Feb 7th, 2009, 10:35 AM
Dexter: ‘also it generally helps before joining in a discussion forum to get to know what sort of thing is going to be considered bad form@’
Judging by the way people conduct their affairs at this forum, EVERYTHING is deemed bad form – when a profusion of expletives, crudity, jocularity and revulsion assaults a newbie’s senses, then that newbie will be inclined to break rules because no one really cares about them; rules exists in this environment to be ignored, their only function is to be quoted in a dispute, but never actually enforced or utilised – not too dissimilar to the classic truism: that people who have no argument always site ‘their rights’ before offering rationale. The hypocrisy of establishing codes of conduct at a forum that has a flagrant disregard for social conventions is not only laudable, but slightly comical too, which is perhaps in keeping with this sites objectives.
I appreciate your request that I ‘stalk’ or ‘lurk’ the forum so that I may learn how to assuage the denizens here; but this is the internet, I am chromatically impoverished, this is 2009, and I have little time to creep around your textural skirt tails.
Dexter: “ee, how am i supposed to know if you're a spambot or not if the first thing you post is an ad for something?”
I take it you are an administrator at this site. Well I see your point, but I fail to see why the omnipresent molestation of automated junk on the net convulses you into being a vitriolic avatar. I receive plenty of junk mail through the ‘physical’ letter box, every day – but do I take the postman’s head off? The abstract and the ambiguous – a given norm on the internet, has given people, I think, an unjustified reason to be thoroughly reprehensible to each other – but then, the reductionalism that pervades our cultural modernity has insured that a friendly greeting is now re-configured into: FUCK YOU – which leads to me to conclude on this point: you request that I inform my personality with the ‘people’ before posting, so as to lubricate social interactions –but your personal attacks on me set a bad example, and make your point redundant: for why is one supposed to nurture an emotional investment with people who are clearly sociopaths?
Tadao: “It's obvious your art is not appreciated here”
Absolutely, I won’t deny you are right that people here think I suck, but for you to harp on about this –when it was made clear in the first few posts, is merely stating the obvious. Furthermore, I am not seeking help with promotion – so your offer of not promoting me has been well received.
Kitsa: “a nightmare on elm street rape”
This is an excellent suggestion. Rape is the key to success. It is both correct and right.
Kahljorn: “how come the idea of memes became a meme -- that trips me out”
In contrast I am not surprised at all that this has happened. All memes start as ideas – they are cultural signs and symbols. They reproduce, creating new ideas – new memes, which transmute into new synthetic gestures. The idea of a meme not been an idea means that a meme is not a meme!
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