Frequently Repeated Topics, or Rhu and Madrigal Got a Room

[Rhu]

From: Anyone been here: mid-30s, underachiever, in wrong career? (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=29856)


Can some admin just make an official "I hate my job" sticky where all of these kinds of threads can go? How many fucking times do I have to read THE EXACT SAME THREAD at this site?

While I could cop out and give the standard answer of, "Cyclical nature, turn over in the user base, these things just happen..." I'll confess that I've been frustrated by the same thing.

Not so much by the topics as the fact that we have the exact same people posting the exact same opinions with almost the exact same phrasing ad nauseam. It is tiresome, and it never really probes any new territory.

On the other hand, I don't really want to go to all the work to research topics, collect opinions, and all that crap. Maybe I could for a topic or two, but... how many topics like this are there? "Do you hate your job?" "Why can't I relate/get laid?" "Do you hate school?" "Who likes to get high?" "Are we smarter than everyone else?" "Why does the forum suck right now?" "What's the deal with SJs, anyway?" "Can being INTP be related to the cool-sounding mental illnesses, please?" and how many others?

So, here's your chance to contribute to Hustler not getting a headache when he points his browser this way. If you see a thread that's a repeat of another that you don't really want to see again, drop a post about it here:

Suggested format taking my last example topic:


Repeat topic: "Can being INTP be related to the cool-sounding mental illnesses, please?"

Opinion 1: INTP might be related to Aspergers. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=0) See also. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=0)


If you wish to discuss this with someone specific, please contact:
Supporters: Joe (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Bob (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Mary (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0).

Dissenters: Fred (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0%5DFred), Harriet (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Tiffany (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0).




Opinion 2: Some DSM IV personality disorder. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=0) Also. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=0) Also also. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=0)

If you wish to discuss this with someone specific, please contact:
Supporters: John (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Pearl (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Bertha (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0).

Dissenters: Gertrude (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Ellen (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Clem (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0).




Opinion 3: You're a goddamn moron for suggesting such a thing. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=0) Repeated here. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=0) And here. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=0)


If you wish to discuss this with someone specific, please contact:

Supporters: Prunella (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Timothy (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Charlie (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0).

Dissenters: Cthulu (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Shub-Niggurath (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0), Yog-Sothoth (http://forums.intpcentral.com/member.php?u=0).

[mgb]

I say start with the introduction threads.

New people are going to show up and start new threads about the same stuff. Even if you sticky the threads and make them required reading for new members they'll still start the same old threads again and again.

One thing you could do is make a new forum and just quietly dump the threads in there after a few days. Maybe stick below Purgatory in a sort of repetitive forum hell few are willing to venture into. In fact, that would be a great place to banish people to.

Or have that forum and take one thread and start merging them with all the similar threads. This may take an organizational structure the likes of which INTP Central has never seen, but who knows, maybe it can be pulled off.

[Madrigal]

Not so much by the topics as the fact that we have the exact same people posting the exact same opinions with almost the exact same phrasing ad nauseam.

For many of us, INTPc is not unlike that high school sweetheart you ended up marrying and spending 20 years of your life with. Eating the same breakfast with them every morning - because you know what you like - knowing exactly where they're going and when they're coming back, listening to the same indignant remarks while watching the news over dinner. You bitch about the same little habits at the same time of the day, and laugh over the same tired jokes and characters of the past.

Every day is just like the last, except, perhaps, birthdays and anniversaries, when you dig up an old suit or dress from your mothball-infested closet, and somehow manage to put it on - noting each year you've gotten a little fatter, a little flabbier, a little older. As you triumphantly fasten the last button, you give yourself a satisfied look in the mirror - you can still pull it off! - and join the same old married friends for an evening together. You catch up on a few things of absolutely no importance - is there anything important anymore? - you play a few songs that "take you back," someone gets drunk, someone else tries to dance, somebody spills the wine, someone else says, "it happens at every party." And then, at the end of a long night of chatter and empty laughter, you leave the dirty dishes where they are, wearily make your way to the bedroom, and as your dizzy head hits the pillow, you drift into a dreamless sleep, having forgotten oh long ago there was ever such a thing called sex.

[Ptah]

I move for a specifically named "Woe is Me" sub-forum somewhere in a non-post-count area. Gets the point across twice: nobody gives a damn/wants to read it. I posit it's also a convenient overlap (the woe-is-me topics and the too-repeated topics). Another two birds with one stone! :grin:

[Works]

For many of us, INTPc is not unlike that high school sweetheart you ended up marrying and spending 20 years of your life with. Eating the same breakfast with them every morning - because you know what you like - knowing exactly where they're going and when they're coming back, listening to the same indignant remarks while watching the news over dinner. You bitch about the same little habits at the same time of the day, and laugh over the same tired jokes and characters of the past.

Every day is just like the last, except, perhaps, birthdays and anniversaries, when you dig up an old suit or dress from your mothball-infested closet, and somehow manage to put it on - noting each year you've gotten a little fatter, a little flabbier, a little older. As you triumphantly fasten the last button, you give yourself a satisfied look in the mirror - you can still pull it off! - and join the same old married friends for an evening together. You catch up on a few things of absolutely no importance - is there anything important anymore? - you play a few songs that "take you back," someone gets drunk, someone else tries to dance, somebody spills the wine, someone else says, "it happens at every party." And then, at the end of a long night of chatter and empty laughter, you leave the dirty dishes where they are, wearily make your way to the bedroom, and as your dizzy head hits the pillow, you drift into a dreamless sleep, having forgotten oh long ago there was ever such a thing called sex.


That was the most beautiful thing I've read all day.

[Rhu]

That was the most beautiful thing I've read all day.
Beautiful like the puddle of blood that you suddenly realize to be your own.

[Madrigal]

But we still love each other. *peck*

[Rhu]

You're still going to have that same headache tonight that you've had for the past three years, dear?

No. It's okay. I got this great book, "How to Be A Shark, Not A Fish," the other day. I've only read the first chapter, but it's really, really excellent. I'll read that.

[Madrigal]

You're still going to have that same headache tonight that you've had for the past three years, dear?

No. It's okay. I got this great book, "How to Be A Shark, Not A Fish," the other day. I've only read the first chapter, but it's really, really excellent. I'll read that.

I have a better idea, how 'bout you turn off your fucking lamp, I'm trying to sleep.

[Rhu]

That's my Madrigal. Always preferring to be in the dark.

[Works]

I think I've read this topic in some silly thread about couples.

[Madrigal]

That's my Madrigal. Always preferring to be in the dark.

How well you know me...

*lies in the dark*

...

I thought Janet looked ridiculous in that dress, don't you? She has really let herself go.

[Rhu]

How well you know me...

*lies in the dark*

...

I thought Janet looked ridiculous in that dress, don't you? She has really let herself go.

Well, after Bruce died, and the kids left her alone, what's really left for her?

Hell probably isn't so bad for Bruce, if he's aware of how she carried on in his absence.

[Madrigal]

Well, after Bruce died, and the kids left her alone, what's really left for her?

Hell probably isn't so bad for Bruce, if he's aware of how she carried on in his absence.

You can say that again. And to think, you used to have a crush on her. *little laugh* Imagine if you had ended up together!

...

You know, I think she still has a thing for you. It's so sad, I feel sorry for her, really. We're so happy, and she... she's probably still cursing the day she introduced us. Some people are so miserable they can only live in the past I guess.

[C.J.Woolf]

Thread title improved.

[Madrigal]

Thread title improved.

:lol:

Don't feel left out. Maybe you can be Bruce.

[Rhu]

You can say that again. And to think, you used to have a crush on her. *little laugh* Imagine if you had ended up together!

...

You know, I think she still has a thing for you. It's so sad, I feel sorry for her, really. We're so happy, and she... she's probably still cursing the day she introduced us. Some people are so miserable they can only live in the past I guess.

Yes. So happy. Together in the dark.

Sleep well, darling.

[Madrigal]

I think I've read this topic in some silly thread about couples.
"Being around couples"? ;)


Yes. So happy. Together in the dark.

Sleep well, darling.
It's Bruce, isn't it.