Where are all these quality topics that are being buried by long ramblings?

Posted by Foolness
Sep 9, 2012 at 03:06 AM

Alexander, to convince you that “the forum didn’t have interesting threads before Proust was mentioned” would be to raise Proust above other posts which is just as bad as those who raise other posts as being superior to the Proust post.

Who defines what posts are worthy? Obviously the answer lies in posters who put worth in other people’s posts. It is disingenuous to not know the answer to this when a quoted example of such a post is in the very first post of this topic.

Who should take the time? Is English of such poor quality in forums nowadays that the tone of a request is different from the tone of a command? English isn’t my native language but why would someone take the time to command someone and then thank them before their commands have been delivered?

But worse I think is the elitist attitude of it is all there. I hadn’t realized this forum had an elitist attitude.

The forum topics I have read where those of posters who would help other posters looking for software recommendations. Sometimes even sharing and contrasting theories with them.

This was especially helpful and unique in this forum as many veterans would share not so well known software names to those who didn’t dig up old threads. Apparently today it is all “out there”. There are no hidden threads. There are no mysterious methods despite new blog posts on outlining being brought up such as the recent tags as context article. Not only this, Franz, but for a person recommending using search might I suggest learning how to use search yourself. If you had use the search in page functionality available to your browser you would have easily spotted the words spirituality not come out of this username alone and you would have easily understood why it was no rambling.

I really don’t mean to be snarky but my patience wears thin. This used to be a much better and much neutral forum. A forum where one isn’t merely expected to “search”. A forum where posters rarely look down on other posters. While all good things do end, I am not a fan of the speed such recent forum posts have been declining. 2nd user account reply and already there’s this communication failure of “And you complain about others “rambling”?” and “Are you trying to convince me that the forum didn’t have interesting threads before Proust was mentioned?”

On posters who by the early paragraphs of their post understood that I was seeking something and not arguing for anyone no less.