You said that you were not worried about merits, yet now you seem that you are concerned about some members undeservedly getting paid for signatures.
I don't particularly care either way, just stating it for the sake of accuracy. If I just said "nothing would change [if the thread was on the off topic board]" - it would be somewhat inaccurate, because at least some campaigns don't pay for posts on that board.
You are giving me homework. At this moment, I have enough things on my plate. Perhaps you might have some highlights that you would like me to read or a link? How much homework would you like me to perform in order to better "inform myself" about what is going around here in relation to my assertions of your "negative Nancy-ism."
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I have read quite a few forum threads through the years. Why can't we just stick with my already achieved work product rather than giving me more assignments? Do you have any particular thread(s) that you would like to point out to me? It seems that I already got the general tenor of this place after nearly 11 years being around here.. (similar to you).
It's fine if you don't want to do it but then you don't have solid basis to say that I'm overly negative about the forum. It's not about one or few good or bad threads, it's about the signal to noise ratio and just the general vibe of moderators not giving much of a shit. Don't get me wrong, I love the forum, I've spent 10 years here, but it saddens me to see it overrun with shitposting.
Have you ever considered that people will see the world differently based on a variety of experiential factors? and maybe even genetic factors? (nature versus nurture questions)..
Even if we read the same threads, we might not come to the same conclusions.
Of course. I don't want you to make the same conclusions, I want you to make informed conclusions. If you read 100 threads in BD and still think I'm too negative, I'll add "Negative Nancy" to my signature for 3 months.
As for shitposting percentages and whatnot... I don't really get what purpose is served by ANY percentage of shitposting. It just shouldn't be there. Granted if the amount of shitposts was really low, I would probably just skim over and forget about it, but when I see generic vague word salad occurring so often as to impede my ability to follow the actual thread and/or waste my time to the point where even the ignore function is useless because there are thousands of these word-salad accounts, that's fucked up, no matter how noble the intent of the thread is or how tolerant other users or moderators are etc.