#5 Harumphty Dumpty | 2013-04-17 15:29
When BUGS was fewer in number, there was a stricter discipline.
I STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO NEWER BUGSTERS THAT YOU POST SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS ON THE WORKING THREAD!
ESPECIALLY THE COMMENTS YOU ARE PROUDEST OF!...ha ha!...those were the ones of mine that were my very best tailgating efforts, and after I posted them on the working thread, an older bugster would post how HE would have done it (often without a word of criticism, which is sometimes the best way...just SHOW THE RIGHT WAY), and this was absolutely critical to my finally learning after many months how to make a proper Mantra response, how to always bring it back to the Mantra, instead of (brilliantly, of course) tailgating.
We forget how hard this stuff is to really do properly, and don't realize how much guidance newcomers need. Newcomers don't understand what tailgating is, and often don't understand why it's bad when they do learn what it is.
(For just one thing, the very act of tailgating carries the implication that the acceptability of White Genocide is up for discussion, and that if you are mistaken on what you're tailgating about, then White Genocide may be okay).
Doing it right is so hard, in that it's so different from what we've been doing all our lives, that to not let this group slip back into more accustomed habits we should devote almost as much attention to maintaining the correct way of doing it as we devote to doing it.
LET'S ALL OF US POST MORE OF OUR SWARM COMMENTS ON THE WORKING THREAD (especially any comments that we are uneasy about or especially proud of...the latter will turn out to be models of either how to do it right or how to do it wrong, and both are needed to become skilled and to maintain skill).