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[Choop]

it's okay, Paul. You are rad.

YOU. ARE. RAD.

[dejavroom]

what would be the equivalent of a knife fight on a messageboard? I think I would like to see that.

[Bobby Isosceles]

what would be the equivalent of a knife fight on a messageboard? I think I would like to see that.

A rap battle.

[rowboat]

Assetbar was boring in its early days. And it still ebbs and flows. Has its good months and bad ones. One could even argue that it peaked a year or so back with The Great Handface Weekend (surely you know of it) and has been in decline since (I, myself, am not of this opinion, though many others are). There's pretty much a core group of posters who make it great. As long as a couple of them are around at a given time things are good and all the middle-of-the-road types feed off of it and follow suit. There aren't a bunch of dickholes like Mr. Wonderful hanging around, there is just one Mr. Wonderful with forty different accounts, most of which are auto-ignored by the site these days. Besides, the power of good, old manual ignore (scroll, scroll) is really underestimated.

Anyway, I'm not here to try to change the place. Just curious what all the hatin' was about.

[rowboat]

You know that story too good, 'Dan. What exactly is the truth about you?

[smick]

Row.   Can I call you Row? 

Row, there's always been an insular vibe here.   The thought generally is, that everyone sucks until they prove themselves otherwise.  New people come, get hazed a little bit, get their crotches sniffed, and either stay or leave.   

That's pretty common to all message boards, and people on the internet in general.   It runs a little thicker here, but... Row, have you SEEN the things people post on YouTube?  Fark?  Any television website that allows users to comment on news stories?

Just ignore it, say whee, and you'll go nice into the personality cult.   

Good Luck, Row.

[pmcd9]

There's always been an insular vibe here.   The thought generally is, that everyone sucks until they prove themselves otherwise.  New people come, get hazed a little bit, get their crotches sniffed, and either stay or leave.   

That's pretty common to all message boards, and people on the internet in general.   It runs a little thicker here, but... Row, have you SEEN the things people post on YouTube?  Fark?  Any television website that allows users to comment on news stories?

Just ignore it, say whee, and you'll go nice into the personality cult.

I think a lot of our insularity comes from the circumstances surrounding the foundation of this board as Dan alluded to in this post.

Speaking for myself, I've always tried to welcome newbies with open arms.  Even Mr. Wonderful.  I treated him with respect when he first got here even though he posted a whole lot of nonsense.  Of course all that got me was called fat, but still, I tried.

[wombat]

what would be the equivalent of a knife fight on a messageboard? I think I would like to see that.

[AugustWest]

AugustWest: It doesn't bother me that you guys have your nice, little place and that you're happy with it. I think it's cool as shit. I kinda like it here. It's just this competitive vibe I get from a lot of the comments I've read that kind of gets my goat. The seemingly fairly regular need to assert that assetbar is inferior to this place. This whole "assbar" business. I guess I get kind of offended. I mean, we don't sit around and go on about how much better we are than you, ya know?

Part of it is just a rivalry thing.  Cheers vs. Gary's Olde Towne Tavern stuff.

Part of it is just a message board inside joke thing.  Ha ha, assbar sucks.

But the biggest part, I think, is best illustrated by a hypothetical. Imagine assetbar stays gone.  Your favorite posters form a replacement board, which, if not thrives, at least survives and has the occasional rewarding, insightful or humorous moment.  A couple years go by and you have a tight community with its own culture, argot, newbies and departed saints.  And then Onstad starts another new message board type thing.  Mightn't you be a little wary of it?  Mightn't you treat it with a modicum of disdain?

Also, you guys are all ugly and your Mamas dress you funny.

[Bobby Isosceles]

JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS AND GET THE SAND OUT OF YOUR pu$$y AND LETS TALK ABOUT SOME ACHEWOOD HERE

DID YOU SEE THAT ONE TIME THAT ROAST BEEF MUMBLED AND HIS WORD BUBBLE FONT WAS TWO POINTS SMALLER THAN THAT OF RAY AND TEODOR

I WONDER IF THAT SIZE DIFFERENCE IS GOING TO AFFECT HIS PERFORMANCE IN THE PLAYOFFS

[littlefallsmets]

Alls I can say is that... while I have not spent large amounts of times at the assbar... the times I have tried to read it, the level of discourse was preeeeeeetty much monkeys flinging their shit at each other. Now perhaps you might say "well, you didn't give it enough of a chance" to which I would say "yeah, well, my tolerance for shit-flinging is pretty low, I am not going to hang out to see if this is an acquired taste."

If the fecal smears on the walls occasionally form sentences and you derive joy from slowly painstakingly making out those patterns, man, I leave you to your joy. Me, I prefer to be a room that is not covered in monkey shit.

Clearly a small handful of people from there are rad and have rad conversations and that's awesome as far as it goes... but the outstanding majority of that place is an assbar and, y'know, just because you feel kneejerk loyalty to it as "the first place you went" doesn't undo that fact. The place is ass.

Consider: the extent of Touamb's aggression toward the assbar are occasional pithy snide comments that we keep on our own turf whereas the assbar's main emmissary to this neighborhood is a 12 year old boy who has seemingly spent ten hours a day for a week sending us e-mails about his c*ck.

In that light, a little bit of old-fashioned elitism does not seem too too outlandish.

[smick]

JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS AND GET THE SAND OUT OF YOUR pu$$y AND LETS TALK ABOUT SOME ACHEWOOD HERE

DID YOU SEE THAT ONE TIME THAT ROAST BEEF MUMBLED AND HIS WORD BUBBLE FONT WAS TWO POINTS SMALLER THAN THAT OF RAY AND TEODOR

I WONDER IF THAT SIZE DIFFERENCE IS GOING TO AFFECT HIS PERFORMANCE IN THE PLAYOFFS

I'm afraid I have to deduct a can from you for your tone.

P.S. A can from you too, LFM, for saying you make pithy comments.   I knew Jack Pithy.  Jack Pithy was a friend of mine.  Senator, you are no Jack Pithy.

[littlefallsmets]

Oh no! I pithed smick off!

[greenkoolayd]

did i miss the burly man-hugs?

[pmcd9]

Bobby use your inside voice.