Facebook group

[hooplala]

But I guess I don't get an opinion cause I'm new around here, so kill me.

As a n00b, you actually get your opinion, and a taco.  Please send your taco voucher to ECH.

[Triple Zero]

Like, enjoy it if you want, troll it if you want, but if you're just gonna cry, STFU y'know?

There is no crying in Discordia.

Well, there is, but they'd better be tears of pure awesome distilled from concentrated mittens, OR ELSE.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

nor do I think we should hold back from generating new types of Discordian Societies in order to protect this one.

I agree with this comment, especially the quoted bit.

Likewise.

[Richter]

In the interests of fairness, I owe (1) Horror ^tm to both Cram and Roger for their new groups, and the resulting email cheesy buildup in my email inbox.  In the few mintues I give Facebook daily, these are good for a chuckle, but I see them more as augmenting and drawing a different sort of crowd into the fold. 

Those who by nature or mood want bite sized 4chan style blurbs, comment flame wars, and lack the attention span or coherence for longer posts will be happy there.  Prime meme - bomb breeding ground.  Free fire Pun zone.

Longer back and forth disucssions, writing, Intermittens assembly, etc, you can't replace this joint.  If anything I see it giving an outlet the silly one-off comments that are off and on bitched about.

[Suu]

The group moves too fast, it's driving me crazy and I can't keep up with it. I basically turned off all the notifications from it and check in to take a peek now and again.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The group moves too fast, it's driving me crazy and I can't keep up with it. I basically turned off all the notifications from it and check in to take a peek now and again.

That's pretty much how I treat Facebook in general.

[East Coast Hustle]

The biggest problem I see with it is that none of the people who aren't already on PD.com seem to be worth a good goddamn. And no, I'm not interested in taking them by the hand and showing them the way. I expect my noobs to be already charged with a full compliment of piss, vinegar, and lulz, and this group has so far done nothing but disappoint.

[LMNO]

As I was saying to Cram earlier, it often really does appear that PD.com is the Outlier among Outliers.

[Cramulus]

The biggest problem I see with it is that none of the people who aren't already on PD.com seem to be worth a good goddamn. And no, I'm not interested in taking them by the hand and showing them the way. I expect my noobs to be already charged with a full compliment of piss, vinegar, and lulz, and this group has so far done nothing but disappoint.

If you're disappointed, I wonder what you were expecting?

Even cool people, when dumped into a medium where everybody is gnashing and is only posting short pithy messages, sound like turds. This is not because those people are turds, it's because they're communicating over a stupid medium. I mean, it's not like the PD.com people in the facebook group are acting awesome either (with a few exceptions).


I'm trying to view it pragmatically:

I'm not let down that the group isn't instantly posting absurdist shakespeare. I'm actually pretty excited that 50+ self-identified Discordians who are NOT PD forumites are now exposed to stuff like the Et Cetera, the Apple Talk Dialogues, Intermittens, & Postergasm. It's a fresh audience.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's Facebook.

[Cuddlefish]

I don't see what the issue is.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It's a fresh audience.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I, for one, view them as camouflage.  They're all noise and no signal, and they make Discordianism look fucking ridiculous, like a pack of autistic kids playing house.

This is a GOOD thing for those of us who are up to no good, as it makes us look harmless.  It also produces a very large pool of scapegoats.

I will be leaving the group tonight, though, for two reasons.

1.  I can't get rid of the chat window, and

2.  Even with my settings changed, I'm getting a couple of hundred emails a day, linking me to silly shit.

I'll just stay here and write "absurdist Shakespeare". 

But for the love of "Bob", PLEASE don't invite them here.  I invited one guy, before I realized what an idiot he is.  Just leave them out on Facebook, where they accomplish their purpose.

[Phox]

I, for one, view them as camouflage.  They're all noise and no signal, and they make Discordianism look fucking ridiculous, like a pack of autistic kids playing house.

This is a GOOD thing for those of us who are up to no good, as it makes us look harmless.  It also produces a very large pool of scapegoats.

I will be leaving the group tonight, though, for two reasons.

1.  I can't get rid of the chat window, and

2.  Even with my settings changed, I'm getting a couple of hundred emails a day, linking me to silly shit.

I'll just stay here and write "absurdist Shakespeare". 

But for the love of "Bob", PLEASE don't invite them here.  I invited one guy, before I realized what an idiot he is.  Just leave them out on Facebook, where they accomplish their purpose.

Two things.
1. If you just sign out of the chat altogether, it goes away.
2. I have no idea did you uncheck the box next to your email address in the group settings?

Not that I care if you stay with those fuckers or not, I have deemed them not even worth trolling.

[Adios]

I, for one, view them as camouflage.  They're all noise and no signal, and they make Discordianism look fucking ridiculous, like a pack of autistic kids playing house.

This is a GOOD thing for those of us who are up to no good, as it makes us look harmless.  It also produces a very large pool of scapegoats.

I will be leaving the group tonight, though, for two reasons.

1.  I can't get rid of the chat window, and

2.  Even with my settings changed, I'm getting a couple of hundred emails a day, linking me to silly shit.

I'll just stay here and write "absurdist Shakespeare". 

But for the love of "Bob", PLEASE don't invite them here.  I invited one guy, before I realized what an idiot he is.  Just leave them out on Facebook, where they accomplish their purpose.

The one you started seems okay, at least I am putting some stuff there.