Come on people! Enough is enough!

[33girl]

Stupid twat.

[KerriMarie]

Originally Posted by ohsohappy

You would be shocked if you knew who I am. This is a profile I created to speak my mind without attributing it to my national group by which I am known. I am a REGULAR poster in GC and contribute handily. Some of these stories are fun. But, the forum page has got WAY too many stickies and it gets littered with threads that aren't current for the subject. Yes, I'm talking to you 33Girl, Miss Moderator. I haven't got anything up my ass. Just tired of you letting this forum become a cluttered mess. Not as good as it used to be!

Ew.

[Sciencewoman]

I don't read the retro stories, or the old, bumped stories either. I can tell which ones they are by the number of posts, so I just ignore them.

[ohsohappy]

Kill the messenger. I have private messages from others who agree with me. If someone dissents, this place erupts with BS. That is why I have chosen to post privately.

[amIblue?]

You haven't chosen privately. You've posted as a sock. Those are two different things.

[thetalady]

I thought sock puppets weren't allowed on GC....

[Katmandu]

I love the Private Message Army! There are a lot of old threads being bumped, I guess due to the spamnado attacks. There also aren't a lot of new recruitment stories this year. Spam+ bumps+ few new stories means things are slow.

Creating a sock to complain seems overly coy though.

[AOII Angel]

LOL. A regular on GC but doesn't know the "I've had lots of people message me saying they feel the same way" claim is laughable.

[Munchkin03]

We're in rush season...posting retro recruitment threads seems more appropriate now than doing it during, say, Christmas when most things are slow. CurlyGirl and justamom's threads, while over a decade old, still have great advice especially for young ladies rushing in competitive systems.

[SWTXBelle]

Dear OhSoCranky and Private Message Army,

Don't read the threads which annoy you, or HPRL is ready when you are.

Sincerely,
Me

PS. Thread title made me think of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsY066wa08E

[AZTheta]

Dear Crabby Pants,

Go help someone somewhere. Go do service work. I guarantee it will change your mood. You won't have time to be frustrated about your inability to live vicariously through strangers' lives.

And for the love of Mike, don't be such a keyboard chicken/bully. If you have something to say say it under your user name. Forget the "private message army" making you "right"; that is an unconvincing strategy.

If someone on GC bugs you, you can put them on your ignore list, it's really effective. You're not being held hostage here, you know?

[summer_gphib]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Dear Crabby Pants,

Go help someone somewhere. Go do service work. I guarantee it will change your mood. You won't have time to be frustrated about your inability to live vicariously through strangers' lives.

And for the love of Mike, don't be such a keyboard chicken/bully. If you have something to say say it under your user name. Forget the "private message army" making you "right"; that is an unconvincing strategy.

If someone on GC bugs you, you can put them on your ignore list, it's really effective. You're not being held hostage here, you know?

For the love of God, why does GC not have a LIKE BUTTON? LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE!!!

[Alpha O]

Is there anything we can do about the spam? I think that people would be more inclined to check GC and post if the spam were filtered more effectively.

Originally Posted by gogoaphi

In the interest of "constructive criticism", I have to admit that I have stopped coming back as often to look at this page because of how many old stories there are. The ones where the rush happened like back in 2010 and then people keep commenting in them confuse me. But, I am easily confused at my advanced age. I like the idea of maybe having these old stories moved to a separate thread. That has some merit.

I think people are bumping old threads/stories to combat the spam.

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Dear Crabby Pants,

Go help someone somewhere. Go do service work. I guarantee it will change your mood. You won't have time to be frustrated about your inability to live vicariously through strangers' lives.

And for the love of Mike, don't be such a keyboard chicken/bully. If you have something to say say it under your user name. Forget the "private message army" making you "right"; that is an unconvincing strategy.

If someone on GC bugs you, you can put them on your ignore list, it's really effective. You're not being held hostage here, you know?

Amen!

[LAblondeGPhi]

Originally Posted by Alpha O

Is there anything we can do about the spam? I think that people would be more inclined to check GC and post if the spam were filtered more effectively.



I think people are bumping old threads/stories to combat the spam.



Amen!

I agree wholeheartedly to both of these comments. I see a lot of bumping to push spam down.

To me, spam is a little like the whole broken windows theory - you see a lot of spam (or broken windows) on a board (neighborhood), and you think "this place isn't someplace I'm going to want to hang out - it's all probably run down and out-of-date."

I wouldn't be surprised if the spam is keeping pnms and moms away. There are many days when GC doesn't at first glance look like a reputable source of information.

[BlueOwl]

Missing reading the usual bumper crop of great stories this year! Both from pnm's and parents. Also, while I do understand the reason for delaying telling your story, I don't think that the average 18 year old will be as motivated to write a detailed recruitment story many days after the fact.

also wondering why are there so many weird threads about Michael Kors and sunglasses??