On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:15:05AM +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: > > You'll see giant, colourful, often flashing banners in sigs, and sometimes > animated avatars if the forum software allows it.
It's not like the administrator has anything to do with it. A more "technical" forum most likely would have all this crap stripped. > The signal to noise ratio changes in favour of the noise. On a mailing > list, it favours the signal. People think harder before posting to a > mailing list. They don't waste time with the "me too"s and the "lol"s. None of the forums I visit have that much difference in signal. Honestly, MLs too are filled with all sorts of crap. Even if might be disguised more as something else than blatant "metoolol", doesn't mean that the information is useful.
