What is a vanity thread?

[FreeTheSlaves]

Just read Piratecat's post. What exactly should we watch out for in our postings?

 

[Saeviomagy]

At a guess, I'd say it's things like "I'm going to be gone from the boards for a week..."

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

Ok. That stuff would be best for icq or for using the buddy function eh?

 

[haiiro]

I wondered about the vanity thread thing myself, but my inner lurker compelled me to wait and see if I could figure it out on my own...or if someone else would ask first.

Success!

 

[Crothian]

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38986

 

[Left-handed Hummingbird]

I would think a vanity thread is a thread you create - not because you have something interesting to say or any real questions - but because you like seing your name on the threadlist and like when people respond to your post.

Thus, the reason for such a thread is a thinly-veiled attempt to stroke your own ego.

 

[KnowTheToe]

If you take away my Ego, I have nothing. NOTHING I tell you, NOTHING!

 

[Skade]

This is not Skade. Skade is a three inch tall little boy that lives in his mother's cupboard. This is Skade's ego made manifest.

I am a vanity post.

 

[Kilmore]

Actually, hundreds of years ago in Massachusetts, the early pilgrims were very simple living people, dressing somber, building simple, and dedicating their lives to work. All the clothes that they wore were of simple linen, IF they didn't have to settle for burlap or canvas. Colors only ranged from the blacks and grays into white, and with the introduction of indigo from the southern colonies, blue.

But as time went on, there arose a more prosperous class in Colonial America, and they were not ashamed to live a step above their hard working cousins, and they dressed the part. Eventually silver from the Appalachian Mts. and gold plundered from the Spanish Main found itself in the shops of Boston and Philadelphia, and in addition to being used in jewelry and gilding of ships' prows and figureheads, it was spun into thread and woven into the fancy garments the new American aristocracy wore.

The hard working people on the street, naturally scoffed at their fancier brethren, who wore what they called "vanity thread" and refused to have anything to do with it.








Okay, I just made all that up.

 

[I'm A Banana]

This is about me, isn't it?

--Kamikaze Narcisist