Thora
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I used to love TWOP too, but haven't been in a long time. I don't think I have very many posts in the forums, but it was too much to keep up with.
VintagePunk said:
She lurks here. Mostly in FYM, but reads other threads that I point out to her, knows the players, inside jokes, etc. She's catching up in the MMG nonsense now.
VintagePunk said:knows the players.
phillyfan26 said:
Does she think I'm an attention whore like Dalton does?
phillyfan26 said:How does the moderating of this board compare to others?
corianderstem said:I stopped going to TWOP a few years ago, but I used to love it. I stopped reading the forums because yeah, like you said. Then I kept up with the recaps of shows I liked, but then they stopped being funny and started being too mean. And just people writing because they liked the sound of their own typing.
I think I popped by recently to check out a recap for a show I'd forgotten to watch, and was so turned off by the new format of the site, I didn't bother.
elevated_u2_fan said:
1967-present... and it doesn't look like it's going to change any time soon...
Dalton said:
I've heard she has a crush on me as well. Fact or fiction?
phillyfan26 said:
Does she think I'm an attention whore like Dalton does?
Dalton said:Sounds like the type of forum that I would do well in ...
corianderstem said:
Compared to some of the sites I've visited over the years, they're less control-freaky here, which is nice.
Honestly, with a few exceptions, I think they do a good job here. Yeah, they miss stuff, and maybe sometimes come down harder on certain people, but they're just people too, you know? I think they do fine.
I try to remember that not everyone wants to sit around and snark all day, and while I can't really relate to those kinds of people (I usually come around to snark around with like-minded folks), I understand why the mods might feel the need to settle shit down, but I think usually they come around when it's appropriate they do so.
I remember getting a warning on Fametracker because I broke a cardinal rule of using netspeak for the purpose of humor. Never gotten warned before, never did anything naughty.
Then one day in a thread about the Phantom of the Opera flick, I busted out with an old board in-joke dating back to the Buffy/Angel days: (OMG! CHRISTINE + ANGLE OF MUSIC 4EVAH!!!!!11!!eleven) and got a slap on the wrist from a mod (Veep - it was WingChung, which shouldn't be a surprise) saying "You know better."
I almost emailed her back with a "Oh, fuck off," but didn't. Because I'm a good girl.
You couldn't even start a post with "Um ..." because it read as a snotty remark, even if you used it to start off an actual question.
VintagePunk said:
You would have been bounced out on your ass by your second post.
VintagePunk said:
Haha, Wing Chung. One day I got all stalkery and read her blog (can't remember where it was, but one of the sites linked to it). Her and Glark are from Toronto, so I have this weird home-girl attachment to them.
As MMG/BM would say:
Dalton said:
What do you mean?
VintagePunk said:
They don't take kindly to your type at Fametracker/TWOP. You're a loose cannon. :mustcontrolallcreativeexpression:
Dalton said:What do you mean "loose cannon"?
Dalton said:
What do you mean "loose cannon"?
No spoken words said:We used to go to TWOP now and then out of professional curiosity.
No spoken words said:We used to go to TWOP now and then out of professional curiosity.
corianderstem said:
And what did you think?
corianderstem said:I'm not sure I know of TV that's made for people whose focus is snark.
People will snark on anything.