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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:44 pm

search & Google suck so...

whats the name of that interwebs law that the louder a user announces they will leave the sooner they will be back?

I've seen it referrenced here a few years back, but got a memory like...

thing with holes in ...

you know - whatchamicalling -

for names.

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:55 pm

Golf Course? Very Happy

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:47 pm

So I learned a new word today. Flouncing. Razz

Quote:

Flouncing is the ancient art of leaving a board, community, blog or Internet forum in the most dramatic way possible.

Whereas normal people who are fed up with a discussion or debate simply leave, flouncers need eternal validation. Instead of simply logging off, they must announce that they are leaving. Flouncing usually occurs when a wanker realizes that other people on the planet hold differing views.

History

In childhood, flouncing is called "tantrums."
Types

A Convoluted Flounce is a wordy diatribe in which the wanker must make it clear how everyone else is forcing them to leave, and that the wanker simply has no other choice.

The Double Flounce is when a flouncer vows never to post again and never to return. They then return to announce again that they will never again return.

The Triple (or more) Flounce is exceedingly rare, but definitely the most amusing.

The Internet Suicide Flounce. Did they mention the first time that they're going to delete their journal/fanfic/fanart/blog/website? Really, they mean it. They're not only never going to come around here no mo', but they will commit Internet hara-kiri and erase all trace of themselves to show they *is oppressed*. Extreme flouncers will commit pseuicide.

Effects

The goal of a flounce is always to elicit an outpouring of handwringing and sympathy from other fans ("Please don't go, we love you, you're brilliant!") If there's a corresponding threat of deletion, they will expect an added outcry for the sake of their fic ("It would be like Michelangelo erasing the Sistine Chapel if we live without chapter 217 of your Harmonian opus!"). The wanker must know that they are so vitally important mass suicide will result if they leave the fandom. If there is an insufficient outcry the first time, the wanker will institute the double flounce.

98.7% of flouncers return within a week, usually in the form of a sockpuppet. A percentage of these flouncers will actually return as themselves or not leave at all, most with the explantion that the sympathy garnered has changed their minds.

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:19 am

Is there a term for posters who only go on a break, announced or unannounced?

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:25 am

Hi Bart,

AFK,,, (Away From Keyboard) Laughing

Cheers

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:37 am

@Agi, Ozone Layer

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:09 am

arrrrrr, me matey.....please don't leave, please we value your contribution.
<shakes cutlass in air>.......flouncing, lol sounds very 16th century....

here · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:50 am

^^^^^^^
Pirate alert!!

(why are pirates like that? they just arrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh)

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:17 am

Is there a term for someone who pretends to be a pirate when playing on the Interwebs? Very Happy

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:24 am

SCURVY DOG!!!

(If not, it should be)

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:59 am

Quote:

98.7% of flouncers return within a week, usually in the form of a sockpuppet.

sockpuppet, squirrel, same thing matey, arrghhh!!!

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:15 pm

Throw 'em to the sharks, scurvy dogs all! Arrrrrrh!

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:17 pm

looks like I confused the foums,

I was looking for this:

Quote:

Shaker's Law is an adage formulated by an Internet forum contributor known only as Shaker in 2006/7. The adage, which can be formulated in various different ways, states that "those who egregiously announce their imminent departure from an Internet discussion forum (for example, Usenet newsgroups or similar) almost never actually leave." In other words, contributors who made a considerable public song and dance about their exit from such a forum rarely leave and remain after all, thriving on the attention they receive. It is thus an example of hypocrisy.

/thread
from here on it's postwhoring Wink

Trophy Videos · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:14 pm

Agi- It's called "Lying Sieve Syndrome." It's not flattering, so cut it out!

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:53 pm

No I was thinking about flouncing. Btw anyone else think SOOI wrote that definition.

Ok leaving now and I will never be back.

Or will I?

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:16 pm

SlapHappy wrote:

Agi- It's called "Lying Sieve Syndrome." It's not flattering, so cut it out!

tell that to all the posters who forgot what my OP was actually asking about before they replied! Wink

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:26 am

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