"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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assign a point system to posts

xyzzy

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One good feature from some other discussion boards is to “rate” responses. You assign a point system, say a score of 1 – 5. This way, it would be useful to skip over posts that are useless flames of one another (Score: 1), and devote our time to useful posts (Some post worthy of a DJ Bible entry, such as Pook:Kill that Desperation! Score: 5).

Not that this should be used as an opinion that you agree with the post or not, but on how useful or well informed the post is.

If the moderators don’t have the time to devote to this, another simpler suggestion could be to put a “thumbs up” or some such icon next to a post that is worth the time to read. Or, allow users to rate the post by a vote of responses.

This perhaps could give more worth to what some people post, allow us to wade through the useless posts, and provide some incentive to contribute something useful to the discussion.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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NeXuS

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I rate this idea a 0.

Honestly, just let others decided whether a response is decent or not.
 

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Originally posted by NeXuS:
I rate this idea a 0.

Honestly, just let others decided whether a response is decent or not.
I second that notion because we all know that things that are said on the board should be taken with a grain of salt anyway.
 
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