Do we intimidate the primitives on Skins's island?
I run this "poll" about every third or fourth month, to gauge our progress.
Now, of course most here watch the primitives simply for amusement; after all, the antics on Skins's island are usually more fascinating than half-hour situation comedies on television.
And a few of us watch the primitives for anthropological purposes, so as to better understand the evolution, or devolution, of a human society.
Perfectly harmless reasons, amusement and scientific research.
However, it appears that some primitives view our watchership with alarm and paranoia, as if decent and civilized people are up to something malicious, or at least some sort of mischiefery.
It doesn't take much to make a primitive paranoid, Pedro Picasso being the classic textbook example of that.
I'm starting to slowly suspect perhaps we do intimidate the primitives, although that's far from our motives for watching them. We're nice people, after all.
For example, the "deaf and hard of hearing" forum on Skins's island used to be reasonably busy, for a little-itty-bitty forum--that is, until franksolich wandered in there. Since then, it's been about as busy as a cemetery, and one has to axe his way through killer cobwebs to get through it.
The "cooking and baking" forum used to be rather laid back and carefree, but now there's a whole lot of primitives skittish there, on edge, always nervous.
For a while I thought about testing this speculation by watching the primitives in the "sports" forum and quoting them here, to see if our watching them would have any effect, but to be honest, since the cboy4 primitive, the only primitive who knows excresence about sports, was mausoleumed, the sports forum has been dreary reading, like watching a bunch of village idiots discussing nuclear physics.
