You guys are thinking way too much into this. A Like is nothing. It’s nothing. It’s a way to deposit a “read receipt” a “I read your post, good stuff” a “I don’t agree, but compelling argument” a “damned awesome guttural post, cheers” a “I want more of what this guy is having” a
“that’s my pal, I’ll Like his post, **** off” a “who cares what I Like... oh, you do, person-who-scans-the-post-to-see-whom-Likes-it,-weirdo.
The first Beer Thread
got fronted off
@Nightman (I’ve made more elloquent posts on the matter, but here’s my most recent cut n paste):
It's called the Beer Thread Rule. Kinda like all those Dallas Cowboys rules. Ergo, this makes us the Dallas Cowboys of CZ,
@Reality 
But yeah, GJ, our first thread was declared a ploy and trick and fake and scheme and dupe etc etc etc. It was shut down, publicly flogged, it's members were made to feel guilty (also, in public)... aaaaaaaaand the next day we open this one and now there's 21k posts.
Those people that poopoo'd our first bar, that said this would be buried pages deep in the anus of the OT Zone before the 2017-18 season started, that we won't use it if we don't get Likes, etc., well they've never retracted that bulljyve they spewed, and they spewed it publicly. Made us feel like punks, like we did something wrong. When they were the ones that were petty, naive, reactionary etc etc etc. They were the ones that were wrong. On many levels. That Bar would have over 35k likes and dwarf over anything this site has ever posted.
I'm incredibly upset as I recall all of that. The snide, low-key jabs I would get from certain people in PMs, the overreaction of the site, the spectacle. No apology. Nothing.
We went through quite a bit in that old thread, lots of big moments, for several members, were shared, as the moments/events/happenings unfolded. And for it to be treated the way it was. How special that thread was.
I'm really damned heated.
Not a single sentence in this post of mine is false. It's vague because I must be, but everything is true. And for anyone to deny
ANY aspect or point or observation in this post would be a slap to the old thread, its users, the new thread, and its users.
Time for a drink. And time to chill out.
EDIT -- the Beer Thread Rule also encompasses several other threads, and is also invoked once a thread is deemed a farming ploy used by it's otherwise good intentioned posters. Another explanation given to CZ users, directly from the site, is touched on below.
I'm sure DougSmith1973, who has been a member since 2004, has 10,000 posts, but only 78 Likes (Like system is a relatively new feature of the site; many older posters never saw a Like), married, with three screaming kids, is on page 12 of an OT thread discussing his favorite hobby: remote control helicopters. He could care less about Likes, and you'd be hard pressed to find more than one or two posters intentionally trying to grab Likes. Hell, people do it on the Main Board. I don't see any glaring discrepancies between the two Zones. Of course, we're told this starting and stopping of Likes, usually occurring mid/late thread, is done to even the playing field for those that don't post in the OT Zone. Rob Peter to pay Paul and all of that.
What am I saying? Someone here knows. I need to eat. Bye
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So that’s was a post I made. It isn’t as detailed as it should be. I’m not even going to re-read it, as I’m too lazy, this sober. Get off your horses (not directed at you, anymore, Nightman), and read between the lines. The Beer Thread (the first one, and the larger second one) wasn’t here to upset the status quo. Just a thread with a bunch of people — friends outside of the Zone — congregated.
No fishing “phishing”, no frills, no secret society.
