I fail to see how a civilized conversation can take place when everyone feels like there needs to be a big gigantic touchy feeley opinion post every week (or to prolong one for as …

(Lounge topic) Some of the choices made lately have driven users to just full out insult mode. I can attest to doing it myself.... It's just really that nothing get's done here. …

I've noticed a bit of negativity on the forums recently. Not just commentary on things that are negative, but individual posts whose sole purpose is to degrade or dismiss another …

You would have done much better (and cash out sooner) buying some Microsoft stock instead of that mac.

According to Wolfram|Alpha, the average inflation rate from 1984 to 2008 (the latest year available) was 3.75%. $2495 at 3.75% for 26 years comes to $6500. If this auction goes o…

It also depends on whether on is discussing the inflation adjusted value or not.

Once upon a time it was worth $2495.00. How many years will it take to surpass its new price? Eventually even Model T Fords became worth more than new.

The typical 3-port MIDI adapter (that is 3 MIDI outs on the same 16 channels) is merely a 1 MHz crystal to provide the clock for the Mac's SCC chip to generate 31.25 kilobaud and s…

All decisions are final and should, under no circumstances, be the subject of open debate on the forums. Click to expand...

...IIRC, MR was banned for being pugnacious, unrelenting in his constant complaining about almost everything under the sun and, most especially, for his obstinant refusal to remove…

Actually, since I've been back, almost a year now, I don't think ANY thread of this type has EVER had EVERYONE say they don't like any individual change of policy/enforcement of ex…

I still fail to see how this helps anything though. All it does is make us press a differant button and make the layout make even less sense.

I'm just going to come right out and say it. If you feel the need to continually say that we are like a fascist regime, or if you feel the need to say something like... Stup…

Stupid crap like this is why I pretty much never visit here anymore. Click to expand... Interesting

inb4lock Stupid crap like this is why I pretty much never visit here anymore. The admins do something, people don't like it, everyone complains, the admins ignore everyone. …

Very cool, comrade! Taking even constructive criticism can be difficult. It seems you've got a bit of ye olde gentlemanly style about you! Some of the "new recruits" in the MLA wo…

I will admit to being a little guilty of Quote-button overuse until prodded. I used to be really good about it, but got lazy, and hadn't even noticed I was 'offending' until someo…

that only excludes noobies, which may not be a good thing (just offering a bit of yang to your ying)

Activate the Quote function after a certain amount of posts. Like if you post 40 times you'll get the Quote button.

I normally try to avoid bickering and threads that are about to go up in flames, but since Trash80 is welcoming a bit of feedback... While it may have been a bit petty of the admi…

leave it gone, work builds character, and if its too much for them, well...

. . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . pause . . . OK, we'vwe had some thoughtful, non-emotional posts by some new and some already parcipitating co…

All you're going to accomplish is encourage people to stop quoting entirely by making it too much work. Click to expand... I dislike work as much as the next slacker, but so fa…

Its just a button people! Just let the experiment run its course. I'm sure you will forget that this event even happened a few months from now. Click to expand... Yeah just l…

If you push "PM", you can copy and paste the quote BBCode from there into a new post reply.