Mary is quite persuasive so I decided I'd mine fst they way she does. That is to use the new post button and read everything until the software tells me that are no more posts to view.
So that was a week ago. I had forgotten why I only ever read the off-topic areas. I don't think I'm going to give up as some of the comments on the news articles are quite interesting and all of a sudden I'm thinking about getting back into newsgroups, too. However, reading all the crap people post when they either want to trade BT accounts or are trying to get enough posts to get into the BT section is horrific. The simple fact that none of these people are posting just for the fuck of it, or to help someone, or cus they fancy a chat kinda slowly sucks the joy out of a person's forumular experience.
I've only been doing it a week and I can already see that it's impinging upon my usual demeanour around here - and I don't even care that much about the BT scene.
So, yeah, I can only imagine the effect of reading that shit for years.
The moral of this post is that it's a good thing Mary doesn't have feelings like the rest of us.
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