Hey speaking of mods, where's JJJ been?

It was rewarding for you. Everyone and their brother climbed up my ****ing ass left and right.

Hey, you remember when my avatar became 5,000 x 5,000 suddenly one day? Do ya? Cause I won't forget that.

Do you remember when i was backed up on a technicality and my principles left me shunned?

I do.

I'm not trying to dig up old skeletons but this was work for me. I did what i thought would fix these boards because for so long it was a refuge for me, musically. But I was coming here because of obligation only and thats not what I needed, and its not what other mods and these boards deserved.

I'm interested though, why do you think I left?

That's really quite an MC Escher-esque image.

I understand Big3's sentiment but the time it takes to expound upon a subject is usually enough to dissuade people from posting in the first place. The superfluity of short posts only really gets to be a problem in threads like Albums You're Digging where people are supposed to offer a brief description of whatever album they're touting.

The point is those people who are forced to post with some intrinsic thought process are the same ones who won't spend the fifteen seconds required to do so. In their minds there is virtually no motive to explain why they like a band, the mere fact that they do is sufficient enough.

There's just no simple way to promote intelligent discussion.

You forgot JJJ.

This.

That and when you add a time element to it, it seems even more disgusting that they can't take a quarter of a second to say anything.

Someone here made the point that we might as well abolish the Metal forum since there isn't enough people to uphold what its posters would need, and then they leave. I don't think we should get rid of it, but I do think theres a valid point there.

Add up all the one-liner posts in any controversial act and I bet they out number the 15 seconds+ posts.

And again. It kills debate. Generally people feed off of the last comment there, I can't know for sure, but nothing else explains it. If they look at the last quote and are trying to gauge whether or not to go back and read more, then we should want to have that final post be something more than "I liked them before they sold out."

I look at old posts from MB's begining and thier all like that. Its terrible.

Then is it progress, what's happening?

What if it could be so that, the mods could do less physical deleting of pointless one-line posts and pointless users... isn't there some kind of code or something, where you can enter in "min. character count of post-length in *such and such* forum"? Would that make things easier - or does no one want to do this because... why?

Boozy, no offense kid but thats what we've been talking about this entire thread.

I'll tell you the truth, posts longer than two or three paragraphs usually bore the ass off me. I look at conversations on a message board as being kind of like a verbal conversation where where it flows a lot better if there's a lot of back and forth volleying of conversation. Situations where you have one interminable monologue after another tend to kill the flow of the thread, IMHO. I understand why people get frustrated when there are too many short posts all in a row, but I think forcing everyone to make longer posts is counterproductive.

One of the thigns I'm working on personally in my lifetime is saying things without coming off like a major ass, because most times I'm not trying to be. This post is one such...

Would a 15 word requisite really translate to a novel?

While we're on the topic, I absolutly loathe when people quote something someone said and break it up into little sections, commenting on each.

I can't put my finger on it but it rips me apart.