Cleaning Up Sacred Cow-Patties

[Umbran]

*shrug* I just posted mine as parody of the others that were kinda annoying to see cropping up on the front page of the General forum.

The problem with the logic of that kind of parody is that it is one more thing that crops up in the general forum. It effectively adds to the problem by shoving even more of the content you want to see off the front page.

And, to be honest, rarely in the history of man has sarcasm served to make the target see the light of reason. Making the other guy look or feel foolish does not make you look like a reasonable person with whom they'd be happy to come to an arrangement. It makes you into an antagonist - and when do willful folks on the internet give in to antagonists?

Next time, if you don't like it, report the problem to the mods.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Not to mention, if people want to be silly, there's the Off-Topic forum to do it in.

 

[Deset Gled]

Seriously, anyone have insight into why meme-spamming is getting more popular? Could we contain stuff like that by preemptively putting up a single thread for people to make Sacred Cow jokes?

Two reasons:

1. ENWorld is growing. The bigger it gets, the bigger the chance that at least someone out there thinks the thread is funny enough to post it. Bigger size can also make things a little more hostile (since annonimity increases), and makes things harder to moderate.

2. It's summertime. All the youngin's that just got out of school now have more internet time on their hands.

 

[Nifft]

2. It's summertime. All the youngin's that just got out of school now have more internet time on their hands.

Aaaaaah-hah!

Do you know, I'm old enough to remember back when September was the time to fear this sort of thing?

i'd go so far as to say a "poor imitation of the real thing"

And for that I applaud you, good sir!

Cheers, -- N

 

[Gulla]

Do you know, I'm old enough to remember back when September was the time to fear this sort of thing?

Yay! There are other certified Dinosaurs here! I suppose you even remember when September didn't last all year, as well?

The September reference brightened this morning. If you're ever in the aerea (Trondheim, Norway) I'll buy you a beer.

Håkon

 

[BOZ]

Aaaaaah-hah!

Do you know, I'm old enough to remember back when September was the time to fear this sort of thing?

there was a time when children got out of school in September and rushed to the internet?

 

[Sound of Azure]

2. It's summertime. All the youngin's that just got out of school now have more internet time on their hands.

It is? *looks outside at the frost* hmmm....

 

[Nifft]

there was a time when children got out of school in September and rushed to the internet?

Well, in Austria...

-- N