26 Feb 14
Originally posted by HandyAndy"After the fact: an autopsy when the coroner or contributor consensus has determined that we're dealing with a cold cadaver;
An autopsy is post-mortem, Bobby. After the fact. Put your hacksaw away.
before the fact with an online forum that's been alive and well for most of its thirteen years but is now uncertain
as to whether it is, in fact, living yet ill or dying or dead: "an online diagnosis or an exquisite body audit".
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A definitive determination hasn't yet been made; therefore, three phased options were suggested:
"Question: In your view, are we performing an online diagnosis or an exquisite body audit or an after the fact autopsy?"
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Originally posted by HandyAndy
An obscene gesture.
Please clarify your specific reference, Andy. Thanks.
26 Feb 14
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReasonNoEarthlyReason, since I've always regarded you as a patient person I assumed you would accept the acknowledgement preceding my reply (which will be keyed to your observation) as soon as it's ready to come out of its cognitive oven. lol
Thanks for responding to my comment.
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"I hope that this forum does not go the same way - having eyed it for these seven years I would now diagnose incipient NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome)..."
"... an implosion of what President John Kennedy would have called 'vigor'"
"We hate vigor."
"It's too much work."
"Men and women don't like vigorous work."
"Perhaps after it's long agonising death 'Vigour Mortis' has set in."
"It might have needed something more binding like mortise and tenon."
"An obscene gesture."
"Those men and women need to think outside the box."
"Vigour is for real life. People come here to relax."
Question: In your view, are we performing an online diagnosis or an exquisite body audit or an after the fact autopsy?
Question 2) Does this centerpiece forum's demise since 2012 reflect an unanticipated result of a global culture in which a high percentage of all households have cell phones and facebook membership which enable instantaneous contact and social need satisfaction? 3) Does this simultaneity provide a lessening of daily tensions/relaxation? 4) If so, wouldn't the instant gratification of one word/sentence game thread popularity eventually minimize new ideas and sustained conversation?
27 Feb 14
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIt's at times like these that I like to recall God's final message to his creation.
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[quote]"I hope that this forum does not go the same way - having eyed it for these seven years I would now diagnose incipient NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome)..."
"... an implosion of what President John Kennedy would have called 'vigor'"
"We hate vigor."
"It's too much work."
"Men and wome ...[text shortened]... e word/sentence game thread popularity eventually minimize new ideas and sustained conversation?
27 Feb 14
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby"Question: In your view, are we performing an online diagnosis or an exquisite body audit or an after the fact autopsy?
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[quote]"I hope that this forum does not go the same way - having eyed it for these seven years I would now diagnose incipient NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome)..."
"... an implosion of what President John Kennedy would have called 'vigor'"
"We hate vigor."
"It's too much work."
"Men and wome ...[text shortened]... e word/sentence game thread popularity eventually minimize new ideas and sustained conversation?
Question 2) Does this centerpiece forum's demise since 2012 reflect an unanticipated result of a global culture in which a high percentage of all households have cell phones and facebook membership which enable instantaneous contact and social need satisfaction? 3) Does this simultaneity provide a lessening of daily tensions/relaxation? 4) If so, wouldn't the instant gratification of one word/sentence game thread popularity eventually minimize new ideas and sustained conversation?"
6) Could the gradual changes to the content/format and diminished vigor of this forum reflect the loss of high profile faction leaders with real or imagined causes (most recent losses being Phlabibit and Red Night; causes the Recommendations)?
27 Feb 14
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIf the Recs page was the reason these people left, they're bigger babies than I had assumed they were.
6) Could the gradual changes to the content/format and diminished vigor of this forum reflect the loss of high profile faction leaders with real or imagined causes (most recent losses being Phlabibit and Red Night; causes the Recommendations)?