134: Yeah she's a Snark . . . . House. She's Durpy Durpay; just lettin' it all hang out.
 

GO!!

How many posts to complain in?

I think we've got a new leader in the Random and Capricious Admine Stakes...

Fixed the title - just lettin' IT all hang out.

Not a bad title, as snark titles go.

Ow! She's mighty-mighty, just lettin' it all hang out... ♫ :cluck:

I actually LIKE the title. You've got a long way to go to beat Fenris.

Trust me, that title can't be fixed.

Sure it can. In the same sense as one says "I'll fix you, you sonofabitch!"

Was someone besides me watching the Time-Life Midnight Special infomercial last night? :D

Just_Asking_Questions, who huffily flounced the day after the Discourse migration, has returned.

What motivated him to de-flounce? The derpiest thing imaginable: an opportunity to complain about the Star Wars prequels.

You know, there's a pit thread you can post about him in...

And of course he *responded to me... What a maroon.

*But of course he didn't *really* respond to me, because I was talking about the trilogy as a whole, not individual films: you don't have to be an Abrams fanboy to think the three movies together just don't work. In fact, I'm not sure how it follows at all that thinking the trilogy as a whole is a "hot mess" makes one an Abrams fanboy since he directed the first and last installments. Doesn't follow at all...

Another candidate for the "WVa's dumbest lawyer" thread, where the pot calls the kettle black, but I haven't gotten around to restoring my sock at the Durp to post it. Andyone else want to do the honors, just so it appears under his post?

I'm getting a junior mod vibe from BigT in this thread Cartooniverse started about how ... using the term "ricer car" is akin to a KKK rally.

:D

As I expected, he ignored my suggestion and is still using the same dumbass white square.

e_c_g has gone loco and spilled state secrets in public.
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho...ayout/913868/3

I'm surprised, it seems like the traffic is slower. Somehow the Latest & scroll forever appears less active to me than New Posts did.

Strange how people despise avatars and images on the SDMB because 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔧𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔠 𝔭𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝖜𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉, but they're perfectly fine for every other site. Including, in the case of kaylasdad99, dcisgoingtohell.com?

http://i2.wp.com/dcisgoingtohell.com...IGTHGRAV22.jpg

At this point, I think the anti-avatar/graphics/feature crowd holds onto their technological luddism because it gives them Internet old-timer I-don't-own-a-TV-style intellectual cred. "We didn't need avatars to know who was who on The Wizard's Sleeve BBS or alt.fan.monty-python back in the day, and I can't imagine why we would need them today!"

Hey!

Andy! Gotten any sleep lately? :D

I like that he's being open about it.

When I replaced vBulletin on my site, there was a huge burst in posting activity, but after a month or so things settled down to about 80-120 posts/day, or 150% of pre-conversion activity. It was still nowhere near the mid-2000s average of about 300 posts/day, but I'm happy with the results. (The forum's main topic is a niche profession, whose practitioners have long embraced mailing lists as a part of its culture. "Are you on the Northwest South Dakota travel demand modeling listserv?")

I wonder how other general interest message boards fared after they moved away from vBulletin.

The signups: how many are legit users, and how many are spammers? On the old Dope, whenever I clicked on a new user profile, and manually worked my way back, it seemed like 95% of everybody that recently registered was a spammer. Lots of usernames and profile information that just seemed "spammy" or obviously from India, lots of spam in profiles.

What strikes me is that a huge message board like the SDMB gets about 15-20 new users per day, the same as my lowly site used to get 15 years ago. And those were mostly legit users, too.

I think the graph shows that the trend is still downward. There was an upward spike due to people complaining or trying to find ways to use the new format, but I think once things settle down it will continue its slow decay.

Maybe less slow than if they'd stuck with vB. But I don't think anyone is going to join up.

Which is fine, right? Who expects anyone to join a community of eccentric, boomer misfits, pedants and spectrummers? It's nice that we have a place to be miserable together until we die (probably soon.)

I agree, but there was and is a way to have avatars on Usenet: X-Faces! I saw them in real life back when I was more active on Usenet.

I'm surprised by how comfortable it feels to not post anything on the Dope. It could be habit-forming.

You're probably the only poster I'd miss over there!

Agreed. Vinyl has more wit in the knuckle of his left ring finger than any Doper has in their shoulders and right torso.

It's like searching a rock pile for an opal. There's a few gems in there but they are few and far between.

Little known fact, a black opal can be worth many times more than a diamond.

#BlackGemsMatter




:handbasket:

But it better not have a brown center or it would be a buckeye.

It's that paragraph where he tells people not to report the thread.

Sometimes he goes beyond the usual junior-mod or mod-wannabe thing, and sounds like he's typing from a parallel universe where he really is a moderator.

I'm surprised at the Dopers who don't want images because they'll get in trouble for reading the SDMB on the job.

I don't begrudge anyone the ability to goof off at work. Before I retired, I read the Dope at work plenty of times. But I would be embarrassed to demand, publicly, that a message board with thousands of members be configured to meet my goofing-off needs.

You know, I actually kinda like Left Hand of Dorkness as a poster, and I think the dope would be worse off without him (I know I said I'd only miss you, Vinyl. Sorry, I lied.) But man, he spends a lot of time talking about how he shuts up and listens.

Title doesn't suck.

It's moot anyway for a lot of folks. The bigger companies don't update their browsers until they absolutely have to.

I tried to access the Dope at work last night. Discourse basically told me: "Your browsers too old grandpa!"

Good point. The title does NOT suck. 2 in a row. What happens if we reach 3?

We get a free upgrade to Discourse, the software choice of corporate bean counters.

Hell if I know. I'm just adding it to the 2020 apocalyst.

That or the world ends. But those might just be the same thing.

Whose sock is mystrygst2?

If we tell you, they will kill you. It's better you don't ask.

But I already did.

Damn! We need a time machine! Like yesterday!

I'm working on that now. I'll send it to you as soon as I finish inventing it. Should be last week sometime...

Thanks! The device looks great, btw. You really did a great job next year.

Spoilered for possible hugeness...

https://morbotron.com/meme/S02E14/35...lNRSBPTiBJVC4=

This reminds me of a thread, way back in 2004, where Colophon complained that too many people were using large fonts in threads, and it was drawing his employer's attention to the fact that he was messing around at work.

Liberal (or was he Libertarian then?) posted, in massive red letters:

Stop stealing from your employer.

It cracked me up at the time. The post is here, but the transition to Discourse didn't preserve the font size or color.

Awww, that means Duck Duck Goose calling jarbabyj a cunt in giant type won't be preserved, either :( I always liked when someone fired back at the bitch brigade.

Me too and that was the beginning of the end for them. They made the snarkpit look like amateurs. In fact, they started they first anon blog and having the rest of the Durp find out about it and then having it turn on them was a beautiful thing.

You are correct.

I didn't know about this incident, so I went searching and managed to find the thread. Wow, what a train wreck that was! Followed up by Duck Duck Goose starting another one when the first was closed.