Drama Queens and the inability to let go

For full disclosure, I posted something similar somewhere else on the internet, but since I was quoting from this board, it would be better posted here. There is nothing in this post that isn't on this board or directly linked to.

There is Liberal. The whiny, sad, drama queen Liberal

Liberal wrote on March 2nd, 2009 on this board, in a thoughtful OP entitled "Causing problems on SDMB" started by CRSP, that he was done posting on the dope.

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Originally posted by Liberal

I agree. If all goes well, my last post there will be whatever it was, and that's it.

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This gave me hope. Liberal was claiming that he was going to quietly walk away from the SDMB, and that's the class thing to do. Good for him.

However, he couldn't stand it. No one missed him. 5 days pass. So what does he do? On March 7th, 2009, he writes this pathetic plea for acknowledgment, which some of you have unfortunately stumbled on called We're finally moving!, a clever opus written, as Liberal claims in his not-so-subtle OP called 37,601, that "It was just a flow of thought, really." Uh, yeah.

The grand OP, 37,601 reads as follows:

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Originally posted by Liberal

I decided to leave a formal goodbye. And a plug.

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with a link to his "Look at me! Please notice me and tell me how great I am! PLEASE! Validate me!" post on the SDMB. And then, paranoia sets in.

After the obligatory "Great post, Lib!", "Beautiful post, Lib!", and the other ego-stroking mutual masturbation postings, Liberal notices that his thread is sinking like a stone. His reasoning?

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Originally posted by Liberal

It looks like the thread What Exit left has dropped like a stone as well. Something tells me we're on somebody's shit list over there.

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Really? That's the reason it's sinking? Or perhaps people just don't want to jerk you off in public on a message board. Perhaps they just don't care. It is possible, you know.

Then someone points out the obvious. Jeff has the balls to actually post it.

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Originally posted by Jeff

If it drops like a stone, its for the same reason every other thread drops like a stone - because no one gives a shit enough to respond. Get the fuck over yourself.

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There you have it. An actual observation. Jeff is then pummeled with the normal vitriol expected from the Usual Suspects. To his credit, Jeff stands by his analysis of the situation.

But wait! Liberal gets another chubby in his pants because his thread is moved to ATMB and points it out with (bizarre) glee.

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Originally posted by Liberal

LOL! StinkMagic moved my thread to ATMB! :D

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The only thing good that came out of the post that it was indeed Liberal's last post on the SDMB. 37,601. Wow. Thirty seven thousand, six hundred and one posts. My God. Is that even possible? I guess when you can just hammer out an OP like the "We're finally moving!" by "flow of thought", I guess anything is possible. Stephen King doesn't even write that much.

Liberal - what a fucking tool.

I'd mention QED, but he'll be in here soon enough, telling me what a drama queen I am. or not. He's so angry he doesn't know what to do.


Guys, we have a new board here. Why can't you just let it go already? Is this truly all you have? Get a hobby. Get a dog. But for god's sake, get a life. The SDMB won't miss any of us.

And if you are truly interested in changing the SDMB, then why be here?

I know there are certain members that will have to have the last post here, so have at it.

[del:3ixx3ett]FOAD[/del:3ixx3ett]

Nah. You aren't worth the effort.

Let me see if I have this straight. You start this very thread in the Pit. It gets locked. You then go into an ATMB to poke me with a stick some more. Then you come here and repost this thread all over again.

And we're the ones with an inability to let go? Okay.

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

For full disclosure, I posted something similar somewhere else on the internet, but since I was quoting from this board, it would be better posted here.

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Better posted here since it was locked down over there.

Say, I'd like to lick your ass if there's any bacon on it.

I almost posted this over there, but decided you were not worth it.

I always love it when one Drama Queen gets riled up over someone else and accuses them of the same behavior that they themselves are showing with their Great Big Show Of Outrage.

I'll let go of the SDMB as soon as I'm sure we have bacon here.

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

Guys, we have a new board here. Why can't you just let it go already? Is this truly all you have? Get a hobby. Get a dog. But for god's sake, get a life. The SDMB won't miss any of us.

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WTF is this "we" shit? Far as I'm concerned, you dropped out of the "we" club when you pitted one of our guys over there.

OOh, a real Thunderfucking...!

::Pulls up a lawnchair::

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ETA: For anyone wondering WTF I'm on about, see here

God, really? If you are so invested in a new start why was your first instinct to run squealing over there to get your back patted? Be honest, you only brought this here because your other thread was locked.

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Originally posted by Liberal

Say, I'd like to lick your ass if there's any bacon on it.

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Hey now--you know that kind of post isn't kosher 'round here.

GD&R :lol:

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

For full disclosure, I posted something similar somewhere else on the internet, but since I was quoting from this board, it would be better posted here.

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Time line, for those who care:

At 6:29 PM today, StinkFP posted this on the SD.
At 7:05 PM, Gfactor shut his thread down.
At 7:55 PM, he made the noble decision that it just wouldn't be fair or right to post where Liberal had announced he wouldn't be responding, so he took it upon himself to post it here, just because "it would be better posted here."

Lying douchebag. And as long as you're so interested in "full disclosure," you may just be a stupid cunt as well.

(For even fuller disclosure, this tedious wanker had the balls to PM me on the SD at 7:28, a half hour after Ed himself and Gfactor had informed him of exactly what violation he had committed, to ask why I had reported his post. Disingenuous asshole.)

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Originally posted by TheFlame

::Pulls up a lawnchair::

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::Unrolls the Therma-Lounger::

Care for a beer?

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Originally posted by Fenris

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Originally posted by Liberal

Say, I'd like to lick your ass if there's any bacon on it.

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Hey now--you know that kind of post isn't kosher 'round here.

GD&R :lol:

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I'm Reform. ;)

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Originally posted by Johnny

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Originally posted by TheFlame

::Pulls up a lawnchair::

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::Unrolls the Therma-Lounger::

Care for a beer?

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::Flips open picnic blanket; begins unpacking picnic hamper::

Want some Yukon Gold potato chips?

No, go make me a sammich, bitch.

Ow! Ow! Stop throwing cats at me!

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Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy

::Flips open picnic blanket; begins unpacking picnic hamper::

Want some Yukon Gold potato chips?

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I dunno, do they come in Cajun Squirrel?

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Originally posted by Q.E.D.

No, go make me a sammich, bitch.

Ow! Ow! Stop throwing cats at me!

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One shit sandwich coming right up, you cunt. :mrgreen:

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

And if you are truly interested in changing the SDMB, then why be here?

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I've been looking over your post, and I realize you may have a point. I just want to say that if I've offended you in some way, then I'm truly sorry.

It wasn't my intention to be rude when you lashed out and attacked me. I have only your best interests at heart. I'm not normally this way, but it's just these damn wars in the Middle East and that son of a bitch Limbaugh. I've had a lot on my plate and no one to care about me. Not the way you do.

If you wanted to hurt me, then you have succeeded. I suppose I deserve your derision and ridicule since I did not live up to your expectations. I do not want you to feel in any way guilty for what you have done to me. Though others surely blame you, I do not. Not totally anyway.

So if you can find your way to stay, I promise to bring you some goodies in the very near future. I cannot tell you now what they are, but only that you will be pleased. And I promise to welcome you with open arms. I will not hold a grudge. Nor will I heave upon you any harsher rhetoric than you can bear.

Come to me. I open my arms to you. I'm going to change, and I mean it! I have my people working on all of your complaints and concerns. All I ever wanted was for us to have a clean relationship free from words that offend me. Like "periwinkle". And "yodling". I see now that I was wrong to demand this from you, even though nothing will change.

And in return, I ask nothing more than that you let me lick the bacon off your ass. I can smell it. I know it's there.

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Originally posted by Oakminster

WTF is this "we" shit? Far as I'm concerned, you dropped out of the "we" club when you pitted one of our guys over there.

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"we" club? WTF? That's the problem. You are all still jonesing over the SDMB and now you are in bunker mentality. neener neener neener.

It's pathetic.

And prr, I don't have a problem with you reporting my post. I just didn't understand why.

Posting it there or here didn't matter to me. I posted it there because I happened to be on that board. Board war? Seriously? I didn't link to this board.... what the hell is a board war?

Of course I posted it here because it was locked there. But I would have posted it here anyway. Liberal's lack of posting doesn't stop him from reading responses to his thread. He eats it up with a spoon. I would have posted it here just to give Liberal a chance to hammer me back. Fair is fair, and I pitted him on a board he isn't posting to any more. I should have posted it here first.

when I hit 200 posts in a week, you can call me a drama queen. Hell, between the three boards, I don't have a thousand posts in 10 years. Who gives a shit?

QED, Oakminster, Liberal, you could all be socks for one person. An angry old man who doesn't like kids on his lawn. We vs. They. We are smarter than them. The problem is, at some point, you will wind up with a board of 5 people ( and the hangers on that love to slurp your balls to be part of the "in" group.)

You aren't tools. You are the fuckin' toolbox.

Love your avatar.

WTF is a "yodling?" Is that like a baby yod or something?

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Originally posted by Liberal

I've been looking over your post, and I realize you may have a point. I just want to say that if I've offended you in some way, then I'm truly sorry.

It wasn't my intention to be rude when you lashed out and attacked me. I have only your best interests at heart. I'm not normally this way, but it's just these damn wars in the Middle East and that son of a bitch Limbaugh. I've had a lot on my plate and no one to care about me. Not the way you do.

If you wanted to hurt me, then you have succeeded. I suppose I deserve your derision and ridicule since I did not live up to your expectations. I do not want you to feel in any way guilty for what you have done to me. Though others surely blame you, I do not. Not totally anyway.

So if you can find your way to stay, I promise to bring you some goodies in the very near future. I cannot tell you now what they are, but only that you will be pleased. And I promise to welcome you with open arms. I will not hold a grudge. Nor will I heave upon you any harsher rhetoric than you can bear.

Come to me. I open my arms to you. I'm going to change, and I mean it! I have my people working on all of your complaints and concerns. All I ever wanted was for us to have a clean relationship free from words that offend me. Like "periwinkle". And "yodling". I see now that I was wrong to demand this from you, even though nothing will change.

And in return, I ask nothing more than that you let me lick the bacon off your ass. I can smell it. I know it's there.

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Thanks, Lib, for giving me the best laugh I've had all day. I feel a fangirlish moment coming on.

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

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Originally posted by Oakminster

WTF is this "we" shit? Far as I'm concerned, you dropped out of the "we" club when you pitted one of our guys over there.

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"we" club? WTF? That's the problem. You are all still jonesing over the SDMB and now you are in bunker mentality. neener neener neener.

It's pathetic.

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The only thing that's pathetic, you spineless cuntwaffle, is stirring up shit for the sake of stirring up shit. You're trolling Q.E.D. over there, tried to troll Liberal over there, and now you're here trolling everybody. Go have buttsecks with yourself or something. People are talking here.

You're calling folks 'old-timers', then you bust your ignorance saying you don't even know what a 'board war' is. At least we've been around long enough to know what the fuck we're talking about.

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Originally posted by Oakminster

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

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Originally posted by Oakminster

WTF is this "we" shit? Far as I'm concerned, you dropped out of the "we" club when you pitted one of our guys over there.

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"we" club? WTF? That's the problem. You are all still jonesing over the SDMB and now you are in bunker mentality. neener neener neener.

It's pathetic.

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The only thing that's pathetic, you spineless cuntwaffle, is stirring up shit for the sake of stirring up shit. You're trolling Q.E.D. over there, tried to troll Liberal over there, and now you're here trolling everybody. Go have buttsecks with yourself or something. People are talking here.

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Spineless cuntwaffle? Cool. I can see why you left the dope. It amazes me how you think that a bad name is going to scare people away from this board. You are a joke, and so is Liberal. At least QED used to add value to the dope. The guy has a brain. I hope he returns to that here. But the constant anger and complaining over at the dope is proving what, exactly? Take a look at some of those OP's in ATMB. Stirring up shit for the sake of stirring up shit? How many of those threads have been started by people who supposedly left the dope for greener pastures?

People aren't talking here. People are slobbering here. Cyber-friends. For the kids who got picked last in gym class. How long did it take for the juvenile thread "who do you hope doesn't come over from the dope?" Gotta love that. I'm sure CRSP wants a board full of right minded people who think the way you think. Diversity is a great thing, as long as everyone is just like you. This place has a pack mentality. And you love it.

QED can take care of himself. I wasn't trolling him, but I'm not afraid of him either. Or you. Or Liberal. Or anyone that claims that THIS BOARD IS GREAT while being unable to be above the bullshit that drove you away from the dope in the first place. QED is complaining about a Lynn Bodini sticky? Does he really give a shit, or is he just trolling? Why don't you just delete Beyond Thuderdome? You can't. It's like the girlfriend/boyfriend who broke up with you and you just can't accept it.

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Originally posted by NinetyWt

You're calling folks 'old-timers', then you bust your ignorance saying you don't even know what a 'board war' is. At least we've been around long enough to know what the fuck we're talking about.

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What are you talking about? Board wars? There would actually be one? What are you, 12? I understand the concept of one, but have never seen one. Do you actually fear a board war from the dope? This is the mature group. The high minded folks. The smart ones. The posters the Dope will miss. Ed will be sorry! Please. Get some of that bacon that Liberal craves. Stick it In your ass. He seems to enjoy eating from there.

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Originally posted by Liberal

Love your avatar.

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I'll work on one. So I can be cool just like you. Now let's hold hands and sing Kumbaya. Because someone is feeling fangirlish, I guess I'll have to wait. Just make sure to wash your hands you funny poster, you.

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

People aren't talking here. People are slobbering here. Cyber-friends. For the kids who got picked last in gym class. How long did it take for the juvenile thread "who do you hope doesn't come over from the dope?" Gotta love that. I'm sure CRSP wants a board full of right minded people who think the way you think. Diversity is a great thing, as long as everyone is just like you. This place has a pack mentality. And you love it.

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What happened to that "we" shit you started with? You don't want to be one of us anymore? Darn.

You may look like we do
Talk like we do
But you know how it is

You're not one of us
Not one of us
No you're not one of us

You were the one who said:

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

what the hell is a board war?

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That implies to me that you don't know what one is. If that's not what you meant, you got a damn funny way of showing it.

You decided I wasn't a "we" remember?

C'mon dude. Did you forget already?

There are what, 500+ people on this board? Think I'm going to be sad if I'm not in your "group"? no. I'll get over it. In fact, I already did.

What you don't realize, Oakminster, is that I, for one, was hoping that these boards would be a new start. That's one of the reasons why I wanted to see this board and the Giraffe board merge. But, since that wasn't to be, I still want both boards to survive. I don't really care what happens to the dope. If what I hear is true and CL is going (or in) chapter 11, odds are the board will be shut down unless someone wants to pick up the tab.

But I still read the dope. I'll post there from time to time until it dies or I stop visiting. But the constant bitching and complaining from some of you who have made domebo your home is petty.

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Off the topic, I like your avatar. (and please don't tell me you don't care. I know you don't care. I still like it)

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Originally posted by Chimera

You may look like we do
Talk like we do
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You're not one of us
Not one of us
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say it isn't so.

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Originally posted by NinetyWt

That implies to me that you don't know what one is. If that's not what you meant, you got a damn funny way of showing it.

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I'm sorry. I wanted his definition of a board war. I don't think the admins of either board would allow such a thing. To me, a board war is not going to happen between two boards whose members are primarily adults.

I could have been clearer. My apologies.

If you wanted a fresh start, you've fucked up your first impression real good. If you don't like the ATMB threads over there, don't read them. Don't like what we do here, there's the door. :arrow:

Here's a freebie for ya...the guys over at Giraffe's place don't like you either. Start a bullshit pit thread over there, and they'll show you.

I would be kinda cool to be 12 again...

Oakminster is a poopy head !! Nyaa-Nyaaa!!

:: runs away ::

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Originally posted by NinetyWt

I would be kinda cool to be 12 again...

Oakminster is a poopy head !! Nyaa-Nyaaa!!

:: runs away ::

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You really want to find out what I do to naughty little (adult) girls?
:twisted: :mrgreen:

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Originally posted by Oakminster

If you wanted a fresh start, you've fucked up your first impression real good. If you don't like the ATMB threads over there, don't read them. Don't like what we do here, there's the door. :arrow:

Here's a freebie for ya...the guys over at Giraffe's place don't like you either. Start a bullshit pit thread over there, and they'll show you.

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I didn't say a fresh start for me, I said for the board members. The whole. I can read whatever I like. I can post where I want. Just like you.

"If you don't like it, there's the door :arrow:" - You sound a lot like Ed Zotti.

Here's a freebie for ya... the guys over at Giraffe's place don't like you either. Most people won't say so. Think they don't? Please. But from what I remember, one of you charmers here thought that the people that went to Giraffe's boards were the dim bulbs that hung out in MPSIMS. A group of not-so-bright posters that you all didn't really want here anyway. Start a bullshit pit thread over there, and they'll show you.

You are a tool, Oakminster. And a troll to boot. If you aren't bitching about something, you are patting yourself on the back on how smart you are.

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

You are a tool, Oakminster. And a troll to boot. If you aren't bitching about something, you are patting yourself on the back on how smart you are.

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You forgot to mention my enormous penis and stunning good looks. But at the moment, I'm busy flirting with Ninety-Wt, so shush...

Did you hear something? ...



Nah. Musta been the wind.

Seriously, though, SFP, give it a rest. Sure, somebody over here said something stupid. Somebody over at Giraffe board said something stupid. Somebody at SDMB said something stupid. It's ok. Really.

Stick around and play a while, you'll feel better. ;)



P.S. Oakie: I brought my own lube. :mrgreen:

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Originally posted by NinetyWt

P.S. Oakie: I brought my own lube. :mrgreen:

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Gotta love a gal who comes prepared...
:mrgreen:

*points at Stink Fish Pot and screeches*

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Originally posted by NinetyWt

Seriously, though, SFP, give it a rest. Sure, somebody over here said something stupid. Somebody over at Giraffe board said something stupid. Somebody at SDMB said something stupid. It's ok. Really.
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This happens on the internet once in awhile.

I'll give you a non-smartass answer, StinkFishPot - some of us had a lot invested in the Dope emotionally, and it is going to take us awhile to separate and cool off. I personally felt a huge wave of relief and freedom when I started posting here, and I'm still angry at some of the shit that has gone down. There are some drama queens, sure, and some chronic troublemakers, too, but there are also a lot of people like me, who didn't want this to happen and wish that management at the Dope hadn't pushed us this far. I'm no longer interested in changing the Straight Dope - I'm not banging my head on that brick wall any longer.

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Gotta love a gal who comes prepared...

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Or preparedly... Heh heh... :o

Y'know, I could swear something's biting me--could somebody pass me some of that?

Or maybe this fuzzy lil guy will make his debut just for SFP...

http://www.myspaceantics.com/images/...an-hamster.jpg

Ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him, ban him.

C'mon. We need to ban someone early on so everyone knows where they stand.

Naw, banning's too easy--much more fun to bat them around... Besides, quite often they get tired and start relaxing and having fun, so--win! :mrgreen:

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Or maybe this fuzzy lil guy will make his debut just for SFP...

[hamster picture removed]

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Wait just a fucking minute. We allow goddamn pictures in the pit? For fuck's sake, this might be a deal-breaker.

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Originally posted by Oakminster

Or maybe this fuzzy lil guy will make his debut just for SFP...

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The first image posted as a rebuttal. This board no longer has a soul.

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Originally posted by Liberal

And in return, I ask nothing more than that you let me lick the bacon off your ass. I can smell it. I know it's there.

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It's BACON!

(We've replaced Lib's bacon with Beggin' Strips. Let's see if he notices a difference.)

Heh, I thought pictures were turned off in the Thunderdome. Time to change the settings :P

Perhaps there's some nuance I'm missing here. Because if not, then you're posting the exact same whiny shit on two different message boards, because you're pissy that some people are posting on both message boards. Or not posting on both message boards. Or something.

Have you considered going outside, dear? A little air might do you good.

What the hell are you thinking, Stinky?! You can't post without being a whiny bitch, and now you're spreading your feces over at the Dope? Pull your underwear out of your ass. Go watch a baby sleep or spend an afternoon at the park or something.

Christ on a bun, it's too early for this shit.

Here's one you can add to your OP, Stink.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... stcount=10

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I doubt you [leander] have really counted the total, and I think this [hundreds of posters] is an exaggeration. I haven't counted either, but my view is that the rules have disaffected about 50-75 posters at most, led by a particularly vocal dozen or couple of dozen. The active membership runs to at least a couple of thousand, so everyone else either supports the new rules or doesn't care much either way.

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Of course, our board software HAS kept count. As of this post, it's 832. That's nearly half the "active membership" — assuming the guess about that is a whole lot better than the guess about our number of posters.

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Originally posted by Stink Fish Pot

Here's a freebie for ya... the guys over at Giraffe's place don't like you either. Most people won't say so. Think they don't? Please.

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What is wrong with you? Just what the fuck is wrong with you?

You remind me of an ex-friend of mine, who six months after I was well rid of her, came up to me and said, "I''ve been talking to lots of people in our grade and they don't like you!" The fact that she was so fixated on me and my popularity and the fact that she was so petty and little as to make such a survey left a much bigger impression than whatever dubious results she had come up with.

Dude, that was in ninth grade. What grade are YOU in?

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Originally posted by Myrnalene

Dude, that was in ninth grade. What grade are YOU in?

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There's a lot of it going around.

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WTF is this "we" shit? Far as I'm concerned, you dropped out of the "we" club when you pitted one of our guys over there.

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That right there is were this board lost me. Schoolyard behaviour at it's finest.

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WTF is this "we" shit? Far as I'm concerned, you dropped out of the "we" club when you pitted one of our guys over there.

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That right there is were this board lost me. Schoolyard behaviour at it's finest.

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I can appreciate where you're coming from, yojimbo. But in fairness, I doubt you can link to a board that is lacking schoolyard behavior at its finest. Certainly, the SDMB is full of it in spades. As a ten year veteran, I know that for a fact.

So, it really doesn't make sense that observing schoolyard behavior would be a deal breaker for you. Like I told you in my (unopened) PM to you, I'm really glad to see that you're here. But if you begrudge people from defending themselves and their friends from random attacks by out-of-reach bullies, then somewhere along the way I missed something about your thought processes.

It seems to me that the biggest show of schoolyard behavior was Stink posting a blistering indictment of me at a board where he knew I was no longer posting. He even expressly said that he was doing it in order to trap me like a spy from the Pharisees demanding to see a coin. "What a conundrum!" was his reasoning. "I'll post there so that Lib will either not defend himself and therefore be piled on, or else will defend himself and break his word."

It was a plan so stupid in its conception that even the SDMB staff shut it down.

I definitely hope you hang around. But I think you've taking the wrong tack in this instance. Yeah, we're circling the wagons and responding to Stink's attack. But it's important that we do that for two reasons: (1) we're a young board, and need some solidarity and cohesion just to survive, and (2) he really asked for it.

Nevertheless, if this event honestly pushes your button, while thousands of similar events elsewhere have not, then maybe it's just as well. All the best, whatever you do.

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Originally posted by Liberal

And in return, I ask nothing more than that you let me lick the bacon off your ass. I can smell it. I know it's there.

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It's BACON!

(We've replaced Lib's bacon with Beggin' Strips. Let's see if he notices a difference.)

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I'm crying! That was funny as hell.
Lib made me laugh too. I love these joke pits.
(wha...? Oh...nah!)
Ah.. you were joking right, OP. This bullshit can't be serious.
Are you serious? So, you're thunderfucking me too then, since I endorsed that beautiful post by my esteemed brother Liberal. I'm willing, of course to be thunderfucked, but not by a measly Stink Fish Pot gotdammit! If I am to be thunderfucked, it should be in style, by someone with elegance, class and good taste. Not by a Stink Fish Pot-ish asswipe cutwaffle who doesn't really participate in our threads, doesn't contribute to the community, but feels justified in marching into the Thunderdome, totally unarmed and demanding a fight with one of our best gladiators. I'm a menopausal grouchy old bitch and you've pissed me off first thing in the morning.

Quick! Somebody get on their good foot and bring Jali some tea !!!

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I'm crying! That was funny as hell.
Lib made me laugh too. I love these joke pits.
(wha...? Oh...nah!)

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Shhh! It's not a joke pitting! Don't say that or Lynn will swoop over, make herself a mod, close all the Thunderdome threads, make a sock named Vinny and then post something stern with a winky smiley at the end so she can quote it when people tell her she has no sense of humor!

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I'm a menopausal grouchy old bitch and you've pissed me off first thing in the morning.

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Nothing a little BACON! can't fix. I'm sure Lib will let you know when it's your turn.

I do like my bacon burnt a little. Please keep that in mind.

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Quick! Somebody get on their good foot and bring Jali some tea !!!

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I feel loved and cared for. You remembered my tea.

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Shhh! It's not a joke pitting! Don't say that or Lynn will swoop over, make herself a mod, close all the Thunderdome threads, make a sock named Vinny and then post something stern with a winky smiley at the end so she can quote it when people tell her she has no sense of humor!

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Hilarious because that's exactly what she'd do if she could.

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I do like my bacon burnt a little. Please keep that in mind.

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WTF is this "we" shit? Far as I'm concerned, you dropped out of the "we" club when you pitted one of our guys over there.

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That right there is were this board lost me. Schoolyard behaviour at it's finest.

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Looking for an excuse, were you? I can't think of any other reason that you would choose to take one comment from one poster as representative of the whole board. Unless you for some reason think SFP doesn't deserve the rest of the spanking he's gotten in here?

Although to be honest I'm not crazy about the talk about banning a couple of pages back. Come on guys, we're better than that, aren't we?

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WTF is this "we" shit? Far as I'm concerned, you dropped out of the "we" club when you pitted one of our guys over there.

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That right there is were this board lost me. Schoolyard behaviour at it's finest.

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Looking for an excuse, were you? I can't think of any other reason that you would choose to take one comment from one poster as representative of the whole board. Unless you for some reason think SFP doesn't deserve the rest of the spanking he's gotten in here?

Although to be honest I'm not crazy about the talk about banning a couple of pages back. Come on guys, we're better than that, aren't we?

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Nope. not looking for anything. I've no problem with side boards. I myself completly paid for(a year) and owned NADS(a smaller board mainly aimed at Euro dopers) for a while before I handed it over to someone else.

My problem is that this place seems to be more about what it's against than what it's for. There's a thread here about mutiny on the dope FFS. It seems to me a lot of people here are just using the place as an ego trip and nothing more.

The dope has taken years to get to the sorry state it's in and in those years I've enjoyed it a lot so I tend to cut it a bit more slack than I do new places. This place is about a week away from that kind of bollocks IMO. Talking about banning already? HA! I'm not seeing it really happen on Giraffe's place yet but we'll see.

I came in had a look around and quickly found people who I don't like on the dope being cunts here as well. Except here they seem empowered.

I only have so much energy I can give to boards and this one seems like it may be too much work for me. I'm barely hanging in on the Dope and that's a place i love and have a lot of history with.

I could be totally wrong and this place may turn to be a great little place to spend sometime but from what I've seen so far, I don't think it's for me.

I'm still at giraffe and NADS so it's not about it being "not the dope".

All the best though.

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Yup yup and super-yup.

I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to understand.

There's some ugly clique-ishness coming out in this thread, Stink Fish Pot's trollish tendencies notwithstanding.

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My problem is that this place seems to be more about what it's against than what it's for. There's a thread here about mutiny on the dope FFS. It seems to me a lot of people here are just using the place as an ego trip and nothing more.

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It was a plan so stupid in its conception that even the SDMB staff shut it down.

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I said it was a silly idea for a post in the SDMB thread before it was locked BTW.

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My problem is that this place seems to be more about what it's against than what it's for. There's a thread here about mutiny on the dope FFS. It seems to me a lot of people here are just using the place as an ego trip and nothing more.

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I don't think that's a fair assessment. It seems like you haven't even looked at this place beyond the one subforum.

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That's fair. I dipped into the PIT area as that was my favourite read on the dope.

I didn't like the level of BS I saw on such a young board and it put me off. Wagons are circling already and decenting voices are attacked. Nothing personel at all really to any poster but it's just a bit too much work. The economy is horrible, friends and collegues all around me are getting let go, people are being shot in Northern Ireland again and my favourite board and biggest timewaster is being destroyed by a fuckwit of a Admin. I just don't have to energy for more at the moment.

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Nope. not looking for anything. I've no problem with side boards. I myself completly paid for(a year) and owned NADS(a smaller board mainly aimed at Euro dopers) for a while before I handed it over to someone else.

My problem is that this place seems to be more about what it's against than what it's for. There's a thread here about mutiny on the dope FFS. It seems to me a lot of people here are just using the place as an ego trip and nothing more.

The dope has taken years to get to the sorry state it's in and in those years I've enjoyed it a lot so I tend to cut it a bit more slack than I do new places. This place is about a week away from that kind of bollocks IMO. Talking about banning already? HA! I'm not seeing it really happen on Giraffe's place yet but we'll see.

I came in had a look around and quickly found people who I don't like on the dope being cunts here as well. Except here they seem empowered.

I only have so much energy I can give to boards and this one seems like it may be too much work for me. I'm barely hanging in on the Dope and that's a place i love and have a lot of history with.

I could be totally wrong and this place may turn to be a great little place to spend sometime but from what I've seen so far, I don't think it's for me.

I'm still at giraffe and NADS so it's not about it being "not the dope".

All the best though.

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You seem tired. Go rest. Come back later. I realize that, from your point of you, you don't realize you're doing what you're asking us not to do — calling people names, comparing other boards, and defending yourself.

But I'm afraid you've missed some things at Giraffe's board. Not to start a war, but just to clear up the record. They have indeed joked about banning people. They have opened threads to bitch about the SDMB admins here, here, and here. Maybe fewer threads and posts than ours, but theirs is a smaller board and less active.

But if nothing else, it's good that our board opened your eyes to things you can't see elsewhere. Appreciate the PM response. See you around.

Someone jumps on a new board, uses "we" to include himself, then steps outside that and starts blaming everyone else on the board.

Sure, no chance they'll be accused to cliqueish behavior when they defend themselves.

We're not all the same, we don't have the same ideas, we didn't all come here for the same reason. We don't speak in unison, we're not pod people, we're not an insular little group.

But when you come here and accuse us of being things, it should hardly be surprising when many of us don't like it.
OTOH, it can also reinforce the pre-existing opinion, if you're looking for it to do so, that we are all pod people.

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Here's one you can add to your OP, Stink.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... stcount=10

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Thanks, Lib.

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What is wrong with you? Just what the fuck is wrong with you?

You remind me of an ex-friend of mine, who six months after I was well rid of her, came up to me and said, "I''ve been talking to lots of people in our grade and they don't like you!" The fact that she was so fixated on me and my popularity and the fact that she was so petty and little as to make such a survey left a much bigger impression than whatever dubious results she had come up with.

Dude, that was in ninth grade. What grade are YOU in?

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Please read the whole thread before blowing a gasket. I just quoted basically what Oakminster wrote to me in the post right before the text you quoted. Pretty silly, right? Or is your opinion different now that you understand that I didn't say it? I have no idea what opinion (if any) the posters on Giraffes Board think about Oakminster.


hmm. Let's review:

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So, it really doesn't make sense that observing schoolyard behavior would be a deal breaker for you. Like I told you in my (unopened) PM to you, I'm really glad to see that you're here. But if you begrudge people from defending themselves and their friends from random attacks by out-of-reach bullies, then somewhere along the way I missed something about your thought processes.

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Do you actually think I'm an "out-of-reach" bully? That's sad. You've got the whole gang in here banging away at me, but it doesn't matter. You just can't help yourself. Your paranoia combined with extraordinary vanity come through in posts and you don't even realize it.

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It seems to me that the biggest show of schoolyard behavior was Stink posting a blistering indictment of me at a board where he knew I was no longer posting. He even expressly said that he was doing it in order to trap me like a spy from the Pharisees demanding to see a coin. "What a conundrum!" was his reasoning. "I'll post there so that Lib will either not defend himself and therefore be piled on, or else will defend himself and break his word."

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Show me where I said I was posting on the SDMB to "trap" you. I didn't say it because it wasn't my intent. As far as you not posting there, that's 50/50. As I pointed out, you claimed that you were done posting on the 2nd of March, but had to post your farewell post on the 7th. You aren't banned from posting. Go ahead and try. I know you are watching the SDMB's. That little green dot next to your name lets the world know you are sitting there waiting to see what people write. No doubt, you are concerned what they write about you, in your opus farewell thread. Or not. It doesn't matter. The point is, you could have posted a rebuttal to me on the SDMB. You chose not to. But there would be no penalty if you went there and posted today. Who really cares if you post or not? (besides you, I mean?) I can't stop you from posting. I can't ban you. I simply don't care.

With that said, there wasn't a nefarious plot to trap you. Why do you automatically assume you would be piled on for defending yourself? Is it because you believe that everyone hates you over there? Trap you like a spy? Get a grip, Lib. That wasn't my reasoning. I posted there first because I was on that board when I wrote the OP. I moved it here to a) give you an opportunity to hammer me b) give you an opportunity to defend yourself, and c) because it was locked before I had a chance to clean it up. I don't mind. I know you find this hard to believe, but you are way off on my reasoning. I know this because there was no reasoning. What a conundrum, indeed. I didn't really think about it, and I don't think anyone would care if you posted there again or not. You would break your word? Who would care? Posting again on a message board isn't like you are cheating on a loved one. I think we'd get over it.

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It was a plan so stupid in its conception that even the SDMB staff shut it down.

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Actually, that's not why it was locked. And if you go back and look at the thread, you'll notice that Ed didn't lock it, Gfactor did. I didn't understand why, which is why I asked. I didn't put any links in the OP to this board, but I guess there was some concern that a "board war" would ensue. It never occurred to me. I thought the majority of the posters from the Dope and Domebo were adults. But there appears to be a higher level of sensitivity these days. No problem.

I had a good exchange with the moderators about that post, and it was suggested that I start another pit thread if I wanted. I decided not to and instead posted it here. Gfactor understood what I did, but I thought since you were hanging here, I'd just post it here. Either way, I would have posted it here anyway. I just happened to be on the Dope at the time. I don't care if you believe me. I'm afraid your fragile psyche will convince you of a plot to "get you", so no matter what the truth, you'll make sure that you come out the victim. But you are no drama queen.

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I definitely hope you hang around. But I think you've taking the wrong tack in this instance. Yeah, we're circling the wagons and responding to Stink's attack. But it's important that we do that for two reasons: (1) we're a young board, and need some solidarity and cohesion just to survive, and (2) he really asked for it.

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What? You admit to "circling the wagons" because of my "attack"? It really wasn't an attack. It was a statement of fact. And your logic is that you are so vital to these boards that my "attack" on you required "solidarity and cohesion" just to survive. Domebo is a young board, that's true. But I hate to break it to you... if you stopped posting tomorrow, domebo would survive. As far as me "asking for it", I guess. If you mean I didn't have a problem being attacked for calling you a drama queen, yeah, I expected it.

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Ah.. you were joking right, OP. This bullshit can't be serious.
Are you serious? So, you're thunderfucking me too then, since I endorsed that beautiful post by my esteemed brother Liberal. I'm willing, of course to be thunderfucked, but not by a measly Stink Fish Pot gotdammit! If I am to be thunderfucked, it should be in style, by someone with elegance, class and good taste. Not by a Stink Fish Pot-ish asswipe cutwaffle who doesn't really participate in our threads, doesn't contribute to the community, but feels justified in marching into the Thunderdome, totally unarmed and demanding a fight with one of our best gladiators. I'm a menopausal grouchy old bitch and you've pissed me off first thing in the morning.

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No, not a joke. Didn't mean to upset you, but either way, I'm not sure it matters. But the idea of a message board, a community, is that anyone can post any where. Or do I need your permission to post? Where should I post? Where should anyone post? Is there a place where posters like myself, who don't contribute in ways that suit you, should go to learn the ropes? I find it strange that you think I'm unarmed and fighting with one of your best gladiators. I'm not.

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Looking for an excuse, were you? I can't think of any other reason that you would choose to take one comment from one poster as representative of the whole board. Unless you for some reason think SFP doesn't deserve the rest of the spanking he's gotten in here?

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I don't think I've been spanked. I'm sure you think so, but I'm ok. Just because someone speaks his/her own mind, like yojimbo, people freak out. Seriously, people are calling for my banning? What for? Isn't that what you all left the dope for? Nothing like an over-reaction to a situation to realize what you all really want. Everyone must agree with each other. The Utopia board. Someone points out the pathetic habits of Liberal, and a banning is called for?

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Yup yup and super-yup.

I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to understand.

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actually, featherlou gave me a great answer. And after I read it, I did some looking around the boards. I stumbled on a thread that made me understand this. I really didn't before. So I thank featherlou for helping me understand what I haven't really understood about this Straight Dope break-up and the pain and angst that some of you feel.

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You seem tired. Go rest. Come back later.

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You're not wrong there my friend. Honestly, I feel like my head is going to explode and that's nothing to do with the stuff here. What was once solid is now liquid and it's really starting to drag me down.

I'll take your advice and see how I feel in a day or two.

*Sigh*

I hope you feel better, yojimbo.

You too, Stink Fish Pot.

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Please read the whole thread before blowing a gasket. I just quoted basically what Oakminster wrote to me in the post right before the text you quoted. Pretty silly, right? Or is your opinion different now that you understand that I didn't say it? I have no idea what opinion (if any) the posters on Giraffes Board think about Oakminster.

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You're right. It was Oakminister that started it (although you echoed it right back). My opinion of the behavior is the same.

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I don't think I've been spanked. I'm sure you think so, but I'm ok. Just because someone speaks his/her own mind, like yojimbo, people freak out. Seriously, people are calling for my banning? What for? Isn't that what you all left the dope for? Nothing like an over-reaction to a situation to realize what you all really want. Everyone must agree with each other. The Utopia board. Someone points out the pathetic habits of Liberal, and a banning is called for?

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No one freaked out on yojimbo. No one seriously called for your banning. (Although I thought the joking was distasteful.) Why are you so invested in your dislike for Lib (and this board, I guess), that you have to exaggerate everything? Why the hell aren't you letting it go?

I've never understood why people have to crash a party just to say, "Waaaah! I hate that everyone is having so much fun!" It's so fucking Puritanical.

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[<snip>
actually, featherlou gave me a great answer. And after I read it, I did some looking around the boards. I stumbled on a thread that made me understand this. I really didn't before. So I thank featherlou for helping me understand what I haven't really understood about this Straight Dope break-up and the pain and angst that some of you feel.

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No problem. :)

"Break-up" is a pretty good term for what I feel happened (can't talk for other posters, but I suspect I'm not alone).

As for cliquishness on this board, same deal as with the Dope - it's a public message board, open to anyone. Join in the discussions and don't act cliquish if you don't want to see cliquishness. We all contribute to the tone of any board we participate on.

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"Break-up" is a pretty good term for what I feel happened (can't talk for other posters, but I suspect I'm not alone).

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Thus far, Shayna, me, Lib, Green Bean and Fenris, just off the top of my head.

It was more difficult to not go back the first time, but it's a much more bitter taste this time because:

1) That people who sold me something don't care what I thought of it is incongruous. If a small-business owner outright didn't give a shit what people thought of her product, she'd go bankrupt. But they don't care.

2) I can go back, but what would be the point? The same things will keep driving me away, and I have more productive things to do with my time.

great thread!!!1 A+++++++++ would read again

Take care, yojimbo. Please come back when you're feeling better.

Someone notify Excalibre that his account has been hacked by eBay feedback bots.

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Well, there was the "ban him" post - which apparently is supposed to be a joke. And Oakminister's attitude of "we all hate you and want you to leave".

I'd hoped this board would get to be at least a month old before we started in with the doorknob-ass posts.

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Someone notify Excalibre that his account has been hacked by eBay feedback bots.

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"Break-up" is a pretty good term for what I feel happened (can't talk for other posters, but I suspect I'm not alone).

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Nobody ever remembers me. :cry:

Like anybody could forget you, wing.

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Like anybody could forget you, wing.

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I rarely note misspellings, but damn that was funny (even if it's unintentional, even more so, I guess) :mrgreen:

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Nobody ever remembers me. :cry:

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Perhaps there's some nuance I'm missing here. Because if not, then you're posting the exact same whiny shit on two different message boards, because you're pissy that some people are posting on both message boards. Or not posting on both message boards. Or something.

Have you considered going outside, dear? A little air might do you good.

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Well, there was the "ban him" post - which apparently is supposed to be a joke. And Oakminister's attitude of "we all hate you and want you to leave".

I'd hoped this board would get to be at least a month old before we started in with the doorknob-ass posts.

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The ban hamster was a joke. As for the other...well, the guy has been trolling Q.E.D. shamelessly at the Dope, he originally posted the OP for this thread at the Dope, and only came here after that thread was locked for attempting to incite a board war. His contributions here have mostly been limited to this thread, where he's made a royal ass of himself. That shit just doesn't fly with me. If he wants to be a member here, fine...but he needs to bring something to the table besides shit-stirring, and that's all he's offered so far. Pit-style rants don't carry much weight unless the ranter has some established history of positive contributions to let people know he's more than just another pissed off fuckwit.

I'd suggest most "new" and/or relatively unknown posters stay out of the pit, or at least try to avoid direct conflict with people at first. Show us some merit...contribute to regular threads on topics of interest, let us get to know you and respect you for awhile.

I'm glad you understand the feeling a little better now, SFP. My comment wasn't only directed at you, though. I've seen a lot of posts on the SDMB expressing the same thing, so I guess I was referring to everybody that doesn't seem to get that we're talking about it because it's very important to us.

And hello, wring.

On preview: Hey! Look! LurkMeister has just given us an excellent example of what I'm talking about. Thanks, LurkMeister!

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Gee, I was thinking the same thing about all the whiny shit I keep seeing here about the SDMB.

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You know we have other forums here, right? Why don't you check them out, and post in some of the regular threads. Our version of the pit is not the reason this board was started. Think of it as a condiment served with the meal provided in all of the other forums.

Yes, Oakminster, I have been checking out the other forums here, and even posting in them. There are several interesting features of this board that will probably keep me coming here. I wasn't aware, however, that I was not allowed to express anything but the party line of "SDMB is teh suxxors" in this forum. So don't bother responding to this post, because I won't be returning here. Have fun, gang.

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Yes, Oakminster, I have been checking out the other forums here, and even posting in them. There are several interesting features of this board that will probably keep me coming here. I wasn't aware, however, that I was not allowed to express anything but the party line of "SDMB is teh suxxors" in this forum. So don't bother responding to this post, because I won't be returning here. Have fun, gang.

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NOOOOOOOOO lurkmeister please don't leave!!!!!!!! we're super sorry we made you mad!!!!!!!! we'll change honest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I wasn't aware, however, that I was not allowed to express anything but the party line of "SDMB is teh suxxors" in this forum. So don't bother responding to this post, because I won't be returning here. Have fun, gang.

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That's not what I said. You seemed to be judging the entire board based on what you've seen in this forum. I'm saying that this forum is not the draw here, it's not the focus of this board. It exists, but so does plenty of other stuff. Frankly, if we've got nothing to offer but a pit-clone, this board will die within 6 months. What we need to do is develop our own board culture.

Beyond Thunderdome is the third busiest board on domebo, so yes, it clearly is a significant draw. It's not like people are coming here for the Q&A.

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Beyond Thunderdome is the third busiest board on domebo, so yes, it clearly is a significant draw. It's not like people are coming here for the Q&A.

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People are venting about the situation at the Dope. It's been less than two weeks. Give it time, and this too shall pass.

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Give it time, and this too shall pass.

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May the invisible pink unicorn, in all his infinite wisdom, make this so, and quickly.

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I don't think it's something that can be rushed. It's got to burn itself out naturally, but it will happen. The shitstorm is slowing losing steam even over at the Dope, as people come to accept what has happened. I'll admit I've been something of lightning rod over there, but I'm just about talked out. The Schism has happened, and things aren't going back to the way they were earlier. There will still probably be flareups as somebody pours gasoline on the embers of a dormant fire. I'll try not to be the guy that does that. So much.

What Kübler-Ross stage are we at now?

Personally, I've moved through #4 and now embracing #5.

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I couldn't disagree with this more. Are you trying to take all the fun out of life?? Look at what a joy this thread has been! Besides, contributions to the Thunderdome are worth as much as contributions in other fora.
(And I know I'm unknown, but I certainly don't consider myself new. I'm a lurker of long standing. So I'm not trying to defend my own rights to the TD with this post.)

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Posting it there or here didn't matter to me. I posted it there because I happened to be on that board. Board war? Seriously? I didn't link to this board.... what the hell is a board war?

(snip)
You aren't tools. You are the fuckin' toolbox.

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The part I love about situations such as these, is when the OP is put in the interesting position of defending so angrily how much this whole thing is not a big deal. The more you compound it, the more pathetic you sound, trying to pull shreds of evidence about why everybody around you sucks so much. I mean, there's only so many times you can call a community you are a part of a group of pathetic losers with no outside interests before people start to wonder why you seem to have nothing better to do.

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I'd suggest most "new" and/or relatively unknown posters stay out of the pit, or at least try to avoid direct conflict with people at first. Show us some merit...contribute to regular threads on topics of interest, let us get to know you and respect you for awhile.

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Fuck this bullshit and fuck you for writing it. Thanks to you, this is how I'm making my inaugural post on this board. I get it that because I'm not one of the "top tier" "A-listers" you have no desire to read my meager contributions alongside your great ones, but What The Fuck?

I don't give a shit if you "respect me for awhile (sic)" before I'm "allowed" to contribute whatever the fuck I want! Who are you to tell me where and how to post or that I need to "show (who again?) some MERIT?"

Avoid direct contact with people? What the fuck!?! Are you serious?? Well, I for sure as fuck won't let the door hit my ass on the way out. See? Your suggestion worked like a fucking charm.

Pretty damn good for a first timer! :D

I was with you until the bit about you taking your ball and going home. That's silly. He doesn't speak for everyone. I could practically feel your spittle flying at me when I read your post, and that means you certainly belong here in the Thunderdome.

Direct conflict, dumbass. Not contact. Simply saying debuting on a board by jumping in and slinging flames the way the OP did in this thread is not a good way to introduce oneself.

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Direct conflict, dumbass. Not contact. Simply saying debuting on a board by jumping in and slinging flames the way the OP did in this thread is not a good way to introduce oneself.

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But it doesn't matter. SFP is a tool but it's not because he's "new" or whatever. If someone flames another poster and their complaints are not valid I will think them a fool whoever they are. But if they are right then I would laugh and agree.

This board is brand new. We are all newbies here.

So...rachet the Member List down one, I take it?

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So...rachet the Member List down one, I take it?

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I hope not. She showed great promise.

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So...rachet the Member List down one, I take it?

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I hope not. She showed great promise.

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Eh. Good form, but lacking on follow-through. I think she lifted her head on the backswing.

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Originally posted by Oakminster

I'd suggest most "new" and/or relatively unknown posters stay out of the pit, or at least try to avoid direct conflict with people at first. Show us some merit...contribute to regular threads on topics of interest, let us get to know you and respect you for awhile.

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Fuck this bullshit and fuck you for writing it. Thanks to you, this is how I'm making my inaugural post on this board. I get it that because I'm not one of the "top tier" "A-listers" you have no desire to read my meager contributions alongside your great ones, but What The Fuck?

I don't give a shit if you "respect me for awhile (sic)" before I'm "allowed" to contribute whatever the fuck I want! Who are you to tell me where and how to post or that I need to "show (who again?) some MERIT?"

Avoid direct contact with people? What the fuck!?! Are you serious?? Well, I for sure as fuck won't let the door hit my ass on the way out. See? Your suggestion worked like a fucking charm.

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Heh heh heh, you sound fun, misshannah. Please don't take what Oakminster said seriously.

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Fuck this bullshit and fuck [Oakminster] for writing it.
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Well, I for sure as fuck won't let the door hit my ass on the way out. See? Your suggestion worked like a fucking charm.

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See, now, this here is why Oakminster is dead wrong on this particular point. Welcome to domebo.

I would like to state, for anyone who may be interested or perhaps incapacitated and unable to close the thread or otherwise look away, that no one on this board speaks for me. My views are not represented by anyone else's words. People are speaking for themselves and represent themselves--not everyone, not the board, and not me.

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I would like to state, for anyone who may be interested or perhaps incapacitated and unable to close the thread or otherwise look away, that no one on this board speaks for me. My views are not represented by anyone else's words. People are speaking for themselves and represent themselves--not everyone, not the board, and not me.

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Yeah, what she said.

You may treat her as my spokesperson in the future.

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I'd suggest most "new" and/or relatively unknown posters stay out of the pit, or at least try to avoid direct conflict with people at first. Show us some merit...contribute to regular threads on topics of interest, let us get to know you and respect you for awhile.

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I don't understand. I think this is sound advice, and I offered it without malice. It's what I do whenever I join a board where I'm not known. Why is it such a horrible thing to say?

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I don't understand. I think this is sound advice, and I offered it without malice. It's what I do whenever I join a board where I'm not known. Why is it such a horrible thing to say?

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At very minimum, it's sort of silly. What, are people going to be outraged by the terribly rough-and-tumble culture of the thunderdome, until they become used to it after a few weeks of lurking? Please.

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What, are people going to be outraged by the terribly rough-and-tumble culture of the thunderdome, until they become used to it after a few weeks of lurking?

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I don't think that's what he means.

I'm thinking he's talking about the OP. I think he's saying that a person should hang around a board for a while, kind of get acquainted with the other posters, let everyone get a good idea of who they are, before they jump off into the Thunderdome with a rant; and get a better reception because of doing that first.

Whether you agree with him or not is, of course, a different matter.

Also muddying the waters here is the fact that the OP was a poster on the other board for a while, so he wasn't actually an unknown quantity. Maybe Oakminster just never noticed him.

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What, are people going to be outraged by the terribly rough-and-tumble culture of the thunderdome, until they become used to it after a few weeks of lurking?

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I don't think that's what he means.

I'm thinking he's talking about the OP. I think he's saying that a person should hang around a board for a while, kind of get acquainted with the other posters, let everyone get a good idea of who they are, before they jump off into the Thunderdome with a rant; and get a better reception because of doing that first.

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Well, okay. Although it seems like "don't post really terribly stupid shit" would suffice.

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I think he's saying that a person should hang around a board for a while, kind of get acquainted with the other posters, let everyone get a good idea of who they are, before they jump off into the Thunderdome with a rant; and get a better reception because of doing that first.

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Really thought that's what I said.

As for SFP, he's been registered at the Dope for 9 years, has 766 posts according to his profile. I never noticed him until recently.

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Well, okay. Although it seems like "don't post really terribly stupid shit" would suffice.

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I'm not sure that brevity is his specialty. ;)

Ooops, oh hi Oakminster. :P

Could someone provide a link to the thread he started on the Dope that's the same OP as this one? I searched for threads started by Stink Fish Pot, but there's nothing. Methinks it's been disappeared, but perhaps my search-fu is weak today. Many thanks.

I would like to reiterate what Julie said..no one here speaks for me but me. As far as I'm concerned everyone is welcome here unless they post for the sole purpose of causing strife. I can't hate on someone for posting something stupid. Stones...glass houses...all that.

So who's the Drama Queen that can't let go, Liberal or Stinkfish Pot? Is Stinkfish Pot pitting himself?

Look over yonder in the BBQ pit for a (locked) thread with the words Queen and Drama in it. It's still on page 1.

Let's not discourage posters who only stir up shit. Compost needs be turned to become fertile. Besides some people just don't have anything else to contribute.

Glazer, I liked your first icon better. You look like Frank Zappa, there. He was a musical genius and all, but ...

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What, are people going to be outraged by the terribly rough-and-tumble culture of the thunderdome, until they become used to it after a few weeks of lurking?

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I don't think that's what he means.

I'm thinking he's talking about the OP. I think he's saying that a person should hang around a board for a while, kind of get acquainted with the other posters, let everyone get a good idea of who they are, before they jump off into the Thunderdome with a rant; and get a better reception because of doing that first.

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Well, okay. Although it seems like "don't post really terribly stupid shit" would suffice.

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I don't quite think they're the same things though.

"Don't post really terribly stupid shit if you want to be better received as a new poster" is really something that goes without saying. It really should be obvious enough that you wouldn't offer that as blanket advise to all new posters.

The advise given though is a bit more subtle to me. I'd pretty much give similar advise and here's what my rationale would be. The way people get to know you is by how you post. People read your thoughts, interact with you and form an opinion about you based on this. The pit like fora are usually heated, emotionally charged places where people don't generally present their better sides. It stands to reason then that someones first impression of you probably isn't going to be well served if that impression is a typical pit rant. Make that pit rant about someone who is known for more than their pit persona and you can see how that one is going to turn out.

Who are you again? Oh, right. The 9,432nd person to post shit about Lib. As you can see, all those efforts have truly sucked the guys will to live right out of him. He's practically in tears, I'm sure.

Go post somewhere else for a while and learn how to spew some fucking vitriol, these standard "Fuck you Liberal" threads are a dime a dozen.

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Who are you again? Oh, right. The 9,432nd person to post shit about Lib. As you can see, all those efforts have truly sucked the guys will to live right out of him. He's practically in tears, I'm sure.

Go post somewhere else for a while and learn how to spew some fucking vitriol, these standard "Fuck you Liberal" threads are a dime a dozen.

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You know, without a quote that really looked like it was addressed at me until the third sentence. No problem but I was like "wow!" :)

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I think he's saying that a person should hang around a board for a while, kind of get acquainted with the other posters, let everyone get a good idea of who they are, before they jump off into the Thunderdome with a rant; and get a better reception because of doing that first.

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There's something to be said for judging a post on its own merits, and not your opinion of the personality behind it. You'd be suprised how often a fresh set of eyes can see through the bullshit others miss.

I'll address this post and then I'll bow out. One, because I think it's run its course. Two, I will never get the last word in anyway, so responding will keep this thread will just keep people like Oakminster up.

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Well, there was the "ban him" post - which apparently is supposed to be a joke. And Oakminister's attitude of "we all hate you and want you to leave".

I'd hoped this board would get to be at least a month old before we started in with the doorknob-ass posts.

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The ban hamster was a joke. As for the other...well, the guy has been trolling Q.E.D. shamelessly at the Dope, he originally posted the OP for this thread at the Dope, and only came here after that thread was locked for attempting to incite a board war.

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I didn't care about the ban hamster. I just wonder how long it would have taken you to hit "report this post" or tell me to do a sexual act with an animal if I had posted it to you. Your skin is mighty thin. And you must think mine is, because that was to get a rise out of me. It didn't work.

As for this accusation of trolling QED, I don't think you have the evidence to support that. I did post in one thread right after he did. Like I said, QED can and does take care of himself rather well. I guess I did post shamelessly, though, because I didn't have anything to be ashamed of. The other parts of your post have already been addressed up-thread. Except to say that I had no intention of staring a board war. That seemed to be the opinion of prr, who reported the post. That's fine. Ed didn't see it that way, and Gfactor understood that wasn't what I was trying to do either. But your outrage only works if your story is true.

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His contributions here have mostly been limited to this thread, where he's made a royal ass of himself. That shit just doesn't fly with me. If he wants to be a member here, fine...but he needs to bring something to the table besides shit-stirring, and that's all he's offered so far. Pit-style rants don't carry much weight unless the ranter has some established history of positive contributions to let people know he's more than just another pissed off fuckwit.

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Now, this is simply not true. I checked. Only about half of my posts are here, and that does not translate to "contributions ...mostly been limited to this thread...", now does it? I have posted in other areas, but I don't need to bring anything else to the table to satisfy you. You are a poster here, just like me. No more, no less. When you run your own board, invite the people you want, have the secret handshake, then you can dictate terms. Until then, you are just a windbag.

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Originally posted by Oakminster

I'd suggest most "new" and/or relatively unknown posters stay out of the pit, or at least try to avoid direct conflict with people at first. Show us some merit...contribute to regular threads on topics of interest, let us get to know you and respect you for awhile.

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This is my favorite suggestion. Perhaps you could get that put in an FAQ, and direct us poor souls to the "thread of purgatory" until such time as you decide we are ready to join the group. Maybe you could change your user name to Edminster or OakBodini. Show you some merit. pffft. Where are your "merit" postings? Does everyone else in here posting have a secret merit posting file?

Tell me, oh sage one, what topics interest you? I'm here for you. And only you. How does your neck hold up that massive head of yours?

Please... thrash about. I'm going to look around the boards for a while. Maybe I'll post something. Maybe I won't. But you won't bully me out of the Pit, Thunderdome, Beyond Thunderdome, or anywhere else I have the ability to post. I don't fear you. In fact, I don't really think about you. You simply aren't that important to me. People like featherlou are important. People like NinetyWt. They can actually communicate without condescending. You on the other hand, seem to have placed yourself and your opinions higher than anyone else's. The only thing I can really guess from your posts is that you'd like to see the dope fail, Ed lose his job, and a chance to run back there and tell them "I told you so", even though the reality is that you are dying to go back there and run it your way. (Naturally, your way would be the right way.)

See you around the boards, tough guy.

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I would like to state, for anyone who may be interested or perhaps incapacitated and unable to close the thread or otherwise look away, that no one on this board speaks for me. My views are not represented by anyone else's words. People are speaking for themselves and represent themselves--not everyone, not the board, and not me.

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I think what Julie is saying is that she would rather... What? Oh.

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The part I love about situations such as these, is when the OP is put in the interesting position of defending so angrily how much this whole thing is not a big deal. The more you compound it, the more pathetic you sound, trying to pull shreds of evidence about why everybody around you sucks so much. I mean, there's only so many times you can call a community you are a part of a group of pathetic losers with no outside interests before people start to wonder why you seem to have nothing better to do.

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There is some truth to what ladyfoxfyre says here. I do have other, better things to do. I also don't believe the entire group is a bunch of pathetic losers. But I've said what I wanted to say. No need to rehash it or defend myself.

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But I've said what I wanted to say.

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And what was that exactly?

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Could someone provide a link to the thread he started on the Dope that's the same OP as this one? I searched for threads started by Stink Fish Pot, but there's nothing. Methinks it's been disappeared, but perhaps my search-fu is weak today. Many thanks.

I would like to reiterate what Julie said..no one here speaks for me but me. As far as I'm concerned everyone is welcome here unless they post for the sole purpose of causing strife. I can't hate on someone for posting something stupid. Stones...glass houses...all that.

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http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... p?t=509721
Enjoy.

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You know, without a quote that really looked like it was addressed at me until the third sentence. No problem but I was like "wow!" :)

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Ha! Sorry about that, that was totally against the OP.

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I also don't believe the entire group is a bunch of pathetic losers.

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We aren't?


Fuck.


I thought I'd finally found a place among my own kind.

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We aren't?


Fuck.


I thought I'd finally found a place among my own kind.

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Dude, there's nothing like reading this while looking at that avatar. Thanks for being here.

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Originally posted by Oakminster

I think he's saying that a person should hang around a board for a while, kind of get acquainted with the other posters, let everyone get a good idea of who they are, before they jump off into the Thunderdome with a rant; and get a better reception because of doing that first.

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Jeff, honey, I said that, not Oakminster. The quote tags must have gotcha! :)

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I'll address this post and then I'll bow out. One, because I think it's run its course. Two, I will never get the last word in anyway, so responding will keep this thread will just keep people like Oakminster up.

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Well, there was the "ban him" post - which apparently is supposed to be a joke. And Oakminister's attitude of "we all hate you and want you to leave".

I'd hoped this board would get to be at least a month old before we started in with the doorknob-ass posts.

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The ban hamster was a joke. As for the other...well, the guy has been trolling Q.E.D. shamelessly at the Dope, he originally posted the OP for this thread at the Dope, and only came here after that thread was locked for attempting to incite a board war.

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I didn't care about the ban hamster. I just wonder how long it would have taken you to hit "report this post" or tell me to do a sexual act with an animal if I had posted it to you. Your skin is mighty thin. And you must think mine is, because that was to get a rise out of me. It didn't work.

As for this accusation of trolling QED, I don't think you have the evidence to support that. I did post in one thread right after he did. Like I said, QED can and does take care of himself rather well. I guess I did post shamelessly, though, because I didn't have anything to be ashamed of. The other parts of your post have already been addressed up-thread. Except to say that I had no intention of staring a board war. That seemed to be the opinion of prr, who reported the post. That's fine. Ed didn't see it that way, and Gfactor understood that wasn't what I was trying to do either. But your outrage only works if your story is true.

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His contributions here have mostly been limited to this thread, where he's made a royal ass of himself. That shit just doesn't fly with me. If he wants to be a member here, fine...but he needs to bring something to the table besides shit-stirring, and that's all he's offered so far. Pit-style rants don't carry much weight unless the ranter has some established history of positive contributions to let people know he's more than just another pissed off fuckwit.

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Now, this is simply not true. I checked. Only about half of my posts are here, and that does not translate to "contributions ...mostly been limited to this thread...", now does it? I have posted in other areas, but I don't need to bring anything else to the table to satisfy you. You are a poster here, just like me. No more, no less. When you run your own board, invite the people you want, have the secret handshake, then you can dictate terms. Until then, you are just a windbag.

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Originally posted by Oakminster

I'd suggest most "new" and/or relatively unknown posters stay out of the pit, or at least try to avoid direct conflict with people at first. Show us some merit...contribute to regular threads on topics of interest, let us get to know you and respect you for awhile.

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This is my favorite suggestion. Perhaps you could get that put in an FAQ, and direct us poor souls to the "thread of purgatory" until such time as you decide we are ready to join the group. Maybe you could change your user name to Edminster or OakBodini. Show you some merit. pffft. Where are your "merit" postings? Does everyone else in here posting have a secret merit posting file?

Tell me, oh sage one, what topics interest you? I'm here for you. And only you. How does your neck hold up that massive head of yours?

Please... thrash about. I'm going to look around the boards for a while. Maybe I'll post something. Maybe I won't. But you won't bully me out of the Pit, Thunderdome, Beyond Thunderdome, or anywhere else I have the ability to post. I don't fear you. In fact, I don't really think about you. You simply aren't that important to me. People like featherlou are important. People like NinetyWt. They can actually communicate without condescending. You on the other hand, seem to have placed yourself and your opinions higher than anyone else's. The only thing I can really guess from your posts is that you'd like to see the dope fail, Ed lose his job, and a chance to run back there and tell them "I told you so", even though the reality is that you are dying to go back there and run it your way. (Naturally, your way would be the right way.)

See you around the boards, tough guy.

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TLDR. When come back, bring clue.

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<snip> But you won't bully me out of the Pit, Thunderdome, Beyond Thunderdome, or anywhere else I have the ability to post. <snip>

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Good. The more people we have here with differing viewpoints, the more interesting it is.

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I think I've found a new sigline. :mrgreen:

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Glazer, I liked your first icon better. You look like Frank Zappa, there. He was a musical genius and all, but ...

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There is that better. This is the best pic I have of me.

Haha! No, the cowboy hat one is cute.

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I think he's saying that a person should hang around a board for a while, kind of get acquainted with the other posters, let everyone get a good idea of who they are, before they jump off into the Thunderdome with a rant; and get a better reception because of doing that first.

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Jeff, honey, I said that, not Oakminster. The quote tags must have gotcha! :)

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He's clearly your sock. There can be no other possible explanation. ;)

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There is that better. This is the best pic I have of me.

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You look about the same in both. ;P

Not much I can do with this mug.

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He's clearly your sock. There can be no other possible explanation. ;)

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Ahem. We prefer Evil Twin™.

I'm confused.

Is this really a three page thread about the Pot calling the kettle an asshole?
Really?


Oh, and I second Excalibre's post #112.

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Is this really a three page thread about the Pot calling the kettle an asshole?
Really?

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Yes, and pushing it one post closer to four pages after it was dead for two days was clearly the way to go.

I would have waited to bump this thread, but the previous post made it irresistible.

Oh god yes. Now there's a certain "taboo" feeling to posting to this thread, kind of like having sex at work or in public which just makes it exciting. Except...uh, I've never had sex at work or in public which sort of tells you how sad it is that I'm posting to this dead thread at 5AM.

Oh jesus, I need a life.

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Oh jesus, I need a life.

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Sorry, we're all out of lives at the moment. Could I interest you in an existence?

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Sorry, we're all out of lives at the moment. Could I interest you in an existence?

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EDDYTEDDYFREDDY YOU DRAMA QUEEN

WHY ARE YOU UNABLE TO LET IT GO?

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Sorry, we're all out of lives at the moment. Could I interest you in an existence?

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EDDYTEDDYFREDDY YOU DRAMA QUEEN

WHY ARE YOU UNABLE TO LET IT GO?

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You have got to be joking! ETF is the very definition of even temper and good heart. I suggest YOU let go of all this weird aggression and stalking. Whatever cause it is you've taken up, why don't you take it elsewhere. EddyTeddyFreddy is a good egg. Leave her alone.

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Sorry, we're all out of lives at the moment. Could I interest you in an existence?

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EDDYTEDDYFREDDY YOU DRAMA QUEEN

WHY ARE YOU UNABLE TO LET IT GO?

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You have got to be joking!

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Yes, he was.

Oh. Fuck. Well, nevermind.

You forgot to say that in your Emily Litella voice !!!

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You have got to be joking! ETF is the very definition of even temper and good heart. I suggest YOU let go of all this weird aggression and stalking. Whatever cause it is you've taken up, why don't you take it elsewhere. EddyTeddyFreddy is a good egg. Leave her alone.

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Holy shit.

Now see? Wasn't that alone worth my bump?

Yes, yes it was. :D

No it wasn't! A bump deserves far more than a whoosh that doesn't go anywhere. It should have resulted in a flame fest.

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No it wasn't! A bump deserves far more than a whoosh that doesn't go anywhere. It should have resulted in a flame fest.

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Fuck you!

Aw, now it feels like home.

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No it wasn't! A bump deserves far more than a whoosh that doesn't go anywhere. It should have resulted in a flame fest.

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Look, I said it was a bump, not a goddamn motherfucking collision of catastrophic proportions, okay? Nobody understands me! I'm done with this thread. You won't see me again!

(So, how'd I do? Pretty dramatic, huh? Yeah, it needs practice.)

I'm leaving this bored forever!!! :evil:

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Sorry, we're all out of lives at the moment. Could I interest you in an existence?

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EDDYTEDDYFREDDY YOU DRAMA QUEEN

WHY ARE YOU UNABLE TO LET IT GO?

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*hangs head in shame*

You're............... *sniff* you're right, I'm just..... just.....

I AM DRAMA QUEEN! HEAR ME ROAR!!!!


ETA (having read past what I responded to): Oh, fuck me kittycorner with a slightly used litterbox, you guys just slay me.

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I'm leaving this bored forever!!! :evil:

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Doesn't count if you don't stomp your feet.

And I didn't hear the door slam - it just sort of "clicked."

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And I didn't hear the door slam - it just sort of "clicked."

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No, see... It's "bored", not "board". [...sigh...] Never mind. Free speech. Or something.

Max Planck would never be bored on this board.

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Max Planck would never be bored on this board.

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What about that Heisenberg fellow? Would he be sure to have liked it?

Dunno about Heisenberg, but I can think of a cat who'd like it here, if he ever got out of the box.

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

-- Schrodinger's Moggy explained (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)

I wish I knew why we can't let things go.

Honestly. As has been told to me over and over, I need to find other ways to occupy myself.

But these places, they're honestly just like a drug. I can't stop.

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Originally posted by Seeker of Truth & Beauty

I wish I knew why we can't let things go.

Honestly. As has been told to me over and over, I need to find other ways to occupy myself.

But these places, they're honestly just like a drug. I can't stop.

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Can I point you in the direction of Gumtreedotcom and recommend the Madhouse or Community forums?

I was in a similar situation to you - I'd just been turfed out of a forum I liked and had all my posts deleted - and being able to post on a forum where trolling and having multiple accounts was legal, was all the therapy I needed... well, not exactly, but it moved me on a little.

Seek out Albion and Amee. They'll give you a lovely welcome.