Be Excellent To Each Other

By recently, I mean the last 18 months, give or take.

Well I haven't seen you about much.

Too many people.

myp

Sinister Agent hasn't been around...

DerekFME where art thee?

In much longer than 18 months too

I doubt she's flounced but the recent activity on the cameras thread made me realise that Decca has not been around in a while

Still posting here quite regularly?

Oh.

Ok.

It's great to have you back, DerekFME.n

Seriously though, I don't understand people that flounce. This forum has something for everyone and it is a lot of fun at times. Sure, you may disagree with someone but so what? It's only the Internet. It's not like someone is shouting through your letterbox all day and you can't ignore them.

Grim... Pays a fair amount of money to run this forum and I for one, appreciate it... The least I can do is join in with the conversations.

Not seen or heard from Alarm for ages.

Sometimes it's better if we don't join in

We should all sit in complete silence and nod at each others avatars.

*nods*

"Taxi!"

You don't understand that this is a place people come to in their free time and that if they're not enjoying it any more they might decide not to come back? You don't understand that certain people/groups/attitudes are pretty hard to avoid here even with use of the Foe button and so hypothetically if you've had a falling-out with one of the village elders or if something is getting on your tits you might want to bin this place, at least for a while?

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me arguing with people over anything I remotely give a fuck about is hard bloody work and consumes a lot of emotional energy, even when it's "just the Internet". And "just the Internet" cuts both ways - it's not like there's a shortage of other places to hang out if somewhere's rubbing you up the wrong way at that moment.

tl,dr: I've not "flounced", but I certainly understand why someone might.

Oh - I think there's a significant difference between a flounce and a 'not enjoying being part of it, don't bother hanging around'

I just can't find it in me to get wound up by people on the internet, sure I think some things people say are idiotic, or I might disagree with them and say so. But to actually get wound up enough to quit? Never going to happen. I just don't care enough about other peoples opinions for them to break through my arrogant shell

Plus, none of you are real anyway.

That's kind of what I was getting at.

This is what happened at the cottage.

I miss John Coffey.

More importantly, how are his knives?!?!?

Obviously, but it's the same principle. Some people will get fed up or frustrated and just quietly fuck off. Some people will get wound up to the point of explosion and drama. Saying "just ignore it, it's only the Internet" is fine and all, but people naturally get attached to a place they spend a lot of time in and some people won't be able to just shrug it off if something about that place starts pissing them off.

Not defending (or indeed attacking) anybody, but saying that you don't understand why someone might have that reaction just seems weird to me. Don't feel the same way? Fine, bully for you. Not understanding why someone else might? It's hardly rocket surgery, is it?

Did TheVision really just suggest that it's rude/ungrateful not to post here because Grim... spends money on the site hosting?

Yes.. So post more! And god damn it, make it look like you're enjoying it!

*books for next year*

I was getting fed up with the place about 3 years ago and disappeard for a few months or so. Sometimes the bitching is too much, but mostly people here are excellent.

Malc

I blame Amy Winehouse for causing all of this.

Not everything is Amy Winehouse's fault. Her untimely-yet-totally-predictable-and-therefore-not-very-tragic-death was, though.

...how long have we been here?

Over four years now isn't it?

One and a bit.

If you look under your avatar on the left you can see your 'join' date which is March 2008 , there was a short period before this on world of cuddles but the start here was sometime around here (thread number 2 I assume thread 1 is in the mod's area)

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2

28th March 2008

Thread 1 is the best thread.

It's good that most of the people who posted in that thread, still post here... but a shame that a few don't.

Heh! Beex Genesis. All well before my time though, I was still slogging it out with Stu I think, although actually, IIRC, I was on one of my many 'sabbaticals' at the actual time of the WoS Schism. Probably.

Always regret not being around at that time; looks to have been a right old ding dong from what I was retrospectively able to glean, albeit I think a lot of the original posts were deleted/modded or whatever? Might be wrong, there.

I do think the forum has become much more quiet these last few months in particular, with quite a few of the original crew posting far less, or disappearing altogether. For my part, I do miss contributions from Sinister Agent, Chinny and Kalmar, among others, and wish that many others posted a lot more than they do. WoS, for all its many limitations, was pretty awesome back in the day, for a serious political discussion or whatever. But I guess, people move on and of course, there are many other outlets these days for internet interaction (Facebook et al), as opposed to traditional forums.

I think the original WoS forum is lucky if it gets a post or two per week these days, last I looked.

Untrue unless you were the person who won the Whenwillamywinehousedie.com iPod.

Trying to make a Flounce Masterlist (from the last 18 months, it'd be too long otherwise), incomplete of course.

myp
Chinny
sinister agent
Kalmar
pupil
Craig
tossrStu

Why?

Worst. Group. Ever.

What about Devilman? I don't recall hearing from him recently, on twitter either. I hope he's ok.

You're on fire today mate

Always.

Imagine how many people would leave if my quality dropped!

Me too.

Yeah, it's been a fair while since he's been on.

Ah, he posted something on Sunday.. before then it was July.

Fucking bastard getting me all worried.