Low activity, Why?

In rec.food.drink.beer snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: :

: : Why is the activity almost non-existent here ... hell half the posts : are spam and it looks like I am the top poster here this month! : YEAH! ;-) Glad I could help ... :

If you're actually reading replies, who are you? I don't think Jason or Todd would post here through the google engine?

Candice, maybe?

If you're gonna brag, do let us know who is claiming bragging rights.

I think thats pretty much common around the board. Even rec.photo.digital has dropped off. Look at comp.lang.labview, its way up.

greg

We're awaiting the Messiah! Are you the Messiah?

Yes, we're all individuals!

Yes! We've got to work it out for ourselves!

Being the top poster on a low-traffic newsgroup is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.

no, I think you just proved who the retard is.

The same reason Budweiser sells a huge amount of beer worldwide and a good brewpub or craft brewery sells very little comparably. Ditto Wonderbread(R) versus good fresh bakery bread, Twinkies versus good fresh bakery pastry, etc. Bland products will always appeal to the lowest common denominator, while good quality items will never do so.

(Do I detect a new shrillness to the GoatVoice?)

OTOH, check out alt.coffee. Must be something different in the drink!

You're telling me that the above little riposte actually got your y-fronts in a twist, Mike? FFS, why? Lighten up and have a beer, lad.

(I had cask Robinson's Hatters Mild, ta - OK, but a bit bland)

In the past I've spent a fair bit of time with kids & adults who you might describe as retarded & suffice to say an easy jibe at the expense of such folks doesn't sit well with me. I think you're point wasn't to belittle people with learning disabilities (& I think there's probably a debate to be had about the patronising way society can treat them) but there's also a wittier & less objectionable way of saying what you said. (& perhaps a more reasoned way of saying what I said :~) cheers MikeMcG

Why? Because newbies who use to come on and ask a naive question or said something like "I still like a cold Budweiser on a hot day" were hounded and brow-beated right out of the group by the geeks.

Even beer drinkers who had a bit of knowledge of beer were forced to explain how they could like brand x when "everybody knows that that beer's s**te!"

Who needs the abuse?

I see that some of the biggest hyper-critics seldom or never post anymore either. Probably ran out of targets of opportunity.

Bob Skilnik

Too drunk to post.

You're wrong. The reason has much more to do with the growth of new online social interaction paradigms.

Then again the cynical could point to your negative, brow-beating article as self-referential backing for your postulate.

Your post only solidifies my argument.

Actually it's just summer time. Everyone's busy drinking beer outside. Come October it'll get nice and busy and we can all sit back with our Jack's Pumpkin ale.

Ben