True Fortress Ameritrash Confessions

Black Barney wrote: I think that uba doesn't like me

I hope you are joking. Your posts always put a smile on my face.

I was very intimidated by this site in the first couple weeks I was here. Some of my friends who I've tried to bring here have described that feeling as, "it feels like going to a party where I don't know anyone"

It does make me sad when you and other people bury good stuff in the "What ... have you been..." threads. I think these threads squash the start of new threads. I think the combination of few new single topic threads and these monster multi topic threads has made Trash Talk increasingly insular, to the point that the site is dying a slow death. New people really do feel like they are at a party where they don't know anyone, and there are no conversations going where they feel like they can just jump in and get to know anyone. But I'm not going to fight that fight again. The last time I tried I got the crap beat out of me by everyone.

When one of Repo's 5-second reviews squashes one of mine off the front page, my blood pressure rises. I don't know why that is. I like his articles.

I will try to be more aware of that in the future.

Black Barney wrote:

The trash talk thing is just a balance. RIght now, it totally feels like walking into a pub or cafe, sitting down with friends and just chatting. I LOVE that. But once in a while some of us end up chatting something up to a level where it should be an article or blog entry to really flush out the topic in the comments section of that article/blog post. That's hard to decide when to move it there, or as you suggest, a new topic at the very least. Not easy.

Give me your permission to split more involved discussions off into their own thread when I see them, or shoot me a PM when something evolves to that level and I'll split it off in to it's own topic.