Is there any real purpose to multiple Internet fora...

[Ocktoepuss]

Pardon me all.

I thought this was the area of the forum designated for intelligent, thoughtful topics.

@Elok -- Kant is rarely taught in Freshman year...

[Theben]

Originally posted by Ocktoepuss
Pardon me all.

I thought this was the area of the forum designated for intelligent, thoughtful topics.

It used to be. We used to have long, thoughtful discussions about abortion, religion, communism/capitalism, topics of the day, historical 'what ifs'. But then we had a instantaneous forum-wide epiphany that no one was going to change their minds by what they read in an online forum, especially from comments made by the 'other side'. So now we just post pictures of lolcats and call each other "teh ghey", because we've grown up.

[Dinner]

Re: Is there any real purpose to multiple Internet fora...

Originally posted by Ocktoepuss
...dedicated, roughly, to the same concept?

Isn't there some sort of categorical imperative (or ideal) that all data which is related in nature be readily accessible from a single location? What benefit is there to the distributed nature of the current state of Internet sites, message boards, et. al?

This guy sounds like a gay ****. I mean it's like some German poster who hasn't logged in since 1999 has his real user name and he's been forced to misspell it in order to post here.

[BeBMan]

Fora

Forums

[Imran Siddiqui]

Threadi

Thread

[Grandpa Troll]

Imran
Imran
Imran

rah,rah rah

[Theben]

commies

commies

[Ocktoepuss]

Originally posted by Theben


It used to be. We used to have long, thoughtful discussions about abortion, religion, communism/capitalism, topics of the day, historical 'what ifs'. But then we had a instantaneous forum-wide epiphany that no one was going to change their minds by what they read in an online forum, especially from comments made by the 'other side'. So now we just post pictures of lolcats and call each other "teh ghey", because we've grown up.

I think perhaps the use of the word 'epiphany' might need to be rethought a bit.

All irony aside, does that constitute entertainment?

[Elok]

Eh, why not answer seriously...have you ever been to a REALLY busy forum, Ock? A forum with five hundred active posters will churn out a whole page of new threads roughly once every two minutes. Each thread will accumulate a new page of posts in about one minute. Very few people get heard or noticed, they're just one more opinion in the crowd. It's not very fun. It's better to have a moderately busy forum like this one, where there are enough regulars to keep things moving but not so many that it becomes a blur you can't keep up with. Even if the logistical barriers to your hypothetical uberforum (like bandwidth; a dozen supercomputers would crash under the server load in an instant) were removed, there would be no meaningful conversation. The spam and xposts and such would kill any attempt at discussion. Plus you'd have problems with incompatible posters, people of wildly different intellectual levels trying to argue with each other...it simply wouldn't work. Should I go on?

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Elok
Eh, why not answer seriously...

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Ocktoepuss]

@Elok -- I'm not asking about merging every forum on the planet together. I just think it is curious that there are, what, four or five sites on the Internet all revolving around/borne out of this one strategy game.

[ZEE]

ya we were the first

those damn copycats!

[MarkG]

and what about all those parties in the parliament all supporting democracy? they are all on the same side! i say, one party, one people!

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by MarkG
and what about all those parties in the parliament all supporting democracy? they are all on the same side! i say, one party, one people!

Man I miss you as my boss MarkG

Life has been a struggle since I have to kiss up to that canadian, he doesnt love me like you did, talk soft to me, prod me to do what I know I must