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[Yung]

...yeah... I'm sure everyone here is thinking of their audience first when they post. Also, I have something to say you might think is mean. (AUDIENCE FIRST!)  Why are you talking like Russ?

 

If I recall correctly you're the one who said that Russ was emulating me... so to answer your question I am talking like myself.

[Waser Lave]

Fair enough xD

 

Ultimately I think it was probably inevitable that you'd ask to be demoted fairly soon purely because you probably won't have enough time to put towards it. You can't be a kept man forever after all and you'd have kids to look after and a wife to service regularly.

[trizzle]

No, just maintaining my air of mystique and eroticism.

[NapisaurusRex]

If I recall correctly you're the one who said that Russ was emulating me... so to answer your question I am talking like myself.

... Do you really want me to respond to that?

Edited by Napiform, 26 February 2013 - 04:02 PM.

[Sweeney]

Ultimately I think it was probably inevitable that you'd ask to be demoted fairly soon purely because you probably won't have enough time to put towards it. You can't be a kept man forever after all and you'd have kids to look after and a wife to service regularly.

 

I wouldn't ask to be demoted

 

(Again, anyway...)

[Mishelle]

Anyone who has a problem with my gifs can take it up with my gifs

 

 

[Sweeney]

[Sweeney]

I prefer the little yellow guy.

[Mishelle]

[NapisaurusRex]

I prefer the little yellow guy.

That's what she said.

[Sweeney]

That's what she said.

 

That's just too far xP

[luvsmyncis]

I like gifs. Elin is such a sad sack. Go sit in your sad sack corner hating gifs and being unpopular. 

 

There was no category for "Most Likely to Father an Unwanted Bastard Child" to balance out the sexism of the pregnancy category. 

[Sweeney]

I like gifs. Elin is such a sad sack. Go sit in your sad sack corner hating gifs and being unpopular. 

 

There was no category for "Most Likely to Father an Unwanted Bastard Child" to balance out the sexism of the pregnancy category. 

 

It's probably your fault, all the gif popularity It was fun when it was just you, and later Lisa.

[luvsmyncis]

It's probably your fault, all the gif popularity It was fun when it was just you, and later Lisa.

 

I'm ahead of my time. I'm a trend-setter. Soon everyone else will stop shaving their pits as well, just so they can be like me and Lisa.

[Sweeney]

I'm ahead of my time. I'm a trend-setter. Soon everyone else will stop shaving their pits as well, just so they can be like me and Lisa.

 

... oh.

[5MGEDOHC]

I'm ahead of my time. I'm a trend-setter. Soon everyone else will stop shaving their pits as well, just so they can be like me and Lisa.

So when will it be appropriate for me to stop shaving my pits?

[Elindoril]

I like gifs. Elin is such a sad sack. Go sit in your sad sack corner hating gifs and being unpopular.

As I always have been.

[Sweeney]

So when will it be appropriate for me to stop shaving my pits?

 

Take your age, divide it by two, multiply by two.

That many years ago.

[Drakonid]

So when will it be appropriate for me to stop shaving my pits?

You don't have any hair to shave.

[5MGEDOHC]

You don't have any hair to shave.

Does peach fuzz count?

[Drakonid]

You know the answer...

[5MGEDOHC]

You know the answer...

 

I know I do

[redlion]

Expressing yourself is subjective to the audience. Thus in some cases a GIF, JPG, or PNG is in fact an appropriate response. It must be gauged on the audience first and foremost followed by whether or not it is on subject and substantial enough to express your opinion.

That's all well and good when you're talking to a room full of professors, or when addressing a classroom, or at a social gathering with your peers, but the internet is full of different types of people. This thread alone has people born in three or four different decades. And that's just the ones that I know of.

In some cases (like 4chan) a post consisting of just a gif might make sense because all the peers understand that format. The problem is, a lot of the members here come from the neopets forums, or from a time before the promulgation of the gif culture. I'd say that's a significant portion of our userbase.

You are, however, correct in saying that posts should be gauged on whether or not it's on topic and substantial. And many times a post consisting of a gif isn't very substantial. We used to call such posts Spam.


 

Arguments like these are so pointless.
 
If you want more intelligent posts on the forum, why not try to be more active in areas like the debate section and stimulate discussions by creating new topics so you can interact with people who you think are on your intellectual level, and verbally destroy (and reduce to tears) those you find lacking
Equally I don't think you should dismiss others because you think their posts inane especially if they're not breaking any of the rules and are keeping the forums active.

It's not so much dismissing people's posts for being "just" a gif. It's the mindset that a gif is an equally valid contribution to a discussion, or the idea that a gif can suffice in place of an actual thought. Gifs themselves aren't bad; thinking that a gif can hold it's weight in most discussions is bad.  
 
As to the other bit on being proactive in starting discussions.... well a few of us do so on a regular basis. It's rather discouraging to see only one or two responses to a well thought out post. Of course sometimes that's due to the level of knowledge required to respond in kind, but I for one will never disparage someone for simply posting "I don't know much about that. Care to elaborate?" For instance in This Thread I didn't get overly lengthy, and I posted a video as well, yet it got only one response. It's not like I was posting about particle physics or rocket science.

I'm not complaining about the lack of responses, but I am trying to illustrate my point that the discourse level has gone significantly down.

Well you are two very different individuals. I have yet to see anyone complain about you. Quite the opposite actually.

You haven't been around long enough to see Waser when he's angry. DON'T MAKE WASER ANGRY.

[Mishelle]

They even post gifs on neopets now. Get with the times geezers.