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Woocfot asks: Tell us all about that turning point in your life when it started going downhill. Yeah, that drunken conversation with my dad when he suggested I become a civil servant. Dammit, I could have been an astronaut

(, Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:32)
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Would someone be kind enough to explain why my post was deleted?

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:36, 87 replies)
biggary has been made TOP QOTW MOD.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:39, closed)
They can't handle the truth.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:41, closed)
All I did was ask everyone to calm down a bit :(

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:43, closed)
Fucking hell, I'm not surprised it went.
:O
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:53, closed)
Bloody do gooder.
This was you, wasn't it? m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-21654930
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:14, closed)
HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST I'M FROM BRADFORD

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:19, closed)
Probably not, I'd wager, had I any cash.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:43, closed)
Which post?

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:44, closed)
I posted asking everyone to calm down and stop getting wound up, and now it's gone.
There was nothing even remotely provocative about it, and I wasn't even whining about all the NASTY TALK BULLIES RUINING QOTW like that bent spastic biggary.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:47, closed)
Perhaps you've accidentally put yourself on 2.0?

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:48, closed)
*headasplode*

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:51, closed)
No - it has been deleted - along with Shambo's pics.
The pics needed to go, but I don't see why BD's post went - they probably did a job lot and it got caught in among them, like a beautiful dolphin in so much tuna.

That's what I'd wager, had I any cash.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:54, closed)
I just want everyone to be happy :(

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:58, closed)

Well, I don't see you calling yourself "Happy Brayndedd".
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:59, closed)
It'd be a redundant statement, I'm always happy.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:01, closed)

It's not enough to be happy, you have to be seen to be happy.

No-one can doubt my joie de vivre with a username like this.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:03, closed)
You sad, sad fucker.
:(
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:22, closed)
:D
:D
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:42, closed)
Like Happytoast you mean? Because if he wasn't called Happytoast then people might mistake him for a grumpy prick sometimes.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:27, closed)

Or, y'know, just regular toast.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:31, closed)
Or your Tori Amos fandom.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 20:02, closed)
Bloody hippy.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:33, closed)


(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:39, closed)
It's the start of the purge.
By the end of today QOTW will have been cleansed off all the... deviants.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:10, closed)
Good good.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:14, closed)
Whay makes you think you're safe?

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:49, closed)
My amazing awesomeness.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:51, closed)
Shambolic's thread has been bwaaahleted too.
So I'm going to put this picture here as well. BECAUSE I SPENT A LOT OF FUCKING TIME ON IT.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:18, closed)
I liked it then and I like it now

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:35, closed)


(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:42, closed)


(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:58, closed)
Wasn't me.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:19, closed)
Don't cry

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:30, closed)
I am also quite interested to know why the thread was deleted.
Please respond with a similar picture implying I'm having a tantrum.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:37, closed)
I got a gaz saying it was deleted in among all the moaning. Top modding.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:42, closed)
Which mod, just out of interest?

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:48, closed)
This is moving more towards the 'delete the whole qotw' that many people would like to see though.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:48, closed)
Noone said delete QOTW, just stop posting new questions so it slowly starves to death.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:51, closed)

Or, as an option, people who don't like it [edit: QOTW] could just not use it, rather than bleating on about it every five minutes.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:52, closed)
^

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:53, closed)
^ This ^

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:53, closed)
We like QOTW
[edit]

Just to point out, I have misread - Happy Phantom isn't telling QOTW posters who actually post QOTW answers not to post. So I agree with him. This post is directed at the /OT kiddies who have infested QOTW. Apologies to HP.
[/edit]

We just don't like the irrelevant shit that you lot relentlessly spew all over it.

That's the point you see, QOTW was good. This thread is a good example of why it isn't any more, and you post is EXACTLY what's wrong.

Why should we stop posting? Lots of people have already done exactly that, and it had ruined the thing. They stopped because of you.

Really, look at the stats. See how many answers there are to each one. The further back you go, the more there are. Are you really so dumb you haven't worked out that what we are saying is true?

I won't stop posting because you think I should, I'll stop posting because your repetitive bleating, and stupid childish attacks on anyone who actually posts a real answer make it pointless.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:06, closed)
Maybe they should get rid of the reply button then.
Also, the questions aren't as good as they used to be due to a lack of original suggestions and the fact that it doesn't go on b3ta radio anymore so fewer people are interested. You can't blame the general decline of an entire site on a few replies that are largely ignored.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:07, closed)
Or maybe it's just run its course,
and is now dying off (a bit like /talk, in that respect)?
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:12, closed)
Indeed.
There are never any new people, which I think is down to b3ta being ten years out of date, and the old users have grown up and moved on. It's nobodys fault but rob's for refusing to update the place.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:17, closed)
Post an amusing or interesting story and we might cheer up.
Got any? No, didn't think so.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:52, closed)
oof, zinger

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 15:03, closed)
There probably are a lot of new people
who lurk and enjoy some of the 'banter' but frankly the shit some of the more 'regular' b3tans come out with puts me right off posting. I know it's a comedy website and there's some great stuff on here but just calling someone a 'cunt' on the internet does not make you funny. Just sayin'.

Edit: Don't mean you in particular.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 19:09, closed)
You cunt.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 19:49, closed)

How is suggesting that people those who would prefer to see QOTW closed simply stop using it in any way an attack on anything? Which of "my lot" (whoever that may be) spews anything anywhere? When have I said you should stop posting, or had a pop at any genuine contributors? Have you taken your meds today?
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:17, closed)
He's one of the worst for being a non-contributing moaner, ignore him.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:18, closed)
'one of the worst for being a non-contributing moaner'!!
Oh, the irony, coming from b3ta's most useless contributor. Seriously folks, go and have a look at this cunt's 'Best answers to questions'. A member for 7 years and 7 months and that's the best he's come up with.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:51, closed)
U mad

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 15:15, closed)
Great comeback, there
*slow hand clap*
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 16:14, closed)
Oh right, it's yours.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 22:49, closed)
Says a user with 3 posts to their name. all of them 'YOUR RUNIN MI INTERNET'

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 20:05, closed)
There's one post there that isn't a reply to one of mine, and instead it mentions me.
I'm not saying the owner of this account fancies me or anything, but they clearly want my cock.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 22:50, closed)
I quite like to see the replies whenever someone posts some kind of self-pitying whine and then gets buried under the resulting abuse.
As a society we might be a lot better off if this approach was also taken with facebook. Too often the friend collectors engage in today's wallow in misery to be met with sympathy or at the worst silence, a healthy dose of man/shut the fuck up now and again would probably turn them into more well-rounded individuals and arrest their public decline into mental illness.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:22, closed)

The inability to gain sympathetic replies removes most of the incentive to post self pitying whines
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:53, closed)

1. It's not just people from /OT that in your words have "infested" QOTW. Posters from all parts of B3ta are frustrated with what it has become.
2. Overall site traffic is down (see Alexa.com for details). QOTW has suffered as a result of that, as have other parts of the site.
3. Complaining about QOTW on QOTW does not improve it, in fact it's probably one of the reasons less people post on it.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:54, closed)
# of answers to QOTW since it started (first week on left).



I don't know what point I am trying to make with this.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:33, closed)
I don't either
but I would have done exactly that myself, were it not for my entirely feckless nature.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 15:09, closed)
maybe you should stop posting?

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 15:02, closed)
It was (I would think) because Shambo posted a shed-load of pics in his post
which made it really lolannoying because you had to scroll for half an hour past them to get to the regular QOTW (yes yes yes why I'd want to do this I don't know either).
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:42, closed)
"shed"?
MODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:46, closed)
Stay about from my shed.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:51, closed)
SHEDULUS!

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 21:05, closed)
So has Sham been stepped?

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:54, closed)
I dunno.
I hope not. He can be relatively funny.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:55, closed)
Agreed.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:56, closed)
Cancer can be relatively funny

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:50, closed)
For a week
He was told "Stop arsing around."
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:00, closed)
Comedy Gold right here.

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 13:58, closed)
b3ta:
serious business.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:06, closed)
You really are a squealing fanny of a man
I didn't believe what people said about you. Turns out I was wrong.
(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 0:59, closed)
Really?
Only I haven't seen a post on facebook where he's crying about it yet
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 15:02, closed)
You won't do
It's on my wall. Friends only.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 20:38, closed)
So no-one's seen it then

(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 11:00, closed)
Not terribly surprised.
He was being far more obnoxious than usual this week. I wonder what set him off?
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 19:55, closed)

Dunno. Perhaps it was an adverse reaction to pickled onions.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 22:14, closed)
Hate it when I laugh at something
& I can't explain to my family why.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 22:45, closed)
Mods.
Fingers.
And dogs.
sadtimes The LOVELY Brayn.
:(
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 22:46, closed)

...and eyes, and ears, and mouth, and nose -

Mods, fingers, and dogs sadtimes The LOVELY Brayn!

It doesn't scan.

EDIT: got it - you can change it to "mods / finger / dogs' bumholes [Lovely Brayn]", with the last bit to replace the final baritone echoing of "knees and toes". It's still a little inelegant, but it could work.
(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 23:24, closed)
Is there anything those mods won't finger?

(, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 23:49, closed)

Yes.
(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 0:02, closed)
*wiggles about uncontrollably as tho having a giant finger shoved up my bum and then waggled*

(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 7:50, closed)
If this doesn't make the newsletter AND the front page then there's no justice.

(, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 9:04, closed)

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