do you remember

[Epgs]

do you remember where those stories about the freewebspace.net members were?

 

[Agum]

stories?

 

[Hobbes]

Well.. I don't remember exaclty, but I saved the one dissecting the flaming forum posts

Anyone remember this? I thought this was ROFL funny!

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Here is the one I saved:

#08 Typical "how do I remove the Xoom ad frame" Thread Analyst   06/04/00 YHB

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The Freewebspace Community [url]http://freewebspace.net/mb/[/url] is a place for discussing freewebspace and related things. 
 Not too unique, but threads appear to take a consistant form.

For example, if someone posts a message like "hey I thought this was a place for helping people not turning them in", 
the regulars will all reply to the same message generating what I call a predictable redundant multiple (PRM) or 
virtual thread (VT):

1. PRM Bait             <-- "I thought this place was for helping people, not turning them in"
  2. Re: PRM Bait       <-- Basically: No, I will not tell you how to break the TOS (short)
  3. Re: PRM Bait       <-- Same as above
  4. Re: PRM Bait       <-- Same as above
> 5. Re: PRM Bait       <-- Longer, detailed, point-by-point explaination
>   6. Re: Re: PRM Bait   <-- Original poster with a come back
>     7. Re: Re: Re: PRM Bait  <-- Defeating come back
 \ Long diagonal thread, aka Re:^n thread or horizontal thread (HT).

2, 3, and 4 are probably all saying the same thing and nothing new, not thought provoking, and short in length.  
5 is longer and might attack the post in detail.  6 is the original troll poster, and 7 is same as 5.  
Usually a flamewar starts here, or maybe an interesting discussion. 

In this document, I will examine a real life example of a "how do I remove the Xoom banner" thread.  
This thread was located at [url]http://www.freewebspace.net/cgi-bin/forum/freewebspace.pl?read=21422[/url] , 
but if this file is old it probably won't still be there.

Xoom banner kill           justin            <-- ** SUCKER_BAIT **
`Hey, what happened?        Al                <-- ME_TOO asked same q, deleted, why?
` Re: Hey, what happened?    ianvh             <-- CORRECTION correctly claims q is inappropriate
`  Re: Hey, what happened?    Chicken Nugget    <-- SUPPORT adds supporting facts
`   Re: Hey, what happened?    Al                <-- QUESTION why wasn't thread deleted?
`    Re: Hey, what happened?    Chicken Nugget    <-- ANSWER does not mod. board
$Question: Deserves valid answer    rmsharpe    <-- ATTACK isn't it hypocritical?
  Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    justin  <-- REBUTTLE just there to take up space
   Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Dusty   <-- ATTACK don't be a bloody idiot
    Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Ron Seigel <-- JOKE partial, is going to report TOS
     Ron.. what a dirty trick *LOL* (nt)    Steve      <-- HUMORED thinks that's funny
     Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Rodie      <-- HUMORED thinks that's funny, backup!
      Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    justin     <-- REBUTTLE man, I thought for helping
       Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Chicken Nugget <-- CORRECTION wrong place
       Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Ron Seigel     <-- CORRECTION wrong place, support
       Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Rodie          <-- ATTACK long, like shoplifting
        Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    justin         <-- FLAME calls Rodie names
         Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Rodie          <-- REBUTTLE scam artist too?
          Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Greg           <-- SUPPORT adds supporting facts
           Re: uhmmmm                             rmsharpe       <-- SUPPORT adds 'pathetic'
         Re: Question: Deserves valid answer    Greg           <-- FLAME net doesn't need you
     Re: Question: Deserves valid answer   Webdude      <-- ATTACK compares to cops & dopes
`Re: Xoom banner kill               Gary Nimann  <-- ANSWER yes, use Crosswinds
` Re: Xoom banner kill               justin       <-- REBUTTLE not very good
`Re: Xoom banner kill               Ron Seigel   <-- ATTACK what is your URL? ::snicker::
` Re: Xoom banner kill               TheTakerFan  <-- ATTACK tired of stupid posts

This thread has some interesting aspects to it.  In the comment marked by '$', notice how rmsharpe says something, 
causing a cascading thread to form under it.  Only one of the posts under rmsharpe's $-post was made by rmsharpe.  
Comments marked with a ` are not very interesting and not in the main thread.  These posts are usually redundant sayings 
which the $-post already said, or some variations on it.  Rmsharpe's post had the most heat to it, so it generated the most 
replies.

The catagories of posts used here are:

SUCKER_BAIT -- Re:ATTACK  Used to attract obvious replies.  May be intentional or not.
ME_TOO      -- I had this problem too..., considered lame
CORRECTION  -- Corrects parent post, similar to ANSWER
SUPPORT     -- Re:CORRECTION/ANSWER  adds additional supporting facts
QUESTION    -- Question
ANSWER      -- Re:QUESTION  answers a question
ATTACK      -- Insults parent post, but not harsh personal insults
REBUTTLE    -- Re:ATTACK  Come back for an attack
FLAME       -- Harsh personal insults, calling names, etc.

-- YHB [url]http://yhb.cjb.net/[/url]

 

[Hobbes]

yup

Yes, that is the correct URL at the of the story. Enjoy!

Say... what ever happened to YHB?