bigabyte
somebody shut me the fark up.
Excellent question! I'm so glad you asked.
The FIRST thing you could do is add a link and an invitation to the Throwdowns in your signature as first proposed in this thread by Grillman.
You have incredible power right at your fingertips. You can create a thread in Q-Talk detailing your cook, complete with lots of cool pictures, recipes, techniques and everything! You can become the envy of the Brethren membership with your culinary prowess, and many of you do that today.
Now put yourself in the shoes of someone new. They see your cook thread and think "Wow, that is amazing", but if the only reference to the TD is something like this...
Now imagine if someone new saw something like this instead...
...or something like that (maybe not so over the top, but I think you get the idea...unless you're farking stupid, which is also entirely possible.:becky:
I can already hear you asking....
But biggy, why the fark would I want to help some new guy figure out where the TD forum is, or what the TD's are all about, or encourage new people to particpate???
BECAUSE I FARKING SAID SO YOU FARKING INGRATES!!! NOW GET OUT THERE AND RECRUIT ME SOME NEW FARKING BLOOD YOU WORTHLESS WASTE OF FARKING...:blah::blah::blah::blah:
OK, so now that we have a slightly better idea of how the OP in our cook thread MIGHT be able to be used to help get new blood over into the TD forum, and all that other happy-hippy horsechit that all those farking TD Ho's are always bitching incessantly on and on the fark about...let's see what else we can do with the MAGIC POWER OF A COOK THREAD!!!
When your dish is being voted on, you could bump your cook thread over in Q-Talk with a message like...
That's just an example, you can use your own custom words if you like, but I think you get the idea...UNLESS YOU'RE FARKING STUPID OR SOMETHING!!!
I can hear you say...Hey biggy, that's great and all, putting me to work for no farking pay whatsoever just to pimp your farking TD forum so you can rake in all those big bucks while leaving us little guys back in the farking dust, but is that ALL that you really want us to do? Because I could really use a nap if you're finished.
NO I'M NOT FINISHED YOU FARKING PUKES!!!
Let's assume you don't win. A fair assumption since you generally tend to greatly overestimate not only your culinary prowess, but your popularity here on these forums as well. In fact, let's assume you get a farking ZERO! (high probability).
Why the fark wouldn't you pimp out your big fat loser of a dish by bumping your farking Q-Talk thread again with something like this...
Who the fark knows? Maybe next week you will win the sympathy vote?:noidea:
Alternatively, suppose you won and you bragged about it in your cooking thread? I mean...seriously, what's the point of that? You only made the best farking dish posted in Q-Talk that week. Who the fark else won? Sure, Joe-Blow may have cooked some amazing thing that wasn't related to the farking category...BUT THAT'S JUST IT! His farking dish didn't even QUALIFY it was THAT farking pathetic!
So rub it in their farking faces already!:becky: Let them bask in your glory, and kiss your butt for a while! Post your shiny new certificate out there in your cook thread and make people jealous of your amazing skills! NOBODY else won (unless there was a tie, but you get the idea).
OWN IT!!!
Make those non-TD participating Q-Talk losers regret their indecision, make them WISH they had joined the TD instead. Rule the farking Q-Talk forum with your TD cooks! Turn Q-Talk into nothing more than a farking stepping stone for people to get to the vastly superior Throwdown forum! It's time to put that farking Q-Talk bitch of a farking forum in it's proper farking place!
JUST FARKING DO IT ALREADY!!!! WHAT THE FARK ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!?!?!
MOVE IT, THAT'S A FARKING ORDER!!!!
The FIRST thing you could do is add a link and an invitation to the Throwdowns in your signature as first proposed in this thread by Grillman.
You have incredible power right at your fingertips. You can create a thread in Q-Talk detailing your cook, complete with lots of cool pictures, recipes, techniques and everything! You can become the envy of the Brethren membership with your culinary prowess, and many of you do that today.
Now put yourself in the shoes of someone new. They see your cook thread and think "Wow, that is amazing", but if the only reference to the TD is something like this...
Well, that new person doesn't even know what the fark that TD reference even means, and isn't really going to care enough to find out because they are more interested in the AMAZING food and pictures in your Q-Talk thread!:hungry:So I cooked this for the TD, and it went a little something like this.
Now imagine if someone new saw something like this instead...
Like many of you, I cooked some amazing food today, and like most of you, we all enjoyed a great time getting together, cooking the food, and most of all eating it. However, unlike you farking ingrates, I not only did all that, but I entered my dish into the ALMIGHTY BBQ BRETHREN "insert td name here" THROWDOWN!!!
Here's a link to the TD so you too can participate.
(insert link here)
All are welcome, and encouraged to participate.:thumb:
So here's what I did...
...or something like that (maybe not so over the top, but I think you get the idea...unless you're farking stupid, which is also entirely possible.:becky:
I can already hear you asking....
But biggy, why the fark would I want to help some new guy figure out where the TD forum is, or what the TD's are all about, or encourage new people to particpate???
BECAUSE I FARKING SAID SO YOU FARKING INGRATES!!! NOW GET OUT THERE AND RECRUIT ME SOME NEW FARKING BLOOD YOU WORTHLESS WASTE OF FARKING...:blah::blah::blah::blah:
OK, so now that we have a slightly better idea of how the OP in our cook thread MIGHT be able to be used to help get new blood over into the TD forum, and all that other happy-hippy horsechit that all those farking TD Ho's are always bitching incessantly on and on the fark about...let's see what else we can do with the MAGIC POWER OF A COOK THREAD!!!
When your dish is being voted on, you could bump your cook thread over in Q-Talk with a message like...
Hey there, I'm a worthless, sniveling little TD Ho who is desperately looking for attention, and your votes could very will fill the gaping hole in my pathetic life.
To vote on my dish, just go to this link and cast your vote!
(insert TD vote link here)
That's just an example, you can use your own custom words if you like, but I think you get the idea...UNLESS YOU'RE FARKING STUPID OR SOMETHING!!!
I can hear you say...Hey biggy, that's great and all, putting me to work for no farking pay whatsoever just to pimp your farking TD forum so you can rake in all those big bucks while leaving us little guys back in the farking dust, but is that ALL that you really want us to do? Because I could really use a nap if you're finished.
NO I'M NOT FINISHED YOU FARKING PUKES!!!
Let's assume you don't win. A fair assumption since you generally tend to greatly overestimate not only your culinary prowess, but your popularity here on these forums as well. In fact, let's assume you get a farking ZERO! (high probability).
Why the fark wouldn't you pimp out your big fat loser of a dish by bumping your farking Q-Talk thread again with something like this...
I know you guys are going to have a real hard time believing this, but this dish DID NOT WIN the farking Throwdown over here at...(insert link here). CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!?!!? It's a farking CONSPIRACY I tell you! Do you really think you could farking cook better than this farking masterpiece I slaved over?
Who the fark knows? Maybe next week you will win the sympathy vote?:noidea:
Alternatively, suppose you won and you bragged about it in your cooking thread? I mean...seriously, what's the point of that? You only made the best farking dish posted in Q-Talk that week. Who the fark else won? Sure, Joe-Blow may have cooked some amazing thing that wasn't related to the farking category...BUT THAT'S JUST IT! His farking dish didn't even QUALIFY it was THAT farking pathetic!
So rub it in their farking faces already!:becky: Let them bask in your glory, and kiss your butt for a while! Post your shiny new certificate out there in your cook thread and make people jealous of your amazing skills! NOBODY else won (unless there was a tie, but you get the idea).
OWN IT!!!
Make those non-TD participating Q-Talk losers regret their indecision, make them WISH they had joined the TD instead. Rule the farking Q-Talk forum with your TD cooks! Turn Q-Talk into nothing more than a farking stepping stone for people to get to the vastly superior Throwdown forum! It's time to put that farking Q-Talk bitch of a farking forum in it's proper farking place!
JUST FARKING DO IT ALREADY!!!! WHAT THE FARK ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!?!?!
MOVE IT, THAT'S A FARKING ORDER!!!!
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