mrchad9 wrote:visentin wrote:Josh Lewis wrote:If no one reads pages, the main goal of SummitPost would be destroyed.
So here we are. 1st of April I posted a "
hoax mountain" located in a range that doesn't exist, separating two countries that do not share any common border. Even without basics of European geography, it wasn't hard to guess with such a stupid text accompanied with unrelated pictures...
However some folks found a way to vote it as precisely as "9/10"
I read about half to two thirds of your page. Probably not too different than most people. Why would anyone read it top to bottom unless they had some thought of going there? You didn't prove folks do not read pages, as much as show that most aren't too opinionated on whether Slovakia and Slovenia share borders or not.
In case you were wondering, the page needs a little bit more route information, or a map, one or the other. Add that and the imaginary mountain can get a 10 from me. It wasn't a 9 for no reason.
just to follow up on this idea / train of thought (along with others in the thread), what is the purpose of sp? is it just homework for me, so that i have to read a certain number of trip reports and / or summit descriptions before i get to read what i really want to read?
or, is it a resource, one for me to get my own ideas on future climbs that i am specifically interested in? should i be required to wade through and research the specific geography of a certain region in europe, even if i am never going to go there? and if i am required to do so, why? or can i leave that to the people who live in the area (and from the looks of the comments on the joke page, locals had problems with the page almost immediately).
i know to be a true sp'er i have to do a certain amount of hitting on hot female climbers, throwing out the random homophobic slur, and bragging on my cred while trashing someone else's, but really, i just come here for the things that interest me, and that's the mountains i want to climb and the pretty pictures (of scenery).
i am guilty of the almost-always-vote-10-out-of-10 phenomena, but mostly it's because if something doesn't interest me, i don't really waste my time on it. if i don't like your picture, why do i need to tell you that?