RIP threads

[Immenseman]

thnx m8, i'm full of them.

[buttons]

as if you're ever going to get a rule passed that says "don't post about deaths unless they have been covered by media, are famous or use this forum." No.

gd point

thnx m8, i'm full of them.
-glare at jake-

[Immenseman]

i'm more important and made it more coherent into my reply, sorry :eusa_danc

[Barkseh]

Soz I never read the full thread haha.

thnx m8, i'm full of them.
-glare at jake-

[Skajo]

You should never start a sentance with and.

Says who?

[nvrspk4]

Says who?

Its one of those grammatical rules that nobody ever follows The same thing applies to because.

I do see some validity in the thread starter's point, however I think it would be silly to make a rule "Don't post about family deaths."

I don't think that the forum is the place for this, I think its more for a TeenHelp type forum, if people are having trouble dealing with the death of a loved one then that goes in Teen Help but that's a little bit different than an obituary thread.

But if people choose to do so, it should probably be in Spam or Discuss Anything. Probably spam because its closer to that (not that its meaningless, but its more conversational than constructive).

[Skajo]

I'm not saying there should be a rule because that's stupid, I just think there should be a specific place (if it continues) like a "Condolences thread" in Teen Life or something because if someone posts a thread then all it is, is random people saying RIP to someone who they didn't know, don't know and won't know. Silly if you ask me. If you believe that post your so and so threads are classed as spam then these threads should as well.

Should have a sub-forum somewhere with disabled post count maybe?

[nvrspk4]

I'm not saying there should be a rule because that's stupid, I just think there should be a specific place (if it continues) like a "Condolences thread" in Teen Life or something because if someone posts a thread then all it is, is random people saying RIP to someone who they didn't know, don't know and won't know. Silly if you ask me. If you believe that post your so and so threads are classed as spam then these threads should as well.

Should have a sub-forum somewhere with disabled post count maybe?

I understand where you're coming from, but I think the motivation is wrong. Not your motivation, but the general motivation for the creation of a forum. Usually forums are created to give people an opportunity to discuss something, but the prevailing notion seems to be that this forum shouldn't become a place to discuss obituaries. So I think the creation of a forum would be encouraging it even more.

I just think the general forum environment isn't that conducive to these threads and they'll die out eventually as people stop making them.

[Blinger1]

I think the threads like "RIP MY GOLDFISH" or "RIP MY 2 MINUTE OLD SEACAT" are worse.. nobody cares if you have a fish for two minutes and when you put it into your water it dies!!!


And the 'joke RIP' threads are bad imo, we shouldn't joke about people carking it...

[Skajo]

I just think the general forum environment isn't that conducive to these threads and they'll die out eventually as people stop making them.

That's the thing though; it's long been a 'problem' that can't be sorted either way I guess - I don't know if anything can be done about it and nothing most probably will. I just thought I'd bring it to your attention, Nebula.