Jackals of the Dope, I pit you!

Greetings and salutations everyone,

The chickens are restless, and I for one will not tolerate this cluckery.

Lately, the mob mentality of the Dope has reached critical mass. RSSChen/MizGrande’s exceedingly unwise posting behavior as of late has spilled blood into the water, and like clockwork the jackals come out to tear the meat from the bones. This is nothing new, it has been standard operating procedure for a miserable subset of humanity since Og cheated on Grok, but I for one will NOT welcome our new Canidae overlords. May I rant and rave alone in the town square, so be it. I’d rather have this thread turn against me and be stoned than remain silent.

It’s a hobby here in Doperland to feign righteous outrage and hurl lightning bolts from the ivory tower of innocence and wisdom, and it makes me sick. Seeing puerile behavior disguised as holier-than-thou bullshit disguised as legitimate concern, fuckwit is not vitriol enough for such maleficent behavior. Fuck you, you pharisetical cowards. Fuck you long, and fuck you hard. I will ram you with a ladle up where the sun doesn’t shine. I’d fuck you myself but I dont want your tainted blood on my hands, you pathetic wastes of oxygen.

Everyone is human. Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes people make mistakes and show an appalling lack of remorse, but this doesn’t remove their humanity. It’s understandable and normal to become angry, but to take this anger and let it fester inside a black abyss of anger and false pride is inexcusable. Forming a lynch mob and ripping the meat off a person’s metaphorical bones is even more disgusting and evil. To take it up yet another notch and continue doing so until you can see white on aforementioned bones makes me want to puke. If you were alphabet soup, you’d spell asshole.

This is The Pit, and honestly this action is not surprising; however, something should be said. Living vicariously by judging other people, inflating one’s ego with the miasma of broken lives, this is not healthy and must stop if one wishes to be a happy and whole person. I’m not going to name any names, but I think for long-time dopers there are a few who clearly stand out from the pack. Shit, I myself have indulged sometimes in the blood bath, but I try to have the decency to abstain from being proud of my behavior.

As most already know, 2000-some years ago there existed a group called Pharisees. They lived to the letter of the law, but their hearts were made of stone. They judged and killed sinners with glee. It is THIS kind of person that Jesus loathed, if indeed Jesus ever loathed anyone. In this modern age, it can be said: “let he who is without sin take the first shit in the thread.”

Fuck you, Jackals of the Dope. You perverse, twisted, malevolent, sorry shells of a shithead. My anger with you burns like the pubic hair on Satan’s ballsack. Your pathetic behavior serves no purpose; it does nothing except spread a cloud of suffering and hate. You fling the poop of human failure into the far reaches of the net, and then bathe in it. Shit-monkeys, judgmental turd burglars, digusting digital imps… You shall not pass!

Cite? Granted, I didn’t read through all 10+ pages of the thread, but from what I’ve seen, she got only what she deserved - near-universal criticism when opinions were solicited.

You sure start a lot of threads about how much you dislike how people on the SDMB act.

Oh yeah all two of them, one of which had a happy ending :rolleyes:

What a strange strange post. You started yet another thread on this that will naturally cause more people to write about her shortcomings as a means of defending themselves from your accusations.

My OP’s not based on any post in particular, but the general behavior that pops up every now and again.

You’re right. I should not have even mentioned her incident, or should have pretended that that thread wasn’t the last straw that encouraged me to write this post.

A mod can lock this post if he/she sees fit. I just wanted to rant against unneccessarily vitriolic pile-on syndrome, or UVPS for short.

So, by “jackals”, you mean the running dogs, or the other kind?

I may vaguely agree with your sentiment, but your OP was pathetically overwrought. And do tell me why I should give a shit about this:

That sounds like “The Nazis had flair they made the Jews wear!”

He really should have that looked at. Might be folliculitis.

Yawn. No it hasn’t.

[nitpick]I think you meant to say “My anger with you burns like the ingrown pubic hair on Satan’s ballsack.”[/nitpick]

Other than that, why can’t we let this train-wreck die. Although, I have to admit I did enjoy it as it went by. :o And I wish that people would stop already with including the oldname/newname thing. You aren’t doing anybody any favors by continuing to bring it up. CUT IT OUT!

Dude, I learned early on that if I didn’t want to roundly criticized for something here
I DIDN’T FUCKING POST IT.
It doesn’t matter what the nature of one’s post is. If it offends the “animals are my children” people, the “my children are incapable of wrong-doing” people, the “movie theaters should block cellphones” people, smokers, non-smokers, pro-choice or pro-life people they will respond in kind. Often times the number of critical posts already present won’t deter another person from putting in their two little cents.
And y’know what? If no one puts out their personal, private bullshit then no one will mock and dogpile on it. Everyone who wants to can have their say.

She got herself into it. It’s her goddamn fault.

And as for this pitiful defense:

The real reason it’s annoying when you do this is that there are already two or three other threads going on about this, one of which was mercifully taken behind the shed and shot. We don’t need more threads that are just rehashing the bullshit in other threads.

Though not a Pit mod, I feel it’s safe to say that we do not need yet another thread on this.

Closed.

Actually, I think there’s a broader discussion here, so I’m going to reopen it. However, I agree with Frank that we don’t need another thread on the RSSchen trainwreck, so if it turns into that it’s getting closed.

You may be misinterpreting some pretty ordinary monkey patterns.

Whazza “pile-on”, other than a reponse? It implies a bullying relationship to the pilee which ain’t necessarily so. You say something worth saying, good chance you’re gonna piss some people off. Presumably, a goodly number, given some subjects. Even such a mild-mannered reporter as myself has, its not pretty, but I’m not delicate. Only subjects you care about are worth arguing about, and if you are mortally injured by disagreement, you should consider knitting.

I will nod to this much, that a “pile-on” in the GD is distasteful, as GD is sanctified ground for the Goddess of Reason, with special and openly acknowledged rules. The urge to kick some shit is fully acommodated by the Pit. Or so I’ve heard, at any rate. GD is a prim Unitarian Church in Vermont, the Pit is the rowdy honky-tonk where the gunslingers go to play poker.

Who the fuck are you anyway. I didn’t even know that you existed until just recently when you began spewing incredibly vapid, look-at-me posts like a cum-burping road whore, and now you want to dictate to me how to post with my fifteen dollar-a-year account?

Fuck you with a phased plasma pulse rifle set to bukkake! You can’t properly prepare rice for a sushi bar in a place where the king is the one who just doesn’t shit himself, but you’re going to successfully junior mod a board filled with thousands of members? You can’t even manage your alcohol intake, how the fuck are you going to set the standard for proper pitting?

Seriously, shut the fuck up for a while.

I, too, would rather be stoned.

OK, as for the OP: you’re a bit of a drama queen, aren’t you?

The thing is, it’s a basic fact of message board life that people like to chime in with their opinions, even after others before them have voiced similar views. Sometimes these follow-up viewpoints strengthen and clarify the majority view, sometimes they’re nothing but useless “me too” posts. It would of course be nice if the latter never happened, but as I said, people like to voice their opinion.

Expecting the random members of a public forum who share a given view to organize and select a rational spokesperson is silly. Casting a one-sided discussion as an evil lynch mob is laughable. I know that characterization helps you self-identify as a defender of the underdog and champion of justice, but really all you’re doing is asking people to refrain from posting their opinion in cases where you deem it to be unnecessary. It’s never going to happen.

Hey- leave me out of this! :slight_smile: (emphasis mine)

…or I’ll hurl some lightning bolts at you…