Comments on: Where is Lubbock’s best online forum?

By: Kirk Berryhill

Kirk Berryhill — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:57:25 +0000

I haven’t found much as far as Lubbock goes for intelligent debate on forums in the past, so I gave it up as I became a regular on Crooks and Liars, No Quarter,etc. My main forum has been with co-workers, friends, family, and other dinner-table, barroom debates that can sometimes degenerate into arguments. But I’ll give the Lubbock Online forums a go on your recommendation. In order to reach the people in Lubbock (a herculean task) I found you have to keep at it. They don’t like to give up their preconceptions easily.

By: CrazyLikeAFox

CrazyLikeAFox — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:00:20 +0000

Lefty

I learned about you on LOL. I also learned about Counsellor Carol and Robert Pratt.

I prefer “Forumonians” to “Forumites”

I get long belly-roll laughs out of most Trolls and gentle giggles from your posts. You’ll have to be less serious in the future. Lighten up a little lefty baby - Life is short.

By: John Reeve

John Reeve — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:24:55 +0000

I support writing in chalk on the ground as a kind of message board; it is a project I have engaged in a lot, though mostly on the walls of the crappy university. If you try it, you will see that more people would read what you have to write than if you just post stuff on the ‘net.

Personally, I don’t see a need for any more message boards about Lubbock; folks here have already pretty much made up their minds, I believe. The LOL space is a pretty good web space, but like every other public thing here it is pointless to try and raise objections to whatever obstinate, obtuse position that has been labeled “common sense” in the minds of the forumites there. The best posters there are the racist trolls, because at least they are entertaining to read– everyone else has a kind of Eichmann esque banality in their writing and anti-arguments.

The only community I have found in Lubbock is the real face to face community of people I have met while living here, and so while I spend a great deal of time online, it is mostly spent gathering facts that have little to do with the local population

If you need any indication of how much community can be found online, try inviting a few people you meet– even people that probably live a couple of blocks away from you– over for a cup of coffee or a beer. Maybe you’d have better luck than I, but the Lubbockites I’ve met online would cross the street if they recognized me walking in their direction in public.