5th July, 2004
8:55 AM
Yesterday was the shadhinota dibosh of USA.....I knew the info, but didn't find any good reason to think about it. However, I was forced to think about it when I found out on my way back home that due to US partying, the road adjacant to US embassy has been temporarily closed. Now isn't that unfair? It was 9 PM, and I had already spent more than 12 hours outta home. I was so pissed off that I don't feel like talking about it now.
I can describe my life in AG terms now...hehe. Every morning at around 8:05 AM, I log into my office PC, and check my mails, and then I log into AG. Same routine I follow from Sunday to Thursday, every week. I must say, I am partially responsible for making the chit chat section off-topic centered. But I don't regret. If the mods and admins think that we should not spend so much time socializing (cause the messengers are there), I'll say that messenger cannot be a substitute for off-topic, where even 10 people often talks at the same time. Yeah I know, this thread is taking away a lot of posting time from our regulars...but I guess this is happening due to the lacklustre topics in Chit Chat. Some topics are totally rubbish.....and yet they exist. Most topics have nothing to be discussed about.....I see people getting in and posting their arguments. It's like in a huge room...everyone is saying what they want to say. Nobody's listening to what others are saying. I have also seen this in the music section. Come on, this is a discussion board, not an opinion board. People should support/disapprove other peoples comments besides posting their own. This is practiced in some threads, but not in most threads. the thread "What are you listening to"--here, a guy just posts away what he's listening. Sometimes I see people saying...hey that's a great song you were listening to. Some people like Stormy bhai also atttaches their personal feelings with the song..(beshi joss gaan...10 baar shunlaam), etc. But just mentioning the song and artist's name (what I do often), seems like a blatant way of increasing number of posts.
I think the admins have thought a lot about this number of posts issue. There will always be some users who'd post only for the sake of posting, and a big motivation for them is the number of post and relevant titles for it. The admins and mods are doing their best to discourage such behavior, and that's really appreciable
It's good to see that Henry bhai has also opened a blog. I can learn how to make this a worthwhile log by seeing their posts. I saw a comment by Anika that it isn't fair that people cannot comment here. Well...I think it has already been said that you can always post your comments and questions in our DC threads. I already received two PMs based on my Blog comments, and that's actually a good thing.
Anyways.....signing off for now.
Well it is not possible for me to get into people's mind and know what they are storing there. The rules didn't tell me much, and as this thing hasn't been done before, I think only time will tell which style is more relevant. Anyways....I think all of my entries revolved around AG, at least to some extent. I guess the Off-Topic flooding will start shortly. Now that some of us are being deprived off MSN, it is very natural that posts in that thread will increase.
