, and so on. Second of all, again because we are only dealing with words on screen, the criteria in picking these popular posters are much more meaningful than the criteria for high-school awards, like fashion, good looks, and all that other crap we all hated. We are judging them by their thoughts and expression, rather than by superficial appearance. And finally, nobody appears to be taking them too seriously. I know I won’t cry if I don’t get elected to any awards. Anyway, that’s my two cents’ worth on the subject.
P.S. I am a little dubious about the “oldest poster” categories, and the like. Electing SanibelMan the oldest poster doesn’t exactly cause it to be true.
P.P.S. I still can’t believe that I was nominated for “best photo”. Good grief! I look like I have jaundice!
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
[[Like I said – I have no issues with MPS in MPSIMS. I have not only taken part in the same, I have even started threads there (well, a thread). However, I felt like I had walked into a lecture hall expecting political debate and instead had Kathy Lee Gifford ask me to rate the candidates on charm, poise and the ability to fill out a bikini.]] Spiritus
Exactamundo. Opal’s point was that people in the Cecil’s Columns forum may not visit the other forums and wouldn’t get to participate in the popularity contest. I figured if there are people who stay away from the other forums (and not dissing the nice variety of forums we got here on the SDMB), there are probably good reasons for their choice, and I’m going to respect that.
This whole popularity contest thing seems pretty juvenile to me, too. But am I going to diss the lady who defended me, a newbie and a total stranger, in the Pit? Not a chance. Opal, do whatever you want and have fun with it. You go, girl.
Everyone is making a huge deal out of something very minor, and I’m fucking sick of it, ok? And it isn’t MY IDEA. I have gotten lots of emails and it has been mentioned in threads from time to time “hey when are we going to do another awards thing…” so finally I spent the time one night to code a script-generated voting system that is fully automated, hand coded 120 categories that YOU PEOPLE came up with, and then announced it. ANd then I get treated like I’m some kind of spamming troll. Well fuck that! ok? and fuck you!
Not everyone is going to fucking love everything you do in life. So some people didn’t like what you did. DEAL! And as I write this, I notice you took the page down. I will say this now, and will most likely say it again after you “blame” the admins for it. NO ONE FORCED YOU TO DO THIS. To take the page down was your decision. And a decision that is (IMO) overreacting to the comments shown here on this message board. And a lot of us liked the page. Some didn’t. shrug Sounds like normal life to me.
“You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!” - Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan.
