Prices on mugs dropping, what gives? - General Tiki

A AceExplorer Grand Member (8 years) Deep in the Jacksonville Flori-duh jungle. Joined: Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 2564	A AceExplorer Posted posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 5:00 PM On 2016-02-03 16:08, tikiskip wrote: Heck the last time we did that on some thread about what drink to serve at some guys home bar he got kinda pissed about the derail, so the derail stopped and so did all talk on that thread. I was involved in that derail. I said what I wanted to when I thought it meant something to some of the other posters and readers, and then I stopped when I shared what I wanted to say. Sure, someone commented about the derail in "his" thread, but he may not understand the dynamic of how these free-for-all exchanges happen on sites like TC. They're natural conversations. In defense of Tiki Central: This is not just an "entertaining" site, but it's an "archive" too. Thank the tiki gods that we're not limited by all the message expiration (message loss) of social media, and the other cumbersome restrictions we have to put up with in social media. Here the messages can be found again later if someone wants to do a search. I don't think it's justified to bash this "old" style message system when it brings a lot of positive things to the table that social media just doesn't offer. Tiki Central is persistent social media - it lives on a long time regardless of how good or bad the content is. At least it's searchable when you need it. On 2016-02-03 16:08, tikiskip wrote: This fight over the money and attention is going to take it all down and the people won't want what's left of the tiki crowd. It will be like Stuart from Mad TV in a room all by himself jumping up and saying "look what I can do" but nobody looks. I'm definitely not pessimistic about what's going on, even though a small number of commercial posters have in the past quite freely spammed us with annoying sales pitches for their cheesy "tiki" stuff. I'd suggest to just let it all go, have a drink and chill, and use your delete key if reading via email. Bad behavior will continue to surprise us here and there, sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way. (I hope very little of that bad comes from me, but I'm human too.) We should enjoy the ride with the many good folks here, we should look back often, but always look forward in anticipation of what's still ahead of us. And pray to the tiki gods that Tiki Central has a long and successful life.

On 2016-02-03 16:08, tikiskip wrote:
Heck the last time we did that on some thread about what drink to serve at some guys home bar he got kinda pissed about the derail, so the derail stopped and so did all talk on that thread.

I was involved in that derail. I said what I wanted to when I thought it meant something to some of the other posters and readers, and then I stopped when I shared what I wanted to say. Sure, someone commented about the derail in "his" thread, but he may not understand the dynamic of how these free-for-all exchanges happen on sites like TC. They're natural conversations.

In defense of Tiki Central:
This is not just an "entertaining" site, but it's an "archive" too. Thank the tiki gods that we're not limited by all the message expiration (message loss) of social media, and the other cumbersome restrictions we have to put up with in social media. Here the messages can be found again later if someone wants to do a search. I don't think it's justified to bash this "old" style message system when it brings a lot of positive things to the table that social media just doesn't offer. Tiki Central is persistent social media - it lives on a long time regardless of how good or bad the content is. At least it's searchable when you need it.

On 2016-02-03 16:08, tikiskip wrote:
This fight over the money and attention is going to take it all down and the people
won't want what's left of the tiki crowd.
It will be like Stuart from Mad TV in a room all by himself jumping up and saying "look what I can do" but nobody looks.

I'm definitely not pessimistic about what's going on, even though a small number of commercial posters have in the past quite freely spammed us with annoying sales pitches for their cheesy "tiki" stuff. I'd suggest to just let it all go, have a drink and chill, and use your delete key if reading via email. Bad behavior will continue to surprise us here and there, sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way. (I hope very little of that bad comes from me, but I'm human too.) We should enjoy the ride with the many good folks here, we should look back often, but always look forward in anticipation of what's still ahead of us.

And pray to the tiki gods that Tiki Central has a long and successful life.

Post #758342 by AceExplorer on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 5:00 PM