I'll agree, entertainment is important
But surely there's something to be said for originality?

After all, if you can reach top of the 'best of' page by simply recycling old jokes, stories and urban legends that people may not have heard before, why bother typing an honest, heartfelt and amusing reply? Why not just copy a stand-up comics routine, because not everyone who reads QOTW will have seen him live?

Is B3ta not about creativity, at the end of the day? What's so creative about retelling a story that some people may have heard before? After all, the question was 'What's the best thing you've found?', not 'What's the best story you've read online about someone else finding something?'

I realise I said I wouldn't post my opinion, but it really pisses me off the way QOTW has changed. Every one of the stories on my profile page are true, with perhaps a slight artistic embellishment here or there, and some of them took me around half an hour to type up, whereas I doubt it took 'drshipman' more than 5 minutes to copy and paste a story from another website. Does no-one else agree with me?

EDIT: I wrote this after reading Bert's and Vipros' replies, and didn't notice the others, including Clendrix's. I guess someone does agree with me then. Still pisses me off, though
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 15:36, Reply)