Oh very, why do you think we have the term 'Joeling' and those of us who are the usual suspects in the political threads get cursed at from time to time. Trust me Jen, post resurrection is a serious pet peeve of a lot of people, one I'm not usually that sympathetic to myself, those are mostly about subject, nobody likes seeing a post whose material they found very insulting stuffed in their face, this one is just about duration, it never goes away.




Nor was I rude to him, though I don't deny the post wasn't laced with endearments. This thing irritates me, I saw no reason mask it. I like Druid, not that there are many posts by him of late outside of here to judge off of but we've always gotten along fine in our rare chats in the past, if I didn't like him, I'd have picked the easy option, I've got a premie, I couldn't ignore his threads as opposed to wasting time making suggestions then explaining myself to you about why I'm not an evil bastard, it was no spur of the moment post.




And I've actually been here since 2002, one of the reasons I view the golden age stuff with a certain amount of eye-rolling, till 2007 the predecessor site was just a place to read theories to me. The nostalgia doesn't do much for me, because I don't get what's nostalgic about "Routine meet and greet thread", if there's more to it then that, someone needs to say so, and that general unwillingness to bother to give simple explanations about such things is what I refer to when I say 'snobbery'. I find it absurd to have some precious tradition that no one can be bothered to explain and that in the absence of an explanation amounts to claiming "We have a tradition of people saying hello when they stand up to talk, and saying their name", lacking details it's a pretty simple concept to attach deep nostalgia to, and if it's got deep nostalgia, regardless of its origin or depth, then taking a sentence to explain it would seem kinda appropriate, don't you think?




I'm pretty sure I've read all the replies, most of them certainly, part of my frustration comes from how many asinine comments I've subjected myself to. Oh, there are some decent ones, and while you seem to think otherwise I don't dispute that the name of the thread is fairly indicative of its purpose, I've read many out of curiosity, and more out general attmepts to sample to see who might be interested in joining us for a game on the RPG board. I'm irritated by the ones with throw away one-liners and my suggestions are mostly about how to cut down on those or barring that give up the ghost on this understandable if kinda vague tradition.






People who understand the nostalgic nature may wallow in it all they want, I'd just appreciate having some explanation of what the nostalgia is all about. I think you still are missing that absent an explanation (and I still haven't got one) people are apparently being nostalgic about the a simple question, you may as well say "We have a tradition of asking people what their favorite movie is, we're very nostalgic about it". Look Jen, this thread minus familiarity reads like "Do you like cats? Sorry, I couldn't resist" and reminds me of people laughing about 'Can I haz cheezburger', I don't mind, but I do kinda like people to take the time to explain that if they're going to basically remind me of it every day for a few months. I think this series of posts from me comes of 'mean', but honestly from my perspective this is nothing more than someone whose hear that cat meme for months without knowing it and finally getting clued in it means something - though not what - taking one of the persons by the elbow and suggesting, perhaps a bit harshly, that they should either knock it off, find some way not to do it in front of people who don't get it, or take 10 seconds to explain the joke.






Ben's never replied to any NB I've ever sent him, which isn't many and will probably never be added to. I gather he's mega-busy, I'm grateful to him for the RPG board making it over, and I renew my membership basically as a thanks for that, there are also higher priorities on the waiting list. I should also point out that people who make suggestions about improvements to the site tend to get chilly reception and response from a lot people, even when they're very nice about it. As I've mentioned, I can resolve this problem personally very easily, I just don't feel right about blocking someone, and I actually do like to know why people come here.




That's probably for the best