"No son, Billy the bunny isn't dead. He moved to a nice farm in the mid-west. Now shut up and eat your rabbit stew." "But dad, I saw you chop off his head and stuff him in the pot!" "Shut up Mixum, you ungrateful little cur! Glass half full. Rainbows and butterflies. Troll. Troll! TROLL!"
It used to be fairly good... but a lot of posters have turned away from actual substantive discussion to bang their drums and become "personalities". And really, why bother with substantive posts when a meme is so much easier to repeat? LaMarshmallow, McScribbles, kpee, Blazers to Seattle, learn the game then post, checkmate, BeerBoy's wife, HCP's wife, Roy hates America and doesn't put forth an effort, too much on-ball domination, Bayless has short arms, Oden's a bust, Outlaw sucks, Blake sucks, Andre is moody, Cho talks funny and will never make a trade. There's more, but really, we could simulate most of the content on the forum by running a script that associates one of these memes with a user, and simply posts pre-written screeds at random, with random posts saying, "Who cares? [my meme text here]" as responses. Nobody is talking *to* each other; it's more like 100 blogs shuffled together in loosely associated threads. We're talking *at* each other, hitting each other with our respective hammers until everyone else shuts up. I see now that MIXUM is just another guy with a hammer.
There is a lot of truth to this but, of course, it's just a generalization. It doesn't apply to everyone. And that's the key. There are quite a few good posters here, people who I consider insightful and interesting. There's just a lot of people who are largely posting on, to steal your concept, a fairly limited script. The signal to noise ratio can be low at times. That's a problem for people who have trouble just filtering away the noise automatically. I, personally, don't have a problem because I'm fairly good at skimming past the noise to the substance. But I think not everyone can do that and finds their time wasted by slogging through the content-less filler.
You enjoy having intercouse (errrr discourse) with him because your both Laker fans. Its funny how the posters who's only intention is to rile up the board are apologists for each other. Kinda cute actually.
I've always kinda felt you kept out of the basketball discussion because you aren't that knowledgable and didn't really bring anything to the table.
I agree and we've lost a few very quality posters recently because of it. Boob-No-More, SodaPopinski and Schilly were a few off the top of my head who I rarely see on here anymore, yet always brought good discussion. I think the level of conversation goes through spurts of great convo and times of horrible conversation.
