Ship of Fools: I'm cheating on you

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Posted by Organ Builder (# 12478) on :

Ship of Fools, you know you'll always be my first love, and the one I check first every morning but...um...I have more love than a single bulletin board can handle. I've been cheating on you. I'm sorry if that hurts you, but I know I'm not going to change.

And you know your best friend? That shipmate with all the posts? Well, they're cheating on you too!

There, there...don't cry. I'm sure after you've had time to think about, you'll realize it's better this way...

So, Shipmates, confession is good for the soul! When you're not here, what bulletin board gets your time-wasting attention. Let's just take facebook as a given so that we don't have to post it. My favorite lurk-fest at the moment is Television without Pity. I'm not even a registered user yet, but it's usually good for killing the odd few minutes when the threads on the Ship aren't grabbing my interest. Tell us about your secret guilty pleasures...

Posted by no_prophet (# 15560) on :

I'm on a series of Linux forums. Mod/Admin on one. Linux is truly the modern via media. Not the 'one thing for everyone' of the catholic-like Mac world. Not like the 'we're in control of you and have all the answers of the fundie micro$oft world, but the flexible world where the structure allows many under the one roof an even on the lawn (e.g., BSD), thee's a Linux operating system distribution for everyone, and everyone can have an opinion and contribute. And there there are 16 possible ways to do most things right.

(Currently running Linux Mint.)

Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :

I have a total reputation of over 13K on various stackoverflow forums.

However, I gave up on the Christian one, because it is not as much fun as the ship.

Posted by wilson (# 37) on :

I'm on a couple of Goodreads groups - which I blow hot and cold on. I have bursts of enthusiasm but then get jaded. One in particular is turning largely into indie authors talking to other indie authors.

I'm also on a site called mobileread which is about ebooks and ereaders and such. Spent a lot of time there when I first joined it but once you've had a few versions of a few key topics - why DRM is bad, whether copyright should be eternal or non-existent, whether Amazon is a an evil wanabe monopolist or is saving us from the outdated restrictive practices of the Big 6 - it gets a bit samey. Mind you so does PSA, the Anglican gay issues and whether church is too girly for real men [Biased]

You mentioned Facebook but I honestly spend more time on Google+ than FB - but it's mostly reading stuff not posting.

Then there's always Slashdot.

Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :

I was there.

Posted by Eigon (# 4917) on :

Living History Forum is useful for keeping up with the UK re-enactment world, and Brass Goggles is fun for the Steampunk world. Creative Living is good for crafts and green lifestyle. I go to those roughly once a week. I'm also quite keen on Absolute Write Water Cooler, a writers' forum.
I've tried a few different history forums, and literature forums, and the ones that I'm visiting at the moment are Historum and Literature Network.

However, I come to the Ship nearly every morning.

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

You mean there are OTHER on-line bulletin boards and forums?
[Eek!]

Posted by Val Kyrie (# 17079) on :

I'm on a Diabetes forum, where we discuss, um, diabetes.

That's fun.

Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :

For Lent, I gave up my top three most visited websites: Facebook, the Ship, and Home Brew Talk, a home brewer's web forum. Related to that last one, I lurk quite a bit at Jim's Beer Kit, a UK based home brew web forum. My goal is to make the kind of real ale that you can't always find in the States, and I am particularly focusing on the small styles- Ordinary Bitter and Mild. And while you do see some discussion of those styles on the American sites, as you might expect from a web forum dominated by young American men, the discussion tends to lean heavily towards the 8% alcohol and pound after pound of hops brews. Thus the cross-pond lurking.

Posted by LutheranChik (# 9826) on :

I used to cheat on SOF with Beliefnet's Christian-Christian Debate forum (actually I think initially it was in reverse), but a few crazypants/trollish individuals have managed to drive away most of the interesting participants and intelligent discussions. The thrill is gone.

Now I feel so...dirty.

[ 27. April 2012, 02:42: Message edited by: LutheranChik ]

Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Val Kyrie:
I'm on a Diabetes forum, where we discuss, um, diabetes.

That's fun.

I sometimes pop in and read the posts on the American Diabetes Association message boards but get tired of just discussing every conceivable thing about diabetes. I mean, there's a regular posting of what everyone's morning blood glucose was and I think to myself, "Really? You feel the need to tell everyone what your wake-up b.g. is? Unless my morning b.g. is really low or really high, I don't care to mention it. But it's good to be able to ask questions of people who have had diabetes for a long time.

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

If as the OP demands Facebook is removed from then equation then i am pretty much fidelity personified, I'm afrai

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

I had some affairs in the past, but I'm SoF monogamous now.

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

PS It seems that SoF is cheating on me with around 17083 people [Ultra confused]

Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :

Twitter... but even there it's with SoF folk that I cheat with!

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

Apart from the Book of Face, I'm also a member of a UK-based railways board, a couple of boards related to the football team I support, and one related to my favourite webcomic.

But my combined postings to all four of them don't come near to the amount I post here.

Posted by crunt (# 1321) on :

I used to two-time the Ship terribly with Dave's ESL Cafe, especially the Korean job forums. But I no longer live in Korea (as of 2012), so the Ship is getting more of my online bulletin board browsing time - though I do sometimes pop back to Dave's, just for a look...

Posted by Unjust Stuart (# 13953) on :

Tardiseruditorum and Adventures of the Wife In Space - two truly wonderful Doctor Who blogs.

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

Haven't been there a lot lately, but hitRECord.org has been kinda fun. For me, it's only fun on the fringes. Mostly I enjoy looking at, and encouraging, other people's creative work. I would never have the energy or really the interest to keep up with the main projects there, or to try to be part of them.

Posted by busyknitter (# 2501) on :

Ravelry (apols, you need to register to view content, but it's free)

ASDFriendly

Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :

I flirt a bit on a few technical boards, including the UK vintage radio site which also gives space to enthusiasts of other forms of obsolete electro-technical gnosticism. This link will take you to a thread which, as I type, has 199 posts on obsolete flourescent light fittings . [Yipee]

I'm sure someone on the ship can share a ballast-resistor anecdote and take it past 200...

Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :

I lurk a bit on Beer Advocate and several hunting bulliten boards. And I have to admit I do check out one particularly unpleasant local gossip website. It is self-defense. I've learned from past experience that if nasty rumors are going to start flying about me, this site is where they start. [Disappointed]

Posted by WhateverTheySay (# 16598) on :

I'm on one other web forum, about mental health. But the Ship is the only place I come to discuss Christianity.

Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :

I frequent 3 Canadian left-wing sites and 2 Canadian chess related sites along with Facebook and twitter.

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

I am bunnywithanaxe on IMDB and bunny with an axe on TWOP... Funnily, I was just wondering if any other shipmates were on either. I am currently discussing a truly horribly made horror flick and was thinking, "I wounder what the Shipmates would make of this one?"

And I'm just putting this out there-- y'all know I am a film nerd, and if anybody wants to hunt me down on IMDB and discuss a cool film they have seen-- do it! always up for it!

[ 27. April 2012, 18:29: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

Posted by chive (# 208) on :

I spend a lot of time with the mentalists who contribute to this site. Intelligent discussion on mental illness and a collection of good blogs that I read.

Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :

I'm another Television Without Pity addict. It's become so bad, these days, my choice of viewing is based on how good the conversation is on the board. I know I wouldn't be watching shows like, "The Bachelor," if I wasn't looking forward to the hilarious snark afterward.

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

Heh. So there with you, Twilight. The only thing that makes "Top Model" bearable is the post-game snark. [Big Grin]

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

I'm monogamish... There's songwriter's board that I visit every now and then, but it's nothing serious, really... [Snigger]

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

I really don't go anywhere else with any regularity to speak of unless My Fitness Pal counts: I check in there at least twice a month.

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

I visit IMDB from time to time, Kelly, but have never registered. For me it's more of a reference site. Sometimes I do go to see what people in the discussions think of a film, either before I bother to see it, or after I see a film I'd heard good things about that I didn't like!

Someone here on the Ship (I don't remember who, just that it was from a link here) turned me on to Sporcle, and I wound up signing up there, as churchgeek. It's not really a forum, although there are comments on the quizzes.

Posted by savedbyhim01 (# 17035) on :

As a sports fan, I am on hornfans and spurstalk a lot more than this forum. I used to visit the Crosswalk forums until they moved to Facebook. I almost never get on Facebook so don't bother with those anymore.

Posted by Val Kyrie (# 17079) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

quote:
Originally posted by Val Kyrie:
I'm on a Diabetes forum, where we discuss, um, diabetes.

That's fun.
I sometimes pop in and read the posts on the American Diabetes Association message boards but get tired of just discussing every conceivable thing about diabetes. I mean, there's a regular posting of what everyone's morning blood glucose was and I think to myself, "Really? You feel the need to tell everyone what your wake-up b.g. is? Unless my morning b.g. is really low or really high, I don't care to mention it. But it's good to be able to ask questions of people who have had diabetes for a long time.

I'm on a UK site but, as you say, it's more for the health advice than the sparkling wit and conversation.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

The 365 project.

I am utterly and completely hooked. I now have 3 albums and it still isn't enough. I even dream in photographs!

[Paranoid]

<edited typo>

[ 28. April 2012, 10:53: Message edited by: Boogie ]

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

quote:
Originally posted by savedbyhim01:
As a sports fan, I am on hornfans and spurstalk a lot more than this forum. I used to visit the Crosswalk forums until they moved to Facebook. I almost never get on Facebook so don't bother with those anymore.

As a Canadian hockey fan, I love to visit the forums on tsn.ca and sportsnet.com as one is expected to behave and post like a complete moron there.
They do, occasionally, blank out naughty words and comments; more or less randomly, though.

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