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SideWinder said:
Don't go off topic please and no, i'm in hiding.
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i want to break up :(



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If every single post on the GD was about the news, or what book should i get etc, then i dont mean to sound daft, but how boring would it be really? People come to a forum to try and escape from possibly the bores of life and for abit of entertainment and to chat with others and enjoy themselfs.
I agree some people take it overboard, but tell them onces and they should be fine.
 
JohnnyG said:
w11tho has as much right to not be bothered by feek's departure & state his reasons why as others have to despair over it :)
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He can be as unfazed by the whole thing as he wants, but why the need to come in a thread and slate a guy who's leaving? What does it achieve?
 
Well, I thought I was entertaining. But hey, you guys are in charge - whatever you says goes etc.

Sorry if I caused offence to you or your friends.
JohnnyG said:
w11tho has as much right to not be bothered by feek's departure & state his reasons why as others have to despair over it :)
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Conformity my friend. But hey, whatever makes people happy - my tool comment doesn't seem to have been well recieved.
Davey_Pitch said:
What does it achieve?
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It made me feel super-dooper. :)
 
He's not "leaving" really, like leaving a job or a place is he? Just not visiting. I still don't see the need to make a thread because you don't like a forum. I know Feek was well-known, but really.
 
Andr3w said:
i want to break up :(



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If every single post on the GD was about the news, or what book should i get etc, then i dont mean to sound daft, but how boring would it be really? People come to a forum to try and escape from possibly the bores of life and for abit of entertainment and to chat with others and enjoy themselfs.
I agree some people take it overboard, but tell them onces and they should be fine.
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Threads like the comic strip thread were amusing without being pure drivel. It's daft to say we should live with the crap, yes it's gonna happen but it is on the increase.

Burnsy
 
dymetrie said:
read the thread...
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I read the thread more thorughly and discovered something that echoes my views.

penski said:
See; what I don't understand is the need for a melodramatic "The end has come, I must leave now...Make sure Little Timmy gets his medicine" type thread. I've seen it many times before on many forums and, as Spie has noted above, they invariably come back...sometimes in another guise.

If you're leaving, leave. No need to make a song and dance about it.

*n
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I have no problem at all with Feek before people jump to conclusions, his posts always stand out to me and not because of the font.
 
SideWinder said:
I didn't know Feek, just read his posts. Shame he's going though, seems a lot of people care about him and obviously have strong ties with him. I fail to see why people would need to leave a forum entirely because of the quaility of posting but i get the impression there are other reasons also. /shrugs. Could always just post less instead of leave forever?
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I can see why people would leave over the quality of posting. It's the same reason I don't even open certain newspapers or tune to certain TV channels - namely, the hassle and effort of getting to the occasional worthwhile nugget doesn't justify the stench of the time spent wading through the swamp.

I have much the same opinion. There is a LOT of absolute garbage in GD.

BUT ...... my view is that the distinction between garbage and golden nugget is a subjective one. What is garbage to me might well be a nugget to somebody else ..... though with a lot of the stuff in GD, I happen to think that's a sad state of affairs if true.

But Feek, if you read this, I have a technique you might find useful. If a thread looks like it's drivel, don't bother opening it. If you get seduced into opening a thread and it proves to be drivel that wasn't obvious from the outside, make a mental note of the thread starter's name. If that name crops up more than two or three times, add them to your Ignore list .... and don't open threads by people on that list.


Yes, there's a lot of garbage in GD, but there's some good stuff, too. The above technique lets me find the gold without wading through too much smelly swamp.
 
as posted in the other thread,

feek was a standout member to me, and ive only been a ocuker for about 9 months, so it shows how much he stood out, again he probably wont regonise my name but i enjoyed the beer threads and even his silly font

shame to see him go
 
hendrix said:
You just gotta learn to live with it really. All i've done for the last few months is press the BACK button when reading some of the bad stuff that gets posted. Every now and then you get a decent thread or something you can get involved in. We can't stop people from posting 'terrible' threads. But we can ignore it and move on to better quality ones. Its not hard to just ignore the crap and get on with it.
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Some good words from the other thread I thought I should add incase anyone missed them. I agree totally.
 
I thought his original post was fair enough (in context), maybe bordered on rule breaking, maybe not. It was more the subject of his post & not the content that got it deleted. His sarcasm was aimed at people who complained about his opinion.
 
Sequoia: Your technique would work for some people but in my eyes, it wouldn't work for me. I would hate to judge people just by a thread they had done a week ago or something and instantly dismiss another thread started by then as rubbish. :)

Besides, say you can't sleep, it's 2am, the forum is quiet...how could you not resist the temptation to look at every thread in GD on the first few pages? :o
 
hmmm

feek seemed an alright guy, made some nice topics/posts with his weird font :D

but REALLY is there a need to make a topic about leavin? :rolleyes: he might be a long-term member and have 'friends' on here, but it just seems like attention seeking to me, surely if he had 'real friends' on here that he wanted to tell he wouldnt be posting anymore, he would tell on msn/email/face or whatever other way they communicate? if a forum is the only way 'real friends' communicate then some people need to get a life....

sorry but thats the way i see it, my opinion

also i dont get what people complain about GD for - i look in this forum when i want to read something funny and random, or an interesting relationship thread, if it was all serious it would get very boring. If theres nothing that takes my interest i just forget about it, i dont get worked up about it and post topics saying why are all the threads poo :rolleyes:

:p
 
The thing is though some people on here think they are superior to everyone else, particularly relative newcomers or those not in the 'club' and this leads to hostility.

I feal some of you should treat people more even handedly and respect others opinions more.

It seems to be ok for some people to post meaningless threads, but those by others are classed as spam.

As far as i am aware this is an open forum and i was shocked to see that some of you who are in the 'club' were even proud of the fact that you never bought anything from overclockers.
 
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