Opinion of 'write a letter to ... X words at a time' threads

[Joe Republic]

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BTW I'm not sure which FC mod has a 'delete on sight' policy towards any protest posts in those threads, but they aren't being reported first.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Won't hurt to blow off some silly steam once few months.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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BTW I'm not sure which FC mod has a 'delete on sight' policy towards any protest posts in those threads, but they aren't being reported first.

It's the policy that I've enforced for years.  But if you'd like me to clog up the reported post board first, I'll gladly do so.

[Joe Republic]

Well okay, that's dumber than the threads themselves, but it's your board.  I hope to never see any protests from you about my policy of deleting any krazen posts on sight on my boards.

[Хahar 🤔]

Essentially equivalent to The Obamanation in terms of quality.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Well okay, that's dumber than the threads themselves, but it's your board.  I hope to never see any protests from you about my policy of deleting any krazen posts on sight on my boards.

Does krazen know that you have a standing policy to do that?  Do you always delete every post from krazen on your boards?  Everyone whose post I had deleted was someone who I have discussed this specific issue with before.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Essentially equivalent to The Obamanation in terms of quality.

I can't argue it's not "stupid", but the Obamanation comparison is a bit excessive

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Far more interesting than what the haters post, but I don't want a thread for every major event.

[Eraserhead]

They're stupid but it's simple enough to just ignore them.

[tik 🪀✨]

So, so dumb. I don't mind the odd one every now and then, though, because against my better judgment they make me giggle like a schoolgirl. A 12 year old schoolgirl.

[Joe Republic]

Well okay, that's dumber than the threads themselves, but it's your board.  I hope to never see any protests from you about my policy of deleting any krazen posts on sight on my boards.

Does krazen know that you have a standing policy to do that?

It's been a year.  He knows.  He keeps posting the same hateful garbage anyway, though.

Do you always delete every post from krazen on your boards?

Yep.  It might take me a day or two to notice, but I get to them.

Everyone whose post I had deleted was someone who I have discussed this specific issue with before.

Okay?  In my case, there's little point engaging a persistent troll that should have been banned long ago.  I've merely banned him from my boards, in a sense.

I'm just saying that we're employing the same policy as each other here, so we're each standing in a glass house.

[Simfan34]

I enjoy the Young Curmudgeons' stance on this. No fun is to be had.

[WalterMitty]

are they stupid?  yes.

then again, arent most things on this board?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Well okay, that's dumber than the threads themselves, but it's your board.  I hope to never see any protests from you about my policy of deleting any krazen posts on sight on my boards.

Does krazen know that you have a standing policy to do that?

It's been a year.  He knows.  He keeps posting the same hateful garbage anyway, though.

Do you always delete every post from krazen on your boards?

Yep.  It might take me a day or two to notice, but I get to them.

Everyone whose post I had deleted was someone who I have discussed this specific issue with before.

Okay?  In my case, there's little point engaging a persistent troll that should have been banned long ago.  I've merely banned him from my boards, in a sense.

I'm just saying that we're employing the same policy as each other here, so we're each standing in a glass house.

In that case, I wouldn't criticize your stance on krazen, similar to how I didn't report jmfcst's posts when he was using his second account; I just deleted them on sight.

[Mr. Morden]

Write a letter about your opinion of 'X words at a time' threads, 7 words at a time….

[Linus Van Pelt]

BTW I'm not sure which FC mod has a 'delete on sight' policy towards any protest posts in those threads, but they aren't being reported first.

It's the policy that I've enforced for years. 

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[Хahar 🤔]

Inks just loves moderating, you see.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

BTW I'm not sure which FC mod has a 'delete on sight' policy towards any protest posts in those threads, but they aren't being reported first.

It's the policy that I've enforced for years. 

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I'm not sure what you're trying to convey with the mere posting of an ellipsis.

[Lief 🗽]

They're bad, but it's very easy to completely ignore them.

[King]

They're bad, but it's very easy to completely ignore them.

NO EVERYTHING I DO NOT LIKE MUST BE BANNED I CANNOT LOOK AWAY AT BAD THREADS

[angus]

They're bad, but it's very easy to completely ignore them.

actually, they are not.

Of course, many threads on this forum are intrinsically bad.  They have titles like, "Hot or not?  Rick Perry"  or "would you rather tongue-kiss your grandmother or give Orrin Hatch a handjob?" or "Is Torie a Horrible Person or a Freedom Fighter?" or "What do you think of the guy who wears a shirt from the band who is actually playing at a show?" or "Do you miss Pedophilia/Victorianism/bigotry of various banished posters?"  

But these open letter threads are just about the most educational endeavors that exist on the forum.  If you don't think grammar and logic and flexibility are weak on this forum then you haven't been paying attention.  

I admit that I'd never posted in, or even seriously read, any of the open letter threads till today, but then I noticed a letter to Vladimir thread--thanks, kalwejt--and I clicked on it.  I was so inspired that I crafted the (logically correct) response from Vladimir thread.  It is absolutely an exercise in flexibility and in grammar and in logic.  I notice that posters who generally act like they don't know what a dangling modifier is, or who don't know when to use the objective or nominative form of the personal pronoun, actually type gramatically correct fragments.  Maybe it's the fact that they have the time to craft a response, or maybe it's that they actually take that time to think about what they're typing.  Either way, it is clear to me that they're thinking about what they're typing.  Moreover, they are being creative.  Maybe you create a thread thinking you'll go with a "haha, you American pigs are counting your bronze medals while we're counting our gold" motif, but right off the bat grumpy gramps takes it into the gutter with a banging the hot girlfriend motif, which indicates that it is a sociological benefit as well.  What is and isn't important to the American electorate?  Apparently the anti-homo outweighs just about everything else.  You can probably get that knowledge in other ways, but not so viscerally, and in real time as is possible in this sort of exercise.

Mostly I regard this forum as a place for catharsis and pop psychological malpractice, as evidenced by the many posts herein, but occasionally a chance for education presents itself.  These open letter threads are relevant and current.  They are simultaneously studies in politics and sociology and exercises in grammar and logic.  

In a joint where all are apparently tolerant of the proliferation of alternate timelines, oldie fetishists, hero-worship, and critical examinations of Wal-mart stores in East Los Angeles, it is astonishing that culturally relevant threads in which posting actually requires wit and wisdom are suddenly under fire.  

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Four words per post ...

[badgate]

The Putin response one is too meta. The other ones are great.

[Hatman 🍁]

I apologize for re-strarting this trend. I usually don't participate in these threads, but I thought it would be funny to have the forum write up a cover letter for Bushie to contrast it with his existing cover letter.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Worse than The Obamanation in fact. Hell I'd rather read ten pages of NewYorkExpress' RSS feed than a single one of those. Not only are they never funny they often just become people trying to post the most disgusting sh!t possible.