Why I miss old clickies: a lament...

[The Coil]

Do you think the drop in entertaining posts has in someway been because POS left us in the wilderness and walked of into the sunset with his witty diatribe?

I was waiting for someone to bring this up...I actually mentioned it earlier in a post but then edited it out, because it didn't quite fit into the flow of the post.

A few thoughts:

Please don't refer to POS's posts as witty. &hirr&Leto is witty, Colonel T is witty, McIvan is witty. You cheapen the word when you apply it to POS's posts.

No question, POS posted a lot. I thought most of his posts were off topic spam or silly permutations on three topics: 'boy am I great', 'don't you all love me', and 'I hate clickies'. I often suspected him of having a word document with a bunch of phrases on it that he just cut and pasted from to write his posts. I just found him irritating. And the worst kind of irritating, the kind where the person is being irritating just because he gets some sort of sociopathic high out of irritating other people. I guess some might argue that a board full of POS spam is better than a board full of nothing. I don't think so. But I guess some might argue that a board full of nothing is better than a board full of clickie spam. So maybe it's just my preference.

No question, his tactics posts were sometimes helpful, although sometimes too simplistic and/or misleading. But to me, not worth wading through all his blather for. And you can still find his tactics stuff all over if you really want to, and most of the info in them can be easily found in other places with a quick search.

Also, no question, I found it strangely entertaining to taunt him. He's one of those people who is almost a caricature of himself, so it's almost too easy. And it was fun to watch him squirm and change the subject every time anyone pointed out the (many) inconsistancies in anything he was saying. So I sort of miss the entertainment value there. But I like being able to read a thread more than three posts long on this board without having to deal with a picture of POS's virtual "medals" that he gave himself (you want to talk meaningless, MR, here's where you should start) even more.

Again, just my opinions and preferences, I'm sure there are those that think he was worth having around...