Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?

Ghost

BREAKING NEWS

Excuse me people, I'd like to pause to make an announcement.

The Hog Pit board's "MU GRIPES AND PEEVES and (current) ARX PEEVE" threads have a combined total of 14, 848 posts in them.

The MILDLY CONSTRUCTIVE board's "MU THINGS I LOVE" board has...

...727 posts.

So, basically (statistically) for every single post that someone posts about something they love about mushing, 20 posts are made about how much it (or the people on it) suck.

(I am getting a lot of mileage out of this gif)

END OF BREAKING NEWS

Sunny

Selira

breaking news:

people talk more about bad shit than good shit.

breaking news:

that is not new information.

Wretched

@Ghost host So we're still doing better than WORA! Wooo.

I mean I assume.

Boom

Ghost

Okay so my delivery was cheesy, but I think the sheer number of posts dedicated to complaining and breaking people down compared to the number of posts related to loving the hobby or working together is telling.

I think it's important to ponder it.

Sunny

@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

Okay so my delivery was cheesy, but I think the sheer number of posts dedicated to complaining and breaking people down compared to the number of posts related to loving the hobby or working together is telling.

I think it's important to ponder it.

Enjoy pondering it. Let us know if you reach any conclusions beyond 'humans be humans and tend to complain more than they praise'.

Tinuviel

@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

Okay so my delivery was cheesy, but I think the sheer number of posts dedicated to complaining and breaking people down compared to the number of posts related to loving the hobby or working together is telling.

I think it's important to ponder it.

People come here more often to complain and debate than to talk about their ooey gooey feelings. Shit's not complicated.

Auspice

Arx thread has a lot of good and bad.

MU Things I Love was started much later.

Data is skewed. Thesis rejected.

Ghost

@Wretched said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

@Ghost host So we're still doing better than WORA! Wooo.

I mean I assume.

God, I cant imagine or remember what WORA's numbers were, but totally probably way higher.

Ghost

@Auspice said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

Arx thread has a lot of good and bad.

MU Things I Love was started much later.

Data is skewed. Thesis rejected.

You're dead to me.

WAIT.

How much later was "Mu things i love" started compared to Mu Gripes and Peeves???

Aha. The hunt for philosophical relevancy in my attempt at making a point resumes!

Tinuviel

"MU Things I Love" was started earlier than Gripes and Peeves. But Random Bitching was started earlier than Love.

Ghost

Okay, sure. I'm not asking everyone to get all Zen about it and perform a group meditation on it, but that the "no holds barred thunderdome complaint" thread has 20 times more posts than people talking about positive stuff is interesting.

Whether or not people complain isnt the point. Nothing is stopping people from using the board to build something. No, the most traveled threads on the forum are ones where you can make personal insults and complain. You could write this off as some kind of human condition theory, but the fact remains that a lot more activity here is used to fuck with each other than to be generally copacetic.

Forum moderators have let the forum be what it is. I'm assuming this 20-to1 statistic is entirely organic.

I think it's poignant.

Sunny

@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

I think it's poignant.

Thank you for sharing your perspective with us.

Ghost

Wretched

Speaking for myself alone. Venting in peeve is CATHARTIC AF. Even if i'm wrong, or people don't agree, sometimes just shouting out what annoys you very loudly in a place where others might share their same feelings, orm opposing feelings, is great. Just letting the poison out, RAWR.

I don't think venting or complaining is bad. When it becomes an echo chamber used to hate on other people... thats another thing. But over the years having a place to just GET OUT THE BADNESS.

Hogpit: the toilet for your opinions.

Doozer

@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

lot more activity here is used to fuck with each other than to be generally copacetic

it's provocative gets the people going

Sunny

This post is deleted!

Ghost

@Sunny Let's not get combative. I've mentioned that I haven't always been the best at it, myself, but am keen to be a part of an effort to fix the problem. I feel this is a group problem that needs a group solution.

And while those boards have 3.2k(etc) posts, I think my overall point stands. As cathartic as bitching and venting may be, I feel that negativity reigns and that those particular boards are a symptom of a bigger issue.

Sunny

@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

@Sunny Let's not get combative. I've mentioned that I haven't always been the best at it, myself, but am keen to be a part of an effort to fix the problem. I feel this is a group problem that needs a group solution.

And while those boards have 3.2k(etc) posts, I think my overall point stands. As cathartic as bitching and venting may be, I feel that negativity reigns and that those particular boards are a symptom of a bigger issue.

Yep, you're right. I deleted the post because it was inappropriately hostile. I do feel like you are a negative influence on this community, but I understand that you are trying to be helpful.

Tinuviel

@Ghost said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

I feel this is a group problem that needs a group solution.

You're seeing a problem where it doesn't exist. This forum was inspired by others that were all about the bitching. That was its original point. So it's only natural that people would use it for that primarily. I don't believe that most people here are as hostile or aggressive elsewhere.