You are here. Why?

[jsorense]

My home BB is elsewhere. A place where there are no adds and no banning.
I have been here from before it's beginnings. I keep coming back because there are people here that I want to irritate and confuse. You know who you are!

[DaShi]

And you're doing a bang up job of it too!

[The Mad Monk]

Indeeeeeed.

[Gertrude]

Edit add: Some posters in another thread have warned me that studying this forum too much might make me go insane. I do want to say, I really appreciate the saner debates to balance out the insanity.

There is much that should not be taken seriously or even taken at face value. Some of the behaviour does seem senseless at times.

I think some of the other posters in this thread have provided some useful insights. There does appear a certain amount of escapism from the straightjacket of behaving "correctly" all the time in real life. Some try to be funny, sometimes sucessfully and sometimes not.

There are rational debates peppered with comments that seem to be attempts to highlight potential absurdities in whatever is being debated or in the debaters or in what is being said. Sometimes a poster seems to be playing devils advocate. Some posters seem to have their entire self esteem tied up in "being right". Others seem to desire discussion to learn. Some resort to name calling as soon as they meet disagreement with their views. We have a rather wide range of types here and that is reflected in the posts on the fora.

This is a forum with a wide spectrum of people and a wide spectrum of behaviours. There is little in the way of "social norms" common in most groups and other fora.

And yeah, Elok is probably right. Waiting a little while to call somebody a ****head is relatively admirable restraint and moderation on OT.

[Aeson]

Most of the time they just call each other names, but that has a bright side too--you can get a reputation as unusually reasonable around here just by waiting until the third page of debate to call the other guy a ****head.

This is why I use the 1 post per page setting.

[Egbert]

It-you can get a reputation as unusually reasonable around here just by waiting until the third page of debate to call the other guy a ****head.

Awesome.

When this thrade gets to page 3 I shall place a poast, to call everyone ****heads.

Everyone will think I am unusually reasonable.

I now look forward to the continued success of this fine thrade.

[Egbert]

Thank you. I am trying to be a productive poster most of the time. I have learned that some of the crazier postings can actually have a nice balance against the drama of real world news. Escapism of being a responsible politically correct adult, perhaps? So, forgive me, if you see me get caught up in the silliness now and again.

Sometimes people post something retarded to get attention. I do that sometimes.

Sometimes people just troll for the hell of it. I do that sometimes.

Sometimes people post like a **** because it is easier. I do that sometimes.

[ricketyclik]

Habit.

[Egbert]

Habit.

I see that was your post # 10,000

You have become a god

[ricketyclik]

I see that was your post # 10,000

You have become a god

It was actually my subsequent post in Burrito's workout thread.

[ricketyclik]

I know this because of my omnipotence. Feel the power!

[Egbert]

Indeed.

One day, I too will be a god. Only 6,555 poasts to go.

At the moment I am quite angelic, of course.

[ricketyclik]

The bulk of my posts were "Turn X to Y player" playing civ pbem games.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Why not?

[My Hubby Loves Civ]

Ahhh, so you are here because you have an inquisitive mind. Like to question everything. I get that.