Yes, I did that deliberately to avoid lobbying, and to avoid anger if someone was excluded when listed. Instead, now posters must find the threads they believe were excluded after the conclusion.
Date: October 6th, 2009 2:44 PM Author: lake theater gunner
yeah i just think that ranking that thread -- which was no better than the 50 other threads based on a meme that no one will remember in a few months -- over threads like the pd ones in the last cuts threads betrays a lack of perspective
Date: October 6th, 2009 2:48 PM Author: lake theater gunner
and it was no better than any of the others. they are all the same: take something that happened recently; say the person involved "acted stupidly." i mean, congrats for being the first to combine two recent events in a thread title, but it doesn't make it anything close to a classic thread.
Date: October 6th, 2009 2:52 PM Author: richard clock
i disagree that the launch of a meme cant be a classic thread. whoever launched the leinart meme should definitely get on the list, i just think the "acted stupidly" thing is premature (and not as funny)
Date: October 6th, 2009 2:57 PM Author: lake theater gunner
i wasn't quite saying that. i think that at some level the thread has to stand on it's own: it has to be a legitimately classic thread in its own right, and not just because it's the first of a meme.
Date: October 6th, 2009 2:59 PM Author: richard clock
gotcha, but i still disagree. you have to take into account what the meme created in terms of value to the board, and later permutations of the meme are relevant to that analysis. in other words, the original deserves extra weight based on what was created on its shoulders.
Date: October 6th, 2009 3:02 PM Author: lake theater gunner
i don't disagree with that. my whole point has been predicated on the fact that it was an unremarkable meme. if it's a really funny thread that catches on because it's really funny, that's one thing. but if it's an unremarkable thread that happens to have been the first of several unremarkable threads patterned after it, that's another. sure, points for creating the meme, but to be classic, it has to be more than catchy. that's my only point.
A few head scratchers on this one. The Sysop/search and renada deshada threads seem unremarkable. The wedding dance thread is long, but it's pretty typical commentary on something that was by that point already an internet phenomenon. Similar thing with the acted stupidly thread.
Date: October 6th, 2009 2:51 PM Author: lake theater gunner
he's doing the board a great service by doing this, and i recognize what work it must have been, but it's our job to bitch about the rankings we disagree with.