Dear Marvin,
I used to love the forums at Car-Seat.Org. No, not the “upstairs” forums where I should be helping answer questions from parents who need advice on keeping their kids safe. You know, those other forums you get to see once you’ve been a member a while. The ones where you used to be able to troll to your heart’s content and post stuff just to get a rise out of people.
Now, the evil moderators are taking all the fun out of it. They’ve banned topics. They close down any thread the moment there’s a hint of discontent. They seem to have their fingers on the infraction trigger, ready to fire as soon as anything is reported. The forums are soooo boring without drama. How can I make some without being banned?
Signed,
Gina Blue
Dear Gina,
The answer is simple. Post a poll! Everyone is doing it and you should, too! Just make sure it’s on a topic you know has been a little heated lately. The regulars will certainly take the bait and then you can watch the flame fest ensue until the moderators are alerted! You don’t even have to join the resulting debate, unless it needs a little extra fuel to get the fire started, of course.
It’s great fun, so Marvin will give you an example or two:
Enjoy!
Marv.
I’ve appreciated the mods and I LOVE all the polls of late… I think we just need to remember not to start any topics that inevitably lead to heated debate.
Now… if there was a way to do a poll and truly prevent people even bumping it… because the reply button was not an option, and just pin it until the poll was over, then we could poll on topics that are usually heated debates… but until then, I agree with the mods.
Estelle, your polls are just good clean fun and I don’t think you have ever tried to stir poop… in fact, given as you have a new baby now, I’m sure you’re quite sick of poop~!
I appreciate the mods intervention – if I wanted this much drama, I would have figured out how to use the new babycenter website.
Hrmph! So now the mods are evil, are they? Marvin, Marvin, Marvin.
Marvin has had this post in the works for a little while. It wasn’t going to appear until next Monday, but Marvin thought someone was about to steal his idea in regard to a poll about polls;-)
Anyway, poop seems to be stirred a lot lately regardless of intent. But forum traffic is up, as are advertising click-thrus, so Marvin thinks stirring is good! It’s those evil moderators who dont!
Yo, Marvin… I was totally not trying to stir poop. I don’t recall stirring poop with my daily polls… but if you think poop has been stirred, well… you live in a bowl, so I imagine swirling poop in with your drinking/breathing water would suck.