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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Um . . . STP, dude!

Thurgreed, I understand your current kick to attempt to elevate the level of discourse on this board. I warn you, however, that it is lonely and Quixotic effort. I realize that your motives are less altruistic than mine were -- I was doing it for the Newbers, whereas you are are doing it because you are sick of wading through pages of banal and meaningless posts. I know you think that if you point out to posters what they are doing, they will stop repeating the same inside references ad nauseum in the desperate hope that the inside nature of the reference combined with the relentless repetition will elevate the post to something resembling a joke. I know you think that if you point out to posters what they are doing, they will stop posting merely for the sake of posting, churning out page after page of posts that amount substantively to nothing more than repeatedly typing "That is interesting." But the Board is what it is and it always will be what it always will be, because that is the inherent nature of being. In short, although I applaud and respect your efforts, I question the wisdom of same.

Dude, I wish you would stop trying to get me to stop trying to get other people to change their posting habits. It just takes up valuable board space and we both know I'm probably not going to listen and that I will never be described as "wise" anyway. Can you do that for the benefit of the board?

TM