OT (sort of) priorities

theyolksonyou

What’s the standard deviation?

GrateEggspectations

theyolksonyou said:

What’s the standard deviation?

Stop being such a deviant. 

bgebrent

theyolksonyou said:

What is mean?  Average?

Past tense!  Meant.

bgebrent

GrateEggspectations said:

theyolksonyou said:

What’s the standard deviation?

Stop being such a deviant. 

If you pay a little more you can get the automatic deviation.

frazzdaddy

TEXASBGE2018 said:

Sorry @SaintJohnsEgger. Looks like this ones fading fast.... In the spirit of your original intent. Rockwood is the best lump, be sure to never ever cook less than a 3/4" steak, Blackstone Griddles are awesome but you can get tired of them, Cherry wood works wonders on pork, Pecan for Brisket, the yeah and Nahs of the KAB make it a mystery, and SRF although pricey probably has better briskets than Costco. Oh and if you are in the market for another level cooking rack get a CGS AR and the javelin pro duo is equally as good as the thermapen MK4

Post of the day. A raised glass to you sir!

YEMTrey

The argument against this thread, is the current John Prine thread.  Was not too familiar with the man or his work prior to that thread.  Threads like that enrich this forum as well as my life.

SaintJohnsEgger

Looks like the Friday madness started a day early.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

YEMTrey said:

The argument against this thread, is the current John Prine thread.  Was not too familiar with the man or his work prior to that thread.  Threads like that enrich this forum as well as my life.

Every time a music lover discovers John Prine an angel gets its wings. 

GrillSgt

+1

JohnInCarolina

SaintJohnsEgger said:

Looks like the Friday madness started a day early.

I told you this would go well!

nolaegghead

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

YEMTrey said:

The argument against this thread, is the current John Prine thread.  Was not too familiar with the man or his work prior to that thread.  Threads like that enrich this forum as well as my life.

Every time a music lover discovers John Prine an angel gets its wings. 

And every time a music lover discovers Ted Nugent or Kid Rock, god kills a kitten.

JRWhitee

theyolksonyou said:

GrateEggspectations said:

bgebrent said:

SmokeyPitt said:

alaskanassasin said:

When I first started on this forum I saw guys were 10 K 20 K deep in posts.
  I thought dang these boys take egging pretty seriously.
 And then I found OT.

I think anyone with 10K posts is a loser with WAYYYYY too much time on their hands. 

This!!

What about guys with almost 18 000? 

What about them?

Losers...Both of them. 

Eoin

OT threads keep this place going, it would be boring without them. If you just want facts, close the forum and put a big search box on the home page, because the answers to life, the universe and everything have already been posted here in the past.

KennyCJR

Eoin said:

OT threads keep this place going, it would be boring without them. If you just want facts, close the forum and put a big search box on the home page, because the answers to life, the universe and everything have already been posted here in the past.

You make a good point.  Often times I google things and the top results are from this forum.  Which is exactly why I joined.  
 

SaintJohnsEgger

Guys. I never said that I'm against off topic threads. I enjoy lots of them and they do keep things interesting. I have also participated.

My concern is that they get way more emphasis than BGE  or cooking threads. And that people get so nasty about politics and other people's stance on social issues such as Trump or Chik-Fil-A or sexual preference. 

I just want to see more emphasis on the Eggs, their usage and cooking. Post about Blackstone or your gas grill or sous vide etc are fine with me too.

JohnInCarolina

SaintJohnsEgger said:

Guys. I never said that I'm against off topic threads. I enjoy lots of them and they do keep things interesting. I have also participated.

My concern is that they get way more emphasis than BGE  or cooking threads. And that people get so nasty about politics and other people's stance on social issues such as Trump or Chik-Fil-A or sexual preference. 

I just want to see more emphasis on the Eggs, their usage and cooking. Post about Blackstone or your gas grill or sous vide etc are fine with me too.

There is an easy remedy to this: post more of your own cooks as threads.  You are welcome.

tarheelmatt

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

tarheelmatt said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

TEXASBGE2018 said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Bonus: No one here has threatened to shoot anyone.

Not in a while but it has happened. There have been a few "I'm coming to your house to kick your a$$" posts too but most of that has settled down. Haven't seen one of those in 3-4 years (maybe longer).

I may not know you, know where you live in Cen-Tex, or hate you in any way what so ever, but because of this post I am coming down there to kick you're a$$. There now there has been a new one. 

Me And my friends “smith and Wesson” will be waiting (insert address here)

now we have it all covered (this literally happened on here)

That one fella never came to my house. 

was that you? I know who the threatener was but forgot who was on the business end of it.

It could be another instance, but this one guy "747" something said he was coming for me at one point.  I think his messages on my wall are gone now and I cannot remember if I took screen shots.  Good times.  

There was a thread made about it too.  

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1205970/ot-tarheelmatts-wall-is-tonights-best-thread/p1

JohnInCarolina

SaintJohnsEgger said:

Guys. I never said that I'm against off topic threads. I enjoy lots of them and they do keep things interesting. I have also participated.

My concern is that they get way more emphasis than BGE  or cooking threads. And that people get so nasty about politics and other people's stance on social issues such as Trump or Chik-Fil-A or sexual preference. 

I just want to see more emphasis on the Eggs, their usage and cooking. Post about Blackstone or your gas grill or sous vide etc are fine with me too.

If what you're really after is to see more cooking being emphasized, there is a fairly simple remedy: just click over to any of the subforums focused on protein, such as 

https://eggheadforum.com/categories/beef

https://eggheadforum.com/categories/lamb

https://eggheadforum.com/categories/pork

And so on.  The kind of OT stuff you find so objectionable almost never ends up in any of those.  

What you seem to want here is for the overall forum behavior to change in such as way as to give you a better experience, when in reality it is far easier for you to change your own behavior to give you what you want.  

Legume

John, I don’t think you’re getting it.  Some people pay extra for the platinum subscription that guarantees a certain number of ‘exciting and new’ cooks per day along with accessory reviews & recommendations.  

JethroVA

When SWMBO hears me laugh out loud when I'm on my laptop, her normal response is "your green egg buddies?"  The OT stuff does get annoying when divisive issues such as politics are introduced into a legit post, but the laugh out loud funny shjt makes the OT worthwhile.  I have been to only one event, a Butt Blast, but feel like there several people I met there that if I were in their hometowns visiting, they'd prolly say "come on by and have a drink". 

thetrim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9tXztf2E5A

SaintJohnsEgger

OK. I'm in the minority here so I give up and pass the peace pipe.

GrillSgt

Merry Christmas to you John.

GATraveller

SaintJohnsEgger said:

OK. I'm in the minority here so I give up and pass the peace pipe.

Puff puff pass

Cornholio

It would be nice to have an ignore function like I’ve seen on other forums.  I have no issues with OT threads and OT banter, just not a fan of consistent arrogance and self righteousness.  

GrillSgt

Cornholio said:

It would be nice to have an ignore function like I’ve seen on other forums.  I have no issues with OT threads and OT banter, just not a fan of consistent arrogance and self righteousness.  

I find that present in a lot of the threads in the Egghead forum also.

Cornholio

GrillSgt said:

Cornholio said:

It would be nice to have an ignore function like I’ve seen on other forums.  I have no issues with OT threads and OT banter, just not a fan of consistent arrogance and self righteousness.  

I find that present in a lot of the threads in the Egghead forum also.

Indeed, it’s very predictable across the board with some.

SaintJohnsEgger

I wonder if the aggregate threads on the main page could be configured to ignore the OT subforum. But that will only work if people post in the correct forum. probably no solution available other than self control.

On the bright side this may end up being the longest thread that I have ever started.

JohnInCarolina

SaintJohnsEgger said:

I wonder if the aggregate threads on the main page could be configured to ignore the OT subforum. But that will only work if people post in the correct forum. probably no solution available other than self control.

On the bright side this may end up being the longest thread that I have ever started.

I will say that one thing I wouldn’t mind seeing here is some simple moderation where OT threads were moved to the Off Topic forum if they weren’t there already.  That would make it easier for folks who weren’t interested in that sort of thing at all to just ignore it.

Legume

Take it up with HQ.  No matter what changes or doesn’t change, someone will be unhappy.  Take your shot, changes to the forum mechanics are a better strategy than asking everyone to behave a certain way.  I’m not opposed to reasonable moderation or whatever.  Everyone has to make their own peace-out decision to be here or not and how and how much they want to interact.  Sanitizing it probably loses some people while others would emerge from the shadows.  Change is inevitable, and if anything, BGE is known for change.