Social Norms . .
. . now Norm did violate them (but he's better now), and Merlin too - but that takes quite a bit of doing around here.
When a thread or set of threads seems tedious and tiresome, I have found a cure for that. Don't read those threads. This is a good thing, because I tend to find about 70% of the content here meets that qualification, and my mind pretty much blanks out at the 7th shift to the right.
OK, I'm really not so compulsive, so maybe others have more trouble with thread withdrawal. Perhaps some take these forums real seriously and want them pure and lean for posterity, but that's futile - it'll all be composting in the great bit bucket soon enough - so the 0s and 1s can be freed up for use on other planets.
I found your adventures with Andre threads to be too slow moving and tedious for my taste (my attitude on misbehaving machines is, after all, "strip for parts now and ask questions later"), So I just picked at them now and then. I do not, however, begrudge you your threads nor consider them a violation of Social Norms, nor do I find it demeaning that others might wish to participate in them. Different people have different tastes, interests, delusions budgets and axes to grind.
They don't mess with my delusions and axes and I won't mess with theirs.
