Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

Boldly going where no slacker has gone before.

The previous thread.

Edited, Mar 17th 2017 10:36am by lolgaxe

Well, I'm not going to pass up the chance for more +1s...

Well, the fact that we lasted so long without an admin shutting it down for content is pretty impressive and worth celebrating.

I doubt it'll be deleted, but I'm sure it'll sink into the depths of the board.

Or not, with how slow this moves nowadays.

I had one of those awful spider-on-body moments. One of the biggest spiders I've ever seen, too.

It was summer, and I was laying on the couch shirtless, watching TV. I couldn't have been older than 9 or 10.

My dad used to do this thing where he'd sneak up and tickle you. But in a way that would make you think it was a house fly. I automatically assumed it was him doing that when I felt something on my back. NOPE. Went to bat "his hand" away, and mine came back with a massive spider on it. And I know now it was a wolf spider, and those bastards hurt when they bite, so I got lucky.

Freaking hate spiders.

Thread dynamics are wierd. Sometimes a particularily large and monolithic thread discourages new posters, where lots of smaller threads would show activity better and encourage forum growth. Though in this case unless they link wowhead here I doubt this forum will see a surge of traffic any time soon. Who knows though.

I guess we could make another 473 pages of posts...

Part of me feels demotivated, though. It took monumental effort on our behalf to get the old thread to where it was. The thread contains four years of constant, daily interaction between a relatively small group of people. I'm pretty sure there are some psychologists out there who would choke their infant babies to death for that kind of empiric data. It's four years of moments in time that will now disappear. The thread had become an icon - a beacon of light in an otherwise mind-shattering darkness - and now it'll slowly fade to the second page where it will be forgotten.

What's more, it had become my sole reason for posting on this website, aside from the occasional rant in the TV/Movies section. There were times where I just felt like not giving a damn, but the thought of contributing to the project of making the largest thread on the site kept me coming back.

I understand that threads need to be locked when they reach critical mass, but there were some 15 posts between the "By the way, we're locking this thread" warning and the actual lock. This thread moves at like 40 posts a day, or something like that. I checked the thread for new posts - there were none - and went to see Star Trek Into Darkness. I come back and it's locked.

Imagine taking your four-year-old pet wombat to the veterinarian for a routine dental check. You go to the toilet while the wombat is getting sedated, and when you come out, you're told that your pet wombat had cancer and was euthanized and cremated while you were gone.

I didn't even get to say goodbye.

My point is: I understand the need to lock big threads, but holy ****, how urgent was it? This is a four-year-old project, and you ended it in a heartbeat. How about a 24-hour heads-up next time, eh?

You know, I'm going to wait around until we reach 473 pages again, and when you're sleeping, I'll bump it to 474 and ruin your plan!

Fair enough, is there now.

At least we passed Aethiens post count.

Or possibly he just never caught up. Did you ever have more posts than the thread?

Up until about 21k posts in the BDT I had more.

I say again, it needs more Horse to be official.

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Nope, nothing. I thought that was the proper way to summon him.

You have to say his name three times, cyn.