Get over it, folks: even geniuses like to laugh sometimes. Horror of horrors, they even have bad days and get whiney. The fact that you can do that AND have serious conversations on FF is one of the things that I like so much about it. If all you're seeing is 'dumb' conversations on FF then there are one of three things happening: 1) you're following the wrong people or 2) you're not taking the time to read enough of the material flowing through your stream or 3) you're concept of 'dumb' is exceedingly restrictive, unrealistic, and places an unmeetable burden of perpetual excellance upon those you follow. Get over yourself. - FFing Enigma

Heavenly: I read the better part of three books and drank the lion's share of coffee made =D Yours? - FFing Enigma

And this is why I you are the best ever, Tina. You are exactly right. - Michelle M

Thunder-mega-like on this one. Well said, Tina! - Jared Smith

People deride what they don't understand or can't control. Glad to be one of the "dumb" ones! - Robert Scoble

You want genius?! Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? Why am I the only one who has that dream? - mikepk

Sorry, mum! I tried to keep them in line but you know how things get when you're not here....and Johnny's messed up his room again....and the funny smell in the kitchen? I think one of the LOLcats did a Fitzgerald... - WoH: Minding her Steves

What frustrates me more than anything is that it's exactly this point of view that casts intelligence as equal to 'elitism'. The theory that intelligence equates to shunning all other aspects of your humanity is why the rest of the population thinks being smart isn't all it's cracked up to be. - FFing Enigma

obscure movie ref. :) - mikepk

But, I don't want a better perspective on a pole in Stephen Hawking's... Nevermind. - FFing Enigma

No one knows the movie I'm referencing? One of my favs, although a bit of a cult movie. - mikepk

mikepk - real genius. - Nine Ferdinand

You mean no one else watched "Real Genius" over and over again on G4 over the holidays like I did? - Victor Ganata

I much prefer dumb I'm afraid and am proud of it. Just don't tell anyone i can also understand a little of that computer speek too! I give up mikepk. - SteVe "Beefy Miracle" C

could it be that the "emperor has no clothes" even in Tech, and that non of us (aspirations notwithstanding) rise above the level of human being flawed as that entity is known to be? - Gregg

Awesome, glad you guys didn't let me down. :) this whole thread reminded me of it a little - mikepk

Wow, Stupid< you launched a great discussion here. 2 points from me... 1. Everything is something different to every individual and we as Americans/Humans should respect that. 2. No way Scoble lives by his statement in comment 7! Robert, I truly admire the way you operate on the web (most of the time) but you are very judgmental of applications if you don't like them. - Cody Heitschmidt

Cody: I protect my friends from stupid applications and stupid people. I blocked Igor the Troll for the same reason. - Robert Scoble

Tina, you're ... like... my hero and stuff. - Josh Haley

and who says that idiots (like me) can't talk about serious things sometimes. we dummies don't always have to HAZ BURGERZ or make sex jokes about other people's posts. So why do dummies (again, like me) choose to do so? Conscious choice. By choice. Mostly. Boobs. - Morgan

Robert, I understand and seriously admire that, my concern is this, on these sites your a 100% a top tier source. (i.e. Fox News, ABC News, CNN on T.V.) and while you obviously became that way by being credible, (just like TV News once was) bring your opinions of what dumb is very subjective. I worry that followers on here won't give things a chance that might work better for them than the did for you. Maybe its all dumb, just whats in my head! - Cody Heitschmidt

I read back through my last comment and it doesn't make sense, I sound like Rodney King "can't we all just get along" My point is there is room for everyone to do it there way on the web. We should just let things happen until we dislike them so much we go to a VC and do it our way! - Cody Heitschmidt

hear hear FF is a wonderful experiment in live R&D I admire them hugely - Thomas Power

And then there are just the genus lurkers - who are quite happy to watch... - Thrivelearning

<pun>Robert, genus lurkers are a different animal altogether </pun> =D - FFing Enigma

Totally agree Tina. All serious all the time would be boring. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

I see what you did there, Tina. Slipping in elitist knowledge like that - for shame! :) - WoH: Minding her Steves

This all started when asshole Arrington dissed FF with his lame Scoble "intervention" blog post. He said FF was full of "grunt" conversations. I corrected that nasty perception, but I am afraid he's poisoned the well now - Susan Beebe

Pretty much, Susan... And WoH: you caught me! - FFing Enigma