Internet patterns.

[lwm3398]

EDIT: GAH!
What the hell?
Double posted.

In a risk of being off topic, how does that even happen? Press the post button twice, or what?

 

[Neonbob]

EDIT: GAH!
What the hell?
Double posted.

In a risk of being off topic, how does that even happen? Press the post button twice, or what?

I think my browser had an error.
I pushed post once, it grayed out and nothing happened.
I ctrl-f5'd, and it showed no post.
I pasted my post back into the post box, pressed post, and BAM! Two posts.
Grrr.

 

[lwm3398]

EDIT: GAH!
What the hell?
Double posted.

In a risk of being off topic, how does that even happen? Press the post button twice, or what?

I think my browser had an error.
I pushed post once, it grayed out and nothing happened.
I ctrl-f5'd, and it showed no post.
I pasted my post back into the post box, pressed post, and BAM! Two posts.
Grrr.

I've never done that. I just double posted once without knowing how. I was wondering some of the reason such a glitch happens.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I call Hypocrisy. Are you complaining about "I don't like this threads," when this technically falls under that Category.

Is your post pointing out a DIFFERENT internet pattern than the one I posted, or is it complaining about me being hipocritical. If it's not doing the first one- it's off topic

 

[Asciotes]

I call Hypocrisy. Are you complaining about "I don't like this threads," when this technically falls under that Category.

Is your post pointing out a DIFFERENT internet pattern than the one I posted, or is it complaining about me being hipocritical. If it's not doing the first one- it's off topic

I think both are equally off topic. But I think now I'm being hipocritical to, complaining about you complaining about these patterns. My brain has melted. You've started a very vicious complaining circle my friend (Gah! more complaining, I'm going to leave before I go any further with this!)

 

[Biosophilogical]

Apart from the pattern you have just pointed out I see one. Religion threads. I haven't been a member very long, but just before I joined (according to my mate) there was a giant surge of religion threads and now we see it happening again, so I think that the occurence of flame-war instigating threaqds is a pattern, though I also think thatthe flaming in these threads is a pattern, you get a religion thread, the first page of posts is about how it will end in a flame war without actually proposing any fresh outlooks or discussion, then the next page has a couple people debating the issue in a series of quotes with the rest of them either agreeing with the first page or saying something offensive which causes the third page to start flaming and then the thread gets locked and people get probation(ified?) ... this happens like 70% of the time, so does it count as a pattern???

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Apart from the pattern you have just pointed out I see one. Religion threads. I haven't been a member very long, but just before I joined (according to my mate) there was a giant surge of religion threads and now we see it happening again, so I think that the occurence of flame-war instigating threaqds is a pattern, though I also think thatthe flaming in these threads is a pattern, you get a religion thread, the first page of posts is about how it will end in a flame war without actually proposing any fresh outlooks or discussion, then the next page has a couple people debating the issue in a series of quotes with the rest of them either agreeing with the first page or saying something offensive which causes the third page to start flaming and then the thread gets locked and people get probation(ified?) ... this happens like 70% of the time, so does it count as a pattern???

yes, and congrats on the only truly on topic post on this thread.

 

[Mozared]

There's a pretty good pattern for every specific forum, really. Not that every thread is the same, but aye.

 

[grimsprice]

Apart from the pattern you have just pointed out I see one. Religion threads. I haven't been a member very long, but just before I joined (according to my mate) there was a giant surge of religion threads and now we see it happening again, so I think that the occurence of flame-war instigating threaqds is a pattern, though I also think thatthe flaming in these threads is a pattern, you get a religion thread, the first page of posts is about how it will end in a flame war without actually proposing any fresh outlooks or discussion, then the next page has a couple people debating the issue in a series of quotes with the rest of them either agreeing with the first page or saying something offensive which causes the third page to start flaming and then the thread gets locked and people get probation(ified?) ... this happens like 70% of the time, so does it count as a pattern???

yes, and congrats on the only truly on topic post on this thread.

Let me be number 2. I've noticed that if a thread subject is one sided I.E. (blah blah blah religious people), then about 30 minutes later someone will post the same topic except (blah blah blah atheist people). Same question, same discussion, just the other side of the coin. Even if everyone already covered that material in the first thread. Annoying threads they are, make me repeat myself.

 

[Florion]

It didn't happen at The Escapist, but there was this other forum I used to frequent, AG2. It was a very small community; I think, on a busy day, there might have been 10 or 20 of us at a time, and not everyone would be posting. But they did discuss "mature" things like we do at The Escapist, except that because it was such a small community, you couldn't help noticing certain members were much better debaters, or better jokers, or something like that, than others, and so there was this hierarchy. People tended to mimic small gestures done by the person at the top of the hierarchy; that happened to be a British law student who was studying in Australia, a very cruel but very funny character and, as a law student, he naturally came out on top in debates (or managed to make it appear as if he did, at least). I remember that he started using legal Latin (Quod erat demonstrandum, ad hominem, phrases like that) one week, and suddenly everybody else did too.

I used to think that the AG2 forum was the smartest forum on the internet because of this one occasion where somebody tried to claim "We're an intelligent forum," and almost everyone cried out in response, "No, we really aren't." It takes a lot of self-awareness to say that. But I look back at how much of the cruel humour was at the expense of some members who were lower on the ladder ? we used to tease this one girl mercilessly because she really could not understand sarcasm, and it made her come off as rather daft. But she was a nice person, and I don't see how we could have justified the way we treated her. The Escapist forums, they're a much kinder place due to the rules we have to have because of the size of this place. We're all strangers here, but we're civil strangers at least.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Apart from the pattern you have just pointed out I see one. Religion threads. I haven't been a member very long, but just before I joined (according to my mate) there was a giant surge of religion threads and now we see it happening again, so I think that the occurence of flame-war instigating threaqds is a pattern, though I also think thatthe flaming in these threads is a pattern, you get a religion thread, the first page of posts is about how it will end in a flame war without actually proposing any fresh outlooks or discussion, then the next page has a couple people debating the issue in a series of quotes with the rest of them either agreeing with the first page or saying something offensive which causes the third page to start flaming and then the thread gets locked and people get probation(ified?) ... this happens like 70% of the time, so does it count as a pattern???

yes, and congrats on the only truly on topic post on this thread.

Let me be number 2. I've noticed that if a thread subject is one sided I.E. (blah blah blah religious people), then about 30 minutes later someone will post the same topic except (blah blah blah atheist people). Same question, same discussion, just the other side of the coin. Even if everyone already covered that material in the first thread. Annoying threads they are, make me repeat myself.

High five for being on topic!

Yeah, I've noticed that too.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Whenever someone makes a flamewar thread (for example, a thread about religion) everyone will always say "oh this won't end well" or "this is a stupid thread why did you make this". Yet the thread always ends up being very popular, despite how many people say they hate it.

That and everyone has started posting that picture of the guy holding the flaming shield now.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

It didn't happen at The Escapist, but there was this other forum I used to frequent, AG2. It was a very small community; I think, on a busy day, there might have been 10 or 20 of us at a time, and not everyone would be posting. But they did discuss "mature" things like we do at The Escapist, except that because it was such a small community, you couldn't help noticing certain members were much better debaters, or better jokers, or something like that, than others, and so there was this hierarchy. People tended to mimic small gestures done by the person at the top of the hierarchy; that happened to be a British law student who was studying in Australia, a very cruel but very funny character and, as a law student, he naturally came out on top in debates (or managed to make it appear as if he did, at least). I remember that he started using legal Latin (Quod erat demonstrandum, ad hominem, phrases like that) one week, and suddenly everybody else did too.

I used to think that the AG2 forum was the smartest forum on the internet because of this one occasion where somebody tried to claim "We're an intelligent forum," and almost everyone cried out in response, "No, we really aren't." It takes a lot of self-awareness to say that. But I look back at how much of the cruel humour was at the expense of some members who were lower on the ladder ? we used to tease this one girl mercilessly because she really could not understand sarcasm, and it made her come off as rather daft. But she was a nice person, and I don't see how we could have justified the way we treated her. The Escapist forums, they're a much kinder place due to the rules we have to have because of the size of this place. We're all strangers here, but we're civil strangers at least.

That sort of forum sounds interesting up until that last part

 

[Florion]

Whenever someone makes a flamewar thread (for example, a thread about religion) everyone will always say "oh this won't end well" or "this is a stupid thread why did you make this". Yet the thread always ends up being very popular, despite how many people say they hate it.

That and everyone has started posting that picture of the guy holding the flaming shield now.

Haha, I made a thread like that just yesterday, about admitting racism! It actually went very well, I thought.

It didn't happen at The Escapist, but there was this other forum I used to frequent, AG2. It was a very small community; I think, on a busy day, there might have been 10 or 20 of us at a time, and not everyone would be posting. But they did discuss "mature" things like we do at The Escapist, except that because it was such a small community, you couldn't help noticing certain members were much better debaters, or better jokers, or something like that, than others, and so there was this hierarchy. People tended to mimic small gestures done by the person at the top of the hierarchy; that happened to be a British law student who was studying in Australia, a very cruel but very funny character and, as a law student, he naturally came out on top in debates (or managed to make it appear as if he did, at least). I remember that he started using legal Latin (Quod erat demonstrandum, ad hominem, phrases like that) one week, and suddenly everybody else did too.

I used to think that the AG2 forum was the smartest forum on the internet because of this one occasion where somebody tried to claim "We're an intelligent forum," and almost everyone cried out in response, "No, we really aren't." It takes a lot of self-awareness to say that. But I look back at how much of the cruel humour was at the expense of some members who were lower on the ladder ? we used to tease this one girl mercilessly because she really could not understand sarcasm, and it made her come off as rather daft. But she was a nice person, and I don't see how we could have justified the way we treated her. The Escapist forums, they're a much kinder place due to the rules we have to have because of the size of this place. We're all strangers here, but we're civil strangers at least.

That sort of forum sounds interesting up until that last part

Which part of the last part? The self-aware thing or the being mean to the sarcasm-deaf girl?

 

[jboking]

You know what I've noticed. Any thread involving video games will devolve into "System [insert system name] sucks!" Hell, it comes up more than Godwins does around here.

 

[teisjm]

It's because people are too un-original to come up with something new, and too ego-centric to not post a thread with their name at the top.

Or maybe it's just the way everything is... TV usually does the same... one talent show becomes 20 talent shows, 1 show about fat people loosing weight becomes more excessive pounds on screen than you would've ever imagiend, one home-makeover show/garden show becomes enough bricks and trees to build a new chinese wall and save the rainforest.

 

[Kriptonite]

I don't like threads about noticing patterns about other threads about how sick people are of people being sick of people that don't like things. [HEADING=3]☻[/HEADING]

start a thread about it

Haha, made me laugh. Title: I don't like patterns to be noticed.

 

[A teenage old man]

I agree with your name, and with the pattern, but its not just an internet thing, haven't you noticed the whole world working this way? Like some one makes a successful innovative video game (Like Halo) and other people rip it off making an equally good, less original game (Like Gears of War) The cycle repeats after Yahtzee complains about this, (On his none mainstream trip) finally some innovative games come out, (Like InFamous) and those get ripped off by equally good games (Like Prototype) Yahtzee complains, ending this FPS craze momentarily. This sort of thing happens all the time.

 

[Pandalisk]

Tis proof we get at least one Relgious flame thread everyweek and a trolling thread about every two

and 2012 will happen! Cobra will take over everything!

Religious flames only every 2 weeks?

Every 3 damn days I have to resist hunting down many flamers and bashing them in the head.

Meh i dont count threads that could of possibly had a good discussion but ruined by others

 

[Antlers]

I used to frequent a pre-dominantly female forum. We had ***** wars. Then after a while you'd get loads of topics complaining about the bitching. Which turned into *****-wars. Then topics complaining about the complaints. Just shut up and let us *****.

So yes, it's universal. Even with women's forums.