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The Midniter posted:Bart, what's your opinion on the influx of GBS shitposters? Obviously it's good to have new blood, and this subforum could use some, but not when it's juvenile idiots mucking up every thread with their inane garbage. The GBS supercrew ruffled some feathers, obviously. In some cases that was needed - you can't roast a chicken without ruffling a few feathers, obviously. GWS's response to the influx of new people wasn't exactly welcoming and did reward some of the worst bear baiting, which of course only encouraged more of it. I am generally in favor of things that lead to GWS seeing more posts, more threads (especially short-lived focused threads that are interesting and/or funny, as opposed to megathreads), and more participants. I'm also in favor of a certain level of content in posts; dozens of lovely threads with low-effort posts don't help anybody. Then again. if nobody posts the forum dies. So posting is in general a net positive. If you'll allow me another simile or metaphor or whatever, my opinion is this is a case of reaping what we sow. The level of vitriol I see thrown at some posters, warranted or otherwise, is unlikely to lead to an improved GWS.
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Just don't touch the poop. If you see an obvious GBS shitpost then just keep scrolling. Quoting it and getting angry and whatever achieves their purpose of derailing and making you mad.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:46
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bartolimu posted:I am generally in favor of things that lead to GWS seeing more posts, more threads (especially short-lived focused threads that are interesting and/or funny, as opposed to megathreads), and more participants. I'm also in favor of a certain level of content in posts; dozens of lovely threads with low-effort posts don't help anybody. Then again. if nobody posts the forum dies. So posting is in general a net positive. This is a very salient point imo. I like cooking but I would basically never consider regularly reading or participating in this forum. Between the weird home cook elitism and the fact that the average thread length on the first page is seriously 147 loving pages, it's not welcoming at all.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:52
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Just hit last page and go from there. All the mega threads and even this one go in cycles i.e. what's a sandwich, this very topic or lmfao. I do think they could be closed/refreshed on occasion to help promote posting. I also think a lot of the perceived elitism is just that people don't like to be told that what they're doing is wrong or ineffective. There was similar backlash in the knife thread about the pull through sharpeners, but it truly is bad advise to advise their use if someone is looking to improve themselves or their cooking. GBS posts like freezing an egg whole is a good way to make it food safe  or "put a latin kick" is whitenoise garbage and if you follow it, only a good way to waste food.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:19
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I wish SA could upweigh new threads to the top of the list for a week or something.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:28
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Mr. Wookums posted:Just hit last page and go from there. All the mega threads and even this one go in cycles i.e. what's a sandwich, this very topic or lmfao. I do think they could be closed/refreshed on occasion to help promote posting. I also think a lot of the perceived elitism is just that people don't like to be told that what they're doing is wrong or ineffective. There was similar backlash in the knife thread about the pull through sharpeners, but it truly is bad advise to advise their use if someone is looking to improve themselves or their cooking. GBS posts like freezing an egg whole is a good way to make it food safe I think a problem is that people tend to react the same way towards an obvious poo poo post vs someone who is just uninformed and that's offputting for everyone.
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Sep 24, 2015 23:15
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bartolimu posted:The GBS supercrew ruffled some feathers, obviously. In some cases that was needed - you can't roast a chicken without ruffling a few feathers, obviously. GWS's response to the influx of new people wasn't exactly welcoming and did reward some of the worst bear baiting, which of course only encouraged more of it. Well I'm just glad you're doing nothing about any of it.
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^ this. also "GBS supercrew"? lol what the gently caress are you smoking bartolimu
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Sep 25, 2015 03:22
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I probably don't have much weight behind my opinion as I don't really post in this forum, but I read the poo poo out of it. The front page is like a wave of bookmarked/read threads. This forum taught me not just how to cook some meals, but really how to be an adult. There are a few forums I frequently spend my time reading, specifically GWS, YLLS and ML. ML helped me realise that pursuing music not at 8 wasn't a waste of time. GWS taught me that you can, in fact, make awesome food at home that was way better than poo poo you'd buy at a fast food place, and more importantly it taught me the joy of cooking. YLLS has taught me to not be a fat, lazy guy. Point is, reading those three forums specifically really educates and entertains me. Sometimes people are a bit elitist, sure, but I'd rather see a genuine discussion over some obscure aspect of cooking, music, running, whatever than some bullshit posts. I get excited when I see a new thread about someone's pizza oven (Seriously that thing rules) because I know that hey, I may not have a wood fired oven, but drat it I'll learn something. I'm always learning in this forums, whether it's about wine or vegan tofu dishes. I approach things with enthusiasm and keenness. I'm rambling, but when I click a thread about holiday cooking I'm thinking, "Yeah, some new dishes to change things up! Maybe try something I've never done before!" Instead I get a bunch of bullshit, unfunny posts that just try to push lame memes. Then I scroll down and see that pretty much the entire thing is that. It doesn't make me angry or sad, just a little disappointed. I get that having elitist posters makes things awkward for newcomers. But I don't not post because I'm scared of being shouted at. I just don't feel I have anything to contribute that's worth typing out and other people reading. And I'd rather stay silent than post about crockpot salsa chicken or an ethnic kick for dishes. If it's a better scenario to post anything pertaining to the topic than lurking, then I'll start posting when possible. But I'd rather read people talking about something that excites them than a bunch of guys posting random stuff but ups the posting numbers. Just my two cents.
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syntaxfunction posted:I probably don't have much weight behind my opinion as I don't really post in this forum, but I read the poo poo out of it. The front page is like a wave of bookmarked/read threads. This forum taught me not just how to cook some meals, but really how to be an adult. There are a few forums I frequently spend my time reading, specifically GWS, YLLS and ML. ML helped me realise that pursuing music not at 8 wasn't a waste of time. GWS taught me that you can, in fact, make awesome food at home that was way better than poo poo you'd buy at a fast food place, and more importantly it taught me the joy of cooking. YLLS has taught me to not be a fat, lazy guy. These are two good cents.
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syntaxfunction posted:I probably don't have much weight behind my opinion as I don't really post in this forum, but I read the poo poo out of it. The front page is like a wave of bookmarked/read threads. This forum taught me not just how to cook some meals, but really how to be an adult. There are a few forums I frequently spend my time reading, specifically GWS, YLLS and ML. ML helped me realise that pursuing music not at 8 wasn't a waste of time. GWS taught me that you can, in fact, make awesome food at home that was way better than poo poo you'd buy at a fast food place, and more importantly it taught me the joy of cooking. YLLS has taught me to not be a fat, lazy guy. you're a good poster. keep doing what you do.
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Sep 25, 2015 06:11
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Mr. Wookums posted:Just hit last page and go from there. All the mega threads and even this one go in cycles i.e. what's a sandwich, this very topic or lmfao. I do think they could be closed/refreshed on occasion to help promote posting. I also think a lot of the perceived elitism is just that people don't like to be told that what they're doing is wrong or ineffective. There was similar backlash in the knife thread about the pull through sharpeners, but it truly is bad advise to advise their use if someone is looking to improve themselves or their cooking. GBS posts like freezing an egg whole is a good way to make it food safe How do I measure a tablespoon of butter? Probably I cannot use an actual tablespoon, there were several pages of arguments about this specific topic recently. If I cannot trust a tablespoon, how can I trust any recipe? Is cooking food accurately even possible with this revelation? Should goons with spoons even exist if measuring accurate quantities is impossible?
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Sep 25, 2015 07:45
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Pivotal Lever posted:How do I measure a tablespoon of butter? Probably I cannot use an actual tablespoon, there were several pages of arguments about this specific topic recently. If I cannot trust a tablespoon, how can I trust any recipe? Is cooking food accurately even possible with this revelation? Should goons with spoons even exist if measuring accurate quantities is impossible? You scoop a tablespoon into some butter and then scrape off the excess from the top with your finger. Are you loving retarded?
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Sep 25, 2015 07:48
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gnarlyhotep posted:You scoop a tablespoon into some butter and then scrape off the excess from the top with your finger. Are you loving retarded? Well, a tbsp is 20ml in Australia and only 15ml in the rest of the Commonwealth nations and the United States *gets distracted by a passing train for 12 minutes* so measuring a tablespoon of butter accurately is impossible.
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Sep 25, 2015 07:51
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Pivotal Lever posted:Well, a tbsp is 20ml in Australia and only 15ml in the rest of the Commonwealth nations and the United States *gets distracted by a passing train for 12 minutes* so measuring a tablespoon of butter accurately is impossible. No, only if you're a goddamn idiot. Kill yourself and let the rest of us get on with breathing.
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Sep 25, 2015 07:53
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syntaxfunction posted:Just my two cents. Thank you
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Sep 25, 2015 08:57
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Pivotal Lever posted:Well, a tbsp is 20ml in Australia and only 15ml in the rest of the Commonwealth nations and the United States *gets distracted by a passing train for 12 minutes* so measuring a tablespoon of butter accurately is impossible. gnarlyhotep posted:You scoop a tablespoon into some butter and then scrape off the excess from the top with your finger. Are you loving retarded? i cant believe this conversation is still going loving hell gws you are the worst forum ever
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Sep 25, 2015 10:25
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GWS isn't a forum any more, it hasn't been for years now. It's a large set of megathreads - really subforums - on specific topics. Which is a lovely format but what are ya going to do about it, short of killing all megathreads (lol). Dinner thread is the closest thing to old gws. sweat poteto fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Sep 25, 2015 11:07
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So basically a bunch of GBS posters come here and poo poo all over the place, including one of their mods, and the the GWS mod's reaction is "Well you should have been nicer to outsiders." Just delete the forum if you don't give a poo poo Bart.
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Sep 25, 2015 12:52
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it would be cool if GWS could be a cooking comedy subforum instead of a den of autism about which I'm not being hyperbolic when I say a multiple-page discussion is ongoing here about goonish fear and anxiety over the appropriate measurement of a tablespoon, even though they own tablespoons.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:So basically a bunch of GBS posters come here and poo poo all over the place, including one of their mods, and the the GWS mod's reaction is "Well you should have been nicer to outsiders."
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Yeah, I don't think "well if you would've been nicer everything would've been okay" is true. The last few times somebody who wasn't a shithead made a new thread - which is the stated objective - it gets covered in shitposts from the GBS brigade immediately and anybody who might actually contribute ignores it because they don't want to deal with the idiots. If close-minded elitism is what gave us awesome things like ICSA, then bring back the close-minded elitism please. I'd rather have somebody who genuinely knows what they're talking about tell me I'm an idiot for cooking lean meat in a slow cooker, which is good advice snobbery or no, than having fifteen people respond with "add lime to your salsa chicken for a latin kick!"
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rj54x posted:Yeah, I don't think "well if you would've been nicer everything would've been okay" is true. The last few times somebody who wasn't a shithead made a new thread - which is the stated objective - it gets covered in shitposts from the GBS brigade immediately and anybody who might actually contribute ignores it because they don't want to deal with the idiots. but the problem is that somethingawful is a satire comedy retard autism troll forum for faggots; why you demand to have your serious cooking forum in the middle of it is absolutely mindboggling unless it's an insanely high tier of irony that i can't yet comprehend with my feeble gbs hivemind cooking is good and cool but if the funniest thing is Nooner's lime and cilantro latin kicks then thats v sad imo, sorry nooner (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 25, 2015 13:32
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les fleurs du mall posted:my feeble gbs hivemind You're getting warmer.
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les fleurs du mall posted:it would be cool if GWS could be a cooking comedy subforum instead of a den of autism about which I'm not being hyperbolic when I say a multiple-page discussion is ongoing here about goonish fear and anxiety over the appropriate measurement of a tablespoon, even though they own tablespoons. Well, some of that conversation was ironic. 
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Squashy Nipples posted:Well, some of that conversation was ironic. Hush now... We would never have fun with discussing measurements because it is seemingly such a loving big deal in cooking, and we would never be sarcastic about it.
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Sep 25, 2015 13:42
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Squashy Nipples posted:Well, some of that conversation was ironic. tbf gassing really funny threads is basically autistic
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Sep 25, 2015 13:43
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Squashy Nipples posted:Well, some of that conversation was ironic. yea there were some good posts in there but it doesnt make up for th disturbingly serious ones in btween
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Sep 25, 2015 13:43
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Hey, GBS frequently dwells into sophisticated comedy, such as New York sandwich tax legislation.
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nooner came into the cajun thread and I thought it was pretty funny and obviously a jokepost and nothing happened after that was bad.
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Xoidanor posted:Hey, GBS frequently dwells into sophisticated comedy, such as New York sandwich tax legislation. Can we please talk about whether tomatoes are fruits or vegetables? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden posted:Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893),[1] was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that, under U.S. customs regulations, the tomato should be classified as a vegetable rather than a fruit. The Court's unanimous opinion held that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable", instead of the technical botanical meaning.
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As long as the GBS shitshow stays out of the industry thread. Its pretty hard to have food jokes that aren't inclusive to elitist food culture. I make jokes on a daily basis about doing things in random esoteric ways that cooks will stop, look at me like I'm loving crazy, then laugh because it's obviously a joke, that just doesn't translate to people who know nothing about food or food prep. Like if I came in and told you all that we're going to be measuring 4oz of garlic and 2oz of oil into vacuum bags, and SV'ing our confit garlic now as opposed to putting it in a 225F oven for an hour, 10 pounds at a time, you'd look at me like I'm some loving madman until you realize the joke. So basically, food jokes aren't funny, and if you don't measure your butter by thumbs of ginger you should probably just stop cooking.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Can we please talk about whether tomatoes are fruits or vegetables? They're berries. 
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Single serving bags of garlic confit would be awesome on an airplane.
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:As long as the GBS shitshow stays out of the industry thread. you sound ridiculous look at the things you write
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also i want to know why my lemonade made out of limes thread was closed it was a good thread and nobody answered my question on how to make it yet
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:As long as the GBS shitshow stays out of the industry thread. i can relate, most people don't have enough chromosomes to get my jokes
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social vegan posted:i can relate, most people don't have enough chromosomes to get my jokes same
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Tom Brady posted:also i want to know why my lemonade made out of limes thread was closed that thread sincerely upset some GWS posters
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