Followup. Since I made this post, the same 5 people whom I characterized as having nothing interesting to say and as being so out of control that they flood the forum with their garbage have followed up on my *single* post with a total of *fifteen* posts.
In not one of them did any of them offer to cut down on their inane post-flooding. In fact, they attempted to "shoot the messenger" and avoid any responsibility for their own actions. I'd say that they made my point about trying to "dominate" the forum for me. The bottom line on this is clear -- these five posters "contributed" only slightly less that HALF THE TOTAL POSTS MADE LAST WEEK. And they'll do it again this week, and the next, and the week after that. And they don't think there's a problem with that, or with forcing other people to wade through their crap. I'm simply making the point that the phenomenon of "people leaving FFL" is **NOT** due to Neo, but to a few people who simply cannot control their motormouths, and who feel they have the "right" to subject other people to post after post after post after post after post...whatever they want to post, whenever they want to post it. I'll stop talking about this now, because unlike them *I* can control myself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > And lastly, as long as one is free to scroll past > > potentially offensive posts, how can domination > > occur in any significant way? > > Turq's Monday Morning Free Clue To The Clueless > > You think "free to." Others here think "have to." > > It's a matter of signal-to-noise ratios. Taking last > Friday's Post Count as an example, there are more > than a few on the forum who would categorize 421 > of the total 852 posts (49.4%) as noise. > > That is, long experience has taught these people > that there is nothing to be gained from reading > any of these posts. Fortunately, as you say, we are > "free to" disregard them by scrolling past them. > > But this means that in any given week we "have to" > scroll past easily half of all posts on the forum. > There comes a time when the desire for the occasional > gem of intelligence (signal) simply isn't worth it > any more because of the sheer bulk of the other posts > (noise). > > Especially because the noise-posters don't seem to > be able (or willing) to control themselves. When > it's not invective and trolling, it's inanity such > as was described so well by s3raphita earlier: > > > And bear in mind that a lot of the messages are > > simple thumbs up or thumbs down feedback, such as . . . > > "Outstanding post!" > > "Ha-ha!" > > "Thanks for that link" > > "Did you forget to take your medics today?" > > "You sir are a complete prat" > > "YAWN . . . " > > Bottom line is that you're going to start seeing a > LOT of people bailing from FFL. > > And it WON'T be because of Neo. > > That, dear lady, is domination. >
