Whatever Happened to Reading Rainbow?

Cigarette said:

Could be worse. Look a what FreakPirate had for a minute:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Hey now, mine is annoying but at least I'm a little bit less douchey with it...

Actually, I agree with Senor Crisp. It's fucking annoying. I'm actually tempted to put you on ignore so I don't have to see it with every damn post.

Perhaps if you weren't so busy whining about how out of touch you are and spamming on porn site message boards, you could you know, like, read a book.

Yes, I do. Plenty of reason. Reason, I have its.

Spam is in the eye of the beholder. You consider it your signature, because you're the one posting it. Readers on this board see it, and feel it is spam. It could also fall under the stated term "unauthorized advertising".

Whether or not you consider it spam or advertising, I can pretty much guarantee you that as long as you continue to sign your posts with your web addresses, then many members (not just myself and MrCrisp) will continue to hound you about it. The simple fact is, that it is taboo in this community.

If they meant us to use signatures, there would be a signature function in the board code.

And...boy, I can understand the doomsayers who go on about the decaying intellect and watchability of the average entries in the fields of television and movies (although I think there's still enough to keep me satisfied on those fronts), but books? You must be really goddamn picky, because for me, I can't keep up with all the goodness I want to read. And I work at a library and can read at a rate of 1-2 pages per minute, depending on the book, so that's saying something.

No, really, it's spam when you post it to the boards endlessly. Leave the URLs your journal where they belong.

Nope. I'm paying to be here. I like the community. I wrote this thing specifically to post on SG because I enjoyed reading the current events here and I only simultaneously posted it on my blog.

I comment on picture galleries and host a banner to SG on my site as well. I'm quite the contributer. Don't insult me over it. Yeesh.



-William
www.William-Mac.com
www.ThisWeekinTime.com

It's painful to walk into bookstores or libraries because you wish you could just read everything all at once. That's how I feel about it.



-William

Hey guy-who-has-been-a-member-less-than-a-month:

"I'm a paying member!" isn't going to get you far as justification for spamming the boards. Your four bucks a month means no more than anyone else's and a whole lot of people are giving you good advice.

He paid! Don't you understand that?

Agreed.

The spam on his posts is douchey.

you're also quite the debater.

But you aren't that important.

Your imperatives are cute, though. Cut it out! Don't insult me! I demand that you not insult me while at the same time fiendishly clinging to my right to do things which construe me as a douchebag!

I'd like to reiterate my original post. Thanks.

And your signature still is lame.

Proust sucks.

But probably not as much as this grandstanding douche ThisWeekInDouche.

If he ever says "Don't tase me. Zoinks!" I vote that we consider him a bot.

That was a funny thread.

It's my pride and joy.

And a bargain at twice the price!

crbodyjewelry.com?

http://www.jeffreydavidmorris.com/

I came to this thread late, I see...

If you're looking for a good book on this topic, try The Language Police by Diane Ravitch, she writes about education, and previously was assistant secretary of Education under Bush the elder, and was part of the NAGB, appointed by Clinton.

This book makes a lot of sense, and makes an eloquent argument. But I suppose the thrust is the same. You fill the schools with boring-as-hell books, and the kids will turn to the Television, because that demonic box shovels out exciting content.

For your further amusement, there are appendices of words and concepts banned from school readers and textbooks.

As an amendment to the "Demonic Box" comment... "Reading Rainbow" was pretty fun, but "Wishbone" can eat a dick