Message Boards: For Good and Evil Mikey Scott's Column

[Pompal 09.]

If there's one thing that's always bothered me about message boards on the internet, it's the amount of unnecessary comments that end up on them. You know the ones; as you get further and further down the screen, the comments get less and less relevant, before eventually turning into a conversation about plans for the following night of partying. Ultimately, I think that the message board was originally created in an effort to allow two-way communication from a website to a person. Since I'm being given a space to rant about anything of interest, I'm now going to take this time to dive deep into the topic of message boards and how much I hate them.

What's really the point of the message board anyways? If I'm not mistaken, they were meant for visitors to leave comments on the article, picture, or video that's above them on the website. Whatever though, I guess there really aren't any guidelines on how, or what, to actually base your post on, and maybe that's a good thing. After many years of frustrating research, I've come to the conclusion that there are three very different types of people when it comes to message boards.First off, you have the people that honestly care about the post itself. These people are far and few between and usually end up being fans and/or friends of the person who wrote the information within the specific post. Next up, we have the little kids that strive on getting the first post on every message board. Like a vampire on its victim, once they sink their post into the message board, they are done and leave the scene. Finally we have one of my favorites: The Shillers. This type of poster usually posts out of jealousy or tries to decieve the potential clients by trying to paint rosier pictures of their dumps in schemes to try to lure us into disapointment In the end if we keep our messages to the point,and we are serious about it, then we can protect each other from being setup for disapointment! Thanx