Reply #4017 Thai-delight's post
"If the regulars of this thread (e..g. Ashdragon) are posting because they enjoy the chit-chat (rather than for credit), they'll continue to do so. "
Wow, that's the first time my name was mentioned. I didn't think that i was that important. Thanks Thai-delight for mentioning me, i've only been on this board for a short while, so the fact that people even recognize me is an honor my sir.
As I have only been on this board for a short while, I am unfamiliar with the politics or the issues at hand. I've tried to do my homework and started to look at posts from 1 year back and even longer and it just seems very complicated. I get a bit lost along the way being a newbie.
I do enjoy this idle chat thread a lot! I think it's an outlet for new guys like me and other folks to really carry on interesting discussions. I could certainly post up a thread on mongers lounge now, but then I would have to write up a long description explaining the background of the situation in order for people to understand and chime in. But it just seems like so many people visited the idle chat thread so much that I just posted what i felt on there and people just chimed in and started discussing things right away.
Personally for me, these past couple of months, i focus on Mainland China first as that's my favorite mongering place, and then I go to Mongers lounge, directly to idle chat as more people participated in that thread. I don't exactly go to idle chat to get karma points, you only get one point for every post. I personally go there to see if I can answer people's questions if they have any, or input my opinions if it could be useful in helping others on the board.
But there is no denying that Idle Chat has been the most popular thread to date, with so many posts over the 1+ years it's been up. I've only been here for 2-3 months or so. But before I came, i'm sure many other brothers can attest to it's popularity.
Although SEAN/SEAJ may be an integral part to the idle chat threads success, I can assure you that from reading the past 80 pages or so (it's too long to read all of it) it's not just SEAN posting everything, it's a collective effort of senior members and newbies etc. The premise of this thread isn't just SEAN's personal blog, it comes from the collective opinions and thoughts of so many brothers on this board. SEAN/SEAJ does contribute a lot of his own personal opinions, but honestly, the idle chat has grown to be even bigger than he himself. Sorry SEAN, i had to say that, hope it does not offend you young boy, you may be important, but NOT that important! (j/k)
The one big advantage of Idle Chat is that people can directly post what's on their mind right away, instead of writing up a whole thread like how it is on mongers lounge where people have one line questions and sometimes many people don't help out these newbies. BUt if a newbie does ask a question on idle chat, people visit this thread so much that the chances of their questions being answered is quite quick and effortless. So it's sort of a thread that simplifies starting a new thread each time on mongers lounge. If there ever was a way, it would be great to keep it on mongers lounge and to disable giving out karma points. Regardless, I am happy to see that idle chat is here to stay. I've had some very interesting conversations on idle chat, not just with SEAN/SEAJ but with other brothers on this board.
Thanks to all brothers, senior or new for keeping this board fresh and interesting!
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