Todd,
Another shaky anology.
Caste systems are usually marked by occupational stratification. (A modern example is salary vs. hourly employees in a company.) Where it is difficult to move classes. Further, it (a caste system) is usually propogated through rules and restrictions of marriage. Thus keeping the separation.
If there is a caste system at all, it based on thoughtfulness and merits of post. If you give good, sound, consistent advice in accordance with (mostly) the MB principles, you will become more valued.
If anything, this is a free market where the "currency" is good ideas and sound advice and those in the "upper crust" have bought their way there with good advice.
(Idiotville being an exception, where clout is granted in direct proportion to inanity, but that rarely bleeds to "real" threads where we are trying to help.)
I did not mean to imply that your registration date meant that you weren't wise, only that it appeared you lacked the history that older members have. I have no idea when you started reading.
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Another defense of the 'ville. It is quite rude to threadjack. That is general netiquette. So if I want to post just a general comment that has little to do with MB or helping someone to a friend of mine who is posting on a thread, well, that would be rude to put it on their thread.
And Idiotville is convenient. Don't have to log onto another board, start my e-mail program, etc.
That is as strong an argument for having it as your argument that it pushes meaningful threads off the page 1 position.
Now, you have posted over and over again that nobody is defending Idiotville. Questioning us as to why we can't, and almost implying that it is proof that you are right.
For example:
Everyone keeps making tangential points. The quest of this thread is the elemental question: does IV need multiple threads?
Amid all the consternation over P's time on his hands the question remains unanswered.
Can anyone - anyone - defend the need for a second IV thread?
I have answered with a defense, and posed a question back. What is REALLY wrong with it....
Your response...
Yes, master I am grasshopper! There's another topic: the caste system divided amongst the just got here members and the been here a long time members.
If I am here four years from now, do me a favor: either shoot me or throw me into one of the Idiotville threads. Your pick of which Idiotville. By then, there prolly will be fifty of them.
Doing exactly what you were complaining about earlier.
So based on what I have seen so far, I could easily draw the conclusion that you are just here to stir up trouble and call for you to be banned from the board. Seeing as how it is not directly contributing to the recovery of marriages and that there must be a board out there somewhere dedicated to the stirring up of trouble.
But that conclusion would be made a little hastily. As I have not read any of your posts and am not sure if you are contributing to the site as a whole or not.
In the same vein, you have not given Idiotville a try, so why the hasty judgement?
THAT is exactly what we use Idiotville for. Poking fun at one another, witty banter, and the like. Come on over. We don't bite (much, and then, only in a loving way).
Test your "caste system" theory out. Unless you are going to become one of "those" posters who just fires off at flaws and such, in which case you WILL be "demoted in the ranks" in that you will pretty much be ignored.
Which is exactly what you should do if the Idiotville thread and its cousins bothers you.
NCWalker
