I realize I have been criticizing threads about RM and about people on RM. But this kind of gets to the heart of it:

What keeps you coming back to GD?

I know why I come here. I like the community and enough people on here to want to participate in this community. I know, LOL at me thinking this is a community. But, why do you come here? Specifically to this part of RM, GD. I just don't understand why so many people either A) don't contribute anything positive like starting new threads or talking about their lives or B) only enjoy ripping individuals or people's threads. It's amazing to me that a community that's so small can have so many people come back regularly, daily, to piss on people over and over. Is it that exciting?

So why do you come here? What is it about GD that brings you back? What would your ideal GD look like? If you're one of the people that enjoys pissing on people, do you think you'd get bored if the people you "hate" went away? Would you just find someone that's slightly less annoying to piss on? I love when we joke with each other, but clearly a few of you take it to a whole different level. Someone like Jorge knows how to have fun and never means it in an offensive way.

So...why do you come to GD?

porn addiction

wait, where?

oh, sorry, i thought this was about the internet

Don't ruin my serious thread dickfan9. I'm old enough to be your very older brother.

who has yet to provide me with any nieces or nephews!

Why are you not quoting my posts before responding? Are you that confident nobody is going to respond before you get the chance to hit submit?

That's cocky. Very cocky.

I enjoy the joking around aspect of GD, and I'm bored for most of the day. If you really want to get psychoanalytical, I probably come to RM so much because I can't really relate that well to people in my real life and I find just reading a N&D thread or an A&E thread to be more fulfilling than actually spending the energy of talking about that stuff with people in real life, because I'm shy and that would force me to actually expose myself and my opinions to others IRL.

But, I'm self-conscious on RM too because of how brutal everyone is in threads that matter, so I distract myself with all the inanity that GD has to offer. That, and I like all of you.

I'm really sort of fucked up in real life terms, I should probably get out more.

but somehow you only have 12000 posts.

Been asking myself that a lot the last few days. I'm a newcomer, so my answer is going to be lame, regardless.

Seeing people take the piss out of one another is funny the first few times, until it derails every thread where those folks are present. Then it gets old, played out, annoying, [insert others].

I originally came here (not just GD) and spent a lot of time reading. Most days (during work hours), I'm sitting in meetings, so I can shoot the shit or read while on my laptop. This can be bad, because I find myself having serious belly laughs at some of the shit I read here. That has always kept me coming back.

I also have a heart the size of the Pacific, and found that I cared about the people I was getting to know, slowly, through the interwebs (lol). That care, and the forthcoming relationships (if they can be called that) keep me coming here.

Now, I hope to j*sus I'm not the only one that answers this at least half seriously.

how's this for a change up

I really only wanted to know why you came to GD. The rest is nice to know but that's not what this thread is about. I'd like to keep it to GD. Thanks for understanding.

So your answer is you come to GD for inanity? Can you be more specific?

i never really thought of it... i guess there isn't a good reason. see ya guys later

Because I like youse guise.

Ditto, ditto, ditto.

Well, read my answer closely. Basically, I come to GD because not only do I feel that my serious thoughts and opinions aren't worth a damn IRL, I also don't think they are worth posting in any other thread either. So, I come to GD to shield myself from actual criticism while still participating in a "community". I'm here for fun, because it's all I feel I'm good at, posting-wise.

For the other people. I've been here three and a half years now. I've seen some of you and gotten to known you for longer than I've known most people since I got out of high school. There's a sense of familiarity that I can't quite move away from. Its kinda cool always be able to come back to you all here, and yeah sure, I like you guys too.

Okay now that's my one genuine post on this board for the month.

Yah, now you're just trying to derail my thread. Dickfan9.



No, you're not. I very much want to know why people come here. I'd just like to know what we all want to accomplish from GD. We hear about how bad certain posters are (me, for instance) and how bad this incarnation of GD is. I guess if it was so bad, people would just leave, and many do. To be fair, since I've been here, (end of 2007), not a single person I've gotten to know has left this board except Mickey. So it seems to me that GD, the last 2 years, is pretty stable. Yet a lot of people just hate it! Am I wrong?

Yah, this is probably the greatest thing I could have ever accomplished with this thread. I'm proud of you Pat.

thanks