Rick Reuben wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:You are completely and utterly insane. Where the hell do I say distributing information on the internet is useless in that quote?

Liar. If you recognized the value of putting information on the internet, you wouldn't ask dumb questions like this:

honeyisfunny wrote:What the hell do YOU DO?

I'm already using the medium that allows me to speak to more people than any other. Like I said: I defy you to name a platform for political activism that surpasses the internet. If you can't, then shut up.

Ok, I'm going to spell this out to you:

WHAT. DO. YOU. DO. APART. FROM. POST. ON. MESSAGE. BOARDS?

I.e. What's your job? How does it fit with your world view? Do you post anywhere else on the internet? If you do, do you find the other forums you use to be receptive? Do you ever protest things in person? Have you ever contacted a politician directly to protest something? Have you ever been arrested?

Or do you just sit in the dark on the internet looking like this:



I'm not arguing that the internet has it's uses. I'm arguing that standing up on a chair and screaming the equivalent of

"BROTHERS AND SISTERS LET'S UNITE AND STOP (insert injustice here) RIGHT NOW!"

on one single internet forum that is largely devoted to music is relatively pointless, especially when you alienate anyone who may agree with you by being exactly the kind of elitist bully you are supposed to be opposed to.

Rick Reuben wrote:I'm already using the medium that allows me to speak to more people than any other.

This forum allows you to speak to more people than any other?

Rick Reuben wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:You are completely and utterly insane. Where the hell do I say distributing information on the internet is useless in that quote?

Liar. If you recognized the value of putting information on the internet, you wouldn't ask dumb questions like this:

honeyisfunny wrote:What the hell do YOU DO?

I'm already using the medium that allows me to speak to more people than any other. Like I said: I defy you to name a platform for political activism that surpasses the internet. If you can't, then shut up.

I surmise it was initially your love of angular guitar riffs and room mic'ing techniques which impelled you to select the EA board as your venue to enlighten the people, correct?

hey Tom, fuck off.

Rick Reuben wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:one single internet forum

Wow. You really have no clue about how search engines work??

It doesn't matter what this forum is allegedly supposed to be about- the forum is just territory. It could be a blank wall for all I care. And now my posts are all over it, like moss. Like I said, if the brainwashed conformists weren't worried about my truths exposing their lies to a wider audience, they would not react in such a panicked manner to what I post.

Have you studied SEO? Do you purposely sprinkle your posts with keywords that will fully optimize Search Engine usability?

I'm actually curious--i have to learn some SEO for my job right now to make our website more visible to Search Engines--notably to people searching for our competitors.

Hey Tom, fuck off.

Rick Reuben wrote:
It doesn't matter what this forum is allegedly supposed to be about- the forum is just territory. It could be a blank wall for all I care. And now my posts are all over it, like moss. Like I said, if the brainwashed conformists weren't worried about my truths exposing their lies to a wider audience, they would not react in such a panicked manner to what I post.

So if this here forum is just a 'blank wall' for search engines, why don't you just post up tranches of your 'truth' for people to read, not engage in dialogue with anybody, and spare us all this sixth-form Bond-villain crap?

No. There are 11,000 or so people registered here, not all of whom post at all regularly. It would seem to be pretty unreasonable to expect even all 11,000 of the people registered here to read your posts. That's not that many.
Even your smallest, most pissant local paper reaches more people than that. They SELL more than that.

johnnyshape wrote:So if this here forum is just a 'blank wall' for search . . .

It's also his blog.

Pretty sweet deal when you think about it.