Escape Artists
Administrivia => Metachat => Topic started by: Heradel on December 03, 2007, 06:32:06 AM
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Is it just me or have the forums gotten a lot quieter lately?
Chart's from July to November.
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People are busy shopping, and there might be competition from other podcasts' forums.
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I noticed a big drop in traffic around the time of the server blip.
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This is a time of the year when people seem to have more other stuff going on. I think that handles the drop in numbers over october and will show in a huge drop in numbers as december moves on. If you prorate November you see it was a kind of strong month. The first five days or so were lost and then over the next week people kind of waited to see what was going to happen. After that weekend was over we got back to business and the last two and a half weeks cranked up some pretty good numbers. There were a few people who reposted things lost in the blip, but not that many.
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I'm just worried about the drop in activity. It seems like some of the regular posters haven't been as regular as they used to be, and I'd hate for this place slowly go into that dark night.
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I'm just worried about the drop in activity. It seems like some of the regular posters haven't been as regular as they used to be, and I'd hate for this place slowly go into that dark night.
I participate much less in the forums than I used to. I don't see my participation going up anytime soon, and it's not because I'm shopping.
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I'm just worried about the drop in activity. It seems like some of the regular posters haven't been as regular as they used to be, and I'd hate for this place slowly go into that dark night.
I participate much less in the forums than I used to. I don't see my participation going up anytime soon, and it's not because I'm shopping.
Is that because of other online activity (better forums) or just reduced time at the computer. It seems to me these forums got started at the time of the year when people have the most time for online stuff and the fall is when people have the least time.
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Well, January and February '07 were artificially elevated because of the Flash Contest (I guess they're not going to be aired at this point?, though it would be nice if that contest was run again next year). I don't have strong stat-fu, but the downtrend started in October, with the Time Warp event continuing damage.
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This is a time of the year when people seem to have more other stuff going on. I think that handles the drop in numbers over october and will show in a huge drop in numbers as december moves on.
FWIW, I work for a website that, earlier in the year, got over 45,000 uniques a day, but as of November 1, we took a hit and are now averaging close to 40,000.
It's not just EP, but sometimes small really does reflect big.
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Is that because of other online activity (better forums) or just reduced time at the computer. It seems to me these forums got started at the time of the year when people have the most time for online stuff and the fall is when people have the least time.
Neither. I still spend about as much time as the computer as always, and I have no Escape Pod forum replacement that I go to instead.
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Just judging by the number of people who vote in the polls, we lost a few in the server move who haven't come back yet. I'd imagine because people don't want to put much effort into writing things when there's a decent chance that they will go *poof* before anyone gets to read them.
The banner "11/6/07 Sorry for the lost posts; server move issue. We're working to restore them now." that's still on the top of the forums probably doesn't increase confidence much. At this point unless there's been progress in that area, we should probably just call the lost posts water under the bridge and move on.
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I have been impressed with the numbers of first time posters in the episode threads recently. Maybe we just need a little more new blood.
BTW I've sent PMs to people who kind of dropped out of site for a while. Just to say hey we missed you. Two out of three came back with a vengeance.
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The server glitch was the big reason I took a break from the forums. Mostly I was bummed that my feedback got lost, so I figured why keep contributing? Also I was ripping some dude's podcast/vidcast up and down he was trying to plug here. I should mention I only ripped on it because it was crap. I pictured him weeping silently to himself every time I posted. That made me smile, but then it was gone.
:'(
I'm back now though, and I'm over it.
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Also I was ripping some dude's podcast/vidcast up and down he was trying to plug here. I should mention I only ripped on it because it was crap. I pictured him weeping silently to himself every time I posted. That made me smile, but then it was gone.
That was mean, but fun to watch. If the guy had been honestly plugging his podcast, I would have asked you to tone it down. He was being dishonest and pretended it wasn't his, but some wonderful cast he had found. That made it open season on him. You did rip him pretty good.
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The server glitch was the big reason I took a break from the forums. Mostly I was bummed that my feedback got lost, so I figured why keep contributing? Also I was ripping some dude's podcast/vidcast up and down he was trying to plug here. I should mention I only ripped on it because it was crap. I pictured him weeping silently to himself every time I posted. That made me smile, but then it was gone.
:'(
I'm back now though, and I'm over it.
Aww, sucks I missed that. These forums are generally pretty tame(and that's probablly a good thing,) but a little controversial activity like that might be just what these forums need to get sparked back up.
On a different note, my flash fiction podcast (Drabblecast) has more than tripled hits and subscriptions since October. This is mostly due to Steve's plugs I think, but I'm pretty sure sites can find ways to keep activity through end of the year slump.
Oh, and feel free to rip on me for the above plug, as long as you think it'll stir things up. :-)
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Ok, I'll stand up and say it...
My impression is that this place has dried up considerably recently... The forum-folk used to (appear to me to) be considerably more spacially, generationally and culturally diverse than they are at the moment. Not sure why - you'd expect new people to bleed over from the main site as they get enthusiastic about EP's material, but this place is noticeably whiter, maler and more American than it was previously...
I don't know if this reflects the main site.. I mean our primary "hook" is the discussion threads for each individual story, and I haven't been noticing new names bleeding into these as much as they used to. Once people are in the discussion threads they join the community - so i'm a little worried about what it means for the site as a whole. Anyone got any reason why this place would be getting a less passionate response?
At the same time tho - communities change. I think this place is now more of a haven for geekdom than it used to be, and less of an SF haven, and that will take a while to bed in. New people will reappear as long as the main site keeps posting things people want to comment on.
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I might have missed it, but has Steve mentioned what Escape Pod's (and/or Psuedopod's) numbers have been doing recently?
And I agree with Simon, it does seem to be getting a bit more homogeneous.
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The funny thing is that while you're all in here saying the numbers are down, December is on track to get almost 1100 posts. It won't because of the holidays. It is however more than November and october and on par with the summer. I think you're all just over-reacting to the lull we had from the lost posts.
We did have two really good posters cut back on their activity. The funny thing is it's because they both are running new Escape Artists podcasts.
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but this place is noticeably whiter, maler and more American than it was previously...
This comment makes me wonder.
I can guess race by nationality as far as our Europeans go, but I can only play the numbers on the rest. We also have a couple folks with their pictures for an avatar. I think the white, male American is just the common assumption when there is no evidence to the contrary.
I don't have any real numbers to back up my statements. Should we do a demographics poll? It might be interesting to see what the actual breakdown is.
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but this place is noticeably whiter, maler and more American than it was previously...
This comment makes me wonder.
I can guess race by nationality as far as our Europeans go, but I can only play the numbers on the rest. We also have a couple folks with their pictures for an avatar. I think the white, male American is just the common assumption when there is no evidence to the contrary.
I don't have any real numbers to back up my statements. Should we do a demographics poll? It might be interesting to see what the actual breakdown is.
Why not? It might be interesting.
I was away from the forums for a while because of my move to England and starting a new job. But I haven't really felt that big a change in the activity in the forums over the past months - maybe because I wasn't paying close attention, but I'm wondering if people are really comparing the forums to the summer, or whether the long time members are thinking back to the previous forums (which predates my joining the community). I did notice that there seems to be a lot less direct involvement from the people running the podcasts.
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Oh, and feel free to rip on me for the above plug, as long as you think it'll stir things up. :-)
The only reason I ripped on the guy was because his stuff was crap. I gave it an honest shot, listened to two podcasts and a couple vidcasts and it made me want to chuff. They were about military/survival issues. He was trying to be very "tactical", but no military or police background. He seemed like a chubby guy with an airsoft gun. It was pretty clear he had no authority to be talking about the stuff he was talking about. Seriously, one "tactical" vidcast was about using RPG (that's role-playing-game, not rocket propelled grenade) character sheets of yourself to better understand your strengths and weaknesses. Another was spent on how to properly groom yourself, including nail trimming and cleaning. Awesome. I'm sure that's standard issue in most special forces kits. "Here's your M4, your body armor, and your character sheet. I expect that to be filled out by 0400 tomorrow, and no, not everyone will have a dexterity of 4!"
Give me a break.
I'll check out Drabblecast and let you know what I think, Goatkeeper. I'm a big fan of flash fiction.
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but this place is noticeably whiter, maler and more American than it was previously...
I don't have any real numbers to back up my statements. Should we do a demographics poll? It might be interesting to see what the actual breakdown is.
I don't know what a self-reporting demographics poll would accomplish. That said, I'm not against it or anything, I'm just not sure it would elucidate. More useful, I would think, to run a script through the membership breakdown by gender and geography (where given) and then sort that by number of posts (excluding, perhaps, moderators) and last post.
From a strictly anecdotal perspective, I have a mental list of people who no longer post, or post so sporadically as to be virtually non-participating whose acumen, insight and perspective I miss.
They are:
hautdesert, palimpsest, CatRambo, J.R. Blackwell (female)
Simon Painter, Roney, sirana (European)
GoodDamon, Thaurismunths, slic, ClintMemo, Tango Alpha Delta (white, male, middle-class and American AFAIK, but I liked what they wrote anyways)
Caveat: It's possible some of these people still participate but are in threads I avoid. I miss them in the story comment threads, which are usually the only ones I still read.
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They are:
hautdesert, palimpsest, CatRambo, J.R. Blackwell (female)
Simon Painter, Roney, sirana (European)
GoodDamon, Thaurismunths, slic, ClintMemo, Tango Alpha Delta
I also miss these past posters, as well as your comments, Anarkey. They all had interesting things to say and I usually learned a lot.
I have contributed less and less because I feel that what I say really doesn't contribute much to the discussion. I also feel like some of the things I have said here in the forums have damaged my credibility (like getting all fired up and rude to Russell--I apologize again.) I thought about canceling out of the forums, and rejoining under a different name, but that seems disingenuous.
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(like getting all fired up and rude to Russell--I apologize again.)
You were rude to me? OK, don't worry about. Come on back in and rejoin the fights.
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For those concerned or interested in demographics, if you have facebook you can join the EP,PP (and drabblecast!) groups- you can get an idea of what some folks look like there
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but this place is noticeably whiter, maler and more American than it was previously...
This comment makes me wonder.
I can guess race by nationality as far as our Europeans go, but I can only play the numbers on the rest. We also have a couple folks with their pictures for an avatar. I think the white, male American is just the common assumption when there is no evidence to the contrary.
I don't have any real numbers to back up my statements. Should we do a demographics poll? It might be interesting to see what the actual breakdown is.
Why not? It might be interesting.
I was away from the forums for a while because of my move to England and starting a new job. But I haven't really felt that big a change in the activity in the forums over the past months - maybe because I wasn't paying close attention, but I'm wondering if people are really comparing the forums to the summer, or whether the long time members are thinking back to the previous forums (which predates my joining the community). I did notice that there seems to be a lot less direct involvement from the people running the podcasts.
I say let´s do the poll! W00t! May I call myself a mulatto lesbain vampire with a prehensile tail, though? Because being a white male American is just dull, dull, dull... except for the beard.
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but this place is noticeably whiter, maler and more American than it was previously...
I don't have any real numbers to back up my statements. Should we do a demographics poll? It might be interesting to see what the actual breakdown is.
I don't know what a self-reporting demographics poll would accomplish. That said, I'm not against it or anything, I'm just not sure it would elucidate. More useful, I would think, to run a script through the membership breakdown by gender and geography (where given) and then sort that by number of posts (excluding, perhaps, moderators) and last post.
From a strictly anecdotal perspective, I have a mental list of people who no longer post, or post so sporadically as to be virtually non-participating whose acumen, insight and perspective I miss.
They are:
hautdesert, palimpsest, CatRambo, J.R. Blackwell (female)
Simon Painter, Roney, sirana (European)
GoodDamon, Thaurismunths, slic, ClintMemo, Tango Alpha Delta (white, male, middle-class and American AFAIK, but I liked what they wrote anyways)
Caveat: It's possible some of these people still participate but are in threads I avoid. I miss them in the story comment threads, which are usually the only ones I still read.
*poof* ...and I shall appear. :)
I've definitely, consciously, actively, made an effort to post less.
The truth is I've had to keep from joining in on some threads because I know my personality reacts poorly with some of the other members here and I've had to cut way back to avoid conflict with them.
Really it comes down to to things:
A: The mood, for me, has changed
B: I don't want be hypocritical
A: The mood when I joined was very friendly. There seemed to be a lot of ideas and personalities floating around. I loved the episode feedback and the zombie thread (to death), and even the more frictional conversations were enjoyable (if not a little frustrating). But over the year the mood seems to have become more guarded. For my part I'm less likely to express my less main-stream views so as not to start or be subject to an inquisition.
B: I've been pretty outspoken in my views in the past and probably stepped on a few toes. I feel I should apologize to Steve and all the mods for some of the things I've said here (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=835.0). I've told them how to do their jobs, but not done mine as a guest here (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=910.60) in these forums. Often overbearing, and belligerent the mods have been indulgent of me, so who would I be to say they should be more stringent with others? Rather than joining in on the flogging of a dead horse, I've opted to stay quietly by the sidelines. If someone doesn't want to accept that that the horse is dead, it isn't my place to make them see otherwise.
I like a diverse, opinionated, and open-minded forum. I love hearing other, new, varied, and contrasting opinions. I would like to see more of that cultivated, but I'm not in a position to say what is a weed and when to pull it.
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but this place is noticeably whiter, maler and more American than it was previously...
I don't have any real numbers to back up my statements. Should we do a demographics poll? It might be interesting to see what the actual breakdown is.
I don't know what a self-reporting demographics poll would accomplish. That said, I'm not against it or anything, I'm just not sure it would elucidate. More useful, I would think, to run a script through the membership breakdown by gender and geography (where given) and then sort that by number of posts (excluding, perhaps, moderators) and last post.
From a strictly anecdotal perspective, I have a mental list of people who no longer post, or post so sporadically as to be virtually non-participating whose acumen, insight and perspective I miss.
They are:
hautdesert, palimpsest, CatRambo, J.R. Blackwell (female)
Simon Painter, Roney, sirana (European)
GoodDamon, Thaurismunths, slic, ClintMemo, Tango Alpha Delta (white, male, middle-class and American AFAIK, but I liked what they wrote anyways)
Caveat: It's possible some of these people still participate but are in threads I avoid. I miss them in the story comment threads, which are usually the only ones I still read.
You´re too kind, Anarkey! I think my posting dropped off as we geared up for the school year. That and I spent two months nursing my poor laptop back to health... which is also why I flaked out on our story. :(
Now I have guilt! Curse ye gods of arbitrarily rapid time flow!
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What I find somewhat disturbing is what you get when you rotate the graph counter-clockwise by 90 degrees.
What we see then is that Time passes more or less linearly with the decrease in the frequency of posts. Perhaps it helps to read it as the inverse of the frequency, ie. the wavelength of the posts. It looks as if by next January or February, the number of posts per month will approach zero, and Time will stop passing.
In order for Time to resume its "normal" flow, we will have to start logging in to delete posts. The real crisis will be when there are no more posts to delete. Perhaps that has already happened, and an increase in posts has caused Time to go backwards, as suggested by the graph.
My God ... what have we done? :o
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whooooaaa, just browsed through those Thaurismunths links. now that's good television!
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I'm kinda puzzled by beeing included in Anarkey's list. It's true that I don't post that much, especially in the comments thread, but that has always been the case. I had a short look at the posting statistics and I had more posts/month in the last two months than any time before that (excluding the time of the story contest).
Anarkey's impression stems probably from the fact that I post mostly in Gallimaufry and Sci-Fi-Discussion and not in the comments thread. I only tend to comment on a story when I think I have something relevant to say, when the story really touched me or when I really hated the story.
So, just wanted to shout out that I'm not dead and that I will be posting as much (or rather as little ;-) as always.
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Anyone else have trouble accessing the Forum today? (I posted a comment on the Psuedopod blog in the latest story post as I couldn't get here or the Escape Pod site — Mods please delete).
Edit: Well, it's kinda obvious there was a server thing between 9-10am and ~5 pm yesterday, so, er, was it planned, and if so, why no notice? In the grand scheme of things it's no big deal the forum's gone on a Saturday, and maybe I didn't see a notice that was posted, but even a short "hey, it'll be down for a little on Saturday" would have been nice.
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Comment deletion: done.
Server issues: no idea!
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Anyone else have trouble accessing the Forum today? (I posted a comment on the Psuedopod blog in the latest story post as I couldn't get here or the Escape Pod site — Mods please delete).
Edit: Well, it's kinda obvious there was a server thing between 9-10am and ~5 pm yesterday, so, er, was it planned, and if so, why no notice? In the grand scheme of things it's no big deal the forum's gone on a Saturday, and maybe I didn't see a notice that was posted, but even a short "hey, it'll be down for a little on Saturday" would have been nice.
Yeah. wasn't just you. I couldn't get on yesterday either.
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whooooaaa, just browsed through those Thaurismunths links. now that's good television!
Yeah... sometimes I type faster than I think.
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whooooaaa, just browsed through those Thaurismunths links. now that's good television!
Yeah... sometimes I type faster than I think.
You think??
;D
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whooooaaa, just browsed through those Thaurismunths links. now that's good television!
Yeah... sometimes I type faster than I think.
You think??
;D
So fast that you can't see it!
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whooooaaa, just browsed through those Thaurismunths links. now that's good television!
Yeah... sometimes I type faster than I think.
You think??
;D
So fast that you can't see it!
Just a little smoke and a strange smell.
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whooooaaa, just browsed through those Thaurismunths links. now that's good television!
Yeah... sometimes I type faster than I think.
You think??
;D
I try, but nothing can compare to your truly dizzying intellect. (http://www.moviedeaths.com/princess_bride,_the/vizzini/)
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whooooaaa, just browsed through those Thaurismunths links. now that's good television!
Yeah... sometimes I type faster than I think.
You think??
;D
I try, but nothing can compare to your truly dizzying intellect. (http://www.moviedeaths.com/princess_bride,_the/vizzini/)
Wait till I get going! Now where was I?
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Oh, and feel free to rip on me for the above plug, as long as you think it'll stir things up. :-)
The only reason I ripped on the guy was because his stuff was crap. I gave it an honest shot, listened to two podcasts and a couple vidcasts and it made me want to chuff. They were about military/survival issues. He was trying to be very "tactical", but no military or police background. He seemed like a chubby guy with an airsoft gun. It was pretty clear he had no authority to be talking about the stuff he was talking about. Seriously, one "tactical" vidcast was about using RPG (that's role-playing-game, not rocket propelled grenade) character sheets of yourself to better understand your strengths and weaknesses. Another was spent on how to properly groom yourself, including nail trimming and cleaning. Awesome. I'm sure that's standard issue in most special forces kits. "Here's your M4, your body armor, and your character sheet. I expect that to be filled out by 0400 tomorrow, and no, not everyone will have a dexterity of 4!"
Give me a break.
I'll check out Drabblecast and let you know what I think, Goatkeeper. I'm a big fan of flash fiction.
I think I'm going to start doing book reviews, but instead of a long summery and rant I'll just fill out a character sheet for each book.
(Maybe that guy took a foam sword to the head just a little to hard and has LARP flashbacks that get confusing?)
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From a strictly anecdotal perspective, I have a mental list of people who no longer post, or post so sporadically as to be virtually non-participating whose acumen, insight and perspective I miss.
They are:
hautdesert, palimpsest, CatRambo, J.R. Blackwell (female)
hautdesert? There's a name I recognize ... she posts to the forums at the C.J. Cherryh fan site Shejidan. (though not much of late there either.)
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I think I'm going to start doing book reviews, but instead of a long summery and rant I'll just fill out a character sheet for each book.
Wow. That's a great idea!
Let us know when you get some done.
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I think I'm going to start doing book reviews, but instead of a long summery and rant I'll just fill out a character sheet for each book.
Wow. That's a great idea!
Let us know when you get some done.
Hey I had forgotten about that. I'll see if a can do it for a few books I've just finished. :D
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As this month we've almost matched this month a year ago's posting total (still inflated from the tail end of the Flash Fiction Contest (is that ever going to happen again?), I, as the thread originator, declare the thread's original purpose dead.
Tangents are discouraged but inevitable.
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As this month we've almost matched this month a year ago's posting total (still inflated from the tail end of the Flash Fiction Contest (is that ever going to happen again?), I, as the thread originator, declare the thread's original purpose dead.
Tangents are discouraged but inevitable.
So, as the thread's originator, do you claim to have performed this bit of virtual santeria? If so, then we could add this to the Big List o' Zombie Threads!
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As this month we've almost matched this month a year ago's posting total (still inflated from the tail end of the Flash Fiction Contest (is that ever going to happen again?), I, as the thread originator, declare the thread's original purpose dead.
Tangents are discouraged but inevitable.
So, as the thread's originator, do you claim to have performed this bit of virtual santeria? If so, then we could add this to the Big List o' Zombie Threads!
More like just a bit of nail-driving into the coffin, and to make sure that anyone in the future reading this knows that I don't consider it an open issue.
In a little bit I'll cremate to get rid of the zombie/vampire/genericly undead issue.
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This thread's so old I wasn't even a moderator when I created it.
But I'm getting a bit of deja vu. We haven't had a 50+ posts day in almost a month, and 100+ in two months. For whatever reason things seem a lot quieter than they used to be. As someone that's been here a long time, and found a community that was quirky, incredibly geeky, and fun (with a dash of scary), it's worrying.
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The spiders from mars got everyone.
:/
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If I realize that a good poster hasn't been around for a while. I normally send them a PM asking how things are and if there is anything I can do. The response is normally RL has gotten in the way or that they were trying to cut down on their online addiction.
I have, however, heard that some folks will not come back, because they thought they were mistreated by people in power here. Not one of these complaints has been about a moderator.
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Interesting. So is the definition of power someone who posts a lot and has many replies? I have definitely noticed a decline in participation.
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Interesting. So is the definition of power someone who posts a lot and has many replies? I have definitely noticed a decline in participation.
Social networks are weird. Traditional definitions of power, like my ability to post new threads in the episode comment subfora or (and this happens rarely) censor offensive comments, while meaningful, don't necessarily make me an integral part of the social network.
Part of this might just be topic exhaustion — We can't have another 20 page zombie thread (Oh, the 20 page zombie thread. I think I forged my reputation in that one). But there does seem to be a decline in participation for whatever reason, and it's across the forums enough that there probably isn't a single cause. I'm guessing some of it's probably that EP and PC lost some listeners during the series of unfortunate events that cause their breaks. In the fullness of time that should turn around.
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Usually when I notice someone has not posted for a while, I'll hunt them down and hold them against their will, make em watch 24 hours of grotesque porn, then threaten their lives if they don't start posting again. Leave em dazed, scared, confused.
and we totally COULD have another 20 page zombie thread!
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If I realize that a good poster hasn't been around for a while. I normally send them a PM asking how things are and if there is anything I can do. The response is normally RL has gotten in the way or that they were trying to cut down on their online addiction.
I have, however, heard that some folks will not come back, because they thought they were mistreated by people in power here. Not one of these complaints has been about a moderator.
Why is it R_L's fault? I'd've thought I was more to blame. ;)
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Interesting. So is the definition of power someone who posts a lot and has many replies? I have definitely noticed a decline in participation.
Social networks are weird. Traditional definitions of power, like my ability to post new threads in the episode comment subfora or (and this happens rarely) censor offensive comments, while meaningful, don't necessarily make me an integral part of the social network.
Part of this might just be topic exhaustion — We can't have another 20 page zombie thread (Oh, the 20 page zombie thread. I think I forged my reputation in that one). But there does seem to be a decline in participation for whatever reason, and it's across the forums enough that there probably isn't a single cause. I'm guessing some of it's probably that EP and PC lost some listeners during the series of unfortunate events that cause their breaks. In the fullness of time that should turn around.
I agree. There's a natural ebb and flow to forums and, from my perspective at least, it's definitely picking up at the moment. The Hugo story threads are topping a couple of pages and are looking quite long lived (Article of Faith's still an active thread getting on for two weeks out for example) and Pseudopod episode threads, which when I joined up were pretty much just the episode notification are consistently decent sized now.
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If I realize that a good poster hasn't been around for a while. I normally send them a PM asking how things are and if there is anything I can do. The response is normally RL has gotten in the way or that they were trying to cut down on their online addiction.
I have, however, heard that some folks will not come back, because they thought they were mistreated by people in power here. Not one of these complaints has been about a moderator.
Why is it R_L's fault? I'd've thought I was more to blame. ;)
i thought the same thing at first :D
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If I realize that a good poster hasn't been around for a while. I normally send them a PM asking how things are and if there is anything I can do. The response is normally RL has gotten in the way or that they were trying to cut down on their online addiction.
I have, however, heard that some folks will not come back, because they thought they were mistreated by people in power here. Not one of these complaints has been about a moderator.
I know of one example to the contrary.
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If I realize that a good poster hasn't been around for a while. I normally send them a PM asking how things are and if there is anything I can do. The response is normally RL has gotten in the way or that they were trying to cut down on their online addiction.
I have, however, heard that some folks will not come back, because they thought they were mistreated by people in power here. Not one of these complaints has been about a moderator.
I know of one example to the contrary.
As do I
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OK, fine guys, I'll shower more.. you dont all have to leave
:(
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If I realize that a good poster hasn't been around for a while. I normally send them a PM asking how things are and if there is anything I can do. The response is normally RL has gotten in the way or that they were trying to cut down on their online addiction.
I have, however, heard that some folks will not come back, because they thought they were mistreated by people in power here. Not one of these complaints has been about a moderator.
I know of one example to the contrary.
As do I
Zathras, First of all you were new at the time and don't count. Second, getting bitch-slapped for breaking form doesn't count. You came back anyway, so it's a moot point anyway.
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Wasn't talking about myself.
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Hmm. I think the board is safe in my hands.
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I think Russel Nash should have said that not one of the complaints has been about him, bdoomed or heradel.
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cept the complaint about my old tendency to post episodes late. :D
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If you want to make accusations make them direct, stating them like this is silly.
I'm not that surprised that no one has left because of me, Bdoomed, or Russell. We don't really do anything except tell people to calm down. The Editors actually have to make and curate content, which tends to cause a greater reaction.
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I pmed Russel and he has the names of the people I was talking about. My latest post in this thread was to clarify previous posts, and all it did was muddy the waters. There's nobody on this board, in or out of power, that makes me want to leave.
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I think it's past time for this confession (though perhaps it falls under the rubric of keeping my lycanthropy to myself):
Dear Heradel -
I love you.
Smoochies,
Anarkey
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Er, I didn't know that love caused you to become a member of the animate dead.
Things make so much more sense now.
Like all the hair.
(Er, er, um, er.)
I pmed Russel and he has the names of the people I was talking about. My latest post in this thread was to clarify previous posts, and all it did was muddy the waters. There's nobody on this board, in or out of power, that makes me want to leave.
Ok, I'm just not big on the veiled references in situations like this.
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Er, I didn't know that love caused you to become a member of the animate dead.
really? have you not seen a married couple?
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'You know what they say about love and war.'
'Yeah one's filled with pain and terror and the other one's war.'
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Q: What's the difference between a wedding and a funeral?
A: At your wedding, you get to see your own flowers.
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As someone who will be happily married for 25 years in July, I beg to dif...
Well... um...
Nevermind. Carry on.
;)
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personally- when I post less frequently it's usually due to the fact that a: I was sure I put my foot in my mouth somewhere b: I flirted shamelessly with someone- (I'm a natural flirt, and sometimes get carried away) or c: I suddenly got really really busy in my outside world and just couldn't get to the computer.
But I'm not really an infrequent poster. As to the marrage thing: Egads! Am I one of the few truly contentedly married folks on here? Maybe I just trained mine better?
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But I'm not really an infrequent poster. As to the marrage thing: Egads! Am I one of the few truly contentedly married folks on here? Maybe I just trained mine better?
No, I think we just tend to have a younger audience skew because it's podcasting and SF/F/H. So fewer marriages total, and a lot more gallows humor.
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aaaahhh - see foot in mouth. I managed to use the word deathwish around someone who was gravely seriously ill just this weekend- not about them of course just near them about something banal but still.. I should be put a stop to.
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Makes you feel any better I once apologised for having a bit of a blonde moment.
To a blonde female lawyer.
In the comic shop I ran at the time.
That karmic debt wa sonly repaid a coupe of years later when a tall, thing Australian goth man showed me his Punisher nipple tattoo. Even as I recoiled, I could sense the weight lifting...
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I was training a guy in financial planning. We were doing the "free up capital and invest it" part. One of the things was about 15 minutes on traditional life insurance, how it's far too expensive, and that the investment component is essentially a sham. I was showing him the routine by presenting it to a third party. He wanted his mother to see what he would be doing, so I was showing her. She had terminal cancer and would die three months later. I have never been so uncomfortable in my entire life.
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On the subject of extreme awkwardness, there's a movie called Young People Fucking that really does a better job of capturing the current generation of 20-30 year olds awkwardness than just about anything. If you have had sex, it is painful.
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As to the marrage thing: Egads! Am I one of the few truly contentedly married folks on here? Maybe I just trained mine better?
I hope you saw the winking face I posted. I was kidding. My first line was correct: I will be happily married for 25 years as of July 7 this year.
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shared pain: thanks folks ;)
IZ- I did see it I just get strange looks far too often when I mention being happily married for nearly a decade- and it saddens me, thus I seem to be a bit defensive. 25 years. You are indeed a lucky couple.
I love it when you know each other so well a whole argument can take place based on shifting facial expressions
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*flees thread under the threat of happy people*
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No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..
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Talia, watch out she's got a folding chair behind her back.
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No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..
Count me in:)
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No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..
Count me in:)
I am relieved that was in response to MacArthurBug's post, not Russell Nash's.
There are only so many beatings I can take a day :p
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No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..
Count me in:)
I am relieved that was in response to MacArthurBug's post, not Russell Nash's.
There are only so many beatings I can take a day :p
You know you like it.
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Folding chairs? We're supposed to be using folding chairs? I've been using the wrong tool for the job:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s8l-yu7AZLM/SIYrAdSWV0I/AAAAAAAABp0/rXFKRKMTVRo/s400/SkullChaircustomfurniture%2520271x400-thumb.jpg)
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Z! how do you even lift that thing? You must have arms like... like.. something amazingly big.
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No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..
Count me in:)
I am relieved that was in response to MacArthurBug's post, not Russell Nash's.
There are only so many beatings I can take a day :p
You know you like it.
A spanking! a spanking!
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No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..
Count me in:)
I am relieved that was in response to MacArthurBug's post, not Russell Nash's.
There are only so many beatings I can take a day :p
You know you like it.
A spanking! a spanking!
(http://strangeink.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/papa-batman-spank.jpg)
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A spanking! a spanking!
<Perk!>
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BUTSEKS
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Well, my nickname in Korea was Mongo after picking up a safe and carrying it out of a track vehicle by myself.
(http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/mongo.png)
But now, after far too many years of living far too hard, I'm a little smaller, and am thinking about hiring someone to beat Talia with the chair:
(http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/images3/biceps.jpg)
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Well, my nickname in Korea was Mongo after picking up a safe and carrying it out of a track vehicle by myself.
(http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/mongo.png)
But now, after far too many years of living far too hard, I'm a little smaller, and am thinking about hiring someone to beat Talia with the chair:
(http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/images3/biceps.jpg)
just.. oh my frickin gawd..
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(http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/images3/biceps.jpg)
just.. oh my frickin gawd..
I thought the aliens were supposed to burst out of your stomach.
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(http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/images3/biceps.jpg)
just.. oh my frickin gawd..
I thought the aliens were supposed to burst out of your stomach.
Steriods or photoshop. You decide.
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That pic may be photoshopped, but there are guys with arms like that.
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Well, my nickname in Korea was Mongo after picking up a safe and carrying it out of a track vehicle by myself.
My nickname in Los Angeles was Tres Huevos. For reason which should be quite obvious. ;D
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no that pic is real, saw a documentary on that dude. got all pussy and gross and yea...
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no that pic is real, saw a documentary on that dude. got all pussy and gross and yea...
I presume what you meant was pussy as in full of pus, but how I read it first was pussy as in wimpy.
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lol yes as in full of puss, didnt realize haha
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thanks for clearing that up..
cause yeah my mind went there too
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i'm here to make it all right.
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So the answer is massive ODing on steroids.
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I assume so, yeah. I mean there comes a point where that sort of thing is just going to stop you from living your life.
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Hey Guys,
Just since this conversation is back in one of its "on" phases, I thought i'd briefly note:
I kinda drifted off, my taste in SF has never been completely compatible with Escape Pod, and I moved onto other things for a bit (mainly This American Life)... I actually stayed around in the forum quite a while after i stopped listening to the podcast.
Strongly anticipating coming back in the near future tho. I shall return. This is the only place I can get my "what's going on in SF post 1975" fix, so I at least keep a finger in the modern SF world.