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Oh wow! Such a sophisticated level of debate you just showed everyone there with that excellent post. Why don't you show me where someone posted things such as "I LIKE TEH TNG aND TEH Ds9 = ROXXOR!! But I DNO'T LIEK VOYAGER!!!?" in this thread before going off on your childish tirade because right now you're "debating" less like a snob and more like an imbecile.
Yes, why don't we just set a new policy of locking old threads after a few months. Even better, why not make it so that new members can't start new threads but only reply to active ones started by us snobby veterans. After they've proven they can post something besides "TEH Ds9 = ROXXOR!!" they can then earn the right to start a new topic. After all, we're a tight little community here at Flare, and this is our little clubhouse, damn it! Didn't they see the sign "NO stoopid people allowed, CUZ WE=SUPER+COOL!!!!!" outside?
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Why lock old threads at all?
Because it's annoying of course! And that way, when a newbie creates a thread, we can all scream, "USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION, CRETIN!"
And to those again who don't believe Flare's activity has gone down since the old days, the only reason this months-old thread was "resurrected" by an unsuspecting newbie was because it was still on the first page of the General Trek forum, even when the discussion had "ended" back in October.
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Oh well, I think we should perhaps go out in the open more often again, get some sunlight, meet some real people, and forget about the Internet completely - at least for a few minutes...
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quote:Originally posted by Austin Powers: Oh well, I think we should perhaps go out in the open more often again, get some sunlight, meet some real people, and forget about the Internet completely - at least for a few minutes...
Someone please sedate Mr. Powers; he's speaking nonsense.
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I hate to say it but as someone who has been here for a while now and is only now getting round to posting, this place and some of the people in it can tend towards unfriendly at times...I am by no means inexperienced when it comes to internet usage and am an old hand at forums (hell, I teach web design) but this is one of the few places I have ever felt a little apprehensive about posting for the first time - and IMO that is not a good thing.
If what is being said here is true about the decline in overall activity - and I am taking no position in that one because I have no access to readily accessible figures or the experience over the long term to remember Flare as it was 2 / 3 / 4 years back - then the only way to combat that is to see new people coming here to introduce new ideas, new concepts and new things to debate about.
That said if you're serious about forgetting about the internet, the beers are round at mine! :-) And as a relatively new poster here, if it helps at all I could probably find it in myself to take one for the team and type out "I LIKE TEH TNG aND TEH Ds9 = ROXXOR!! But I DNO'T LIEK VOYAGER!!!?" but I admit I don't have a bloody clue what I would be typing.
The offer is there though - beer and gibberish posts included!
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Wow. You guys are really passionate about this stuff. Respect.
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Relax, Fawny, we grow on you. It's good to see the Brit quotient creeping up, BTW. Why, I do believe I saw a chap from Wales post the other day! I can almost see the place from my bedroom, if I had a window pointing that way! 8)
Ace, meanwhile, is a twat. You can tell this because when arguing he takes the first line of defence a fuckwit always takes. "Show me an EXACT example!!" he bleats. Well, I hardly think someone who's been a member here for more than four years yet has barely been able to manage about. . . two posts a week? Not even that! . . . can really complain about the standard of Flare badinage. In fact, prior to about a month ago he'd barely posted at all for six months. I'd say he's trolling. I think we all agree I'm pretty well-qualified to spot someone who's using this place to work off their frustrations! Whatsamatter, Acehole? Not getting any?
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You're both being asses. Please stop. Newbies should post content that hasn't been done to death, and might conceivably be interesting to someone else. So should everyone else. Doesn't mean we should beat them about the head and neck when they fail to do so. But there's also nothing that says we can't poke fun at them, though hopefully while explaining the error of their ways.
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Sigh, this quickly got out of hand. I was just tired of seeing the snobby response yet again, but I think that original comment was actually much less disruptive than what has since followed. I am glad that at least a few of you agree somewhat with the main issue that irks me, and perhaps that means things will change. It doesn't look like this particular discussion is going anywhere further with the type of comments that have been made so far (and I'm sad to see them made by people whose works/sites and thoughts I have and still admire), so I will take Omega's suggestion and stop.
And regarding Flare's "dying" state, I simply was referring to the upper Trek fora and not the community forums below, which I know are still going strong because of the tight group that does reside here.
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Ace, grow thicker skin: we're all a bit sharp-tounged here, but Flare is also where the most insightful ideas are shared about Trek, new designs, artwork, politics and, of course verbal puns (I rather liked "Acehole"). No need to cry about it.
quote:You know, the harsh and insulting treatment of new members on these forums is starting to get old. Like it or not, Flare has been dying after the end of DS9, VOY, and the last of the TNG movies
That's so much bullshit, I dont know where to begin. Flare's posts have branched out so that it's not just about those series. Hardly "dying".
Fawn, Bones: welcome.
FawnDoo, I can undetstand being aprehensive about making your first posting here- there's a lot of unique charcaters and we bicker like extended family.
Do stick around though. Too often a new member digs up an old thread and vanishes (though we ususally still beat the topic to death some more anyway).
I've certainly grown tired of every new member dredging up some tired old thread (most far older than this). It would be nice if someoone would join in a thread that's currently active, but if you really have something to cntribute to an older thread... go ahead. That being said, you beg to be reduced to so much chum by calling yourself anything-"Doo".
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Do stick around though. Too often a new member digs up an old thread and vanishes (though we ususally still beat the topic to death some more anyway).
That being said, you beg to be reduced to so much chum by calling yourself anything-"Doo".
Okay, after posting how this place can sometimes be a bit unfriendly I go and get a rather nice welcome like that! :-) Take that, FawnDoo! Many thanks, I will stick around and might even try to introduce some stuff to debate about.
As for the "doo" comments, bring 'em on. Years on the web with this name and you don't think I've heard them all by now? ;-)
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*notes that person is less than a year old than myself*
*notes that person has a respected job like "teacher"*
*panics and dies*
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