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10 days of DS hell?!
Si_Crewe
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Can I assume that for the next ten days this forum will be filled with unbridled baseless vitriol and peurile insults?
Seems that certain FMs will simply spend their time posting thread after thread designed to undermine HMs they dislike.
I have some bad news for you...
No amount of posting about how Steve is a pervert or how Josie is a fat, ugly pig is going to change ANYBODY'S mind about them.
There's ten days of the show left so why not spend the time actually WATCHING it and then discussing some of the more interesting things we see rather than filling up this forum with overzealous nonsense?
I'm sure we all have out favourites and nothing anybody says is going to change anybody's mind so why bother with all the hate-filled (and I don't use that term lightly) nonsense?
Please take a minute to post here if you agree.
Seems that certain FMs will simply spend their time posting thread after thread designed to undermine HMs they dislike.
I have some bad news for you...
No amount of posting about how Steve is a pervert or how Josie is a fat, ugly pig is going to change ANYBODY'S mind about them.
There's ten days of the show left so why not spend the time actually WATCHING it and then discussing some of the more interesting things we see rather than filling up this forum with overzealous nonsense?
I'm sure we all have out favourites and nothing anybody says is going to change anybody's mind so why bother with all the hate-filled (and I don't use that term lightly) nonsense?
Please take a minute to post here if you agree.
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Good luck everyone.
You say that no one can change people's opinions on house mates and then hope to change people's opinions how to post on DS.
''Shepard, you have changed nothing''!
This may help you get through the next 10 days....
Unless their opinion affects your opinion, their opinion matters not at all.
You can avoid any thread that looks like you might not like it from the title you know?
Oh yes... Time to call in sick to work
*raises glass*
My point was more that posting baseless nonsense isn't going to change anybody's opinion.
If people post stuff about what's actually HAPPENING in the house then I'd hope that might have more impact.
Course, I don't expect this thread to stop anybody posting nonsense but it will, at least, give people who feel the same way I do a chance to make their feelings known.
Alas, it does affect things.
Often people will post interesting threads which might quickly be overwhelmed, and relagated to page 3 or 4, by a rash of nonsense threads.
The forums are a poorer place due to that sort of posting IMO.
In answer to the OP, it is bound to be abusive to awful for a while. Best to put on a tin hat and look for glimpses of humour.
I agree that it is extremely rare for someone to change their views on a housemate just because a load of people are jumping up and down calling them names. I mean no one is going to be thinking, "hmmm. Crabeyes. I've never seen it before, but now that I have..."
Ringside seat booked, snacks ordered. I've pretty much given up on the show just read here now, it's a sociologists paradise!
Neither would have been in my top 4 a few weeks back. But now I'd be happy to see them in the finals and even win in Steve's case.
*2) Only if you let it, people can only change your opinion if their truth feels more true to you than your own current belief! Fact.
You can give me 100 reasons why (for example) Josie should win, but unless those points affect the way I see her, you have changed exactly nothing
Yeah but why break the habit of a lifetime.
I think my posts about Josie being fake have been interesting, her little innocent girl act (the only adult in the world to suck her thumb on que for effect and so on)
I don't mind if it is well thought out and intentioned NOT when people just lie outright. People are allowed to have diffrent opinions.
Having said that though I prefer that to the hideous benefit claimants threads:rolleyes:
Congrats Josie!!!!!!!!!!!
No worries, bring on the allstars (or Bring on the No-Marks) same difference
Nobody minds threads that are constructive or destructive towards HM.
It's the constant repeats about the same things that ruin the board.
You must have seen it surely?
A thread is started slagging off a HM, a few posters come and defend the HM. If the defending FM actually manage to make some good points and begin something of a real discussion. The thread is abandoned by the ones who simply want to name call and they immediately start another thread.
And vice versa.
Take your points about Josie sucking her thumb, good, lets have a thread about it. But when you get no response is it right that another is started about the same subject and so on and so on?
I just meant that, for example, somebody might make a valid point about Steve not having a job but by the time anybody can post a reply that topic has been swallowed up in another 5 or 6 pages of "Steve suxx/roxx" nonsense.
Equally, an interesting thread can soon vanish from page 1 as a result of a bunch of people posting spurious threads.
Noooo....
I enjoy reading threads that support or criticise ANY HM.
Since last night I've just noticed a huge increase in random, pointless threads or, worse still, interesting threads that're quickly spammed or trolled to death by fanatical posters.
I just feel that it'd be a shame if people stopped posting anything of real worth on the assumption that it'll quickly be lost under a vast torrent of dross.
Is that what you are planning?
Indeed, why bother?