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Originally Posted by Newsy
I think that's too bad. I hope I did a good enough job of being open to whomever wanted to talk to me during the april 15 week (see Alex/Lucifer Standard for reference).
For everyone that might feel like that, honestly, 99% of the forums feelings are dropped within seconds of meeting a person. I'm pretty sure I wasn't going to like Bebe or Jorjo because of he stuff I had seem them post, but when they sat down next to me at Dino bbq, I immediately thought "am I really gonna be that asshole and not talk to them? No. Wtf."
I was hoping to meet a lot more fans that weren't even on the forums, in person, but I didn't see too many.
You make some valid points all around Kelli. Too bad you're a girl and therefore have lower intelligence and I won't really consider anything you have to sayOMGDRAMA!!
On another note, I am not a debatey kind of person. Partially because I don't feel knowledgable in any subject to defend it with any validity. Also, I don't care to. I'm not looking to have my views challenged, or to expand my mind or anything. I'm fine being somewhat retarted.
So what I do when I see serious debate threads: ignore them. If, for some reason, something seems interesting enough to read, I do just that. If, for some even stranger reason, I feel like it's something I can add to in an intellegant way, I do so, in the best way I know how. I don't make cutesy comments, or do things to derail athread that people are actually serious about. That's usually where "drama" begins.
I try and keep all of my LoLing in the LoLable threads; none that will really bother people if they get derailed. Like Bebe said, it's self-editing. Or something like that.
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SNAP!! I didn't hate you either
And ... in the interests of staying on topic ... I kinda like drama. I've been fighting (so far successfully) against commenting in the Rye vs Mikey threads seeing as how that issue is a little close to home. Plus I'm sure I'd like drama less if it personally involved me (oops - double standard
). Generally speaking though, it does provide a certain degree of entertainment.
I think I'd like forums a lot less if it was a) all serious debate, or b) all rainbows and unicorns.
Drama eventually goes away as people tire of it and stop posting and if anything really bad happens it can be deleted.
Some may disagree, but I think I've been pretty good about not thread-jacking lately. Sometimes conversations start up that may last a few posts but, unless it's on a thread where I think the OP won't mind, I do try to reign it in