http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...d.php?t=127759

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!

EDIT: I just bumped that thread. Post in it please!

You'd be surprised at how many posts I've spent time writing out...and then at the last second just closed the browser because I realized that it's not that funny or useful.

the times they are a changing

Thinking before you post is the new posting before you think. Spread the word.

You started posting the [ ] thread thing and then others did too.

Shepherd imo.

LOUD NOISES

I hope you all learn something from this thread.

I've been doing this a lot more lately. People seem to like it when I self-censor a bit.

no, please keep posting your avatar is sexy

o1c

BBV4L seems to be infected with viral memes, imo:

Meme-theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection (similarly to Darwinian biological evolution) through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance influencing an individual entity's reproductive success. So with memes, some ideas will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and, for better or for worse, mutate. "Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts."

Just let nature take its course in the 4L jungle--survival of the fittest, and all that brutal darwinian stuff.

Link to full text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

wat

proof, iyam. tyvm

come on you were begging for it

so what else is new?

I learned that you get tired of meme's quicker then most people, and that you enjoy long rambling paragraphs.

I don't really know what a high turnover rate for posters/lurkers means. Does it mean a lot of lurkers are showing up these days? If so, then BBV is changing as more people get used to the forum and try to fit it i guess. One easy way to fit in is repeating popular meme's. Plus there is the troll factor to consider, every forum has them and they can seem more numerous simply because they have high daily post counts.

Another point can be made that back in the 'golden days' of BBV this forum wasn't as well known, and it bolstered a smaller community of people. It seems these days that the forum is always being observed by 100+ people. And if even half these people are posting everyday, then it will not have that small community feeling to it. And i'm afraid it probably never will again as more people stop lurking/find this forum.

But with that being said, what is the BBV4L community about really. It seems this forum is pretty much the BBQ pit of 2+2. In that it's rules against posting are much more lax then other forums on here, and basically just has no real 'theme' to it other than complaining/bragging.

Anything short of banning meme's will not rid the forum of them. It's a natural occurance. If you long time posters feel that strongly about it, and about BBV sucking now, then stop flaming the fires of the meme and just let anooying ones die. But as you said, meme's are funny. So whats the problem.

About the only thing to do is if you want this forum to be filled with meaningful discussions and thought out posts is constantly start/respond to threads in the like. Then that will become the new meme. Until then, keep complaining and lecturing.

no u

wat

More people should start using the thread rating thing. That way if you like a thread you don't have to post to acknowledge it and if you dislike a thread you can give it a low rating instead of just posting "ban op".

You have a good idea, but i doubt it will catch on.


People feel the need to be heard, even if it is ******ed and worthless.

goddamn shut the **** up

lol

just go over to the poop toad site if you hate us so much

I have to agree with people... Just shutup..... and stop breathing.

idiot...can i say more