Abe Lincoln said "you can´t please all of the people all of the time"..or something like that. I think this may have been posted on the forum before, but it deserves another shot. I think this pretty much explains it all on any forum I´ve ever participated on.
HOW MANY FORUM POSTERS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHTBULB?
7 to post that the bulb needs changing but they can't do it because they are
at work and the firewalls are stopping them
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light
bulb could have been changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs
53 to flame the spell checkers
41 to correct spelling/grammar flames
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb"
6 to condemn the previous 6 as anal-retentive
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"
15 know-it-alls who claim *they* were in the industry, and that "light bulb"
is perfectly correct
3 moderators to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please
take this discussion to a lightbulb forum
203 to demand that cross posting to the tech forum, chat forum, and
lightbulb forum about changing light bulbs be stopped
111 to defend the posting saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore
the posts *are* relevant to this forum
306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy
the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique
what brands are faulty and why Dave from "Lamps'R'us" is a tool with no
customer relations
27 to post images of examples of different light bulbs
14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then try to post the
corrected URL's
3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this
forum which makes light bulbs relevant to this forum
33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all
headers, signatures and images, and add "Me too"
12 to post to the forum that they will no longer post because they cannot
handle the light bulb controversy
4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?" or "keep up
at the back!"
3 to post random comments about donkey love to 'lighten the mood'
26 to state that posts about donkey love are offensive and the posters
should be banned
8 posters to moan about freedom of speech
6 alter-egos to flame the previous 37 and suggest that they only posted
about donkey love because they wish they could have a donkey of their own to
'love'
12 people to start new threads about how hostile this forum has become and
how no-one should post on the 'lightbulb' thread and we should all talk
about something nice instead
Aaaaaand finally....
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it
all over again
