I don't mind news threads, so long as there's some discussion value. It's my choice to come here and my choice to click on the threads, so if there's some thread that I don't like I have no reason to get annoyed about it.

 

I wish more people had that attitude :P

 

 

 

Yes news articles can be repetitive if you get a lot on the same subject, but they're not doing anyone any harm. If you have an idea for a "better discussion," create your own thread. If you don't like news articles, don't click on the threads. If you click on one unaware that it's a news article, you lose like 5 seconds of your time pressing the back button? Max?

I don't mind news threads, so long as there's some discussion value. It's my choice to come here and my choice to click on the threads, so if there's some thread that I don't like I have no reason to get annoyed about it.

 

 

 

Agreed. Gets annoying how many news articles get bumped because too many people are spamming it with "not another news article". Anyway, if I find something worth posting as a news article, I'll post it just for the fun of it. Your choice to read and if you do, don't get all angry over it.

THIS JUST IN: Everyone whining about the state Off-Topic is in when in fact I notice only their crappy attitudes! More on this story when I don't feel like my throat is being gored by a boar.

 

 

 

Blah.

THIS JUST IN: Everyone whining about the state Off-Topic is in when in fact I notice only their crappy attitudes! More on this story when I don't feel like my throat is being gored by a boar.

 

 

 

Blah.

 

 

 

You know, usually those people want a topic with discussion value. Yup, a beheaded baby in Germany is perfect for discussion value.

I'm not really a fan of either them or philosophical threads or fun ones. I'm in a bah humbug mood, so I dislike about everything.

 

 

 

I doubt there are that many threads period that people genuinely love. But these are acceptable. I just ignore most of the threads in Off-Topic anyways, and choose new ones or ones that perk my interest.

When you've been around as long as many of us have, you get too old to participate in the "fun" threads, and you get too wary to participate in the "philosophical" (divisive issue) threads. News threads are always new!

The thing is I have no objection with news threads as long as they have some value and people can contribute and share their thoughts and opinions.

 

 

 

I don't want to see things like "OMG, d00dz, th1s guy just sh0t himsl3f"

 

 

 

Unecesarry marrigage of leetspeak, bad spelling and a meaningless post.

 

3-some...that doesn't make sense. :shame:

The threads might not be as popular as some but as long as there's discussion taking place then I don't see an issue here. I don't like sports threads or political threads, but to each his own.

You HAVE to admit the one with the dudes eye was epic.

It's a phase. The "kill all news threads" phase is rapidly coming on, and soon to follow is the "nothing but incredibly valuable and intelligent scientific and philosophical discussion" phase.

 

 

 

At which point too much discussion over the nature of god and religion occurs that it gets banned, and the trickle of news stories begins again. Anyone who's really been here long enough will just see this as a cycle that just keeps going around and round.

 

 

 

And yeah, props to the op for creativity.

Whats wrong with discussing news?

 

But yeah I'd agree with a sub-forum.

I just skip over most of them, as they have no discussion value to me personally (Baby Thrown on Ground & Killed anyone?)

 

 

 

However, obviously someone out there cares about the topic and is just wanting to share it with other people. While I don't want to sit there and read most of these articles, they do generally open the doors to discussion about serious issues (child abuse, violence, intolerance, etc.)

 

 

 

A sub-forum would be cool, though.

 

 

 

That way, the newsy people can still post their news, and the OT people can have a clutter-free forum.

I personally don't enjoy the news articles that are posted here. Most of the time I don't care whether a guy shot himself or someone shat on a girl's face. Majority of the articles are long with the OP hardly posting over 2 sentences. I'd prefer threads that people can enjoy in rather than discuss how the world is slowly falling apart. I'm 15, I don't care yet.

 

 

 

That's how I feel. It's also kinda boring to go to off topic and see new threads about stuff that I didn't care about. It used to be so much better 6 months ago but meh, I'm in no position to complain. I'm those kind of guys that don't give a [bleep] about news.

I'd prefer a what type of container do you drink out of topic than "omgz barrack obama won cuz he black lulluululul.

It's a phase. The "kill all news threads" phase is rapidly coming on, and soon to follow is the "nothing but incredibly valuable and intelligent scientific and philosophical discussion" phase.

 

It happens every year doesn't it? If it weren't for the relationship sticky we'd be flooded with relationship threads until March.

 

As well as the "life sucks and nobody understands me" phase near the beginning of winter. If I only had enough determination and free time I'd make a comprehensive analysis of these forum cyclical phases.

 

I started a list sometime back. This year's prediction:

 

January: New years threads at the beginning and news threads nearer the end

 

February: Valentine's day threads

 

March: Getting bored, I'm not really sure what will happen

 

April: April Fool's day thread

 

May: April Fool's day thread lives on, end of school threads start beginning

 

June: End of school threads

 

July: Extreme boredom, WWIII, conspiracy theories, news threads, disturbing threads

 

August: Continuation of July

 

September: Back to school threads

 

October: Gets pretty quiet as people start doing school projects, cricket thread comes up again? I don't know but I seem to remember it is usually active around then.

 

November: I'm depressed :( And black Friday

 

December: Christmas, Post Yer Loot, happy new year

I'd prefer a what type of container do you drink out of topic than "omgz barrack obama won cuz he black lulluululul.

 

 

 

Singaporeans are alike. We don't give a [bleep] about non-S'pore related news. (Yea, that's arrogant of me)

It's a phase. The "kill all news threads" phase is rapidly coming on, and soon to follow is the "nothing but incredibly valuable and intelligent scientific and philosophical discussion" phase.

 

 

 

Except it's more like the "nothing but incredibly pointless and selfless ego stroking of pseudo-scientific and pseudo-philosophical discussion" as nobody is actually giving their own opinions but simply quoting their favorite "hero" in the matter. There's very little independent thought, it's simply a link dump of footnotes. People will be begging to for lighthearted discussion in six months.

 

 

 

All this has happened before and it shall all happen again.

I'm not really against the news threads as such. I think what's worse is that some people just copy paste a piece of news and then go "opinions plz". If you do post a piece of news, please do so to raise some point you yourself have something to say about.

Solution: Current Events subsection.

Solution: Current Events subsection.

 

 

 

Or

 

 

 

Alternate Solution: shoot the next person that posts "not another news article".

Solution: Current Events subsection.

 

 

 

Or

 

 

 

Alternate Solution: shoot the next person that posts "not another news article".

 

 

 

My going rate is fifty thousand a kill.Thats like 1% of 47's earnings,so I guess its fair.I have 30 confirmed kills from the Vietnam war,though my spotters had a nasty habit of dying while enemy battalions attacked.I currently use a Remington rifle and my scope only does 6 times magnification.Nonetheless,I can manage head kills at about a thousand yards.EVERREADY!

It's a phase. The "kill all news threads" phase is rapidly coming on, and soon to follow is the "nothing but incredibly valuable and intelligent scientific and philosophical discussion" phase.

 

 

 

Except it's more like the "nothing but incredibly pointless and selfless ego stroking of pseudo-scientific and pseudo-philosophical discussion" as nobody is actually giving their own opinions but simply quoting their favorite "hero" in the matter. There's very little independent thought, it's simply a link dump of footnotes. People will be begging to for lighthearted discussion in six months.

 

 

 

All this has happened before and it shall all happen again.

 

 

 

Quite right.

 

 

 

A subforum has (SURPRISE!!) been suggested before. Multiple times. Not gonna happen.

Unless, of course, you can come up with a good enough reason to convince the admins. We just got out of the "{Who|What|When|Why|How} {is|was|are|does|did} {your|you} {favorite|least favorite|best|worst|[superlative adjective]} {[noun]|[noun] [preposition] {[noun]}} {ever|in your life|you've ever seen|you'd like to do|etc.}?" and it was suggested to make a subforum for that, I believe.

These things go in cycles, the random news article trend will wear off after a while. A consolidated news thread isn't really workable though - there would be so many random articles posted with replies to them scattered over pages and broken up by replies to other news items - it wouldn't be particularly conducive in making any sort of decent discussion.

 

 

 

I personally don't mind the odd news thread when something big happens, it gives room for a debate but it does annoy me when copy pasta is used just for the sake of it. If there is no room for discussion then there is no point in posting even if the article is about somebody committing some sort of terrible crime - that only leaves us all the opportunity to condemn them without room for any discussion - while it's slighty harsh to say, those types are just boring.

We should really have a "sympathy, empathy and idle chit-chat forum"