On 2022-01-24 1:20 p.m., Michael Pendragon wrote:
> On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 8:55:10 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
>> On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 1:11:33 AM UTC-5,
michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 12:36:08 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 12:34:54 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, January 7, 2022 at 11:01:08 AM UTC-5, Peter J Ross wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will
>>>>>>
>>>>>> obsession
>>>>>>
>>>>>> every day
>>>>>>
>>>>>> since September 2000
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> PJR :-)
>>>> Source text:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/mvh7jHeHGq0/m/DHuzZ__5AgAJ?hl=en
>>>>
>>> Please explain how your snipkus are any less "spam" than the "Slurp-puppet" poem.
>> You didn't explain whether you meant:
>> 1) 'the "Slurp-puppet" poem' as you were posting it last fall; or
>> 2) 'the "Slurp-puppet" poem' as you are posting it today.
>>
>> Since in order to answer you I have to use one of those interpretations, I'll use (2).
>>
>> The snipkus are not 'less spam' than the "Slurp-puppet poem," because neither are spam -- zero spam -- and 'less than zero spam' is meaningless.
>>
>> Why are they both zero spam? Because they stay on their own threads. They are not being shoved into the faces of group readers who are trying to read and talk about something else. The only people who ever come face-to face with either are people who want to read them.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> However, I'll assume that you considered "Slurp-puppet" to be spam when it appears in multiple threads.
>
For sure, when it began appearing in my threads (usually, whenever Will
replied to one.
> My point is that a dozen *different* snipku threads = a dozen appearances of "Slurp-puppet" in multiple threads.
I'd say they're more different than similar.
> Both are forms of troll poetry (poetry designed to troll a specific target).
No; I'll compose a snipku in response to a post from anyone. It isn't
the they're all directed at any one person, or that any person keeps
getting them.
> And just as your snipkus change from thread to thread, "Slurp-puppet" changes from update to update.
"Slurp-puppet" kept getting longer, but the changes were an increasingly
smaller percentage of each post. It was mainly the same poem, and
increasingly (by the above logic) the exact same poem, with every post.
In contrast, the snipkus are not changes to *a* poem -- each one is a
different poem. That's the same trouble I have with PJ Ross over the
PPB: posts -- he sees them as all part of the same 'spam,' when in fact
they're all different posts. You're like Emily Dickinson, looking at the
snow and seeing an "it", when in fact every snowflake (like every
snipku) is unique unto itself.