Re: Stath2 - Where Are The Stories???
Hello Stath2! Long time no see! The routine of several good stories each month fell off late last year when regular, longtime contributors, many of whom are enshrined in the Hall of Fame today, stopped producing stories and/or posts. I, for one, was tired of writing stories after 2 solid years at it producing a good story or post every two weeks over those same 2 years when you add it all up by my count! And having to put up with plenty of bullshit for my efforts along the way!
What we have today is far too many parasitic lurkers who ocassionally open up their evil "yuck mouths" to demand that SOMEBODY ELSE write a good piece or simply to attack another person, incessant and often off-topic news reports (many of them repetitive), irrelevant videos and photos, and people just tending to lose sight of what the board is all about and what made it so great in the first place . . . STORIES of CHIKAN!
Look at how a great story energizes the board and gets everybody going and excited again. This is why the good storywriters are the royalty on this board, and should be recognized as such. Don't "defer to me" on this issue (or any other) as MITB incorrectly put it once. Defer to what the fuckin' board is all about . . . CHIKAN STORIES . . . and recognize good contributors when they deliver the stories we all love to read so much!
Today, even when we do get stories, far too many of them feature circumstances that are just too hard for even a longtime chikan like myself to believe. As has been said many a time, truth CAN be stranger than fiction, but these new storywriters just don't do a good job of conveying why it is that anybody should believe. Now, if you don't give a rip whether anybody believes or not, well that's another matter. In the case of O-Kay, the writer would have been much better served by writing some of the background pieces first before putting out some of the other stuff that's hard for seasoned and unseasoned folks alike to accept.
But still, having hope and believing is still worth it. Each month, we still get that good piece of work . . . barely . . . but it happens enough that we've still been able to find a worthy winner of the monthly award (we only need one). And out of that, we'll get our man (woman?) of the year. My worries that there won't be a single person worthy of a monthly award have not come to fruition . . . yet. But somebody better start writing something soon, or else it's just gonna be an easy "route" by Opportunist. He's clearly had the best stuff so far this year.
Black Shogun
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