GAME: Word Association
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:13 am
chaos
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:38 am
rigid
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:15 am
member
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:59 am
Club.
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Way, wait a sec ...
Gentlemen, I realize the goal here is just innocent fun, but my conscience just wacked me onna forehead. To me, this thread appears to cross that nebulous (and hard to quantify) line between idle fun and pure static.
It's one thing to have perpetual threads in which people swap silly Q&As, define little used or imagined words, or list their current listening selections ... that stuff, although admittedly fluffy, at least has SOME minimal content. This ping-pongish single-word association thread, however, is pure static. It has no useful content, other than boosting post counts, and thus fits the description of 'spam' used by most public forums.
Kilty: you're the boss man, and I humbly defer to your judgement ... do you want your moderators to lock this sort of thing ? Or do you want us to let it slide until the forum picks up more membership ?
Is there a minimal S/N ratio you want us to try to encourage ?
Guidance please.
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Way, wait a sec ...
Gentlemen, I realize the goal here is just innocent fun, but my conscience just wacked me onna forehead. To me, this thread appears to cross that nebulous (and hard to quantify) line between idle fun and pure static.
It's one thing to have perpetual threads in which people swap silly Q&As, define little used or imagined words, or list their current listening selections ... that stuff, although admittedly fluffy, at least has SOME minimal content. This ping-pongish single-word association thread, however, is pure static. It has no useful content, other than boosting post counts, and thus fits the description of 'spam' used by most public forums.
Kilty: you're the boss man, and I humbly defer to your judgement ... do you want your moderators to lock this sort of thing ? Or do you want us to let it slide until the forum picks up more membership ?
Is there a minimal S/N ratio you want us to try to encourage ?
Guidance please.
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:22 am
Cave-Man
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However when I glanced at it - and checked it was indeed in the Soapbox - I thought "Why not?"
Considering that the stated aim of the Soapbox is to keep S/N ratio everywhere else at acceptable levels I don't really have much of a problem with something like this happening here. However if something were to shoqw up ANYWHERE else - I wouldn't move it here - I would lock it - give a warning so that the culprit gets to see why we shut it down and then after a week delete the thread.
I am not especially interested in a BBTL style game
kilt
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Thanks for your concern here Brad - I ABSOLUTELY would want the moderators to lock something like this if it showed up anywhere outside the Soapbox.Brad_H wrote:Kilty: you're the boss man, and I humbly defer to your judgement ... do you want your moderators to lock this sort of thing ? Or do you want us to let it slide until the forum picks up more membership ?
Is there a minimal S/N ratio you want us to try to encourage ?
Guidance please.
However when I glanced at it - and checked it was indeed in the Soapbox - I thought "Why not?"
Considering that the stated aim of the Soapbox is to keep S/N ratio everywhere else at acceptable levels I don't really have much of a problem with something like this happening here. However if something were to shoqw up ANYWHERE else - I wouldn't move it here - I would lock it - give a warning so that the culprit gets to see why we shut it down and then after a week delete the thread.
I am not especially interested in a BBTL style game
kilt
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:32 am
Cave-graffitti 
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I'll leave it where it is, massa kilty.
p.s. I think I'll bow out on further participation in this thread ... the S/N ratio is zilch, and I dont see the point of posting just to boost one's post count.
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Ah, but there's the dig my friend. As a word game, this thread sorta belongs in TQ&F ... it was at the instant that I went to move it that my conscience short circuited. I had exactly the same thought.However if something were to shoqw up ANYWHERE else ...
I'll leave it where it is, massa kilty.
p.s. I think I'll bow out on further participation in this thread ... the S/N ratio is zilch, and I dont see the point of posting just to boost one's post count.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:56 am
lurkers
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:12 am
shadows
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:22 am
undead
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:43 am
Tad Morose
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:41 pm
confusion
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:00 pm
disoriented
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:35 pm
parenting
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:50 pm
Children
You can't resist including metal can you?
MidasKnight wrote:Tad Morose
You can't resist including metal can you?
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:54 pm
I was listening to that CD right before I typed that.
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:59 pm
Excuses, excuses!
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:42 am
Back on topic ...
DemocratEchus Cthulhu Mythos wrote:Excuses, excuses!
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:04 am
Technocrat
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:13 pm
Physicist
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:15 pm
By the way, Brad, if you ever look at this thread, the reason it is NOT a waste of time and space and merely boosting post counts, is because it is interesting to see how certain people think. Sorta the same idea as "three sides to every story."
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:52 pm
Space
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:24 pm
nanotechnology
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:46 pm
microscope
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:13 pm
telescope
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:21 pm
refracting
EDIT::Refracting as in the style of telescpoe, if you didn't know
EDIT::Refracting as in the style of telescpoe, if you didn't know