Originally posted by Suzianne Apparently, he doesn't even need to be correct. All he needs is a talent at getting those with an even lower IQ to agree with him...
Many of your posts seem to indicate that you see yourself as being involved in some kind of popularity contest here or a small p political struggle. It's quite peculiar. I certainly don't, and aside from you, and perhaps Grampy Bobby at times (like when he occasionally posts a list of all his RHP friends) I don't sense that anyone else here does.
Originally posted by FMF So do you think this forum was populated by a larger proportion of people who were "smarter" than now?
Be careful what you ask for.
I wouldn't claim that, myself.
However, I think it's clear that the current cabal trying to control the forums is exceedingly far more vindictive and vanishly less humorous than those who used to run these forums.
Originally posted by FMF Many of your posts seem to indicate that you see yourself as being involved in some kind of popularity contest here or a small p political struggle. It's quite peculiar. I certainly don't, and aside from you, and perhaps Grampy Bobby at times (like when he occasionally posts a list of all his RHP friends) I don't sense that anyone else here does.
I do wish you'd pay more attention to what people say, and less attention to what you fantasize they're saying.
Originally posted by Suzianne Complete sentences are a better measure of IQ, but I assume you'd disagree.
You think an incomplete sentence in informal conversation has some bearing on the measurement of IQ? I thought you were into Psychology.
The term "IQ" stands for intelligence quotient and is a measure derived from scores earned from several kinds of standardized test which are designed to assess intelligence. The use of complete sentences, or otherwise, on a message board doesn't have anything to do with it.
Originally posted by Suzianne I do wish you'd pay more attention to what people say, and less attention to what you fantasize they're saying.
You're always talking about people vying for "popularity", or talking about thumbs up and thumbs down, or about people trying to drive you off the forum, or threatening to ban you to please their friends, or about so called "in crowds". It comes across as just plain paranoia a lot of the time. It is most peculiar.
Originally posted by Suzianne However, I think it's clear that the current cabal trying to control the forums is exceedingly far more vindictive and vanishly less humorous than those who used to run these forums.
You think there is a "cabal" trying to "control" or "run" the forums?
See what I mean? This is the peculiar theme in many of your posts I'm talking about.
Originally posted by FMF You think an incomplete sentence in informal conversation has some bearing on the measurement of IQ? I thought you were into Psychology.
The term "IQ" stands for intelligence quotient and is a measure derived from scores earned from several kinds of standardized test which are designed to assess intelligence. The use of complete sentences, or otherwise, on a message board doesn't have anything to do with it.
FMF is Dr. Everything. Has the internet at his finger tips. There's nothing he doesn't know in minutes. Can create any number of threads on any topic at will. Always knows what he's talking about. Never wrong.
Originally posted by josephw They're not the same. They're worse. Like a reverse Flynn Effect.
I hear what you say. But whenever I look back at old threads it all looks like same old same old to me. I don't think the people posting back then were as smart as some people now claim. I don't think people posting back then were any funnier or wittier than posters are now. I don't think the thread topics were any better. I think nostalgia can be very deceptive ~ and this is true in life in general. Especially if a feeling of nostalgia inhibits people from making any effort any more, even assuming they ever did.
Some of the people currently hankering after some sort of 'good old days', as they see them, with all their dreary moaning and artless negative posting, and scarcely an attempt to start any threads of their own, are arguably one of the most obvious blights on the current forum atmosphere. They won't see it that way, of course. Self-righteous indignation and their brand of relentless manufactured outrage can be very self-deceptive, like nostalgia.
Originally posted by josephw FMF is Dr. Everything. Has the internet at his finger tips. There's nothing he doesn't know in minutes. Can create any number of threads on any topic at will. Always knows what he's talking about. Never wrong.
Is this the kind of witty. smart posting that you're nostalgic about? 😉
Flynn Effect
28 Jul '16 01:59
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