Vass wrote:
Zherical wrote:
You know Vass, that thread you linked pretty much says nothing, that we haven't in this thread.
Oh, I see... Now let us try something...
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You know Zherical, this thread says nothing that hasn't been said in the thread I linked.
It's all in the perspective.
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Your angst against us is unfounded.
If I was angsting there would've been more screaming for everyone with a forum uid above 2500 to die. I'm just openly and politely stating what I believe is going through the heads of other people currently. >.>
I've administrated a story discussion forum for a deeply-plotted fantasy RTS game series since about 1997, and said forum was still pretty damn popular with traffic equivalent to this forum through 2002 or so (it's Myth if anyone is interested; RMG was one of my old regulars there, and I know a lot of others read ES though they don't usually post here).
You know what happened when we stopped getting newbies coming back and asking old questions (and thus prompting the regulars to respond to those questions, bringing back up old debates and inspiring new ideas about those same old topics)?
The forum died. The only life it gets now is when a random newbie comes in, asks a stupid old question, and then suddenly the lurkers (who there are progressively fewer of these days) light up and start talking again. Just like old times.
Granted, this forum here is different because we constantly get new material to discuss about every other day or so, but still, don't underestimate the value that newbies with old questions contribute to the life of the forum.
Then again, I'm the kind of person was planning to happily sit and teach kids grammar and algebra all day every school day for the rest of my life because that's the kind of thing that interests me, until I discovered (what should have been obvious) that it doesn't really interest the kids that much, in which case I really don't care to do it. In other words, I like answering questions - if you don't, just don't bother, and the rest of us will happily take up the slack.
<i>Edit: I can spell. No really. Though I'm not too fond of teaching that.</i>