![]() ![]() Remember, people, it’s only a game! It’s supposed to be fun, Fun FUN!!! HOWEVER, if you DO have a question about whether or not someone else’s choice qualifies, please, I’d prefer a PM about it to start off with, rather than thrashing it out in public and possibly causing resentment. It’s not going to be your Aunt Mabel who was in the local paper because her apple pie won first place in the county fair. It’s really hard to define “celebrity” Best we can do is someone who’s death is rather widely reported in major media outlets, because of something they’ve done, be it art, politics, athletics, science, music, the military, or even serial murder. famous solely as a result of their illness or associated actions/events. a registered member of the SDMB, 'cause that would be weirdį. under age 18 at death, 'cause we’re macabre but not THAT macabre.Į. Central time, which is six hours behind Greenwich.)ĭ. Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins the undying snort admiration of the SDMB.Īll picks must be time- and date-stamped by midnight CST, Dec. If any of your celebrities dies, you score 100 points minus their age at death. You pick 13 celebrities (that’s thirteen, not ten) whom you predict will die within the calendar year 2023. Okay, as usual, let’s get the rules out of the way and get to playing. What a horrible name for the place.It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! This past year has been a strange one, in many different ways, and 2023 hopefully will be better. You shouldn’t need to read paragraphs of FAQs to make your first post.Īnd MPSIMS! The first post I read there was someone talking about losing their spouse. And… yeah, that sounds like the right place. I see an awful lot of reports of some new poster posting looking for advice in GQ. But the idea that a breaking news story about a landslide burying a kindgergarten belongs in a forum with that name is beyond absurd. The MPSIMS name could be kept - if that’s the entirety of what goes in it, tirival/gossipy/silly stuff. GQ should be called something like “Factual Questions”. Why does a message board that is supposed to be about fighting ignorance have misleading and unintuitive subforum names, and insist on keeping them for “traditional” reasons? MPSIMS is of course the most egregious example. How many times does a newbie come on here, post something in General Questions, only to be (albeit gently) rebuked that General Questions is not actually the place to post general questions. We’ve had conversations about this before, but it’s idiotic that there’s so much resistance to making forum names more sensible and intuitive. One issue of relevance for new people arriving on the site. Your weird hard-on hate against acronyms aside, have you actually been to any other message board or social media forum in the past 20 years? I think I remember seeing flashing sparkly signatures on a geocities page in 1998. There is a place for leetspeak, unknown words, phrases and made-up initialisms, (e.g.: “He ISO like, GJEDBEOTKT, ya know?” ) but I don’t believe that place is here. If TPTB clearly communicated that that is the new direction the Dope is going I wouldn’t complain cuz it’s their bag, baby. We can do that if that’s truly what people want. Imagine the most common response in a Great Debates thread being: “No, YOU!!1!” Imagine “Regards, Shodan” but with huge bare-breasted harpys with Cookie Monster faces etching the the words in snow with flaming piss. Might be good to have animated GIFs and videos for signatures, too. Cecil may disagree.Īnd as I said, if the goal is to make the SDMB more popular it might be effective to lower the level of discourse here. There is a place for leetspeak, unknown words, phrases and made-up initialisms, (e.g.: “He ISO like, GJEDBEOTKT, ya know?”) but I don’t believe that place is here. You make a worthwhile point-it’s the communication style that’s dragging knuckles, not necessarily the person who posts that way. Why, just look at how welcoming the members are to everyone else. Well gee, I can’t imagine why this site isn’t attracting more people. ![]()
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