You had quite a few arguments with Taylor defending the boy. Somehow the pair of you had become best friends, much to the surprise of everyone in Stars Hallow. You just wanted to hear it from the dark haired boy who occupied your mind way more then you’d ever admit. You didn’t need validation- you knew you looked good. Not that he was the most expressive guy out there- but a part of you hoped he’d at least tell you that you looked nice. You spotted it shopping with your best friend the weekend before and just had to have it, even if it cost you half of your paycheck.Īs much as you hated to admit it, your first thought after sliding it on was what Jess’s reaction would be. It fell right below your mid thigh and you absolutely adored it.

You flattened your palms against powder blue, paisley covered cami dress you were wearing. Summary: Based on the song Dress by Taylor Swift emily, the ‘artist’ formerly known as hummels-turn That’s all I wanna say, I think, but wishing everyone all the best!!! Paintbox has been something I’m incredibly proud of, and I can’t wait to bring it back one day. Love and appreciation to all you guys too!! Thank you so much to anyone who supported this idea, contributed work during any of the weeks, made this experience absolutely wonderful. If there’s interest in a paintbox revival, it’ll come.Īnyway, I also want to use this as an opportunity to shoutout and who have also done amazing work towards this project! Both are the loveliest, kindest people you could imagine and deserve so much credit for helping manage the load over here. I won’t make specific promises, but this isn’t a permanent thing. It is also very ( VERY) likely that paintbox will return in a couple of months. It may not be as quick as we’ve been in the past, but I still follow the tag and would LOVE to see what people do with our old prompts. If you post anything in the tag, or tag us, we’ll absolutely still reblog your creation. There won’t be any new prompts for the foreseeable future, but old ones don’t expire and will begin being reblogged in a rotating queue over the next few days, to keep them freshly near the top of the blog. Because hummels-turn was a side blog, I still have all the same access. And the answer is no! No, no it totally won’t be inactive. Out of the hundreds of replies to my initial posts, no more than a dozen or so are all three.So I’ve sat on this for like… a day. On the other hand, those duds really do stand out in a special way, indicating something akin to a tin ear.īut what we really need is a count of replies that are on-topic and informative or interesting. After all, starting ten threads that get an average of six pages of replies, but with two total duds, is a better record than starting ten that get an average of three replies but no duds. Easy enough: average replies per thread begun. How about the obverse of the Tumbleweed Effect: a measure of overall 'interestingness' of topics started (to borrow a concept from Flickr).

Idiocy and Anti-idiocy - An Analysis via : 12 replies.

How NOT to Convince Folks You're Not Racists: 2 pages.

Iran and Unserious Consequences: one reply (thank-you, Ricky!).

Whither Turkey? Whither Freedom? Whither Islamism?: tumbleweed!!!.

What SHOULD be the gun policy of the USA - Forget the 2nd: 3 pages.

Egypt: News, Perspective, Comments, Etc.: 9 pages.

On the Ground (and in the Air) in Libya: 6 pages.

The Pax Obamacana: 2 replies - a close call.

If nobody replies to this thread, my TE will spike up to 28.6%! (Although fewer than ten threads is arguably a pretty volatile sample.) Anyone else here brave enough to click the Posts icon at the bottom of the page and calculate up their Tumbleweed Effect? Anyone here with a jaw-dropping 0%? Anyone with over 50%? Before this one, I've started 6 threads on here so far, and one of them had no replies which gives me a TE of 16.7%. If 1 out of your 10 threads has gone without a single reply post, you'd have a TE of 10%. The most interesting one I found indicates that, in a discussion forum like this one, a poster's Tumbleweed Effect is the percentage of his last 50 new threads that have gone without even a single reply.īecause this forum is still fairly new, most folks probably haven't tried to start 50 new threads, but you could still calculate your TE on the basis of, say, 10 or 20 threads started. It turns out my student likely was trying for 'snowball effect', but there is some use of the phrase 'tumbleweed effect' out there. I was pretty sure he meant to write 'snowball effect', but I googled the phrase just to make sure I wasn't just ignorant of some new turn of phrase. I was just marking a student's paper and he used the phrase 'tumbleweed effect'.

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