What is it you'd say you do around here? What is your role? Just read stuff, comment, and that's it? Serious question.

Yes. I read and comment. That's it.

I don't understand this idea that people have that if you don't start posts here, your contribution means nothing.

I honestly don't feel the need to make new posts. I'm not a very creative or inventive person. There is no topic out there that I'm interested in that hasn't already been covered. Multiple times.

Usually by the time I learn of something new that's happened, 20 people have already jumped online here and posted about it. Why should I add to the clutter?

Seriously, switch the post order to New, and look at how many people are trying to start posts about the exact same thing. Do we really need more of that?

What I am good at is fact checking (which goes over like a turd in a punch bowl here), looking at things from multiple view points, being objective about hot button issues, and trying to explain basic concepts to people who somehow have gotten this far in life without learning them (for example, that the Supreme Court doesn't have to hear every case that is petitioned to be heard).

So basically I try to keep the excessively crazy and excessively stupid from making us all look like crazy idiots to the normies who come here. Maybe I can get a title like " 'Tard Wrangler". Or Neo-Nazi Buster?

But I have noticed that quantity over quality is valued here. Just shovel out as much stuff as possible, no matter if it's dogshit or gold.

Which reminds me. I've never figured out who funds these boards or how they make money. No ads. No fees. Any insight into this? Are our posts used to make content for other sites? Is that the obsession with having people post new content all the time? Serious question.

What is it you'd say you do around here? What is your role? Just read stuff, comment, and that's it? Serious question.

Yes. I read and comment. That's it.

I don't understand this idea that people have that if you don't start posts here, your contribution means nothing.

I honestly don't feel the need to make new posts. I'm not a very creative or inventive person. There is no topic out there that I'm interested in that hasn't already been covered. Multiple times.

Usually by the time I learn of something new that's happened, 20 people have already jumped online here and posted about it. Why should I add to the clutter?

Seriously, switch the post order to New, and look at how many people are trying to start posts about the exact same thing. Do we really need more of that?

What I am good at is fact checking (which goes over like a turd in a punch bowl here), looking at things from multiple view points, being objective about hot button issues, and trying to explain basic concepts to people who somehow have gotten this far in life without learning them (for example, that the Supreme Court doesn't have to hear every case that is petitioned to be heard).

So basically I try to keep the excessively crazy and excessively stupid from making us all look like crazy idiots to the normies who come here. Maybe I can get a title like " 'Tard Wrangler". Or neo-nazi buster?

But I have noticed that quantity over quality is valued here. Just shovel out as much stuff as possible, no matter if it's dogshit or gold.

Which reminds me. I've never figured out who funds these boards or how they make money. No ads. No fees. Any insight into this? Are our posts used to make content for other sites? Is that the obsession with having people post new content all the time? Serious question.

What is it you'd say you do around here? What is your role? Just read stuff, comment, and that's it? Serious question.

Yes. I read and comment. That's it.

I don't understand this idea that people have that if you don't start posts here, your contribution means nothing.

I honestly don't feel the need to make new posts. I'm not a very creative or inventive person. There is no topic out there that I'm interested in that hasn't already been covered. Multiple times.

Usually by the time I learn of something new that's happened, 20 people have already jumped online here and posted about it. Why should I add to the clutter?

Seriously, switch the post order to New, and look at how many people are trying to start posts about the exact same thing. Do we really need more of that?

What I am good at is fact checking (which goes over like a turd in a punch bowl here), looking at things from multiple view points, being objective about hot button issues, and trying to explain basic concepts to people who somehow have gotten this far in life without learning them (for example, that the Supreme Court doesn't have to hear every case that is petitioned to be heard).

So basically I try to keep the excessively crazy and excessively stupid from making us all look like crazy idiots to the normies who come here. Maybe I can get a title like " 'Tard Wrangler". Or neo-nazi buster?