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i think people on this board make way too big a deal about long hair if you want long hair dont cut it if you want short hair do cut it.....all this talk about how long untill i get a ponytail and what drugs to take to make my hair grow faster..........just dont get a hair cut whats the big deal...............
LOL, Amen bro!
thank you mr 'why' for sharing that with all of us. i can't say that i differ with your opinions but i do have an issue with the manner that you choose to express them. are you trying to convince us all how 'right' you are? perhaps in your little group of friends your opinions are held in such high esteem that you have the privilege of disrespecting others. i'm not into updos and my first hand experience with supplements is not real favorable (not at all worth the expense)... but i certainly would not take to insulting someone else because they are considering such a route. some of these people have valid questions & concerns that deserve better. if you really want to reach someone then word your message in a way that's NOT going to put them on the offensive. put yourself on the receiving end of your own words and tell me honestly that you would take the message seriously and i'll not only call you an intolerant @$$ but also a liar.
i think you make way too big a deal about posts if you like them read them, if you don't don't read them....all this talk about people taking it too seriously and making a big deal about it..........just dont read the board whats the big deal...............
Oh and by the way... I would hardly classify vitamins as drugs.
The purpose of this board is to discuss issues concerning long haired men, including everything from problems we face as long hairs in our workplace and elsewhere, matters concerning haircare and to an extent -- an opportunity to be a bit indulgent and narcistic about our hair.
Basically that's no different from people (men and women)being interested in body building, nutrition, a healthy lifestyle, jogging, doing up their cars, landscaping their garden, rearing tropical fish or whatever.
So why insult long haired men for discussing matters of interest to ourselves?
Charles
just grow your longhair and be done with it ........if it makes you happy do it.but what i am saying is every outher message on the board is how can i get me hair to grow faster or how long will it take for a ponytail......dont you get tired of the same stuff all the time maybe its time for this board to weed out the the same messages over and over again.........
Yeah, and maybe we ought to quit teaching First Grade over and over every year. On the other hand, maybe every year we have new students.... :-)
When the older among us were kids, movie theaters did not make you come at the beginning of a film and kick you out at the end. Films were restarted as soon as they ended, you could arrive in the middle of the film if you wanted, and watch it until it got back to the place where you came in at. At that point to stay would be boring, so you'd probably leave.
This board is that way. If it's starting to bore you dude, the solution is the same. :-)
Which is precisely why I bring up the same things over and over again, since there will always be a new audience.
Of course, as with all things, this must be done in moderation. One must have a sense for how much turnover there is among the crew, and not drive them batty by too much posting on a topic, while still helping out newcomers who have a problem. If someone is obviously desperate for information, I'm more apt to respond, despite the fact that their answer was posted not long before. In ordinary circumstances, one can let them surf through the board to find it, or one can let others answer the problem if he did last time, to let the board gain a richer variety of viewpoints.
Any time a matter concerns another individual on the board, rather than an external issue, it should normally not be repeated once the initial discussion dies out though, because this rapidly becomes an intrusion on someone else's private personal space. At a private party, if two guests have a disagreement, they discuss it and after a reasonable discussion is had, they drop it, out of respect for each other and the group. The same behavior is appropriate here.
If people are going to feel comfortable expressing their opinions or other aspects of themselves or their lives on here, they have to feel the ripples from their action will die their natural death. As with any social group, one of our obligations of belonging here is to see to it that all are having a good time. This is important enough that we generally don't bring up things about each other over and over, even if they might provide some information. We all know that our posts here descend into the archives, for example, but no one feels comfortable being reminded of what he said two years ago, over and over. Whether he still agrees with what he posted does not even matter; such activity is regarded by most of us as an invasion of a man's personal space.
For that reason, when it comes to repeating information that is about an individual, we exercise restraint.
But if it comes to how to use the WWWboard, I find that people are still linking to pictures to Yahoo GeoCities, and wondering why the pictures don't work! So, it is worth reminding them why you shouldn't link to Yahoo GeoCities. I know, I forget sometimes!
Also, I sometimes bring up messages about an issue, such as mullets, rather than about an individual.
Once in a while I agree it bears repeating, yeah, to help those wanting to learn. For most people though, it doesn't seem to sink in. Why? Probably because they almost never put pictures on the board and in between times they forget stuff like that. The easiest thing when some unfortunate soul has an unloading picture is probably for some of us who are more tech-savvy to just put a note with the fix there so others can enjoy the guy's pic. :-)
If the issue hasn't been touched in a while and a newcomer wants to know about it, we can answer him in our own words, or refer him to the archives. My way of doing it is to see first if someone who knows the subject well provides him an answer. If not, I may provide an answer in my own words. As a last resort, if the answer is a tough one and I don't feel comfortable answering it in my own words, I might refer someone to an archive. I'd say, though, my doing that has been very rare.
Of course, if one responds to old posts, then the responses won't be noticed as much as new posts, so this is moot. This is because old stuff has literally descended down the board, where nobody notices them!