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[Bob O]

Study: Majority Of SFGAmWorld Forum Posts Written At Second Grade Reading Level Or Below

After conducting his latest study of various amusement park fan site forums, noted psychologist Don Petersen announced this week that 79% of the posts in the SFGAmWorld forums are written at or near a second grade level of comprehension. The site eclipses the previous benchmark held by the forums at Theme Park Critic by a full three grade levels.

“SFGAmWorld’s forums are a wasteland of poor grammar and atrocious spelling,” said Petersen in a phone interview with ARN&R, “and repeat offenders are commonplace. The boards are populated by enthusiasts who misspell “enthusiast” in their signatures, overly smug moderators with a deity complex, and people who engage in discussion about Tom Cruise-themed attractions.”

Normally, Petersen’s conclusions are primarily based on the Flesch Kincaid Readability Test, but in this particular case, special conditions were factored in.

“Most park forums are littered with hebetudinous gibberish, and one should almost expect subpar fundaments.” said Petersen. “But in this case, the absurd subjects of most of the forum topics were taken into consideration. Multiple examples of idiocy can be easily found, such as topics discussing Mr. Six merchandise being marked down, fantasy musings about if Marriott still owned the park, and a thread about an insecure poster desperately yearning for attention.”

Petersen is currently planning a 2007 Fright Fest trip to the Gurnee, IL park for his University of Iowa psychology doctoral students. “It’ll be a fascinating experience, getting to see some of these forum members in the wild, so to speak.” Petersen said. “I’m sure I’ll be reading many dissertations about how much smarter they are than the general public and their unhealthy obsession with park performers.”

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[RagingBullFan]

I approve of the above message.

[SFGAmfreak4life]

True but funny.

[Danhockey04]

It's true and probably some of the people that do post on here are still in second grade.

[w00dland]

No, Banana is definately alll of my class' favorites how do you hate banana no no no just no definately no you should of asked if anyone likes chocolate those are disgusting, cherry is pretty gross, fruit punch is delicious my second favorite, grape is pretty fair it doesnt really appeal to anyone and no one buys them, sour apple is always the last in a bowl along with grape except sour apple usuall gets eaten first, strawberry is my third favorite, watermelon tastes the same, wild blue raspberry is decent. On the contrary, if you are gonna post about laffy taffy's make sure that you know all of the flavors you skipped ice cream please edit your poll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im furoius i hate when people act like they love laffy taffy's there mine there all mine Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad

Basically, I agree big time.

[FRD714]

Multiple examples of idiocy can be easily found, such as topics discussing Mr. Six merchandise being marked down, fantasy musings about if Marriott still owned the park, and a thread about an insecure poster desperately yearning for attention.

They just dissed the people who started those threads.

[RagingBullFan]

Perhaps it was warranted?

[Galvan]

Congrats to all those who where mentioned. (Myself being one of them)

[FRD714]

Why does that site always make fun of this site? Im not familiar with them at all.

[[jonrev]]

This is the first I've heard of them. I'm surprised they called my "If Marriott Still Owned the Park" thread idiotic. What's wrong with it?

That Laffy Taffy one is a good example of bad posting here though.

[Chitown]

That was to funny and so spot-on.

The best one was them calling the people out who praise the LAFF show way to much and its performers.

[Trailblazer Tony]

I think a lot of what they said is true, but some of the things they mentioned is pretty dumb. I think making fun of topics like Jon Revelle's, for example, is stupid because this site was ment for those who actually do like this kind of stuff. Why would you make fun of someone else's interests? I think that's rude, but I did like one of the comments in there...I'm not gonna say though themanoftheland might know..

[Director_Guy]

Awww, man....they didn't mention my TR's....

[RBull4life]

Atrocious speling. Whta the hekc r they talkin abuot? im ofended. I like to think of myselve to beeing at the 3rd grade level of compr3ehsion.
Galvan, i didn know that you had a deity complex????

You mean to tell me that people get paid for looking at forums about amusement parks??? Where do I sign up?

[revolutiongurl]

Well 'scuse us.

[SIC COASTER]

I agree with everything in there.

[Galvan]

Galvan, i didn know that you had a deity complex????

You know niether did I

[Timmy179]

Seriously.... I dont see why this site is picking on this forum...... every forum has its good users and bad users. I think this is just a flame war that got alittle to outta control and kudons to whicher party gets the cajones to just give it up already!!!

[BP317]

Still most of the stuff they said in the original article was BS. When has anybody EVER seen Demon running 1 train? Great America still runs full capacity/sends out trains quicker than 90% of the parks i've been to.

[FParker185]

Well they werent really making fun of SFGAm, they were making fun of SF in general and just pick a park at random. Absolutely Reliable isnt exactly a news site. And the more people here complain about it, the more fuel will be added to their fire.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

That was to funny and so spot-on.

The best one was them calling the people out who praise the LAFF show way to much and its performers.

I completely agree.

It's sad but true, a majority of this site need to go back to second grade, or maybe even further than that. That Laffy Taffy post was a perfect example.

[msoeagle]

Yeah, that was so fake. Wow! I just managed to write a sentence with proper grammar. Enthusiast E-n-t-h-u-s-i-a-t

[Stickmassacre]

Amazing. No, not the article instead but the fact that some guy has a job of studying fan sites of amusement parks.

Second grade level spelling? Wow, I was expecting so much more out of a fansite with the average of 14. Damn, I guess sfgamworld is out on joining in any spelling bees out there.

I love the fact that he completely craps on the content about threads about amusement park and things dealing with six flags like this is some kind of damn six flags fansite...oh wait

I love how this guy is implying how pathetic this forum while completely oblivious to the fact that no matter how pathetic we are, he's more pathetic for having to analyze "us." I'm glad you're putting that pretend degree to use. Dr. numbnuts.

But since this isn't the level of commuciation you're use to I'll dumb it down for you:

omg u blow lol go 6flags <3 mr 6 lol


Analyze that you ditz.

[zjohn1988]

oops//dbl topic

[!)EJAVU-FAN!]

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