The everlasting community thread is getting fractious and ugly: the prolonged association is beginning to chafe, I think. So as an experiment I'm temporarily splitting the thread.
This is the LOVE subthread. Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes. No mellow-harshing talk allowed here; if you must, take it to the HATE thread.
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The everlasting community thread is getting fractious and ugly: the prolonged association is beginning to chafe, I think. So as an experiment I'm temporarily splitting the thread.
This is the HATE subthread. If there's something you want to get off your chest, if there's someone who has annoyed you…
The thread is dead, long live the thread! Now party on, dudes.
(Current totals: 10,514 entries with 1,038,711 comments.)
I had my own little prediction about what would happen in the recent split: I expected the HATE thread would start off with a surge and burn out early, while the LOVE thread would end up with the most comments by endurance. Boy, was I wrong. The two threads were neck-and-neck in commenting…
I'm already getting grumbling about the commenting changes, so maybe the rhubarb thread would like to chime in with more. Do it with the panache of a Dawkins, please!
Hmmm. Some atheist meeting sometime ought to do this: have a session where the speakers just read aloud from their hate mail for…