Why is the salt mines thread the largest thread running? Just curious to see what the fan-bots will say it might be.
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Because sometimes you just have to vent about things. It is certainly less disruptive to do it there than spam the forums with pointless complaints.
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you should actually take a glance who post there before you pin point bots
lol 
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Right? Imagine if people who constantly start threads to whine about map/character/mode posted there instead.
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Daft Punkâs 1997 club hit âAround the Worldâ consists of five different instrumental tracks each with 121 BPM, as well as a vocal track containing nothing but the lyrics âaround the worldâ repeated 144 times. Throughout the songâs 7 minute runtime, instrumental layers are brought in, removed, and combined in new ways, creating a song that sounds consistent while no two moments are ever actually identical.
In 2017, computer scientist Colin Morris conducted a study to find the most repetitive hit song, feeding 15,000 songs that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 into an algorithm. The algorithm determined âAround the Worldâ to be the most repetitive song analyzed.
If Fireflyâs posting history were given to that same algorithm, Around the World wouldnât have even registered as repetitive by comparison.
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The complement thread to the salt thread is going strong at about half the posts. As players are people, and people are way more likely to engage in posting to complain, there is overall a pretty good balance.
This provides irrefutable mathematical proof that your statement can not hold. q.e.d.
Sadly i had to learn that the forums do not allow me to report my own posts for trolling. 
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What is it you dont get OP ? You would rather have every 5k of those post end up as thier own thread ? There is a reason why we got Mega threads. To prevent spam.
You are allowed to use those brain cells you were born with.
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Letâs see:
- Itâs a thread without conclusion, so it can go forever, because itâs never about one thing, but always about a new thing, just in a specific topic
- It needs no creativity (like creating Memes) or self-exposure (like the Replay thread)
- It has its dedicated posters (you know, ppl who donât abandon their own threads)
- Is it a surprise that thereâs always something to complain about? But the existence of complains =/= the existence of problems, you know, outside of one: humans
- Ppl more likely complain than praise, so even if there is more âhappy timesâ, the âsad onesâ are louder
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No youâre not.
Qualifying set replies into things you arenât going to read not only tries to set yourself up for some âNo true Scottsmanâ fallacy, youâre passing off the buck onto others to try to think through your effectual trolling for you.
So, youâre posting a lie, and then blaming others for it.
The veiled complaint â as someone who chronically complains â is that since a âsalt threadâ â a place to complain â is the âlargest threadâ that must indicate that there are issues with the game that thus validate your tendency to complain.
However, thatâs only tl;dr processing that draws shortened conclusions akin to what a âbotâ would post for click-bait adverts. By calling anything else â or âfaulting itâ â a name, you thus âshieldâ yourself from any actual effort and instead try to pretend that your âbot-likeâ conduct can be excused because you called something else the âbotâ first.
Hereâs a simple breakdown even you might be able to understand:
Of the 7.6 K replies to the topic, 40% of that activity is from 5 people. If a topic keeps getting bumped, then someone else is likely to respond to that bump. The topic has people venting about players and then people respond to that with humor, sympathy, advise, and so on. Since the same people keep posting the same thing in one place, the same other people then keep on responding to that, even if it isnât about âsaltâ or replies.
However, since youâre content to persist in ignorance, generally donât participate in your own topics, and just mire the same complaints across different topics, you donât get as much activity or response to your isolated repetition compared to a âmemeâ topic that arguably has more memes than the meme-designated thread.
It can be just as indicative of an implied conclusion that said meme-thread has the most long-running likes given on any topic in the forum: 50% more likes but 45% the activity.
It could also be noted that some of the same prominent posters in the salt thread are also active in the GG thread too. Itâs almost like thereâs a select set of posters that are active in some topics responding to one-another as some sort of⌠community or something 
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I, myself, have often wondered âWhy is the âsalt minesâ thread is.â
Imagine my disappointment when the first post posited an entirely different question, rather than answering that of the thread title.
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Complaining about the salt mines. This belongs in the salt mines, doesnât it?
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I´d rather put these type of thread into a final deposit and seal it for good.
Funny enough i just remembered those are often old salt mines âŚ
just another way of controlling the narrative
blizzard pay all of us 1$ per day for everytime we post in salt mines to supress the real truth about angry posts and forced 50% match making.
im sorry guys but i cant take this anymore the truth must be spoken off!!!
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Ah do enlighten us how people here do that. I canât wait. And dont come up with some half ased post like you always do just to chicken away again.
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That must be a failed attempt to control the narrative in view of the number of posts complaining. Really they are no good with manipulating opinions.
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But I made the salt mines thread lmao.
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Did you forget that Blizzard paid you one dollar for creating it? Now I am curious about your contract: how much royalties do you get for each post in the thread?
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cuz posting lame stuff is much more fun (and easier) the posting cool stuff.
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