Quite a while ago, maybe a month or two, I had a conversation with Scarab on his thread, "Expressing yourself with Media". I got on and on talking to him about the topic, which seemingly went off topic into posting. About how he posts huge, to which I replied that he shoudn't. The community woudn't care about that and as I've seen a lot of times they usually just Tl;DR his things while moving on to the next 1-2 line post. He saw it as a positive thing. ( Just a quick intermission here. My memory is a little fuzzy regarding the topic at hand and I am to lazy a bastard to go back and re-read over it, but not I have to to be able to get this thing out.)
Now from glancing over a few posts there, and by glancing I mean reading a few of his sentances in key places, I think I can write this paragraph. He sees it as a way to incorporate freedom of speech and woudn't care what people thunk of it. I, on the other hand, care about what the otehr people think. This is why I rarely, and I mean RARELY, post anything more than 1 paragraph. Infact, I only do those things in my recent reviews. The only places where I have even tried to attempt to post bug, are in one topic, the philosophy crew, and in a select (1-4) few topics.
And even then they do not come out as they are in the post box. I see the attempt to make huge tl;dr posts as a waste of time. Unless you're in somplace very serious where they will read it and respond witha thoughtful comment or reply. This is Newgrounds. Only the other parts of the forums are like that and they are largely inactive for a reply in a few minutes. I'm not even going to bother making posts like these for there is no reason to.
Sure there's always the, "you can become a mod" type things, but if you really look at it, it's not going to happen. Look around you. Look at the users who make these types of posts. Are they mods? No. And when you look at how the mods mostly post in places, they are generally medium to spammy posts, Rucklo. I tried doing them, like Scarab, once and coudn't compare. My mind does not have the ideas to continue typing for more than a few short paragrpahs. If I could, my reviews would be better. Not to say that the current ones are better than 70% of the ones I see.
That's no joke. The rest are like youtube comments. Off-topic for a second there. As I was going, even this news post I am running out of ideas. I look back over at Scarab's and see that he probably used the whole 30,000 character limit on his. That is generally rounded seeing as I have 30,000 left on this one. Also rounded to about 1-2 hundred places.
Can I come up with a good thread? No. There are only 2 threads that I have made in my entire 5 years on NG (3 accs) that have gone 5+ pages. One was simply a shove the thing to your bottom right into your ass. The finniest reply of which being, "Not only do we get these 4chan topics, we get them on a delay". The second is currently on going in that I have posted a picture of a furry-girl saying I would become furry for her. They are not good topics.
I only tried to copy what so many of the regulars do to make a successful topic. Either I think of something really funny, e.g the shove thing, or just post a random picture with a comment, the furry one. And with all this out of the way, I can say that long posting is meaningless, and time wasting. You're not writing a report that matters. You're on the internet. On the internet.
I cannot do it, for to do so you would have to remain completely optimistic. That's another quality of Scarab that I saw in the post. Something that I admire. I cannot do anything but remain pessimistic. Even if I make what seems to be the best topic in the world, one person shoots it down and I hate it. co*cks. See what I did? No one will know that was there because they will never bother to read this. Infact, I'd like to think that no-one goes through my profile because I am no-one in the NG community.
I simply have about 5,000 posts. That's nothing. Only the people that have 10,000+, which also have access to the 10,000 post forum, can be considered the real regulars. The rest, might simply be junior regulars. I would like to be one too, but I am probably not well known enough. This year too, my bans have gone down, but I have still been banned. Banned currently, I am. Sounded like Yoda a bit there, eh?
So with all that being said, this is pointless. The very through is pointless. The very action is pointless. Thank you for skipping to the end. Hope sometime you will read through this all, but probably not. Oh and it probably dosen't look as might as it does in the posting phase. Oh well. *Click*
