alright i for one want a boycott on funnyman, i wanna see a
list, those who want
him to continue his thread and those who want his thread and every post he has
ever made on eztv forums deleted... newest poll.. who really wants him...
i vote burn it all to hell
you guys need to get a room or a boxing ring and sort this out.
id say burn the bibles first and if that doesnt help we go burn some witches.
Blackstar
Posted at 13/04/2008, 18:02
Quote by spareaker
my impression was that this was some unspoken consensus of
the
site regulars, and i followed that instinct. as much as i wanted to rail
against the announcement of a review of a show whose last episode release was
a
christmas special, i held my tongue. and i was quietly proud of everyone else
on this site, who did the same.
i say: let it starve to death. close the door, and ignore the noise. if it
manages to attract some newbies with its stench, fine. they may feed it for a
couple of days, but they'll tire of its vapidity and move on.
it dropped off page one in about five days. it would have dropped to page
three, by itself, within two weeks. with only itself to keep itself alive,
that thread will surely be dormant by your independence day, if not mine.
let's let that be so. and let's let no one be impatient for it.
well i didn't respond to the frisky dingo review not because of any great
consensus but because i've never seen the show and didn't know anything about
it. as for the funnyman thread being stickied if its not out of bounds can i
ask why this was done? also when it might be unstickied? having it set as a
sticky means people who might otherwise ignore it may assume its important and
read it and start off a new round of arguments and annoyance.
Blackstar
Posted at 13/04/2008, 18:32
Quote by dmfaust
it got stickied because sci is a forum terrorist! he is the
internet version of
bin laden and cobra commander rolled into one but without a cool hat.
(funnyman
bumped his thread at random, so sci posted in 15 other threads bumping them
past it. so it got stickied to undebump it.)
ah thank you for the explanation, though stickying the funnyman thread does
seem like 'cruel and unusual' punishment for the rest of us...
Spareaker
Posted at 13/04/2008, 21:06
drat, dmf! you responded before i had a chance to finish composing my
politically sterilized micro-opus. thank you, though. blackstar seems
appreciative of the "quick, direct" answer. (would be it that i had not so
constrained myself.) that said, i'm posting this because it took a lot of work:
blackstar: "...thread being stickied... ...can i ask why this was done?"
threads occasionally get stickied for temporary, administrative reasons. the
first time it happened was when a coke bottle fell out of the sky.
blackstar: "...a sticky means people who might otherwise ignore it may
assume it's important and read it..."
you've been around the forum for awhile - please tell me you've actually
witnessed the phenomenon of which you speak.
somehow, bold, sticky, top-of-all-the-lists means: "ignore me." the
sticky area wears a cloak of invisibility - particularly to those who
neeeeeeeeeeeed the latest (whatever their favorite show is) episode. then,
sticky: please use this thread for show requests and inquiries. doesn't
even appear on their screens! i'd not worry - anything up there is safely
hidden. (folks'll scroll... & scroll... & scroll... and never find it.)
blackstar: "...frisky dingo... ...i've never seen the show..."
quite coincidentally, i recently started watching frisky dingo - from s01e01. i
can't say why. i was just inspired "from out of the brown," as it were. somehow
(and i have an ironic feeling about this), i had gotten the impression that the
show might be interesting. i'm now up to s01e08 and not enjoying it as much as
i'd hoped. this is surprising, as i'd heard such bad things about it.
blackstar: "...frisky dingo... ...didn't know anything about it..."
frisky dingo is a juxtaposition of the comic book hero/villian myth and modern
corporate culture myth. it is a situational conflict in which an evil
antagonist wants to destroy the earth, but feels constrained to do so within,
say, osha guidelines. it's an hilarious premise - and it's got its giggles -
but i'm still waiting for that episode; when the writers "get it." if you
enjoyed the toying with "reality" the writers of the austin powers films
presented dr. evil, you might enjoy frisky dingo.
blackstar: "...when...might (something) be unstickied?"
this is never known. temporary stickies just get set adrift. that's all there
is to say. to announce a timetable... well, ok... i'll agree with my president
on this one thing, in this one instance.
Blackstar
Posted at 13/04/2008, 21:27
i prefer to think of dmfausts reply as concise spareaker. i know the
mechanics of setting a thread to 'sticky' i was more wondering why in this
case. thinking about the effect again though you are probably right, making it
a sticky will decrease the chance of it being read, so a good thing in that
case.
oh and i visited the frisky dingo site and watch the promo, very, very strange
but potentially in a good way.
fridgist
Posted at 16/04/2008, 05:42
stickied... i have a sense of impending doom as though the very fabric of
spacetime is tearing apart at the injustice.
ignore me while i go and mourn what can only amount to the end of all that is
good and decent in the world.
