It really is something to be able to catch up on a thread in just a few minutes. When tgi was here and the machine was grinding there was page after page of back and forth about nothing. Not sure what it was about the thread you think was so wonderful, mac, that you're still crying about it.
Its starting to look like you just want to be able to cry and complain about something because you like these other members coming to ask what hurts and what can they do to make it feel better.
I was finally able to look at your posts in the thread and how they related to the direction of the thread over time and what the other daily posters were talking about during those periods.
I made a list of the people who make the majority of posts and their join dates. Went through their post histories to see where on the board they began posting and when they first showed up in the tgi thread.
It seemed like an impossible chore when day after day the posts about nothing were relentless.
Your supporters, mac, kept on with their belief that you weren't a shill. I put the time in and came to the conclusion that you weren't a paid shill. I made a post saying as much.
You protect that heap of garbage(tgi thread) like its a masterpiece you helped create. You were one of the out of control weeds in a garden that helped hide any quality content that may have been there.
So many new members who joined meso within a year to 18 months ago and who spent the majority of their time in the tgi thread have post counts that easily surpass active members and daily posters that have join dates of 5 to 10 yrs ago.
I joined in 2006 and will soon have 5,000 posts.
Mands joined in 2004 and has just over 6,000 posts.
Weighted Chinup joined 2014 has 3,200 posts
Masters Powers joined Aug 2014 has 3,300 posts
Lets look at these members.....
TGI joined Sep 2018 has 6,300 posts
Mac11 joined Oct 2018 has 5,500 posts
iceman joined Nov 2018 has 6,700 post
Urgent Fury Dec 2017 has 4,032 posts
LeoTc joined Jan 2019 has 1689 posts
High Risk joined Sep 2016 has 8,200 posts
T.Bagger joined Aug 2016 has 13,800 posts
Out of the more than 46,000 posts made by the 7 members I listed in that 2nd group, the vast majority of which were posted in the tgi thread, would you think were quality posts pertaining to training, the lifestyle, sourcing, or the like...(question mark still not working)
And you guys have said that I talk shit because I have no life....there's no doubt that thread was a big part of your lives.
T.Bagger didn't come into his own until the tgi thread. He's in an asylum trying to figure out what happened to his the last 2 years.
Some of you guys are probably suffering some kind of Separation Anxiety and or depression. Just like a substance abuser. You guys woke and first thing was tgi....many probably fell out in front of your laptop or device in mid post.
You may not have been able to count on your significant other, but you could count on the tgi thread to be there.
Those significant others probably hate tgi as the drunks wife hates the bottle. Families are getting to know each other again. Guys have been in a trance. It may or may not be good to have them back.
If you like I can post the chain of posts in the thread where I first posted. You guys try and make it sound I came in cursing and spitting disrespecting everyone.
Not how it happened. I went against the grain and upset the apple cart after 2 posts of saying "Hi" to a couple of guys by posting about Monstas posts and how they had nothing to do with a source thread and meso as a whole. I saw nothing about this source or gear and the thread had more posts than any thread I could remember.
Mac is so quick to point out when he's attacked he's gonna fight back.
Mac...you came at me. I had no idea who you were.
Now that its gone, many are in agreement that the thread wasn't how a source thread at meso should be. Mac, you think its going down in history as an all time great thread or something. Fury already posted his belief that there's more "quality info in the tgi thread than anywhere else on meso".
A joke.
We'll take your word fury...you talk as if you're a man of honor and integrity. We are to believe you because you say so. Our knowing you started when you joined meso a week before Jan1 2018 to present.
You blossomed in the tgi thread. We heard alllll about how fucking bad ass you are...Great Warrior and even Greater Lover.....Ahhh sure. Its your story and we've got no choice but to let you tell it.
Any of you know each other off this board...alot of us know each other outside of meso out in the real world.
Its easy to tell those who are completely anonymous and don't know any of the people they interact with online. They're the ones that say things like "internet tough guy" and about how the board is make believe etc.
Hey...maybe they have their reasons for not ever meeting anyone from the board to work out or for dinner. The new guys with no post history anywhere else in the Community should know that there are alot of us who take the relationships we started here and elsewhere to the street. Its really ok to do so. Not that you have to...but when you say things that this is all make believe just know that in a lot of cases you are only talking to yourself.
Many can't have friendships with those they meet on the boards because they are just made up personas and their posting about the mma fighting and stable of playmates would be dead in the water.
Some have hung around that thread for old times sakes. The thread went unchecked for too long.
If anything good came out of the tgi thread is that it showed meso what a thread shouldn't look like.
I can say without a doubt, it won't happen again.