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This is the strangest forum I've ever been on....

on 9/18/2013

Posts: 492

I cannot seem to make it out. I can't tell what's actually going on; who the members really are, what their perspectives are, or what their interaction with other members means, or to what purpose they are posting.

I've belonged to numerous forums: Some scholarly, some academic, some political, some based on crime-solving, some spiritual, a few about pet ownership. I've never encountered this level of....I cannot think of the word for it. Strange? Murky? It reminds me of Hamlet telling the King, "Chameleon-like, I eat the air. You cannot feed caipons so." Is this part of the sociopath's shape-shifting characteristic??? Question: Did author ME Thomas imagine that this would be the shape her forum would take?

Color me : Baffled

by Buttered Toast

on 9/18/2013

Posts: 2358

Welcome to the Gun Show.

by Turncoat

on 9/18/2013

Posts: 10218

Much of what is said here is a reference of a reference to something older posted here. At face value it probably looks funny.

If you're patient, reading through old threads can fix that. Sort of.

by smkovalinsky

on 9/18/2013

Posts: 492

by Buttered Toast

Welcome to the Gun Show.

I don't understand what that means.

by Thrill Kill

on 9/18/2013

Posts: 7645

by smkovalinsky
Question: Did author ME Thomas imagine that this would be the shape her forum would take?

Color me : Baffled

I imagine so. What more could she possibly have expected on a forum like this?

Mind you, most people here aren't sociopaths. They're just morons.

by smkovalinsky

on 9/18/2013

Posts: 492

by Turncoat

Much of what is said here is a reference of a reference to something older posted here. At face value it probably looks funny.

If you're patient, reading through old threads can fix that. Sort of.

Yes, I realize that when one is a newbie, one is not going to understand inside jokes, etc. This sort of intellectual, campy and vampy banter is very big on the JREF Randi forum, for example. Or in a gay bar. But something else seems to be at work here. It's as if I've stumbled into a subculture, but I can't tell what kind. I feel drawn in, turned off, intrigued, all at once. Of course, its probably dumb to be asking help of the very people who have created the atmosphere which is confusing me.