I basically agree. I called it a drift because it's been slow and it's taken place over a long period of time. But it always seems to be in the same direction.

There have been more entertaining posts in this thread than anything I can remember. You won't acknowledge that, of course, because none of them have been made by you.

Has it been a train wreck as well? Sure. People follow hootie around and spend entire days doing nothing but actively trying to derail his threads. Then, people like you come in and make the keen observation that the thread is a train wreck...well, no shit, Sherlock. Worse still, rather than address those actively and openly trolling, you ban Clay from the thread and threaten to ban hootie from the entire board. Do you honestly not realize how hypocritical that is?

You want proof as to how good this thread is? Frazod has stopped trolling it. He's here reading and contributing now. Even he realizes how good this thing is, and nobody dislikes hootie and saul more than he does. Truth be told, he's got every right to troll this thread. After all, one of the themes of the thread is shoe-horning a fat joke at his expense into every roast.

Eventually, you've got to get over the fact that there are better posters on this board than you...even if you don't like them.

Dude. Dude. Dude. smh - Do you really think I'm trying to be most popular poster on this site? I used to think you were a lot more intelligent than Tom Cash but your posts are becoming more and more Tom-esque in nature.

What constitutes a good thread?

Entertainment value

I come here to be entertained - whether it is through funny videos, football talk, girly pictures, or random weirdness.

This thread is entertaining.

Therefore, this thread is a good thread.

Please don't ban him from the thread, Phobia. His roasts have been outstanding.

It isn't hard to get your BA or BS. I don't know if it used to be some insurmountable feat in the olden days; but it isn't a difficult task. If you're willing to take on even more schooling and debt to go after your Master's or Doctorate, it had better damn sure be in a field where you will recoup that massive debt.

Diddy talking down to Hootie because he chose to forego a higher education and pursue a life he seems to enjoy is ridiculous. Hootie realistically added years to his earning potential and won't have ungodly student loan debt to answer for. No shame in that. Maybe he'll regret it in ten or twenty years. Maybe not.

There are plenty of baristas and waiters with bullshit BA and BS degrees that don't translate to a damn thing in the real world.

Why on earth would I ban him from the thread? You have to break a rule to get that. Usually Clay is smart enough to skirt them. He wasn't yesterday.

Well, I guess it's a matter of interpretation. I was worried that he might have disrespected a moderator. :p

It's an entertaining thread, no doubt. But it is so due to the rubberneck factor related to the train-wreck. I just have a problem qualifying a member's value based on the number of responses their threads have. Does that make Big Daddy one of the most valuable members of the Planet due to his girly thread? Who gets to take credit for this thread? PGM? Hootie? SaulG?

Sure it's entertaining, but it seems pretty obvious that this thread is, and was always destined to become, just a suppository of flotsam occasionally graced with a good roast or two.

You're pretty much an idiot. Think about what I said. After 2000 more posts, this thread will cease to float? What could I have meant by such a thing? What happens when a thread gets to 10000? Why do they put those little red pieces of wax around bologna, but not square ham lunch meat?

You're so busy taking offense to the most non offensive thing I've said that it is hilarious. Even going so far to look up my stats, truth is I don't start a lot of threads. Do the math. That's an average of about 10 per year and the ones I do start aren't typically giant conversation starters just things that matter to me. Of those I have forged some pretty good friendships on here that matter to me a ton more than your precious thread of value.

If this is what you consider makes this place special, I would have to disagree. This is nothing more than a post whore thread disguised as having a point.

"You have book smarts but you don't have common sense"...

The universal response of those less educated than you. Because somehow those things are mutually exclusive.

Well kind of, yeah. I love that thread. Without him that thread wouldn't exist. Therefore, he added a lot of value with that one thread.

Probably PGM and Hootie (and now Saul), because they set the stage for the platform for the trainwreck.

But who cares who "gets credit"? We all win!

It takes a good idea/jumping off point and it takes participants of all kinds to make entertainment.

GIF posters
Snarky one liner posters
Goofy posters
A-hole posters
Intelligent posters
Fat posters
Tranny posters
Government conspiracy posters
Excessively politically liberal posters
Regular dude posters
Borderline reeruned posters
Blackbob troll posters

I don't know how I ever got that idea. Tell us again about how you molded this site and take posters under your wing. I love watching people bathe in their own self-satisfaction, and there is no bigger fan of phobia than phobia.

If you're really worried about that then you might want to consider the repercussions of people who have violated that rule since its inception. One person has faced mod action under this rule so far. Clay has been banned from a couple of threads. Pretty frightening when you think about it. All this power gone to the mods heads.