All frukathka all the time?

[Desdichado]

how exactly is it an 'in-joke' ?

I'm not sure if you're trying to impart some kind of subtlety to in-joke by putting it in quotes, but I'll just answer the question straight-up anyway...

It's an in-joke because postcount doesn't matter, and most everyone here knows that it does not. Yet occasionally we joke that it does. We talk about who's passed up who, and trash-talk folks we're about to pass up, and make jokes about posting for postcount. Most who have been around for even a little while see through it and know that it's a joke -- nobody really cares what anyone else's postcount is. You just post when you have something to say, and let postcount fall out where it may. Posts that are contentless is a good way to get people to start ignoring your posts and annoy people to boot -- because we really don't care about postcount.

 

[reveal]

how exactly is it an 'in-joke' ?

This thread morphed into a discussion about post counts. It's a good read.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=133518

 

[GlassJaw]

Posts that are contentless is a good way to get people to start ignoring your posts and annoy people to boot

Very true. There are people, just by the nature of their posting habits, that I tend to ignore and others, by the same token, that I will pay close attention to and sometimes even read threads that they start regardless of the topic just because they usually have something cool to say. My Dyal is one of those posters.

On the other hand, why do I need the front-page Yahoo news articles posted in here on a daily basis? Spamming is one thing, copying and pasting articles is another.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Spamming is one thing, copying and pasting articles is another.

True. But its not like I do it everyday and en masse.

 

[Desdichado]

My Dyal is one of those posters.

Yer making me blush over here! My wife might take exception to me being "yours", but hey; I'm anyone's who prefers good old-fashioned Sword & Sorcery over more modern wahoo D&D.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Yer making me blush over here! My wife might take exception to me being "yours", but hey; I'm anyone's who prefers good old-fashioned Sword & Sorcery over more modern wahoo D&D.

Hehehe! Oh, criminey.

 

[reveal]

Yer making me blush over here! My wife might take exception to me being "yours", but hey; I'm anyone's who prefers good old-fashioned Sword & Sorcery over more modern wahoo D&D.

Are you trying to infer you have a "magic sword?"

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Are you trying to infer you have a "magic sword?"

Dirty birds!

 

[reveal]

Dirty birds!

Tweet tweet, baby. Tweet tweet.

 

[Desdichado]

Are you trying to infer you have a "magic sword?"

Nah, that's two Terry Goodkind for me. My sword is a big, two-handed, rough and ready piece of work. Masterwork, no doubt, but without any "magical" special effects.