Why all the silly questions and copy-paste-post of obscure news?

It is an attempt to make this just like every other web site. The same select members make it their mission to post 20 regurgitated trending stories every day from all the other web sites we were fleeing from. It has been brought up repeatedly, has been discussed daily, and has been dismissed. In a nut shell, if you don't like it, seek life elsewhere, but they will hate to see you go. This is the reason so many of our quality members are inactive or flat out quit. Posts that were laughable a year ago are good to go.

Bump. Doing my part to keep this one at the top of the feed.

What are your thoughts on this this?

Influence points. To some RP users, influence points are a god -- an idol. Or, they think that the influence points will make them a god of RP...

Ahh, yes another enlightened RP'er that sees the fodder for what it is. Well done for speaking up.
Thank you.

What difference does it really make? No one is forced to read or answer anything they don't want to read or answer. Anyone can scroll through the "Answers" drop down menu and see what is new or trending. If you don't like it, ignore it. No one on here is the judge of what is important or not important to a military member or veteran. There are still plenty of professional discussions on here with a lot of good back and forth. I don't think anything will change the nature of this because it is the nature of social media. Even on LinkedIn, I see discussions I feel do not belong there. I just ignore them. Anyone can do the same thing on here.

At least on Facebook I can block and not see the completely irritating people. Here on Rallybook when you go to new and you see 20 inane posts from the same individual you have to scroll through it is disheartening. Limit everyone to 3 or 4 discussion posts a day. Or just eliminate the point thing. There is no way to tell who earned them from interesting relevant posts and who did by posting every story off of some news site or by asking irrelevant questions about your favorite food or color.

Since I am unable to reply to a few who replied to this post due to them BLOCKING me...I'm replying here...as for the Beans, chips and ice creme threads...these are posted in "FOOD" "FOOD and BEVERAGE" and in "HUMOR" and if you or others do not want to read about these sort of things...to participate, have a little fun, be a little humorous then you don't have to.....These posts were posted to have a little fun...and many RP members had a lot of fun with it.
Isn't the whole reason to have different Groups is to have those topics in discussion...so if someone posts something about uniforms then it goes under Military...and if someone posts things about China Sea it goes under foreign affairs and China and China sea... These post are separated by Groups and topics and for those of who who have a problem with some posts....then don't bother with those posts...IGNORE them...Don't read them...Don't participate. MOVE ON and go to a post that interest you. If it upsets you SO MUCH, then IGNORE those posts so you won't be upset.
My goodness....there are many types of people/members here on RP with many likes and dislikes...something one person finds interesting, another person finds boring or useless.
Isn't the whole reason for the variety of groups/topics so that it covers everyone's interests?
As for Copying and Pasting....Yes, I've taken a headline...changed it up into my own words and then copied the URL for the story...but not to make points....It's because i disagree with the story...or because I can't believe it or because i find it interesting and I want others on RP to interject their thoughts and feelings...I want to hear what others think....are there others who think like I do....or are there those who agree with the story I just posted. There is a lot that I read every day online from four or five different news papers and two or three news outlets...some stories jump up out at me and I post them on RP...SO what! if you are not interested in it, then don't read it.
I've posted questions that have nothing to do with a news article...just to get a discussion going and to learn the likes and dislikes of other RP members....SO what! If there are some RP members who find this irritating, then DON'T read it...Don't Participate...then you won't have to get upset.

Every time this topic comes up I have consistently said the same thing. It is about the points! Some members just can't resist posting topics about what your favorite color is? And then we have all the members who agree with these types of post all chime in and say how important it is that we have them! I don't post much, I don't contribute much anymore because of this!

I will make my suggestion again to fix this...give us a mindless dribble topic catigory, or an I need attention catigory, or a I love Facebook catigory, what ever you PC Admin members would think is appropriate. Then move ALL of these posts to that topic catigory and the rest of us can still use RP for its intended purpose. Someone explain why we can't make that happen? Alas, that has not and I predict will not happen.