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Should this sub be banned? Or just quietly ignored?
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Stan Laurel
offlineMemberWelcome abord Fergie. Let's see your subs.
Whilst there is no set rule, generally the acccepted sub to whinge ratio is around 10 - 1.
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Mary Evans
offlineMemberWhat the hell. I need to scrap with someone and social services say I'm on my final warning with the kids...
I never understand this 'clique' accusation that regularly gets thrown around. Is the suggestion that some people get preferential treatment for having their subs published? The reason that Genghis, Ludicity, darkbill, Des and co have such a high strike rate with their subs is quite simple. They are amongst the best writers on the site and their subs are consistently excellent. But I don't think even they have 100% strike rate. Of the writers who regularly hit the FP, some are very chatty on here, some are not, so it's not a popularity contest. But we were all new here once (I'm only a year old myself) and so if this place is such a bastion of elitism, how would anyone have got in and got on? Without wishing to brag (oh alright, just a little bit), I won the WoM the first month I was on here - that surely wouldn't be possible if the site was so resistant to new blood?
Fair play for standing your ground and all, Fergie, but whether coming along and telling everyone that they're getting it wrong is the best way to muddle along with everyone remains to be seen. But you've woken me up anyway and that's quite an achievement these days. I look forward to more verbal thrust and parry.
And what the fuck is a meme anyway?
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberAnd what the fuck is a meme anyway?
It's a self-obsessed yo-yo Maz.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Oxbridge
offlineMemberAll true. Maz was WoM at the first attempt, my second sub made FP, others have done similar things and Dark Bill emerged from pretty much nowhere to get over 20 FPs in two months - and he (I think it's a he, but no-one knows for sure, probably not even J O'F) has never posted anything in chat ever to the best of my knowledge. Let your subs do the talking.
Anyway, it's not a meme about vuvuzelas, just a running gag because a) they are topical and b) it sounds, oo-er, like a naughty word for, um, you know, ladies bits.
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Svendo
offlineMemberMaz, A meme is a concept (or in most cases joke) which is imitated and replicated by many. Here's the official 'Science bit' MEME
As I said, I've been around the internet enough to know how community sites work and I'm prepared to devote a bit of time building up a rapport with the current time-served members while trying to get to know the way it all works. Also I've decided on simpering and toadying as Rikkor correctly pointed out (Rikkor, Your coat is looking lovely in your pic).
Because this is a news based site there are going to be a lot of gags on similar topical subjects and so yes, it might look like there's a lot of the same. This would probably also happen if you had 15 different versions of 'Have I Got News For You' on TV at the same time. The same themes will emerge time and again. I would suggest that rather than have a massive backlash against this you "Think outside the box"(fuck me did I actually use that term) and think of something totally off topic. I had my FP with a completely non-topical piece and I've also had a NIB appearance with something World Cup related so both approaches work.
@Andhrimnir - I'm sorry if I've used Puffin Twatting without the proper remuneration. When do I get the application form to join the elite Möbius clique?
So in summary:
- Get to know the way it works;
- Keep posting subs
- Try topical and non topical stuff
- Toadying works
- Showers in the East by DinnertimePosted 2 years ago # -
Doctor Moptop
offlineMemberRight, I twatted a puffin (a book, not the bird which were hard to come by) and now have a life-time ban from our local independent lesbian bookshop.
The same bookshop, I might add, that refused to sell a copy of the Lesbian Kama Sutra to my Greek friend on the grounds that he was 'being sexist.'
I'm going to ring a lemur next, once I get the venue sorted.
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Des Custard
offlineMember...and celebs, and the upper classes, and shtoopid people...oh, sorry, nodded off there. Very well expressed point Fergie, whatever it was. You clearly are a talented writer and I look forward to some meme-mould-breaking subs. 'Pistache' is great by the way: works as pisstake and as pastiche.
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edward hack
offlineMemberOf course it's a popularity contest.
You get popular by being consistently good
Once you piss people off, it's a hard slog to try and get back in favour.
You will always get a negative 'it's good but he's a twat' reaction - or even 'it's crap and he's a twat'
The top players let their subs do the talking. Bastards.
The rest of us try to get noticed by making loud farting noises.
They don't need to fart.Posted 2 years ago # -
Brenda SugarTits69
offlineMember"Pistache" was taken from the title of a collection of short pieces by Sebastian Faulks.
And I had a little chuckle when I saw today's News in Brief...
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberPAAAAARRRRRPPPP!
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberWhy thank you Peter.
I'm glad that at least one person found it funny.And as for that clique, if you find out, could you let me know?
Posted 2 years ago # -
ramblesnake
offlineMemberMr Nky (with a name like that you sound Myanmarian. How is the junta getting on?) he was a full time cop and flasher, except when his dirty raincoat was in the wash, which was never.
I'm no expert but I don't think even full time flashers dangle it about all the time. I expect they have to wait for the right victim, who I wouldn't image tend to hang around for any length of time.
It must have been difficult for him and probably the reason he always looked so haggard. Being a policeman, every time he flashed he'd have to arrest himself and clap himself in irons.Posted 2 years ago # -
Brenda SugarTits69
offlineMemberJust want to clear up three things:
1) The "clique" thing. Not so much that 'it' acts with malice to exclude new blood. Far from it. "Clique" is a bit perjorative...there's probably a better word, but let's stick with 'it'. Just that 'it' sets a kind of accepted culture that welcomes new blood on those terms, preserves memes, passes them on, defines "good" in combination with ed policy etc.
Some of the comments above sort of show this process at work.(Svendo, Edward Hack - my apologies if you think I'm misrepresenting you)
As said above, I'm not against 'it', I don't want to overthrow 'it', it's probably the only natural outcome of online forums, but I did want to poke fun at the status quo.
2) It was indeed a schoolboy error to put it on the subs board. It was a spur of the moment thing...there was already a sub about NewsBiscuit being sued for overuse of the sistine chapel ceiling posted yesterday morning, and I took it to the nth degree. I obviously was not anticipating an FP, but I was curious to see how many starts it got. My head spun at how quickly it disappeared, but I accept the editor's reasons for doing so.
3) The targets I gave are distinct but connected. The editorial policy (happily still religion obsessed NiB today - cheers!) was the trigger, the me-too recurrent memes on the board, then the reinforced accepted culture are separate phenomena, but they all set up feedback loops that I decided to poke fun at.
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