There are thousands of ways to kill an internet forum dead, but I'd give excessive posting (by one or more individuals independently) as the most favoured here. Nastiness doesn't do it because people love watching conflict. That's why sport is so popular, particularly the kind where someone gets hurt.

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Originally posted by Kewpie
There are thousands of ways to kill an internet forum dead, but I'd give excessive posting (by one or more individuals independently) as the most favoured here. Nastiness doesn't do it because people love watching conflict. That's why sport is so popular, particularly the kind where someone gets hurt.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Why would you say that "people love watching conflict." here when daily television news coverage displays it frequently, most recently in Paris, France?

Originally posted by FMF
Because so many "people love watching conflict." That's why Kewpie would say it. You, for instance, have started countless passive aggressive-style threads on the Spirituality Forum with the obvious intention of causing conflict ~ and I now realize that you do it on this forum too. But then again, the kind of conflict that you appear to relish often leads to threads that run and run, rather than get 'killed'. So I think Kewpie has pretty much got it right.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Kewpie is more than capable of speaking for herself in lean rather than windy language with the thought content weighing considerably more than the weight of the words..

14. By denying reality with virtually every word you type.