Like Strike part II

[anon26940528]

[Melizmatic]

[Snowlark]

I’m losing it with this one. Best use of this meme I’ve ever seen.

[anon26940528]

[Melizmatic]

[anon26940528]

[Melizmatic]

You win; I got nothing to top that.

[OtherMichael]

[teen witch rap clip]

[Melizmatic]

*googles

[ficuswhisperer]

@codinghorror

is abuse of a limit that we specifically raised based on feedback here, despite the risks of this kind of abuse.

I’ve asked this before and I’ll ask again. What is being abused here? What’s the problem? Likes have no intrinsic value. God doesn’t kill a puppy every time someone uses them. Someone who gives/gets enough likes isn’t given any usable rewards. What’s the real issue here?

I’m really just trying to understand the rationale here because it’s not computing for me.

[ficuswhisperer]

It’s the whitest shit ever.

[Melizmatic]

@ficuswhisperer

It’s the whitest shit ever.

You posted this just as I was editing my reply to @OtherMichael.

Jinx, because I was just about to say:

Oh… my.

That may have just been some of the most wonderbread-esque & soulless appropriation of an Afrocentric art form that I have ever seen.

That was even worse than Don ‘No Soul’ Simmons.

Don "No Soul" Simmons complete ("Blacks without Soul", from the film Amazon Women on the Moon)

[codinghorror]

Same griefing rules as anywhere else. Saying “hello” isn’t a problem, until someone says it to you constantly for 3 hours.

And look at this post. You honestly want to tell me, @OtherMichael, that this post was worthy of a like? Seriously?

No, I think it was a routine to mindlessly like everything in topics for… reasons. Which is horseshit.

[anon61221983]

Not really her fault, you know.

[anon61221983]

That… is the most 80s cake evar!

[anon61221983]

@navarro

a year or so ago he used a public comment to chide someone for their use of animated gifs in threads.

[ficuswhisperer]

@codinghorror

Same griefing rules as anywhere else

I guess that’s the disconnect. I don’t see this as griefing – more of a curiosity than anything. It seems easy enough to mute it if it bothers you.

I don’t relish in conflict, and in all honesty I find the thread necromancy and subsequent public shaming of @OtherMichael to be far more uncomfortable than his like spree. Maybe you two should work this out privately over PM?

[Melizmatic]

Not her fault at all.

Again, this whole kerfuffle could have been kept to a minimum by addressing the single party responsible, directly and privately.

Involving the entire community was both needless & counterproductive, IMO.

@anon61221983

That… is the most 80s cake evar!

I know; like totally, right?

@ficuswhisperer

Maybe you two should work this out privately over PM?

###Excellent idea.

[OtherMichael]

You have an interesting definition of “asking nicely.”

Why did I do this? I don’t know. @anon67050589, it was inspired by the like strike. You could say it was “a reaction” to it - but I don’t know in what way. Instead of not liking things, I wanted to like things. I didn’t understand not wanting to like things, and how that sent a message, but I had this feeling after I read about it all, so I started liking things.

And it felt good. Here’s a post with no likes - bam! a red heart!

Then I started going through old threads – finding posts I didn’t remember seeing, posts I never saw, even posts of my own that I had no memory of. And – maybe it’s a coincidence and I’m just patting myself on the back – I saw some of those threads come back to life, saw old posts referenced again.

And as I pointed out earlier – I just started to find really old posts last night (did y’all know you can sort the categories by date just by clicking on the dates?). I didn’t go into other categories back in 2013, and I saw some neat stuff for the first time, and some people who had not posted anywhere on the BBS since. I messaged one of them – AND HE RESPONDED AND POSTED IN THE THREAD AFTER BEING SILENT FOR 3+ YEARS.

To give myself credit where perhaps none is due, THAT FELT GOOD.

I wondered about not liking some posts – leave some out. Not like the posts of things that I didn’t like so much, not like the posts of people I didn’t like. Ultimately I thought that was unfair, small of me. MEAN in some way.

Plus there was the Everest of “liking all the posts” (sorry, that really became an idle thought after a while, a David Blaine kind of thing. If you don’t know, I used to put on 12 hour improvised performance art marathons and do 24-hour readings of Ulysses. I like to think big.). I didn’t think it was attainable, but I was curious to see what I’d discover in the process.

And then, there are the “leaderboards” - Boing Boing BBS

These aren’t personal stats - these are comparative rankings., open to all users to see how they stand against one another. And I saw how I was standing, and was curious to see what it took to change that standing on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and all-time basis. To paraphrase someone above – if you don’t want people to play ranking games, don’t give them rankings.

Oh – and that person who posted for the first time since 2013? That was about the last thing I saw on the BBS last night before going to bed.

This morning, the first thing I saw was being called - repeatedly, at this point - a mindless griefer who engaged in “shit like this.”

@codinghorror

And look at this post. You honestly want to tell me, @OtherMichael, that this post was worthy of a like? Seriously?

EVERYTHING is worthy of a like. Every person has value, no matter how small. And if it was worth posting, it was worth liking, at least if once. Yes - I had all sorts of crazy pie-in-the-sky everest black-box leadboard fun game reasons as well.

But ultimately - everybody needs a little love in their lives, even if its just a click. Which is not mindless horseshit.

[anon61221983]

@Melizmatic

Not her fault at all.

Right! @anon67050589 isn’t his mom!

Also… when you go to your notifications after @OtherMichael has logged on for the day: