Where are the caption threads?

Subject: Where are the caption threads?
From: topical tom
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 11:35 AM

Tell me, what has happened to the caption threads that Alice, Genie and others have posted? I hope that all posters are well. I really found those threads interesting, humorous and challenging.I hope that they make a return soon.

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 01:24 PM

Put caption? in the filter, TT, and set the time period to All. A number of them will come up.

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Alice
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 01:40 PM

Tom, I have been busy lately so I have not searched for appropriate images. I am still here. Thanks for caring.

Alice

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 01:50 PM

Some of us would rather see fewer caption threads. Maybe start one for July and have a new photo to caption every day or something.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Alice
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 01:52 PM

Well, one thread with many photos would not work, Joe, but we've been over that discussion before.
It doesn't work if multiple ideas are combined in one thread... no one knows which image captions are referring to.

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Alice
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 02:01 PM

Here's an idea. Why don't we just have one long BS thread for each month and everyone posts their BS idea topic in that thread. That would end the different threads for different ideas or topics problem.

Really, I don't mean to be annoying. Some of us get a little humor out of our day doing something harmless related to funny images and anyone who is not interested can ignore the thread. I open very few threads on Mudcat and ignore the rest and it doesn't bother me at all that other people are interested in starting threads on topics that don't interest me.

Life has been very hard for me the last few years and playing word games with pictures with those who like to do the same, brought a little smile into what has been quite hard for me to bear.

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 10:55 PM

I remember that discussion. I thought it was settled that Alice would start them and those who enjoy them would keep up with them; otherwise no one is made to open them. I know I got tired of seeing them, too, but they are always funny pix and one of the few places in BS one can count on it not being one of the contentious/political/endless/copycat ad nauseum stuff.

Give it up, Joe. It's like the b-day threads. They're here to stay.:-)

kat

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: topical tom
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 10:19 AM

I'm glad to hear that everyone is okay. That was my main concern. Looking forward to other caption threads in time to come.

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 11:19 AM

"Those that like them, like them alot"...including me.

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 11:42 AM

Go Alice!

What Kat said. Plus: Joe, not every person who does what you do not personally enjoy, online, is a needy troll. Stop acting like a mean nun!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Bernard
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 01:06 PM

You can please some of the people some of the time...

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 01:08 PM

LOL, very true, Bernard!

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 09:07 PM

I've only been a member for 8 years and don't have a clue what a "caption thread" is.

There are just levels and levels of Mudcat to navigate or as Seeger used to sing:

From here on up the hills don't get any higher,
From here on up the hills don't get any higher,
From here on up the hills don't get any higher,
But the valleys get deeper and deeper!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 09:36 PM

Charley Noble, try this link to one of the caption threads. Then you'll know:

Sample Caption Thread

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Becca72
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 09:26 AM

I agree with Alice. :-)

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 12:46 PM

Thanks, Dave.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 02:38 PM

I guess that to please Joe we'd have to agree that caption threads, obits, and news clips should all be posted only in the MOAB thread?

The only "saving" I can see there is that only the dozen or so fruit-loops who continue to post there would see them, and of course the 'cat would die (or appear to) repeatedly every time a couple of people accidentally clicked to load the whole thing instead of paging it.

That would, maybe, reduce the number of posts per day - especially while the 'cat looks like it died because of the 20 minute downloads - but I'm at a loss to see how the number of threads that our mudelfs need to watch is significantly affected by the fairly small number of new threads created on a given day.

Maybe Joe could explain what "extra work" is created by an "extra thread" in the data base, so we can understand why we should try harder to limit the number of new threads?

John

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Alice
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 03:09 PM

Years back I tried to open the MOAB thread, and it crashed my browser.
I have not gone back to it since then. Don't follow it, don't know what it is, and I think that is just fine. - Alice

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Genie
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 04:22 AM

The caption threads are still here, but some of them haven't got a lot of captions submitted. The easiest way to find them, if you're one of us'ns what likes 'em, is to put the word "caption" in the Forum Search box and set it to "all." That way you'll easily find the ones you missed out on.

G

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 03:23 PM

"I guess that to please Joe we'd have to agree that caption threads, obits, and news clips should all be posted only in the MOAB thread?

From experience, I recommend you not do that. The few folks who post there alot have rather rigid rules (you have to sort throuth thousands of posts to find 'em, if you haven't been posting there for a decade, ofr so) on what not to post...and will remind you of it. News clips, nor captions would not be accepted lightly, and you would be told so.I am not sure about obits?

However, if you have poems (it helps if they are about the sea), lots of stories about chimps, William Shatner or Shane McBride, or get excited about reaching OOO thread numbers...you would feel much at home amongst these thread kin folks....and some complain about a few caption posts taking up too much thread-space.

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 04:38 PM

Ya know how I use 'em? I use 'em to cruise into the site that hosts them and look around a tad to see what I missed lately. The best ones go into my screensaver for stress relief yuks.

~S~

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 03:45 PM

I am neither an opponent nor a huge fan of the "caption threads." I look in on one occasionally, and usually get a chuckle or two.

One question: Do they all concern cute little kittycats?

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 05:27 PM

Answer: No.

Thanks for chuckling once in awhile.

Subject: RE: Where are the caption threads?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 01:31 AM

You know, I still would rather see fewer caption threads. I said it in as gentle and polite a way as I could think of. This is what I said, and this is all I said:

Some of us would rather see fewer caption threads. Maybe start one for July and have a new photo to caption every day or something.

Do I have no right to an opinion? Did I threaten to take any action against caption threads? Gimme a break. I just think they're boring and shallow and aggravatingly repetitive, which is what I think of a lot of the BS threads (although I didn't even say THAT in my previous message, and still people jumped all over me). That's my opinion. I'm not asking anybody to agree with me; but I think I should be allowed to say what I think at times, just like everybody else.
-Joe-

P.S. I think it's nice that thread originators have been including the word "caption" in the title of caption threads.
Oh, and you can open the MOAB (Mother of All BS threads) in 50-message segments by clicking on the number of messages or the d (descending) links in the Forum Menu. Please don't open it any other way.