Posted by: True Underdog
It's not so much a, "if you don't like it, then leave," than, "if you've got nothing nice to say, shut your mouth."
It's not like I go around saying 'your thread is bad and you should feel bad.' But mentioning in a thread how something has been here time and time again? I don't really see a downside. I don't want to see the same popularity contests again and again and such things. So if someone mentions how repetitive or silly a thread is? If it encourages that thread maker to cease posting silly threads like that, then good on them I'd say.
If someone posts something that follows the rules, then it's fine.Oh I'm not questioning that it's allowed or not. And if we had enough new people here, like in the Flood, the discussions could stay fresh. But... we don't. We have new people trickle in, like the thread maker in this thread, but a lot of us know older people. You know me. I know you. We've been here a while. We've said all we can say on certain topics and, without new people to stimulate new discussion, there's really nothing good about having those threads appear again.
How long you've been here is irrelevant. Using the time in which you joined as an epeen is poor form, too. You know darned well I'm just joking about all that in my posts. Please don't make me break character again. I don't like it.
>.<
Besides, piling on a thread complaining about how a topic has been done over and over just keeps it at the top of the board, something I'm sure our long-time, upstanding members are aware of, I'm sure. To be honest, I consider this thread not repetitive because I've never actually had older members disagree with the claim that the lame threads are quite lame.
:P