Originally posted by Rene Pogel"I hope that this forum does not go the same way - having eyed it for these seven years I would now diagnose incipient NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome) despite your excellent prophylactic efforts to treat this." Rene Pogel
I whole-heartedly support and endorse your statement that you have cared about this forum and its contributors for seven years. During these seven years your comments and thought-provoking ideas have frequently rejuvenated my flagging mind and I salute you for this.
I have not posted anything for quite some time but I still enjoy your comments and the b ...[text shortened]... t NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome) despite your excellent prophylactic efforts to treat this.
Thanks for your kind words, Rene. It's my hope that you'll segue from the "clan forum" to this one. Your objective insights and thoughtfulness would benefit the online experience here for us all. I like your diagnosis: "NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome)". Wonder, though, if NIDS is simultaneously the symptom of low self esteem and mean spirited pessimism.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyUtter nonsense. As usual.
"Why is this forum dying?" .... because its norms and standards have gradually become altered with the result that this forum's entire culture has changed: the historic 'normal' has become abnormal while the historic 'abnormal' has become the new normal; this forum has experienced circumstantial suffocation and is presently doing its level best just to breathe.
Originally posted by SahuaroOriginally posted by Sahuaro
There is sustained conversation when someone stumbles upon a conversation worth sustaining. I haven't seen many that have struck my fancy, nor do I randomly think up topics that tons of people will like.
I actually like the sentence game. People who play chess by nature have at least some iota of interest in puzzles, I would think. That's my guess as ...[text shortened]... e refreshing. Reading someone telling me why I'm different from men, without knowing me, isn't.
There is sustained conversation when someone stumbles upon a conversation worth sustaining.
Sahuaro, it would helpful for us all to become aware of your "conversation worth sustaining" criteria? Thanks.
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Originally posted by ChessPraxis* Message broadcast #19 from Club 344 *
COS is very active IMHO. Some clubs and clan forums haven't had posts in months, some in years. My team forum at GK hasn't had posts in over 6 years. 😕 Most are at these sites to play chess. And from what I've seen, RHP and Chess.com seem to have to more active fora. 😀
"Camelot Oasis in Space Status from July 23, 2013 to February 25, 2014
(217 Days): Membership: 32; Club Games: 99; Threads: 128; Total Posts: 4,299 (19.8/day average).
My thanks to each of you who have found a few minutes here and there in your limited online discretionary time
to contribute to our club games and threads during the past seven months. To those members whose priorities
have made recent participation impossible, please know that we miss you. Kind Regards, Bob"
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyAn interesting quirk that you, as part of that reprehensible denominator, are oblivious to the adverse affect you have on this forum and many of the people you interact with. You are causality incarnated. You are the assumption of original sin.
It's becoming apparent as the months roll along that the lowest common denominator of authenticity is assuming control.
Originally posted by Hand of HecateOriginally posted by Hand of Hecate
An interesting quirk that you, as part of that reprehensible denominator, are oblivious to the adverse affect you have on this forum and many of the people you interact with. You are causality incarnated. You are the assumption of original sin.
An interesting quirk that you, as part of that reprehensible denominator, are oblivious to the adverse affect you have on this forum and many of the people you interact with. You are causality incarnated. You are the assumption of original sin.
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