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iluv2makesnow
03-26-2008, 04:22 PM
Let me know ladies, if I can satisfy your sexual desire needs over the phone, i am welling to pay you, the rate you want to charge right now

kitty69
03-26-2008, 04:48 PM
Why can't I get on to page 3, clicking on the number 3 brings me right back to page 2. I am confused.

kitty69
03-26-2008, 04:50 PM
Hey so thats how you get here. It's lonely all by myself.

virgoamm
03-26-2008, 04:50 PM
The same thing was happening to me. It works now, lol.

kitty69
03-26-2008, 04:53 PM
Yay, people, I was getting worried lol.

Polekitten
03-26-2008, 05:07 PM
I didn't even realise it was gone till now!

Sophia_Starina
03-26-2008, 05:15 PM
No TRT= No Peace. Hahaha.... goodbye cruel world!

GoldCoastGirl
03-26-2008, 06:01 PM
I was just as shocked as everyone else. It was like my Twitter except I didn't have to restrict myself to 140 characters or less :laughing:


Oh well.. maybe a few of you will go onto twitter now? ;D

You can post your random musings there

www.twitter.com


i'm goldcoastgirl

follow me

The_Oceans
03-26-2008, 06:04 PM
I wonder how many people's sigs were created from posts on TRT.

Budai
03-26-2008, 06:07 PM
I wonder how many people's sigs were created from posts on TRT.
^ So true! It was like Sigs 'R' Us... 8)

virgoamm
03-26-2008, 06:12 PM
Two words: Member Boards...

I keed, I keed. ;)

Lady Jade
03-26-2008, 06:21 PM
Umm... did anyone else notice there's no post#51? That's why none of us could get to page 3 earlier.

jaizaine
03-26-2008, 06:29 PM
I wont miss it. Im glad it's closed. I used to post in it occasionally and i found it very cliquey.

Sophia_Starina
03-26-2008, 06:34 PM
I can't believe how oblivious I was to the cliquey-ness. It must have just gone way over my head.

Lysondra
03-26-2008, 06:36 PM
I didn't see it. Was I part of the clique?

I love how I was the one that said I felt most people were being LOOK AT ME... but I didn't mean TRT.

cherry_sin
03-26-2008, 06:39 PM
I liked to read it. It didn't require a lot of umph or brain, so I did it every AM with my soda.

Le sigh.

blondi553
03-26-2008, 06:39 PM
its a sad, sad day.

kaiarose
03-26-2008, 06:40 PM
I wont miss it. Im glad it's closed. I used to post in it occasionally and i found it very cliquey.


It seemed like your posts were invisible when you posted something.

britt244
03-26-2008, 06:40 PM
^ i dont think it was cliquey at all. but of course thats because i guess i was part of it? ::) i think there's a group of people who regularly posted in there.. that doesnt make it a clique. it just means we posted more than most.. just like some people make most of their posts in SG or something.. that doesnt make it a clique.

and cally's comment about how everyone else got ignored.. dont know if its in this thread or was in the drama thread.. that isnt true. every post there wasnt MEANT to be responded to. it was a place for random thoughts. so how were people being ignored?

Samba
03-26-2008, 06:41 PM
I never thought the TRT was cliquey. I never really made a point of reading it, though. I would click on the last page, read that, and post whatever random thing I felt like saying.

Don't be sad. The Random Thread is in a better place now.

britt244
03-26-2008, 06:42 PM
It seemed like your posts were invisible when you posted something.

maybe some people dont understand thats why some of us LIKED posting there. we could post a thought and it would be buried and gone in a day or so. it was more of an outlet than a place to get feedback. if it was an issue you wanted feedback on you shouldve started a thread on that topic.

if i pigged out and felt gross, instead of thinking to myself over and over "wow i ate like a pig" i could type it up and bam its out of my head. you know, like people say journaling is good for you and stuff. but it doesnt mean i wanted anybody else's thoughts about what i said. i personally used it to clear my head a lot of times and wasnt looking for feedback. regardless of whether you guys think i was part of the "clique."

jaizaine
03-26-2008, 06:42 PM
It seemed like your posts were invisible when you posted something.

yeh i know. that's why i didn't like it. i felt unimportant and unloved :'(

hockeybobby
03-26-2008, 06:43 PM
When I first came to SW and checked out the member boards...read the instructions there, that's what I thought THEY were for....Little groups of members who just wanted to chat amongst themselves...cliques.

I don't see any reason why that couldn't happen there. have a little cliquefest :)

jaizaine
03-26-2008, 06:44 PM
^ i dont think it was cliquey at all. but of course thats because i guess i was part of it? ::) i think there's a group of people who regularly posted in there.. that doesnt make it a clique. it just means we posted more than most.. just like some people make most of their posts in SG or something.. that doesnt make it a clique.

and cally's comment about how everyone else got ignored.. dont know if its in this thread or was in the drama thread.. that isnt true. every post there wasnt MEANT to be responded to. it was a place for random thoughts. so how were people being ignored?

some people no matter what they wrote got noticed and replied to. others wrote things and no one bothered with it.
that doesn't make u feel good.

britt244
03-26-2008, 06:46 PM
some people no matter what they wrote got noticed and replied to. others wrote things and no one bothered with it.
that doesn't make u feel good.

hmm. i think it really sucks that you feel that way. i think thats true in general, though. sometimes if no one responds to what i say in a thread, that sucks.. but i dont really take it personally.. but i see what youre saying and i think that happens, period, not just there.

Lady Jade
03-26-2008, 06:46 PM
some people no matter what they wrote got noticed and replied to. others wrote things and no one bothered with it.
that doesn't make u feel good.

Just to play devil's advocate...

I had the most posts of anybody in that thread, and I was very rarely responded to. When I wanted attention, I started threads. :shrug:

britt244
03-26-2008, 06:48 PM
Just to play devil's advocate...

I had the most posts of anybody in that thread, and I was very rarely responded to. When I wanted attention, I started threads. :shrug:

thats what im saying.. there were times i'd post something and then go to bed and by the time i checked again it was 10 pages deeper.. so i didnt even SEE if people responded to me and i didnt care because if i were looking for a response i wouldve gone about it a different way. i think that often times people missed a lot of posts because they were gone for a few hours and 5 pages popped up, so they didnt even read it. it was hard to go back and look for things.

haha, kind of related, but like when someone DID respond to me, i felt stupid making another post just to say "lol" or whatever. you know? like when LJ said she was really a 12 year old boy with missing balls.. i laughed.. but i didnt make a post about it just for a smiley face or something because i had nothing else to say and i wasnt feeling creative that day.

jaizaine
03-26-2008, 06:48 PM
^^^
maybe it's just that I only visited it about once a week and I just didn't really "get" how it worked. But I felt that every time I wrote something I was kind of ignored. Anyhoo im glad to know it wasn't just me ;)

G-Real
03-26-2008, 06:49 PM
Just to play devil's advocate...

I had the most posts of anybody in that thread, and I was very rarely responded to. When I wanted attention, I started threads. :shrug:
*posts to bury LJ's so it gets buried* }:D

austinatalie
03-26-2008, 06:53 PM
I never notice these 'cliques' that occasionally get brought up, and I don't think that I am in them/it.

Whatever. I'll miss TRT.

MsQwerty
03-26-2008, 06:54 PM
I think some posts in TRT got missed or over looked (as opposed to ignored) because TRT just moved so fast. I posted there a fair bit and some of the posts got no responses whilst others didnt.

Lady Jade
03-26-2008, 06:55 PM
thats what im saying.. there were times i'd post something and then go to bed and by the time i checked again it was 10 pages deeper.. so i didnt even SEE if people responded to me and i didnt care because if i were looking for a response i wouldve gone about it a different way. i think that often times people missed a lot of posts because they were gone for a few hours and 5 pages popped up, so they didnt even read it. it was hard to go back and look for things.

haha, kind of related, but like when someone DID respond to me, i felt stupid making another post just to say "lol" or whatever. you know? like when LJ said she was really a 12 year old boy with missing balls.. i laughed.. but i didnt make a post about it just for a smiley face or something because i had nothing else to say and i wasnt feeling creative that day.

Seriously! I read every single post in TRT, but since I was gone for like 18 hours because of sleep/work, sometimes it made no sense to respond since it was already discussed and over with by the time I got around to reading it!

cameron_keys
03-26-2008, 06:55 PM
Oh for the love of corn flakes....

jaizaine
03-26-2008, 06:56 PM
so just to be random, it's really pouring with rain here in melbourne and i absolutely love it.

oops hope this doesn't get this thread shut down.

G-Real
03-26-2008, 06:57 PM
Oh for the love of corn flakes....

I just pictured you saying that, then you following that up by doing the Tony the Tiger doing the Frosted Flakes "Theyrrr'rree Grreat!"....

Lysondra
03-26-2008, 07:01 PM
Oh for the love of corn flakes....

Interesting you say that because 'corn flakes' is my safe word for BDSM.

MeanGirl
03-26-2008, 07:05 PM
so is this the new random thread? I didnt read thru all the posts, but i used to like in the random thread daily despite it's cliquenesss (it never hurt my feelings, i think it's obvious the main poster were friends, etc.)

punkpixie001
03-26-2008, 07:09 PM
For some reason this reminds me of the thread killer thread. It would appear as though the person who posted last in TRT would be the ultimate thread killer, lol.

MsQwerty
03-26-2008, 07:12 PM
Interesting you say that because 'corn flakes' is my safe word for BDSM.

<Squeel< and one of my favorite quotes is

austinatalie
03-26-2008, 07:12 PM
so is this the new random thread? I didnt read thru all the posts, but i used to like posting in the random thread daily despite it's cliquenesss (it never hurt my feelings, i think it's obvious the main poster were friends, etc.)

NO. This is not the new random thread. There will not be a new random thread.

This thread is just to pay our respects to TRT.

If we stray off topic, it will likely get closed like the others.

cherryripeboy
03-26-2008, 07:19 PM
I will miss the random thread, it was like chat only you didn't have to stay there....




On the other hand, TRT was a really valuable thread. It was sorta like chat, except slower. It allowed people to share what was going on in their daily lives and have some fun with it. For me, it was like catching up quickly on peoples' lives. I think it will be sorely missed.

.


I have to agree, and it will be missed. I think in the end it was also spreading faster than it could be handled. Sometimes 10 pages would pass in a day, maybe more. I never really kept track but it did move at a rapid pace.

The random thread, also ate a lot of threads that would just die due to lack of replies. If your thread bombs in the lounge, it does not take that long for it to be swept under by the amount of new threads/posts.

Have fun people. Take care of yourself and each-other.

MeanGirl
03-26-2008, 07:19 PM
gotcha...well RIP random thread I will miss everyones problems that were worse than mine everyday..you used to make me feel good.

Lady Jade
03-26-2008, 07:23 PM
Without TRT, it will be much harder for my boyfriend to stalk me. He'll actually have to open and read multiple threads instead of just one. All that extra work might make his brain explode! :D

Samba
03-26-2008, 07:24 PM
gotcha...well RIP random thread I will miss everyones problems that were worse than mine everyday..you used to make me feel good.

The TV show Cops is good for that too. At first I thought the whole random thread thread got deleted, and people would lose their post count.

RoseLeigh
03-26-2008, 07:42 PM
I think certain groups of friends did post there (us Jerz people for one), but I also think friendships formed because of it. I will miss it. :-\

Darcy Foxx
03-26-2008, 08:31 PM
some people no matter what they wrote got noticed and replied to. others wrote things and no one bothered with it.
that doesn't make u feel good.

a LOT of people felt this way. you definitely were not alone, jai.

britt244
03-26-2008, 09:19 PM
darcy, i'm curious, then, since apparently i'm so wrong. please explain to me why anyone should be responded to in a thread meant for random thoughts. i honestly, 100% cannot understand that.

beauty21queen
03-26-2008, 09:22 PM
Its just a bunch of people being crybaby's and wanting some attention .^^^

hardkandee
03-26-2008, 09:30 PM
I think certain groups of friends did post there (us Jerz people for one), but I also think friendships formed because of it. I will miss it. :-\

Me too. I'm not in Noo Jerz but I liked it.
It let me be all stalkerish without anyone catching on. Cliques? Drama? Ignoring? Pshaw... we're all adults. Can't we act like them? Just a little?
;)

I do feel a little bad it was sucking up so much bandwith or whatever though.

SundayMorning
03-26-2008, 09:33 PM
Two words: Member Boards...

I keed, I keed. ;)

My thought exactly.


I can't believe how oblivious I was to the cliquey-ness. It must have just gone way over my head.

Yeah mine too. And that's a 6 foot in the air head, here.

At the risk of being redundant, I maintain my opinion that if there was a symptom of a problem in Random (e.g. cliqueiness, people feeling like their posts are overlooked, trolls), then it will manifest throughout the entire forum. Random was one location. I see several people who post threads that get maybe one or two replies. I've done it myself. If people don't respond, they don't respond. Likewise with cliques--they'll threadjack and :hug: and offer cookies and whatever on any thread on the forum. And trolls are definitely not limited to a location.

I still feel that closing Random was addressing symptoms, not a problem. I predict that we will continue to see the same issues, hear the same complaints about "this isn't like how it used to be," and people will come and people will go. But there will be more (banal) threads to come and go on.