What is the board culture here?

Roo · #1 14th March 2011, 01:34 PM

I was reading the KidV Pit thread where Lord Blackmore posted this:

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Originally Posted by Lord Blackmore

And can you not understand that just because people on some other board find you "polite" doesn't mean a thing about how you're perceived here? Every message board is different and most people understand that how someone posts on one board may be inappropriate for another. I post on another board where thing are far more rough and tumble. People there insult each other all the time and it's just part of the board culture. But that wouldn't work here or on lots of other boards.

He seems to suggest that people here are not very rough and tumble and that insulting each other here doesn't work. Do you agree?

What's the board culture here? If you like it, why? If you don't, what would you like to see?

Solfy · #2 14th March 2011, 01:37 PM

If I didn't like the board culture here, I would go somewhere else.

*hajario* · #3 14th March 2011, 01:38 PM

What do you think, Roo? I mean that sincerely.

Khampelf · #4 14th March 2011, 01:42 PM

The board culture here?

25% Agar, 50% rational discussion, 10% tomfoolery, 5% situational humor, 5% tomfoolery and 5% puns.

SoylentPopTart · #5 14th March 2011, 01:50 PM

The culture here is long overdue for a good shot of antibiotic. This seems like a good place to mention it.

undercover · #6 14th March 2011, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by SoylentPopTart

The culture here is long overdue for a good shot of antibiotic. This seems like a good place to mention it.

Vet student to the rescue! PenG in the left cheek, gentamicin in the right cheek, and some Flagyl down the hatch! Now watch which cow you shag next time, young man*, and wash yer goddamned hands before you pick yer nose.

*Actually, the board is a hermaphrodite.

Lord Blackmore · #7 14th March 2011, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Roo

He seems to suggest that people here are not very rough and tumble and that insulting each other here doesn't work. Do you agree?

I should clarify that comment. The other board I mentioned is far, far more "wild west" than this board. It isn't uncommon to be called a "C" word or to go fuck yourself, or called the "F" word insult referring to gay people. Anywhere on the board. Pick an insult or pick a bad board behavior and you'll probably find it there.

Here on GB, we get our fair share of mudslinging and name calling, but people are generally well behaved, instead reserving the harshest of criticisms for the pit. It's rare for a 'raffer to tell someone to say, fuck off, unless it's in the pit. And I'd say that doing so would generally be met with criticism from 'raffers.

From my perspective, this board is frequented by mostly nice people and the board culture is fairly genteel.

Sybarite · #8 14th March 2011, 06:44 PM

I would say the board culture here is awfully fragile.

Chacoguy · #9 14th March 2011, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Sybarite

I would say the board culture here is awfully fragile.

Can you expand on that?

Random Precision · #10 14th March 2011, 08:16 PM

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I w o u l d s a y t h e b o a r d c u l t u r e h e r e i s a w f u l l y f r a g i l e.

Can you expand on that?

No problem.

Chacoguy · #11 14th March 2011, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Random Precision

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Can you expand on that?

No problem.

Heh, thanks.

Portia · #12 15th March 2011, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Random Precision

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Can you expand on that?

No problem.

I belly laughed so loud it ran the cats off the bed. Thank you, I hope this sets the tone for the rest of my day!

I'd say this board has a lively after-dinner party feel, where there's lots of people hanging out in Giraffe's finished basement from all walks of his 'life'; no one knows everyone but they have like ideas since they all have Giraffe in common at the very least. Some people get tipsy, some get mad, some get loverly w/ people they never met before.
And the bag of dicks is a door prize!

Kat · #13 14th March 2011, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Blackmore

It's rare for a 'raffer to tell someone to say, fuck off, unless it's in the pit.

Fuck off!

Sorry, it had to be done.

Zeener Diode · #14 14th March 2011, 02:05 PM

It's more cult than culture.

Lord Blackmore · #15 14th March 2011, 02:10 PM

There's truth to that, Zeener.

timbicile · #16 14th March 2011, 02:25 PM

I'm supposed to have culture? Do you get that by eating yogurt?

Panacea · #17 14th March 2011, 02:30 PM

Look in your armpit. Yer taste is in yer mouth.

Dragonlady · #18 14th March 2011, 03:06 PM

Culture? We have culture??

I know we have class, but it's all third.

Zeener Diode · #19 14th March 2011, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Dragonlady

Culture? We have culture??

Quite a shock, yes?

Mateomasfeo · #20 14th March 2011, 03:40 PM

Moderators set the tone...

*hajario* · #21 14th March 2011, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Mateomasfeo

Moderators set the tone...

and this is a good thing because...

Jeff · #22 14th March 2011, 03:47 PM

...it was a dark and stormy night....

(oh man, i love writing stories this way)

Parthenokinesis · #23 14th March 2011, 04:46 PM

So I was nailing the broad in the pooper, cause she was playin ragtime, right? And I kept telling her "Don't want no kechup on my weiner."

Good times.

Zeener Diode · #24 14th March 2011, 05:26 PM

Who said anything about erections?

Solfy · #25 14th March 2011, 06:08 PM

For a second there, I thought I was still in the "how to get rid of a parrot" thread.

mswas · #26 14th March 2011, 08:21 PM

I have never posted on a message board where insults were more common than they are here.

I have no clue what he is talking about.

Some of hte members here find no greater joy than in drawing up lists with dozens of names of people that they hate from the straight dope. There is even a subforum here dedicated purely to hate for people from another message board.

hroark2112 · #27 14th March 2011, 08:47 PM

I was going to share my opinion on board culture, but I decided instead to lick my elbow.

I'll be back...

Darmund · #28 14th March 2011, 09:18 PM

Jesus! No call for that eyesore, FFS!

threnody! yay!

Jaglavak · #29 14th March 2011, 09:29 PM

THRENNEEEEEEE!

:: run run run across meadow ::
:: goes for big romantic clinch, misses ::

Welcome back!

Jeff · #30 14th March 2011, 09:32 PM

BOO THREN BOO

Salambo · #31 14th March 2011, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by threnody

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I've always said that our board motto ought to be Jeff has no social skills, so fuck off!

ftfy

THRENNY!! THRENNY!! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU

*kersplode*

KidVermicious · #32 14th March 2011, 10:00 PM

I dunno what you call call the culture, here, exactly, but this thread is a perfect microcosm.

*waves at thren*

Chacoguy · #33 14th March 2011, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by KidVermicious

I dunno what you call call the culture, here, exactly, but this thread is a perfect microcosm.

*waves at thren*

eat a big bag of dikks retard!!!1!!

HongKongFooey · #34 14th March 2011, 10:40 PM

Aw mannnn, NOW we have to have a big debate on what the proper method is to eat a bag if dikks. You suck!

I say they have to be eaten one at a time.

mlerose · #35 14th March 2011, 10:49 PM

One bite of each dick shall be taken, in turn, until all the dicks have a bite out of them, and then each dick should get a second bite, and etc. until the dicks have been systematically eaten from the bag.

The Superhero · #36 14th March 2011, 10:55 PM

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One bite of each dick shall be taken, in turn, until all the dicks have a bite out of them, and then each dick should get a second bite, and etc. until the dicks have been systematically eaten from the bag.

Sounds...like...you've got it all, um, planned out. I guess.

Yeah, you go ahead to bed. I'll be there shortly.

Wearing three pairs of pants.

And a chastity belt.

Khampelf · #37 14th March 2011, 10:53 PM

So many dicks, so little time, eh, mle?

KidVermicious · #38 14th March 2011, 10:56 PM

I always sort my dikks by color, and then size. Then the champion dikk from each color has a deathmatch against the others, where I take a little nibble from the middle. The one that breaks in half last wins.

Then I throw the rest out, because they are weak.

Jaglavak · #39 14th March 2011, 11:04 PM

Jerked, of course.

undercover · #40 15th March 2011, 02:31 AM

I like dik-diks. (Check out my 12 inch dik-dik.)

NoClueBoy · #41 15th March 2011, 05:17 AM

I'm wearing Armani work boots to the tractor pull tonight.

Doyle · #42 15th March 2011, 05:22 AM

I think we're a bit more tight knit here mainly due to the size and with that come more politeness. Where over at the much larger Durp you can be a dick to someone and get away with it.

Dudley · #43 15th March 2011, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Doyle

I think we're a bit more tight knit here mainly due to the size and with that come more politeness. Where over at the much larger Durp you can be a dick to someone and get away with it.

You're never nice to me.

Doyle · #44 15th March 2011, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Dudley

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Originally Posted by Doyle

I think we're a bit more tight knit here mainly due to the size and with that come more politeness. Where over at the much larger Durp you can be a dick to someone and get away with it.

You're never nice to me.

I'm never a dick though.

Zeener Diode · #45 15th March 2011, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Doyle

I'm never a dick though.

Are you admitting that you're a dickless wonder?

Dudley · #46 15th March 2011, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Doyle

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You're never nice to me.

I'm never a dick though.

Yes, you have. I mean, you never even introduced me to your avatar. Who that Latina goddess?

Doyle · #47 15th March 2011, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Dudley

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Originally Posted by Doyle

I'm never a dick though.

Yes, you have. I mean, you never even introduced me to your avatar. Who that Latina goddess?

Sofía Vergara. She is perhaps the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.

What Exit? · #48 15th March 2011, 07:00 AM

Just my observation as an occasional poster.

The board culture here is very much one of joking. Almost every thread quickly descends into humor and attempts at humor. So it makes the place a little more like a hangout or college dorm or lunchroom.

The ranting and raving and stubborn never give an inch culture is largely absent here which is very good in my opinion.

Basically this place is much like Camelot, "It is a silly place."

KidVermicious · #49 15th March 2011, 07:24 AM

I like the word "mock".

MOCK MOCK MOCK

Solfy · #50 15th March 2011, 07:27 AM

Oooh, that is a good word, but even better when you say it over and over.
mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock

I like the way it makes your lips smack
mock mock mock