When did this area become the general board???

[bg23]

<'as gin through the nostrils>

You laugh at a lot of stuff, don't you?

 

[McKenna]

Not as Authors, per se. I'm just saying - the AH is like a little club, where authors can be easily located, and can talk amongst themselves, not just about author-stuff, but other stuff. Hang out, in other words. On the GB, we're just litsters. On the AH, we're both litsters and authors. That's all.

But it's my experience that authors hangout at the GB, too. Killahippies comes to mind. Frankly, we're just litsters here, too, under the thinly-veiled guise of authors. I get the feeling most of us are here because it was easier to infiltrate the ranks of the AH than at the GB.

I'm just saying there is no difference anymore, other than this place is smaller and more clique-ish. There might have been a difference at one point (I believe there was a year or more ago,) but that difference has disintegrated. The lines of delineation have become blurred.

We aren't any better or worse than the folks at the GB.

 

[bg23]

But it's my experience that authors hangout at the GB, too. Killahippies comes to mind. Frankly, we're just litsters here, too, under the thinly-veiled guise of authors. I get the feeling most of us are here because it was easier to infiltrate the ranks of the AH than at the GB.

Of course we do. I'm a GBer.

I'm just saying there is no difference anymore, other than this place is smaller and more clique-ish. There might have been a difference at one point (I believe there was a year or more ago,) but that difference has disintegrated. The lines of delineation have become blurred.

The difference is that the AH is almost completely made up of authors. The GB isn't.

We aren't any better or worse than the folks at the GB.

Aside from the sheer number of trolls over there, and the fact that the posters here are more rational (so I've found). But then I didn't say anything about "better or worse off" anyway.

 

[McKenna]

The difference is that the AH is almost completely made up of authors. The GB isn't.

Almost, but not completely. Doesn't that make it a GB?

Whatever, we'll disagree until we're blue in the face.

 

[Somme]

You laugh at a lot of stuff, don't you?

<nods>......it does have it's dangers though....

 

[Liar]

Almost, but not completely. Doesn't that make it a GB?

Methingks the difference is this: Can you start a writerly thread over there without getting flooded with the usual chatter, or simply stared down. I know I tried. Didn't work very well.

We have them here on occation...mini workshops, research questions, the NaNo support thread is another example. Those are things that wouldn't fit into the SDC or Editor forums that have too tight framed definitions. They belong here imo.

That doesn't mean that the "hangout" aspect doesn't belong here too. All I said earlier (was it inthis thread or the other? dunno.) was that I thought it would be cool if those threads got some more elbow space.

I'll do my share, by posting more in them.

#L

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Having been going back and forth to the GB, I can't say there's much of a difference. This place seems smaller, less people, a little more clique-ish, that's for sure. I haven't found this place to be any more "rational" or "intelligent".

Just a thought.

 

[cantdog]

No, perhaps not. But a discussion can always go on here, and it's damn chaotic there. There are a lot of people posting and the threads whistle by.

If you do get a good one going you have to hold on with a hard grip to it because people post on the thread with intent to disrupt it.

 

[Boxlicker101]

When I first came to Lit. I started to read and post on GB. It seemed to me to be basically a hostile place with few if any writers. When I came here, it was much better. Some hostility but not as much, and mostly because of disagreement with some of the opinons being expressed.

Some of the threads are political, especially in the last month; some are frivolous and some are just strange. We do discuss writin-related things, though.

 

[impressive]

<pissy rant>

Don't know 'bout y'all, but even the non-writing threads bear fruit in terms of writing. I learn from you all. Hell, dr_m writes a post about armpit hair, and I learn from his grammar and sentence structure. I learn about relationships from the banter of cybermates. I learn about Mexican holidays from perdita. I learn about human nature, politics, religion, emotions, and even logic. I learn about pigheadedness and passion, devotion and delight. I learn about pumpkin cheesecake (which just MAY show up in my next story) and mythological beasts and sailing ships.

It ALL influences who we are and how we approach our craft.

</pissy rant>

 

[cantdog]

That wasn't very pissy. You want pisyy, missy? I think americandemon was a troll, dragging bait through the AH to make us bite at it, like trolling for a fish off a bass boat.

I notice the trollin little motha didn't come back and discuss it in what looked like his or her own thread, now. So poo on her, or him, and the whole sucker discussion, which we all fell for.

That's pissy.

 

[impressive]

That wasn't very pissy. You want pisyy, missy? I think americandemon was a troll, dragging bait through the AH to make us bite at it, like trolling for a fish off a bass boat.

I notice the trollin little motha didn't come back and discuss it in what looked like his or her own thread, now. So poo on her, or him, and the whole sucker discussion, which we all fell for.

That's pissy.

And see? Illustrated my point beautifully! I learned about being PISSY, too!

 

[cantdog]

Yours sounded fine and impassioned, to me. But then, I always admire most things about brainy women.

 

[Guest]

Hey cant -

I love your AV but I just have to know (speaking of piss) -

Are you actually fishing or are you just peeing off the dock?

 

[cantdog]

Not quite fishing. I cast a plug (that's a technical term for a weighted object with no hook) a few times to straighten out the line by a good soaking and stretch before going out with my nephew to fish. The dock was where I did the casting of the plug.

You should see the camp where this dock is. What a place. No road to it, no electricity except from the solar panels my daughter put in three years ago, no TV, no 'phone. Freedom, and the lake and woods to have it in. They cannot call you in to work. World War Three could start and you might not even know.

Everything was built by hand tools, consequently. It's quirky and altogether a lovable place. Sorta like what I'm!

 

[Guest]

But you changed the AV already! No fair!

 

[cantdog]

Have a picture of me helping do the roof of that camp, back in'99.

 

[impressive]

Damn, I was hoping for the "caulking" photo.

 

[cantdog]

Unfortunately for posterity I was alone on that trip.

Here's the interior of the place this year. That hole in the roof is the skylight now.

The girl with the white stripes , next-to-last as you would read, is my daughter.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

To be fair to americandemon:

I have checked and americandemon has been a member since 10-01-2002 with 16 stories, 9 of which have received Hs and 22 poems, so s/he definitely qualifies to speak as a writer.

In those 2 years s/he has posted 146 times, GB or AH. That would seem to make her/him a bit of a newbie on (either) board. With that record of lack of participation, there is something to what cantdog suggests about trolling.

Another possibility is that s/he maintains one identity for posting and another for publishing stories, and got them mixed up.

In that case, s/he deserves to be misunderstood.

 

[impressive]

Yours sounded fine and impassioned, to me. But then, I always admire most things about brainy women.

Shhhhhhhh! I'm sticking to the twitty flirt cover. Less pressure.

 

[cantdog]

I apologize about the pissy rant, then. It sounded so GB to me. My threads, or the ones I was posting to, in that board were continually plagued by flying demons who whiffle and chortle through the thread, drop a load of quick mock and then pass off into the sunset. Chaos and bird droppings. Most of them had penis avs.

 

[cantdog]

I guess I'm still pissy, but about something else, now. I need to relax or something.