RJK said:
Kniggit said:
Yay, great, more people to aks the same question and more "im an addict" "i cant stop" "love the game" and "hi" threads..........
Given the same stimuli, the responses people give will often fall within a narrow range.
You thought it was pretty original when you did it first right? I can understand why some people might feel
threatened. To have earlier posts cast in a new light by the arrival of new players, with each new post that contains an idea that you already came up with months ago increasing your own
feeling of banality.
Of course people are going to say the same things, because most of the earlier suggestions are fairly obvious, or themselves rehashes of ideas from other games.
And that's fine.
RJK| still believes original thought is possible.
I didn't get the impression he felt "
threatened" in any way or that his own "
feeling of banality" was increasing. Where does that come from? Not from his own short post, I think.
I think rather that Kniggit and myself are disappointed that despite the huge increase in numbers since we joined, there has not been a corresponding increase in the number of new and interesting topics.
Too many of the new posts usually cover the same ideas as though they'd never been thought of and weren't already posted. So they're constantly reinventing the wheel and not refining or building on previous suggestions. It's not "
threatening" to see your ideas repeated, it's discouraging that even if you do participate again, we're not progressing.
I've discovered myself that long posts are in vain anyway since I get only two or three replies and they're often unintelligible one sentence replies or on another topic altogether. Rather than explore ideas like fatigue, combat morale, long-term game goals, which few read and fewer agree with or try to improve upon, I notice that inane one-sentence suggestions and posts generate dozens of responses and a flurry of views.
RJK said:
Of course people are going to say the same things, because most of the earlier suggestions are fairly obvious, or themselves rehashes of ideas from other games.
And that's fine.
No, it's not fine. Even if the earlier suggestions were "
fairly obvious, or themselves rehashes of ideas from other games" that doesn't mean it's fine "
to say the same things " in a new thread or post as though there wasn't a
Search engine.
What I had hoped for (and I think what Kniggit did too) was that the increasing membership would bring people who were interested in more than just saying what had already been said and more who could and would try to comment and add new insights/refinements to older posts. Or add interesting and thoughtful new posts - which does happen but not often enough.
RJK said:
You thought it was pretty original when you did it first right?
RJK| still believes original thought is possible.
So try it. Maybe lose the long-distance boilerplate psychological explanations of
why someone posted though. I understand that "
you probably thought it was pretty original when you did it" maybe it made you feel superior (?), I don't know. How can I? But I do know it's beside the point.
I give up.
From now on, one sentence or one word posts!