While it's not too annoying to wade through a multi-page soliloquy in the hotlinked images thread, do we really need threads celebrating pointlessness? It's been an increasing trend lately. I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more, and believe me, I don't like to be the P.C police or anything or the guy who has a problem with everything thing, but I do have a problem with this... do we really want to encourage that kind of thing?
I'll just leave it at that. Thanks.
so·lil·o·quy noun /səˈliləkwē/ soliloquies, plural
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play
A part of a play involving such an act
speech you make to yourself
a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
In reply to pinchvalve:
For example:
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month-- Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!-- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she-- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
pinchvalve wrote:so·lil·o·quy noun /səˈliləkwē/ soliloquies, plural
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play
A part of a play involving such an act
speech you make to yourself
a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
Therefore, by definition, posts on the message board that's shared with others is not a soliloquy, as it's broadcast just as loudly and publicly as any conversation. If you want a soliloquy, write it in word then delete it.
Alternatively there's the Ignore thread, which is a much better place to clog the board with nonsensical ramblings.
Duke wrote:While it's not too annoying to wade through a multi-page soliloquy in the hotlinked images thread, do we really need threads celebrating pointlessness? It's been an increasing trend lately. I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more, and believe me, I don't like to be the P.C police or anything or the guy who has a problem with everything thing, but I do have a problem with this... do we really want to encourage that kind of thing?
I'll just leave it at that. Thanks.
This sounds like the most eloquent way of putting, "can we please stop hot linking pics?"
So I will respond in kind
The humanistic nature of people to interact with each other, both with positive and negative responses, is fundamental to our being. Our lives are driven by a purpose yet the enjoyment of finding purpose in activities with no purpose seems counter intuitive. Yet this activity actually defines humanities key characteristic, free will. As we, as a society, allow an increasing amount of external influences to have authority over our lives, and in doing so, change our perception of our level of choice and control in our daily actions. The actions of people in an a semi-anonymous setting, in either a pro or anti position to any topic is a precise and accurate example of this. The only way this is not applicable is the judicious application and destruction of any public forum communication that is not in the inquiry and direct response format. Personal opinion will be forbidden and only facts with corresponding documentation allowed. This would be another outside influence that is asserting, or attempting to assert, authority. Which would then generate a reactionary response from a statistically significant portion of the population that would lead to a repetitive action of what was attempting to be policed.
In conclusion the best course of action is to not participate. Participation is including failure to restrain comment. This situation dictates that commenting, for or against, is in and of itself participation in the event.
Tom Heath wrote:Therefore, by definition, posts on the message board that's shared with others is not a soliloquy, as it's broadcast just as loudly and publicly as any conversation. If you want a soliloquy, write it in word then delete it.
Well, no. A soliloquy is by definition given in front of an audience, and is a (usually long) monologue disguised as solitary musings for dramatic effect. If it is not performed for the observation of others, it's not a soliloquy - it's just talking to yourself.
FlightService wrote:This sounds like the most eloquent way of putting, "can we please stop hot linking pics?"
That wasn't my intent. Although I personally do find it somewhat dull to encounter 6 new pages of images all posted by the same person (no matter who that person is), the images themselves can be interesting and I spend plenty of time both enjoying and (hopefully) contributing to that thread. I personally prefer to see the byplay and 'visual conversation' that evolves when a number of different users are interacting, but that's just my preference and really doesn't count for much in the overall tone of the forum.
I was more referring to the threads that are made to highlight someone's latest promotion in dorkhood, which tend to get filled with others trying to generate their own promotions. I truly, deeply do not want to be the bureaucratic wet blanket who rains on the fun parade of this forum, but it is a good idea to keep the signal-to-noise ratio under control in order to keep the vwvortex or clubsi wolves at bay.
I was just trying to bring this trend to the attention of the staff. That word to the wise seems to have been sufficient.
In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:
I should have paid attention in school more, that is really good.
pinchvalve wrote:In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:
I should have paid attention in school more, that is really good.
It's Hamlet. There are 5 more of them in there. Free. Online or at the library. Or... if you have netflix you can watch Mel Gibson flub thru it.
