It will be called the 100 law. An unnecessary and extremely offensive use of the img size tag will negate any argument within the afforementioned post.
feh. I think that the “Law of 72” has more more cache.
Everything aside,
Sometimes the pit makes for an amusing read…
Other times, and I have been really feeling this way as of late, the pit is used as an attention magnifier.
cases-in-points:
“ha! you post about the insignificance of cheese? I shall TOP you by writing a tale of painstaking burger ordering at McDonald’s”.
and
“Lets see how creative I be with naughty words!”
and
“Let’s see, how can I best grind this axe?”
and
“How can I make myself appear to be helpful by indirectly slamming someone?”
All of which, is neither here nor there. The Pit is what it is, I suppose.
I guess I just get to feeling that some people can’t see the forrest for all the trees.
All this reasonable discourse and clever wit in this thread. I had to check twice to make sure I was in the BBQ Pit. Very surreal.
About the OP: I agree.
Now, how does 72 have more cache than 100? Are using Microsquish arithmetic or Haul-it Pack-it arithmetic?
“Are you using”, of course. I was simply trying to adhere to a corollary Gaudere’s Law.
Well I agree with OP, I know now that Kwijibo hasn’t really liked me either.
liked ‘me’
It wasn’t ‘you’, per sa. It was that when I read your posts, I saw me when I was younger. Not quite sure where I fit in the world. (That is the impression I got when you joined.)
But that is no fault of yours, and guidance is better than scorn.
Crap. I was hoping everyone would swarm around my comments and it would cause an uproar. Oh well, the time of the jerks has ended…for now.
I like the OP plea for tolerance and understanding, despite that it reminds me of Rodney King’s pitiful lamentations. And I guess this brings to mind something I’ve felt but haven’t expressed previously–What if we didn’t have a pit? I’m no long-term poster and I don’t make my post count or frequency any matter of personal pride or anything (god forbid if that did start to matter to me), so it’s not such a big deal to me. But I get the impression that some posters pretty much live (and die) for the pit.
But maybe we should think of the pit as a last resort, rather than as a place to take pride in venting our spleen or a chance to pile-on with relative impunity.
I wonder what would happen if the pit were suspended for a few days or weeks or months? I’ll bet the board would do just fine without it, and we might even bore some of the pitizens into looking elsewhere to get their jollies, finding other boards that facilitate the process of poking people in the eye with sharp sticks.
Sure, there would still be problems, but without a pit, maybe people would work to resolve them in more reasonable, less mean-spirited ways, say, write a mod, or send an email, or ignore whatever it is that’s bugging you about another poster.
As an alternative, I do like the idea of using the term ‘72’, but I’d expand the meaning to refer to any post or poster who is getting out of hand and needs to tone it down. I think I’ll try it a few times and see if it develops some cache.
take it easy.
Pablo
ps: because it’s the pit: fuck you all the horses you rode in on, too.
pps: 72
um, that’s “fuck you all and the horses you rode in on”
duh.
I would like to clarify something here. I thought I already DID so earlier, but some people appear to have missed it.
I am NOT calling for the abolishment of the pit. I think it serves a purpose, and in some cases a valuable purpose.
I am not asking that people refrain from being nasty in the pit in order to avoid offending my “delicate sensibilities.” I am perfectly capable of reading or NOT reading threads that offend me. As are the rest of us.
I open threads in the pit just like I open threads in all other forum…if it looks like something I am or might be interested in, I open the thread. For instance, I opened the Ukele Ike thread because I was curious about what Ike had done to inspire such ire…I like him, and I was surprised and…well, as I said, curious. I continued to read it, at first, because the subject interested me. I watched as it descended into lunacy. (IMHO) I was, quite frankly, appalled.
I opened the thread about Satan because I wanted to know what was said about the situation. I think everyone deserves a second chance. Personally, I think he deserves one here. Once again, it descended into personal invective that had nothing to do with the topic. And into people ripping each others guts out.
I don’t think it is my place to tell anyone what they should post, or not post. I just thought it might be good for people to understand that there are real people out here who read their words and draw conclusions from those words…conclusions that the person making the posts might not intend for people to make. That is all I was trying to do…to perhaps make people think before they post hurtful things that might not be the intention of those posts…particularly after they wake up the next day and are no longer angry. If you post these things and that is who you ARE, then I have no quarrel with you. Will I LIKE it? No, I won’t. But that is my right, and it is your right to say whatever you wish as well.
Can I stop reading the pit? Absolutely. Should I? Maybe, maybe not. But I think we all need to understand that what we post is what people are going to believe about us. And perhaps it might be good to think, before we post, about whether or not that particular post is something we WANT people believing about us…since in a lot of cases, I don’t think these posts ARE how you are. Because, as Jodi said earlier, things were said in those threads by people I KNOW are better than that…and I have to assume that those people might wish they hadn’t said those things in the first place. Actually, I KNOW this is true, since I have heard from some of those people. I also know this because I have said things on this board, and “in the same room” with people that I am ashamed of. And I KNOW that I am better than that. If I’m NOT, then at least I am trying to be.
I was NOT trying to take your freedom of speech away from you, or turn the pit into a “fuzzy bunnies” kind of place. Would I LIKE to? Sure, I am not going to lie to you. I would LOVE it if everyone got along. But that is not realistic, nor would it be honest.
Anyway, have at it. If you feel it is valid to get viscerally ugly about things, no matter how insignificant those things are, please don’t give a thought to this thread. (Not that I think you will anyway.) I have said my piece, others have said THEIR piece, and as others have said…you reap what you sow.
Lots of people have said all of this much better than I have, but I would like to thank the following people for stating my position much better than I have.
AND…
As I said, just food for thought.
Scotticher, I don’t think some of us think they are insignificant, hence the reactions.
**Re: the 72pt cunt **
The stronger the language, the weaker the defense.
General Rule of my Life. Which is why I will never be a Soprano.
Okay, I stand corrected and I shouldn’t have described them as such. I just meant that sometimes we say things in anger that later we feel WERE too insignificant to merit the post we made in anger. I really hoped I had made that clear, but I don’t think I can explain any better than I did, so I am going to stop trying.
If you understand what I was trying to say and you still disagree with me, I don’t have a problem with THAT, either.
I like this.
I’ve been posting here a lot less of late for two reasons:
- my laptop is still having issues, so my internet access is limited to when I can find a terminal at school; and
- people have been REALLY mean lately. Even in little, subtle ways that make me feel as though nobody’s welcome on the boards beyond some ethereal elite.
Kudos to Scott.
This pit is becoming the pits… due in no small part to SOME of the polcor, panty-waist (that is hyphenated, ain’t it?), touchy-feelie (how’s that one?), don’t-wanna-offend-anyone mods.
Can’t stand the heat, well…
What the hell is this? The “Touchy/Feelie Stuff” forum? If you can’t stand the heat have a kind and gentle-hearted mod ban you from the pit.
I just tried to respond to this thread, and found it was locked. I was surprised, and almost commented about it in About This Message Board, but then thought about the Pit and found this sticky. Seemed appropriate.
In that thread, a testy response by the OP is twice called completely illogical by a moderator, and the OP blows up and is banned and the thread locked by the mod. Nevermind that upon reflection I found a certain amount of logic in the OP’s response–I’m learning to live with that other-ableness–I think that the whole thing could have been handled better.
Let’s put moderate back in moderator.
For some staff responses to that situation, RM, see Another clueless newbie bites the dust: a chronolgy of doom ~or~ Thank you DavidB