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Thread: much ado about absolutely nothing. AKA another poll
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Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
# 8783
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This poll is a friendly, gentle one; simply to let Shippies exchange views on starting new threads.
<small>[ 04. November 2012, 01:16: Message edited by: Loquacious beachcomber ]</small>
[ 12. February 2013, 23:56: Message buggered about with by: comet ]
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Every year and a half or so, I start a new thread in purgatory: last year it was about The Shard tower in London. It was of interest to me as a former architecture student and to many others due to the controversy of its being the tallest building in the UK. I would like to live there, I think. Past threads have included hunting and what to do with dangerous criminals.
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Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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A funny thing is that although I don't hang out in Keryg that much, I think many of my rare OPs have been started there. I really don't know enough about the Bible although I made it through EfM. And in Keryg I know that there are people who hang out that actually do. In the original languages, yet. So there I have a pool of people who can make me feel really inferi- erm- whose brains I can pick. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
[ 04. November 2012, 02:37: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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What I've mentioned before (and it probably isn't possible) is to limit threads started by apprentices. For the first 50 posts they could reply to other threads, but not start threads of their own until they've gotten into the swing of things and seen how the Ship and her various boards operate.
[ 04. November 2012, 02:38: Message edited by: Pigwidgeon ]
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
What I've mentioned before (and probably isn't possible) is to limit threads started by apprentices. For the first 50 posts they could reply to other threads, but not start threads of their own until they've gotten into the swing of things and seen how the Ship and her various boards operate.
I think that quite recently we've had an object case like that to consider. But we've also seen that the problem often pretty much takes care of itself. Somehow apprentices who yell, "Me! Me! Me!" often get discouraged and go away. Can't imagine why. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Garasu
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
What I've mentioned before (and it probably isn't possible) is to limit threads started by apprentices. For the first 50 posts they could reply to other threads, but not start threads of their own until they've gotten into the swing of things and seen how the Ship and her various boards operate.
I actually thought that was the way it worked... Oh well. You were spared even more of my inanity...
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
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Ah. Spoke too soon.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
What I've mentioned before (and it probably isn't possible) is to limit threads started by apprentices. For the first 50 posts they could reply to other threads, but not start threads of their own until they've gotten into the swing of things and seen how the Ship and her various boards operate.
Yep
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
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quote:
A few less threads in Purgatory might help focus discussions
I could do with a few less Hell threads
FEWER! ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Garasu
Shipmate
# 17152
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But could be the basis for a tongue-twister...
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"Could I believe in the doctrine without believing in the deity?". - Modesitt, L. E., Jr., 1943- Imager.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
# 3492
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quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
FEWER!
A bit pedantic, but at least it shows you are as well-schooled in the proper use of the English language as my wife and I: Zeke has a master's in education with concentration in English language and literature which makes her competent to teach in community colleges and high schools. I was an art major but I have lived with my lovely bride for more than thirty-four years and much of her literacy has rubbed off!
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
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Not few fewer: quote:
Fewer threads in Purgatory might help focus discussions.
I could do with fewer Hell threads.
I fixed it.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
FEWER!
A bit pedantic, but at least it shows you are as well-schooled in the proper use of the English language as my wife and I:
Nah! I'm just arsey.
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Imaginary Friend
Real to you
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Please, for the love of all that wear clown's shoes, would you stick to the subject. Thanks.
Imaginary Friend
Circus Host
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
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I assume you're taking about n00bs, CK.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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No, I meant me. I'm an equal opportunities poster and have started threads on all the main boards at some point. Dead Horses really is not an option in the questionnaire. (Neither is the Styx, but that's less likely)
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Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Another interesting question would be: "What do you find the scariest board to start a thread on?"
Ecclesiantics brrrrr....
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
Another interesting question would be: "What do you find the scariest board to start a thread on?"
Ecclesiantics brrrrr....
I'm pretty sure that was the first Board where I started one.
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(And, IIRC, received some very helpful responses.)
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Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
# 8783
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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
No option to start threads in Dead Horses, the Styx or all of the boards. All would have been good as an option.
The question was on what board are you most likely to start a new thread; the choice of "other" covered boards not listed above, and, as the question asked "most likely to" the choice of "all" really would not have fit within the question.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
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Son the Elder had already worked out by the age of 2 that the answer to the question: 'Would you like ..... or .....?' was 'Both!'
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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@Loquacious beachcomber, if you look, in the past two weeks I've started threads in Heaven, Purgatory, Hell and All Saints, one of of the threads I started in Purgatory was transferred to Kergymania. In addition, I have posted in The Styx, Dead Horses, The Circus and Ecclesiantics. If you look at my last 50 posts, I have posted in all the boards but Kergymania. I really truly did want an all option.
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Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
# 8783
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Okay, I'll bite what are FLPs? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Maybe Florida Lights & Power?
Forever Living Products?
Find Life Pukes?
What are FLPs?
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
# 10894
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Famous Last Posts
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Piglet
Islander
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Originally posted by Loquacious beachcomber:
... What are FLPs?
Famous Last Posts - when the title of a thread (as listed on the Boards home-page) combines with the name of the person who last posted on it to make something mildly (or sometimes wildly) amusing.
For instance, this might come out as:
Starting new threads on ... piglet
What's wrong with the threads I've got on? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
eta: sorry - cross-posted with Ariston.
[ 08. November 2012, 02:08: Message edited by: piglet ]
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Scarlet
Mellon Collie
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
Another interesting question would be: "What do you find the scariest board to start a thread on?"
um, Styx...
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Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
# 8783
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The replies on this thread have been extremely interesting; in future, I will probably start fewer new threads, and, if I post another quiz, offer a few less choices rather than try to satisfy everyone, which obviously can't be done.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
# 10894
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One more thread someone started, one more weapon in our war on Hull!
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
# 13878
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Yeah, I'll keep this one. Locked, though.
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