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The EADD Metathread - Let's talk about how we can improve EADD

Thank you Snolly, I was going to type your second paragraph earlier but I simply couldn't be bothered, and Half-Life 2 seems to have devoured my day. Thank you for being my secretary :)
 
knock said:
Thank you Snolly, I was going to type your second paragraph earlier but I simply couldn't be bothered, and Half-Life 2 seems to have devoured my day. Thank you for being my secretary :)
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You should've at least given it a go knock, because then there'd be not one, but two paraphrasings of my own 2nd paragraph ;p
 
raas_2012 said:
Sorry, I wasn't actually complaining about you here. Was illustrating the point that non-drug related threads were becoming prioritized over actual, significant, drug-related news.
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It's not too often I agree with you, but you have a point here.

Obviously the social side of the forum is what keeps it ticking and fosters the community atmosphere, but this was largely a byproduct of 'serious' drug / HR-related discussion.

I've nothing against frivolous threads (I've made more than my fair share of them), but when the top 10-or-so threads are not only completely non drug-related but in many cases overlap (as with the hip-hop ones) you have to wonder whether the purpose of the forum is being forgotten to some extent.
 
Not sure how you're arriving at the "top 10" Sam; I just used the most basic measure - most recent last post, which is the default sort order - and counted 17 drug or HR related threads in the top 40. A sort by views has such threads in the majority. A sort by replies does indeed show that social threads get more posts, but I don't see that as a problem, why would it be? As long as people are getting the information they need, job done.


Although I agree, hip-hop threads can get to fuck. I may wield my merge stick this afternoon.
 
knock said:
Not sure how you're arriving at the "top 10" Sam; I just used the most basic measure - most recent last post, which is the default sort order - and counted 17 drug or HR related threads in the top 40. A sort by views has such threads in the majority. A sort by replies does indeed show that social threads get more posts, but I don't see that as a problem, why would it be? As long as people are getting the information they need, job done.


Although I agree, hip-hop threads can get to fuck. I may wield my merge stick this afternoon.
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Not shipping the good drug threads off to other parts of BL would help with the above too
 
Sammy G said:
I grew up with TOTP and the Top Ten countdown, y'know? Though it was probably referred to as the 'Hit Parade' in your day. ;)
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There is and was no "popularity contest" for piano sonatas :) I rarely watched TOTP, OGWT was always more interesting.
 
knock said:
There is and was no "popularity contest" for piano sonatas :) I rarely watched TOTP, OGWT was always more interesting.
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Oh yeah, undoubtedly, but that was for adolescents and older folk in the main.

TOTP was a phenomenon, like it or not. And the sexist camerawork was worthy of a PhD thesis.
 
Sex sells. Do we (the public) really want to see a girl miming badly to a pre-recorded backing track, or would we prefer to look up her skirt?
 
Marmalade said:
You should've at least given it a go knock, because then there'd be not one, but two paraphrasings of my own 2nd paragraph ;p
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I'm going to pretend that I was channelling you and not that I have the reading comprehension of a five year old.
 
Jesus, I was in a very bad frame of mind last night, and named/numbered the new mental health support thread variously:

- DSM 2
- 304.80 (the DSM IV code for poly-substance addiction)
- Ward 10 (a commonly used reference to a ward at Edinburgh's psychiatric hospital)

I thought better of linking to it from the old thread with a "getting better" link and back with a "getting worse" link; similarly psychosis/neurosis, care in the community/asylums, making more sense/making less sense =D

I think I hit the right choice in the end, am I right? Took me 5 hours to go with Thread II and OLD / NEW :D. 30mg 3-MeO-PCP does not make for good judgement in these matters.
 
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One thing that I've noticed after years of posting in EADD is that there isn't much real life interaction for a forum with so many posters. Meetups often fail and peter out (this may have changed since I was last hanging round), so my vote goes to working on board meets! Good fun for everyone.:)
 
Marmalade said:
You should've at least given it a go knock, because then there'd be not one, but two paraphrasings of my own 2nd paragraph ;p
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Just noticed this, haha! Ah well you know how it is, the person that says something most recently is the one that must have come up with it. :D


Having said that, although it may feel a bit weird here just now, things have a habit of ebbing and flowing. I'm sure the forum will be on the upswing before long, history suggests it.


;p
 
Demented yet knock, err mods? =D

Bloody brilliant to see you have made a difference <3

Oh and yeh agree, eadd has its own cycle...ebbs, flows, peaks and troughs. I used to love this about it, it has a pulse all of its own %)
 
Perhaps the moderators should go on strike until everybody cheers up.
 
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