I guess I never understood fake e-mail addresses as being socks. They definitely weren’t on a paid site, as tomndebb said they were.
I think he misrepresented what WeeBairn said as being more inflammatory and obvious than it was. It really wasn’t obvious from what WeeBairn said that he had socks here. Marley23 was all Sherlock Holmes on the case there. Which, like I said, is great. But the implication that WeeBairn outed himself (yes, I read the thread in question) just isn’t substantiated.
I’m tired of arguing about this. I apologize to tomndebb for suggesting that he could be lying. At worst, his prose style needs work because his posts were misleading. I also think the subsequent pillorying of Q.E.D. for pointing out the misleading nature of tomndebb’s post was excessive, and unnecessarily ugly. Maybe we can leave it at that.
PunditLisa, I think his example shows a wild imagination and an unfounded paranoia of lawsuits. This isn’t a doctor’s office and I highly doubt the Reader could be sued because they violated some non existent privacy agreement. And I also think Sam Stone’s reasoning shows the old need for a foolish consistency. If someone clearly made a sock to ask about her underage abortion then the mods can choose not to reveal. No need for a blanket rule protecting all sock identities ever.
I didn’t think they were particularly nasty to me. Giraffe in particular was quite forthcoming and civil. A couple of snotty comments, nothing all that bad for the Pit. It’s Q.E.D. I was thinking of as the target for most of the meanness. It kind of surprised me to see all the bile directed at him for asking a question I would have asked if I’d gotten there first.
It’s an unpaid job, moron. Which you know quite well as you’ve panted along desperately for years, wannabe-modding your little heart out. You’ve acted stereotypical human chihuahua, alternately snarling, sticking your nose in the collective moderator crotch and ankle biting for attention.
Not that I mind you making yourself ridiculous as usual. I think you’re a hoot, actually. There’s just not much funnier than a self-proclaimed ‘net tough boy. You’re just so baaaad. And smart? You’re so frickin’ brilliant ‘Myth Busters’ recruited you! Which is widely believed because hey, you’re exactly the type they would recruit: Genius, low maintenance and just dripping credibility.
God, retirement is fun. Just throw Giraffe to the wolves then escape, whistling, during the feeding frenzy. That’s the SDMB jungle, red in tooth and claw.
I now work as an adviser on ‘Wild Kingdom’, recruited on the basis of my exceptional performance on a message board.* It’s very rewarding. Just once in a while nail a stray cheetah in the ass with a tranq dart, then comment on how fast it’d be if it didn’t happen to be sprawled cross-eyed and drooling over the hood of a Range Rover.
For the reality-impaired, this is NOT TRUE. It is, however, sarcastic.
You keep saying this. It’s not true. All the bile I directed at Q.E.D. was for the tone of a long string of recent posts, culminating in the one in this thread. The content of his question had nothing to do with anything.
Oh, and hey Veb! Finally got enough therapy to venture back, eh? The Pit’s pretty much as you left it, except for the rudeness and flagrant abuses of power. So, yeah, pretty much as you left it.
That time lag amazed me. The “invitation to Pit” officially went out at 1:11 pm Friday in ATMB. When I left work at 5 nothing had yet happened. I checked in again about 11 pm and this thread had only just started. When that shoe finally dropped, though, did it ever.
Q.E.D. had been falling in my estimation for quite some time simply because of all the gratuitous impoliteness. His stock rose with me again though in his recent Reply to dedsetmad’s Pitting of posters who don’t bother reading a thread and as a result duplicate an answer already covered. Q.E.D. adroitly located an occurrence of dedsetmad exhibiting that very fault in a former thread, Trademark product names that became VERBS, started by Annie-Xmas. Dedsetmad, in Post 38, duplicates, surprisingly (because it’s a short thread), SanVito’s earlier contribution of Post 16, “to Hoover.”
I would like to link to Q.E.D.'s decisive – and nicely understated, by the way – response to dedsetmad’s Pitting of just such occurrences, but it has disappeared. Dedsetmad was Banned (not for redundant responses I’m assuming, or even for Pitting those who redundantly respond after having recently themselves redundantly responded) and only two of his four Posts remain in Search Results. It’s not to be found by searching “Find All Posts By Q.E.D.” either.
Then why not start another thread Pitting him (Bricker would love you for it) instead of turning this thread into a “let’s kick the crap out of Q.E.D.” fest it has become? You must admit it’s quite the pile on now and very nasty. It comes off like a way of deflecting the thread from the topic at hand, which by now has been resolved, it seems, to most people’s satisfaction.
You may have perfectly valid reasons for your frustration and dislike, I don’t know, but it seems sort of unprovoked in this context IMO. Q.E.D.'s posts that led to your explosion weren’t really worthy of your response. I say this as someone who likes both you and Q.E.D., so I’m not trying to take sides. How many mods have come in here to say shit about Q.E.D., and then all the high fives and LOLs… it’s a bit much.
Well, Pit threads have to be at least somewhat specific. If Pit threads could reasonably be started just because someone is pissy and douchey and annoying in a sort of free-floating, unspecific way, I think he’d have you beat by a considerable margin.
Also, though no one cares, I think Rubystreak is acting like an irrational, bloviating harpy in this thread.
YMMV, no guarantee of quality, may be a choking hazard.
oh please. I’m no fan of QED, but you issued a challenge about number of pit threads and you’re apparently wrong. instead of admitting it, you change the goalposts. even w/changing the goalposts, you’re wrong, if you go by number of posts. of course, if you go by “in the last year”, you win again (I think). so there ya go.
