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Flirting in Yack Fest

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  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-07-12 10:26:59
    nvm
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    But AHR, you're soo Kawaii Adorable :3. ~pats AHR~
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Not like I was exactly a big fan of those days. Bugger. I mean, in hindsight, I think it was my fault, but it's not as if the posters couldn't try and post something interesting rather than just stand by the sidelines, jeez.

    Which is why I can't take seriously any complaint about this in Fetishes. I understand it in photos, because above all, it is a little creepy, and I can understand the complaining about Jammies as it has become incredibly clique-y and sort of exclusive (And I think it sort of always has been, hasn't it?) but when people say stuff about Fetishes being shitty and flirty, my first thought is just "Dudes, get your ass in there and actually post or something instead of letting be only flirting". Especially as it seems that more people hate that that the actual number of people flirting.
  • KinoKino
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    Thing is, we'd stop our bullshit when somebody else brought up the subject of tits.
  • AHRAHR
    Kino: Don't try to justify it, you know what you did.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    The Jammies thread was basically Troper Updates, except for people who hated Yack Fest.

    But with all the flirting, It's become more exclusionary than it was before.
  • KinoKino
    edited 2011-07-12 10:31:29
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    @AHR:Talked about tits and ass?
  • AHRAHR
    Kino: Flirted annoyingly. You were part of the problem.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    The Jammies thread was basically Troper Updates, except for people who hated Yack Fest.

    Like I said, it always had been sort of cliquey.

    But with all the flirting, It's become more exclusionary than it was before.

    Personally, I don't feel like its level of exclusionism has changed. Just its appeal.
  • KinoKino
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    @AHR:I never flirted with anyone, what with the only female troper I find attractive never posting in there.

    Unless you have a different version of flirting.
  • AHRAHR
    I am talking about the interaction I defined above. 
  • KinoKino
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    Bullshitting with Juan? Sure I did; it was one of the ways to pass time until somebody brought up tits.
  • AHRAHR
    And once someone brought up shirtless guys, the ones attracted to males would stop their part. That did not make it any less cliquey, any less exlusionary, or any more OK.
  • KinoKino
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    What's your point?
  • AHRAHR
    That you are not taking responsibility for what you did. At least Juan admitted to it, even if he did poorly justify it as well.
  • KinoKino
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    Really now? Exactly what is it that I did?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-07-12 10:43:14
    You can change. You can.
    I didn't justify it. At least, if by "justify" you mean thinking that what I did had something of a reason beyond mere boredom. However, my problem with the complaint is that it has a solution but people prefer to not touch it because...something? I dunno. -shrug-
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Doesn't Fast Eddie have a rule against clique-y threads like Jammies?
  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2011-07-12 10:44:31
    Has friends besides tanks now
    "And I think it sort of always has been, hasn't it?"

    While I can't speak for the other people who posted there, I can't say I minded if someone who usually didn't post there posted there. Although if by cliquey, you mean "talked about subjects that not everyone is familiar with", we were sadly rather guilty of that.

    What I don't like is trying to reenter the thread (especially if I actually try to bring up a new topic) only to be completely ignored by everyone except Zersk and maybe SunshineWerewolf while everyone else does the same old thing.

    ^^ The solution of "bring up something else to talk about" does nothing.
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-07-12 10:44:57
    Juan: You say "but it's not as if the posters couldn't try and post something interesting rather than just stand by the sidelines, jeez." which is basically shifting the blame from you to someone else. You are saying "Well, yeah, I did this, but it's not like it's my fault! It's theirs for not stopping us when it bothered them!" It's immature. Could they have done something? Yes. Does that mean you did nothing wrong? No. 

    Kino: See the title of the IJBM, and all the complaining that has come from it.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Doesn't Fast Eddie have a rule against clique-y threads like Jammies?

    Why would he? It's just a smaller TU and RT. Problem is that it feels clique-y, but it's not like it's explictly so. 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Juan: You say "but it's not as if the posters couldn't try and post something interesting rather than just stand by the sidelines, jeez." which is basically shifting the blame from you to someone else. You are saying "Well, yeah, I did this, but it's not like it's my fault! It's theirs for not stopping us when it bothered them!" It's immature. Could they have done something? Yes. Does that mean you did nothing wrong? No. 

    I never said it wasn't my fault. I explicitly said so, in fact. However, it's not just my fault. Nor Kino's. Nor Lameo's that none of the threads were active at 5:00 AM and there was nothing to discuss but the latest macrophillia fantasy. Nor was it our fault in particular that nobody thought about bringing shit up even when we had stated several times that we were willing to discuss whatever shit you wanted to bring up. 

    But whatever, my point is simply that it's not just this clique's fault so much as a set of circumstances and people's exasperation that made this happen and that laying the blame just at their fit seems a bit exaggerated. 
  • KinoKino
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    1) I'm still waiting to hear what it is I'm responsible for doing.

    2) 4 guys talking shit counts as a clique?
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    I don't mind the flirting, it's just sorta how pathetic it can get.
  • LouieWLouieW
    edited 2011-07-12 17:17:11
    Loser
    Kino,
    Yeah, it sucks when an entire thread turns into a personal chat room for 4 people.

    I pretty much agree. Still, I think that given the format of many threads in Yack Fest, one should not really expect replies, especially if one is not particularly well-known or if one has not said something especially unique or strange. I would not totally blame other tropers for that though since expecting people to respond to every post, especially those which do not necessarily invite conversations, would be asking for a lot.

    On the topic of flirting, I admit that I dislike it, but I do prefer it to flame wars or people posting in the "anxiety" or "absent troper" threads complaining about how "some people" really bother them on the site.

     
  • RaddRadd
    I don't think I can post in here without bitching about specific posters.
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