So, fuck, how do you read all of this shit?
8(Warning: I use "fuck" a lot in the following. If that bothers you, you shouldn't fucking read this post.)
My answer is definitively that I don't. I often don''t even read the whole thread of a post I'm interested and/or tagged in. Hell, I sometimes don't read all of the sub-level comments on a comment I'm commenting on in a post I'm more-or-less very interested in. The fuku posts scare and frustrate the holy living fuck out of me.
That neat little deal where meh marks the unread comments in a post (and @jsh139's awesome extension that scrolls forward to them; btw, we need something like that for iOS) helps for the smaller threads that I'm interested in, but it's frustratingly incomplete for the threads that I'm only sort of interested in and, yeah, it scares me on the monster threads that I'm actually interested in, because, damn, I go in there and it's all wiped clean and who the fuck knows what I read. Motherfuckers.
What makes it worse is that my filters at work block out a decent percentage of the images, so I sometimes want to go back later and see what I missed, but who has time for all of that, and who can keep up with what's where when? I don't know who. I sure as fuck don't
And, yes, I realize that there are various coping strategies (and I use some of them). And I think that ultimately meh is encouraging me to let it go. Just let it go, joelmwah, let it go. And I sometimes kinda sorta almost mostly do. But then the OCD fucking creeps up and I'm all stressed again.
As goat, I feel a little self-conscious about it. But, fuck it, I'm usually goofing off to be here as it is. And, goddamnit, I have a life. Still, the guilt, the frustration, the overwhelming sense of failure. I mean, fuck, this is like church all over again, not feeling like I'm a good enough meh-mber. Sigh.
So, my fellow mehicans, how do you deal with all of this shit? What particular coping strategies work for you?
Yeah, and then some asshole comes along on a rant. But I know how you cope with that: you ignore the longwinded motherfucker.
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TL;DR? The forums. WTF? It's too much to keep up with. Eeeek! Halp?
Actually most of the daily deal threads are scary as demon shit to me too. I like the short threads.
@joelmw Shit demon. Not the same thing. And sorta scary, but more funny.
@joelmw First - nice tagging of yourself. Second - could go with the less scary Chet-Turned-Into-A-Turd from Weird Science
@Bingo But I wanted more scary.
@Bingo @joelmw And not quite either thing, but kinda scary (at least this image is):
@joelmw bring me sweet corn
@joelmw
The only solution is to quit your job.
@darksaber99999 I wondered.
In the beginning I read every thread in its entirety. Lately though, it's been overwhelming and I've only been keeping up with a couple threads. So, my way of 'dealing' has been to back off a bit. :-/
Hum.
Tights are not pants.
@Teripie TIL: http://tightsarenotpants.com/manifesto
@Teripie So are you saying I'm over-sharing? Ha. I LOLed. When do I not over-share? The forums are TMI? Humming? Wait, what?
I end up casually catching up on threads and really, I don't get into a lot of the subcomments. If there are a ton of wall-o-text comments, I skim.
Basically I just read everything I can without wasting my time commenting.. haha
Reading this thread is like looking into @joelmw's mind. It looks like he's talking to himself.
@Teripie
@Teripie The voices in my head are a richly varied lot, and, IMO, interesting. It's often chaotic, almost always crazy, but we have some great chats and some bitching pandemonious parties up in here.
They pay me to read all of this shit.
@JonT Well then at least you know you will have job security
@JonT I'd demand a raise.
@JonT Are there quizzes?
@JonT
I read it all in one giant batch at night, and skim the short threads in the morning. Maybe I'll read some threads at work as well.
@dashcloud See, that's the wrong answer. That makes me feel inadequate. Sigh.
@joelmw perhaps you're overcompensating for some other short coming?
@Mavyn I'm emphatically refusing to overcompensate for multiple shortcomings. So there.
@joelmw pats Size doesn't matter.
@joelmw I'll let you blame yourself here, and point out the excellent "skip to new messages" extension here: https://github.com/jsh139/Extensions/releases by@jsh139
@dashcloud And I'll point out that it's also in the Chrome store now. I'd link it but I'm at home on my iPad. Just search for meh.
@joelmw So now I have to blame you for not blaming yourself, @joelmw.
@dashcloud
When I have time and/or need a distraction, I'll be more thorough in reading a thread. Otherwise, I just skip over any topic that didn't catch my attention or seems way too long to get into.
@joelmw I pretty haphazardly read the threads. Sometimes I come back when there's new activity on a thread I posted in. Sometimes I don't. Some threads I never open in the first place. Yep, haphazard is the name of the game.
haphazard is key.
http://www.ewrd.com
When I first discovered Meh at my previous job, I would read almost every post in the forum (it was a lot more fun than designing table lamps). Now I only return to a thread my re-read my own hilarious posts and star them over and over again.
@Moose Star them over and over - what you have super powers?
@Kidsandliz I just unstar it and star it. Over and over. Pretty much all day.
@Moose Kind of like I just did to your last comment. Sorry, I ended on un-star.
@Cinoclav lol
@Moose Did you lose your previous job because you were reading every post in the forums instead of doing your job?
@Cinoclav He stars me. He stars me not. He stars me. He stars me not. He stars me. He stars me not. He stars me. He stars me not.
@Moose It's true that I'd have more time to read other people's shit if I never re-read my own. Not that it happens all of the time, but, yaknow, with me, even if that happens on one long comment . . .
@joelmw its your darn fault there are so many threads and they get so long and they have scary demon shit in them. Stop it! Stop it! For the cat's sake, if not for an actual good reason!
@duodec
I think as the number of users increase, so do the number of comments. This is both a good and bad thing. Good for Meh, bad for the casual forum readers.
I'm sorry, did you say something?
Please don't take this wrong, but
@lisaviolet I would be happy to take her wrongly.
@lisaviolet I'm pretty sure I am taking that wrong, because I'm not at all sure how I should take it.
Fuck man, how you expect me to read all THAT shit?
Just make a couple of memorable comments in one or two threads a day. Also, you can take a day off. The whole thing where it's "all the [goat's] fault is just a joke to make you get too many notifications-you don't have to respond. No matter what you do in January-it's still you're fault.
@naropa Kinda my thing is that I take stupid shit seriously. Don't make me give up my thing.
Well, here's what the fuck I do, @joelmw, at least if I'm looking for something in particular: I use control + F (for find, not fuck) to highlight names or key words.
Probably doesn't work with Apple devices, though.
@KDemo I've actually got two Omnibar search shortcuts that I've set up in Chrome so that I can find by user and by word/phrase. When I'm back in the office I'll try to remember to post.
My job is basically sitting on the internet all day.... really. I get paid to do that. So here I sit and stay entertained. (There is an occasional user that needs a password reset or a server that needs patched, or a script to write...)
@unixrab I'm looking for new titles to call myself, since I'm in a similar line of work (with users that need more stuff done). What's yours, and do you handle Windows, Mac, or Linux?
@unixrab And here I thought you were a Batman Dad Chef. Where did my googlefu go wrong.
@dashcloud I have a sign on my wall that says "root"
@Outofmymind those are all true too.
I'm just gonna say that I'm feeling pretty damned prescient with this post before all of the East Coast and product threads exploded. I mean, we haven't even had a fuku lately and this shit's way out of control.
@joelmw lol
@joelmw "I mean, we haven't even had a fuku lately and this shit's way out of control."
Haha good luck reading the new Fuku thread! BTW it's all your fault.
To get more serious on this, I'm about to give up keeping up with all the threads. Between the timezone storm and the Fuku #4 storm, the diarrhea flow has become too much.