Angry over the unidirectional poop parade of Procrastination Board posters to BOTF, JackDallas and SpeakerNancy have seen fit to hike over there and return the favor a time or two – to the shock, consternation, and collective chagrin of heretofore smug posters who BELIEVED that the nasty stuff would only ever flow in the one direction.

Apparently the regulars over there are so outraged over this predictable tit-for-tat treatment that some of them are considering leaving the Procrastination Board and, one presumes, ceasing posting altogether. Michael Ryerson in particular is weeping in his hanky over the invasion.

Specifically, Ryerson is living in terror that I will personally conduct a stately visit to the Procrastination Board and thoughtfully lower my trousers and lay a steaming thick one right on their posting utopia. I think he’s actually wee-weed himself over the thought.

Oh the heady power! To think that I could be the final straw that broke the back of an entire board! Sniff! And my dear ol’ Mum and Dad predicted that I would never amount to nothin’ back in my grade school days when I was just boosting cop cars and shaking down teachers for lunch money.

I could do it you know. I could go over there and land among those hapless ducklings like a M-80 tossed into a pond. Ka-Bloom! Water and mud and feathers flying everywhere. Nice.

But I don’t wanna. I sort of wish that the short list of BOTF regulars that the Procrastination Board regulars are terrified of [yes, terrified] would back off and let that board sink or swim on its own. I look at it as an interesting experiment you see. In theory they now have all the posting talent they need in order to succeed. As a matter of fact they have sucked in so many former BOTF regulars that this board [the Best of the Fray] theoretically cannot continue producing interesting top posts.

I mean that. By logic alone we must now be dead and buried – sort of like the conservatives after the last election, eh? We are in fact [according to logic] nothing but ghost posters placing dead words on display out of habit. The Procrastination Board IS the new BOTF. Only . . . mysteriously, it is not. It grimaces grotesquely and manages to squeeze out a few biographical postings or cooking recipes or tirades against BOTF posters once per day and that’s all it seems capable of doing with that stunning list of talent.

Meanwhile the dead and buried BOTF board keeps chugging away as if it hasn’t lost two-thirds of its regulars who, by their own claims, represent the intellectual crème de la crème of posters. So why is it the Procrastination Board that is the veritable posting wasteland and total joke?

I’ll be honest with you, I don’t understand this weird phenomenon and that’s why I want to let those brave pioneers post in peace. They cannot fail you see. It is in fact impossible for them to fail, and yet apparently they are failing. I’d simply like to study them from afar to see WHY they are failing.

So, anyway, that’s why I’m resisting the temptation to go over there and say, “Boo!” Yes, yes, it would be very satisfying to watch them wet themselves as a result, but I do not want any of them to be able to say after their little utopia crashes and burns that I had anything to do with their inevitable failure. I want it to be in their own incapable hands whether they succeed or fail.

You other BOTF regulars do whatever you wish but I, for one, am staying put in regards to my posting habits. I don’t want to contaminate the great migration experiment of the Procrastination Board.

No. I would leave it alone.

It's felt great for me to stay out of there. They are only baiting and chumming just hoping and praying you and I will go there. Don't.

It should be enough amusement for you to read it and how desperate they are to bait you into going there. I advise against it. It's what they are begging for.

~LAM

Plus 20 on your second to last sentence. This one:

Good for you,GW!

And honestly don't miss em.

I'll not razz the ones who come back, but certainly not going out of my way to read average thoughts from unimpressive people.

am having wicked good fun in regards to this stuff. They really are wetting themselves over the notion that you and I are going to join JackDallas and SpeakerNancy in tormenting them over on the Procrastination Board. It therefore amuses me greatly NOT to go over there and post anything.

I never before had to do nothing whatsoever in order to have an entire board of supposed adults shake in fear because of me. The heady sense of power has actually made me crack a smile once or twice. It's even enough to make me wring my hands together in classic villainous fashion and utter a belly shaking mwuahahahahaha or two!

Frankly, knowing that I don’t have to do anything in order to KEEP them terrified is sweet. I feel like Dr. Doom on permanent vacation. So let them fret and worry over nothing because I’m not intending to do anything to mess up this situation that I consider to be a veritable posting nirvana.

At least you have admitted your intentions if you decide to post there.

I know.It's actually delightfully enjoyable,in it's way.

;-)

Actually I like the situation as is. My advise would be to let it be not destroy it, although I have no doubt that it could easily be done. Here is my reasoning.

I have a top post over there that I made last night. At this time there are 324 views and 7 responses and I have not made a single reply in the thread below the top post. 324 views means that everyone there has read it. Some will deny it but you know as well as I do that if either of us makes a top post over there, no one will be able to resist opening it up (it's human nature). They may not respond but I am not going there seeking responses; I post there for the views.

It's like manna from heaven. When everyone was here at BOTF many would miss our posts, for various reasons; but a post over there every two weeks or so will draw them like moths to a flame. We should be stealthy, come to them like a thief in the night.

Jack

am genuinely interested in seeing if they can keep their board running for any meaningful length of time, say for two years in vigorous health. What's two years? We blink and two years have zipped by on the BOTF board. Two years is nothing.

Anyway, since they keep going out of their way to paint me as evil over on the Procrastination Board -- even though I have never posted over there -- they manage to keep my interest -- er -- up, so to speak. It's an ego thing. Besides which, without doing a damn thing I seemed to have inspired Ryerson to cry. Now THAT's something to be proud of!

I just wish I knew how I was doing it since I don't even post over there. It's magic I tell you -- it's magic.

What's the point of power if you don't abuse it?

But of course, NOT posting there could be an exercise in power because, you see, you would be providing something to post against. Depriving them of that power is an exercise in power. Hmm. . .this is a tough one.

As it is, I don't see myself spending much time there. I think "withering on the vine" is thier fate. Dying not with a bang but with a yawn. Entropy has the last laugh.

group dynamics and long term stupidity. As both Schad and Dr.No pointed out to them more than once they need antagonistic posters in order to give them something to do other than pat one another on the back and exchange tepid biographies and cooking recipes.

They need, in other words, the very posters that they have run away from with their tail tucked between their legs looking over their shoulders in terror while yapping like abused curs.

They are a pathetic group but I would like to see what happens as the weeks turn into months. Yes, leave them alone for a week or two and let them settle down again in their smug [if nervous] collectiveness.