GAME: Word Association

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:13 am

chaos

Post by **KiltanneN** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:38 am

rigid

felonius · Post by **felonius** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:15 am

member

Post by **Darb** » 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.

Post by **KiltanneN** » Mon May 24, 2004 10:22 am

Cave-Man

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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.

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.

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

Post by **Darb** » Mon May 24, 2004 10:32 am

Cave-graffitti

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However if something were to shoqw up ANYWHERE else ...

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.

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.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Tue May 25, 2004 7:56 am

lurkers

Post by **Darb** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:12 am

shadows

Post by **Ghost** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:22 am

undead

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:43 am

Tad Morose

catriona · Post by **catriona** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:41 pm

confusion

mrdude · Post by **mrdude** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:00 pm

disoriented

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:35 pm

parenting

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:50 pm

Children

MidasKnight wrote:Tad Morose

You can't resist including metal can you?

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:54 pm

I was listening to that CD right before I typed that.

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:59 pm

Excuses, excuses!

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:42 am

Back on topic ...

Echus Cthulhu Mythos wrote:Excuses, excuses!

Democrat

felonius · Post by **felonius** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:04 am

Technocrat

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:13 pm

Physicist

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » 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."

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:52 pm

Space

Hunter B · Post by **Hunter B** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:24 pm

nanotechnology

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:46 pm

microscope

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:13 pm

telescope

Post by **wolfspirit** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:21 pm

refracting

EDIT::Refracting as in the style of telescpoe, if you didn't know