It's time for a new DSM IV classification: "Diminished intellect d/t insatiable cravings for attention and dominance in mundane milieu"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" > <mainstream20016@> wrote: > > > > Over the past recent weeks, had no posting limits been in > > place, the incessant battle of wits might have compelled > > as many as 300 - 350 FFL posts in a week from a single > > poster, as 50 posts from a single poster were submitted in > > the first 24 hours of the first day of the 'week' for > > several weeks. > > Allow me to introduce myself: my name is Judy. > > (Did you really think nobody would know who you > were referring to?) > > And your stats are bullsh*t, as is your estimate. > > > I don't accept the explanation that the most > > interesting conversations on-line happen to occur on > > Saturday. > > Well, you know, it might depend on what you find of > interest, don't you think? > > Take this week. I've made eight posts in two days. > Why? Not because I'm "controlling my obsessive- > compulsive posting" but because there have been > few threads I've had an interest in commenting on. > I made 24 posts the weekend of May 31-June 1, 30 > the weekend of May 17-18. (I'd have to check, but > I don't believe I ever made 50 posts in 24 hours. > And even when there were no posting limits, I > never made anything like 300 posts in a week.) > > > FFL is quiet - a far preferable atmosphere than incessant > > noise and heat with little light. > > Depending, of course, on what you perceive as > "noise and heat with little light," and on whether > you prefer passivity to dynamism. > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Everyone seems to be doing better at controlling those > > > > obsessive-compulsive posts. > > > > > > The whole "compulsive posting" mantra is a crock. > > > People post more when there are more conversations > > > going on that they find of interest, period. And > > > that varies from day to day and week to week. > > > > > >
