[Brazelton] Michelle McNamara - crime blogger and Patton Oswalt's wife

PatrThom

PatrThom

Saw the news last night, but of course you never realize how much else is going on with someone until you see their name in the papers in the news.

--Patrick
 
Jay

Jay

Gonna be a little bit of an asshole here but the number of Brazelton threads is TOO HIGH.

I know 2016 is a tough year so far but FFS does the wife of a somewhat known comedian merit a thread?

Unless it's a huge celebrity, these things should all go in one thread.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

PatrThom said:
What do you say, @Dave ? Should there be a "Dead" thread?
If we move toward that model, I vote for it to be in the "Health and Advice" category.

--Patrick
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We've had one before, and it sort of died off. Either people think someone's important enough to merit a thread, or they tend to not post.

I dunno, I have no clue who this is, honestly, and I would say such a thread is useful, but....
 
Jay

Jay

Food for thought... 9 of the last 40 updated topics are Brazeltons.[DOUBLEPOST=1461475379,1461475284][/DOUBLEPOST]14 of the last 50.

28%
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I feel like we've had this discussion before, but I can't remember how it concluded. I suppose against having an all-encompassing Brazelton thread, because we still have the individual ones. I think a dead thread is a thread I and others would forget to check and thus might miss.

Also, what merits a big celebrity varies from person to person. How do we measure that? If someone makes a thread for a celebrity they liked, but isn't considered big, is Dave going to send a PM telling them "that one doesn't matter enough, throw them in the dead thread"?
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Zero Esc said:
I feel like we've had this discussion before, but I can't remember how it concluded.
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As I said, it ended with the creation of a "small deaths" thread, which quickly died of its own.
There's barely any movement around here anyway, why worry about those few new threads that get posted? 90% of all discussion is in the different rant and victory threads because all those things "aren't worth starting a new thread over".
Perhaps we should all just start a lot more threads about small stuff so Jay doesn't get bothered by too many Brazelton threads in comparison? I'm sure having 50 new threads each week about all the small stuff will be more to his liking :awesome:
 
General Specific

General Specific

Alright, sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to check with @Jay to see if someone was notable enough to create a thread about. I thought someone who got a front page story on NBCnews.com was worthy of a thread, but I guess not.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

General Specific said:
Alright, sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to check with @Jay to see if someone was notable enough to create a thread about. I thought someone who got a front page story on NBCnews.com was worthy of a thread, but I guess not.
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NBC is blocked by the brutal Canadian Supremacy Regime. Jay only sees MooseNews.com now and Halforums.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

General Specific said:
Alright, sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to check with @Jay to see if someone was notable enough to create a thread about. I thought someone who got a front page story on NBCnews.com was worthy of a thread, but I guess not.
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It's ok. We both know his real motivation was to corral all the [Brazelton] stuff into one single thread so he could more conveniently ignore it.

--Patrick
 
Dave

Dave

Staff member
Moosenews? I want to get Moosenews!!

And I don't care which way we go. People with their own threads is fine with me.
 
Jay

Jay

General Specific said:
Alright, sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to check with @Jay to see if someone was notable enough to create a thread about. I thought someone who got a front page story on NBCnews.com was worthy of a thread, but I guess not.
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Firstly, I don't get why you folks need to get so uppity about my comment. You plebs. I'm clearly not stating you need to check with me if you need to create a thread here... albeit, now that you brought it up...it should be encouraged....

Secondly, NBC'whatever' is where your particular issue lies. If YOU'RE getting news from NBCNEWS and the wife of a somewhat known comedian has died due to natural causes is headline news, I can GUARANTEE you there's far more newsworthy things happening out there. I for one, don't give a damn, life is short enough as it is and don't need a quarter of the threads in this sub-forum filled with death and misfortune.

My suggestion can be taken into consideration or not, it doesn't matter to me, I wonder now why I bothered, this place just makes me sad. Oh well.

But hey, that's just me and everyone can proceed on clicking the passive aggressive icon.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Jay said:
But hey, that's just me and everyone can proceed on clicking the passive aggressive icon.
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No one rated your post as Informative, and that's definitely the most passive aggressive rating icon we have.[DOUBLEPOST=1461555365,1461554767][/DOUBLEPOST]See?!
 
General Specific

General Specific

Jay said:
Firstly, I don't get why you folks need to get so uppity about my comment. You plebs. I'm clearly not stating you need to check with me if you need to create a thread here... albeit, now that you brought it up...it should be encouraged....

Secondly, NBC'whatever' is where your particular issue lies. If YOU'RE getting news from NBCNEWS and the wife of a somewhat known comedian has died due to natural causes is headline news, I can GUARANTEE you there's far more newsworthy things happening out there. I for one, don't give a damn, life is short enough as it is and don't need a quarter of the threads in this sub-forum filled with death and misfortune.

My suggestion can be taken into consideration or not, it doesn't matter to me, I wonder now why I bothered, this place just makes me sad. Oh well.

But hey, that's just me and everyone can proceed on clicking the passive aggressive icon.
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Well, considering this is not the first time you have suggested stopping the Brazelton threads and they are still here, might I suggest you grow a thicker skin and just ignore them? Basic forum rule, if you don't like a thread or don't want to read about something, DON'T CLICK ON IT.

And calling us "plebs" is certain to win friends and admirers. (that was sarcasm, by the way, since you seemed incapable of recognizing it earlier or are just being intentionally thickheaded)

As for more newsworthy things out there, you are right. There are. Shall we discuss the ISIS Terror group? How about the mass shooting in Ohio? What about the American election? ...or would all of those make you sad? After all, this forum is specifically designed to make you happy, Jay. (there's another example of sarcasm for you)

I posted this thread because I am a big fan of Patton Oswalt and I thought, probably correctly, that there are other fans of his on these forums that may not have heard and may want to reach out to Patton over facebook or other social media to express their support. But you couldn't just let the thread go, could you? You had to inject yourself as the arbiter of what is acceptable to post. Well, we already have people who do that. They are the people with Blue and Red names. So next time you want to make a post about how you feel like something doesn't fit or YOU THINK that something doesn't belong here. Please shove it up your ass.

I'm sorry, @Dave et al. Remove the thread, lock it, edit down my post; whatever you deign needs to be done, please do it.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

There's an entire subforum for sports that I've never clicked on once. Why? Not into sports. I mean, at all. None. But that doesn't mean I think it doesn't have a place here. I don't give a shit about sports, so I don't visit that subforum. Plain and simple. Other people like sports (or, you know, most people)? All power to 'em.
 
strawman

strawman

I was contemplating this morning just how much everyone here is a fan of compartmentalization. Unlike many (most?) forums, we have huge threads under which most content fits. We've got a range of whine-rant-victory-win threads for everyday personal events, we have a politics thread, movies, sex, pictures (funny, political, self), a handful of big sports threads, etc, etc. And in case there is any doubt, there's the random crap thread.

Sure, we get a few new threads now and then for other topics, but a surprising amount of forum activity occurs in these huge thread compartments.

So the brazelton threads tend to stick out. If we broke out even 10% of the content we put in the other threads into their own threads, the brazelton threads wouldn't stand a chance - they'd fall off the page pretty quickly unless a lot of people were mourning.

It would also look like the forum was much busier than it actually appears to outsiders.

If we bottled it up into a single "People you've not met but their lack of respiration saddens many" thread I don't know that it would serve any particular good purpose, other than Jay's personal unhappiness at having too many minor celebrity's lives celebrated post death.

I suspect that if we continue to compartmentalize everything, though, it will not increase participation over the long run. Having a few overly active threads seems like it would be as bad for the community as having too many inactive threads.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

stienman said:
Unlike many (most?) forums, we have huge threads under which most content fits.
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What I've noticed most is that, unlike most other fora, ours is not about a specific theme. People always ask me, "You're always on that forum. What's it about?" And then I have to stare blankly and reply, "What isn't it about?"

--Patrick
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

PatrThom said:
What I've noticed most is that, unlike most other fora, ours is not about a specific theme. People always ask me, "You're always on that forum. What's it about?" And then I have to stare blankly and reply, "What isn't it about?"

--Patrick
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Nerd culture? Not just geek culture though, or sports wouldn't fit :p There's sports nerd and game nerds and photo nerds and politics nerds and nerdy nerds and :p
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I think steinman has a good point. For convenience sake, we have a movie news thread, when sometimes movies merit their own thread and don't get them. Same with some video games; that forum is like three threads constantly updating, with not much other traffic because all significance goes under the Video Game News. Some threads I think it makes sense (what movie did you last see, the rant threads) but when stuff comes up, instead of finding its place in the random thread, it might be worth using the New Post function, even if it ends up being a thread that dies in a week or so.
 
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