Spiderman
05-12-09, 12:52 PM
Hey everyone
I'm posting this since there has recently been a spate of "i dont wanna read this" comments and other comments of "take it to the megathread"
To me, Idle Banter is the place for all things not bike related. Yes we all have one thing in common, we joined this site due to our love of bikes. But we also have lives and like to talk to our friends, virtual and real, about other stuff. And thats what IB is for.
Threads titles...they are like the spines of books on the shelf in a library. They may seem interesting, intriguing or may be completely obvious as to their contents. So you take the book off the shelf because of its title and your curiosity. You read a bit of it an if you like it you keep reading it. If you dont you put it back. You dont go back to the book you didnt like again and again just to make sure you still dont like it do you? You also dont go to the librarian and say "i dont like this book, to me its mindless trash and since i feel this way about it can you throw it out your library or burn it please." So please try and treat threads in the same way.
On the flip side of this. If you wrote a book you'd want it to appeal to as wide an audience as possible right? You'd also want all who read it to be hooked or at least mildly interested. If you had an interactive book you'd like the feedback you got to be positive. If you wrote a book that appealed to only 4 or 5 people in the world you'd realise you're gonna keep getting poor reviews and eventually any book that has you name on it is gonna be talked about in not so spectacular terms. Would you then expect the library to fill itself with your work if it appeals to no one much? Would you be surprised if people either complained to the librarian or just stopped going to that library and found one they liked more?
So what i'm saying is this ... IB is for all the community and if you post something in it try and think about its impact. If you read something that you dont like, dont read it again and again and let it annoy you ... but also dont feel you cant speak up and air your views. However sometimes airing your views to a hostile crowd aint the best idea but having a word with a friendly dictator who carries a mod hammer may be the better approach for the harmony of the community.
This message was brought to you with all the best will in the world and much love.
Your friendly neighbourhood freak :spiderman:
I'm posting this since there has recently been a spate of "i dont wanna read this" comments and other comments of "take it to the megathread"
To me, Idle Banter is the place for all things not bike related. Yes we all have one thing in common, we joined this site due to our love of bikes. But we also have lives and like to talk to our friends, virtual and real, about other stuff. And thats what IB is for.
Threads titles...they are like the spines of books on the shelf in a library. They may seem interesting, intriguing or may be completely obvious as to their contents. So you take the book off the shelf because of its title and your curiosity. You read a bit of it an if you like it you keep reading it. If you dont you put it back. You dont go back to the book you didnt like again and again just to make sure you still dont like it do you? You also dont go to the librarian and say "i dont like this book, to me its mindless trash and since i feel this way about it can you throw it out your library or burn it please." So please try and treat threads in the same way.
On the flip side of this. If you wrote a book you'd want it to appeal to as wide an audience as possible right? You'd also want all who read it to be hooked or at least mildly interested. If you had an interactive book you'd like the feedback you got to be positive. If you wrote a book that appealed to only 4 or 5 people in the world you'd realise you're gonna keep getting poor reviews and eventually any book that has you name on it is gonna be talked about in not so spectacular terms. Would you then expect the library to fill itself with your work if it appeals to no one much? Would you be surprised if people either complained to the librarian or just stopped going to that library and found one they liked more?
So what i'm saying is this ... IB is for all the community and if you post something in it try and think about its impact. If you read something that you dont like, dont read it again and again and let it annoy you ... but also dont feel you cant speak up and air your views. However sometimes airing your views to a hostile crowd aint the best idea but having a word with a friendly dictator who carries a mod hammer may be the better approach for the harmony of the community.
This message was brought to you with all the best will in the world and much love.
Your friendly neighbourhood freak :spiderman: