In all my threads, I ask questions- none of them, except for a few Pit threads, were for conversations with others. And I respond an incredible amount to other’s posts- an incredible amount.
Dude, you THINK you respond an incredible amount. Your perspective, while no doubt sincere, is skewed. You start way too many threads. 20% of your posts are OPs. Now, I’m hardly a standard, but my ratio is around 3%. Giraffe’s ratio is .6%. That’s POINT SIX PER CENT.
There’s no “right” number of threads to start, but every once in a while someone rises above the radar to the point where I find myself going, “that dude starts way too many threads.” And andrew, you start way too many threads. The impression this gives is that you’re more interested in having a conversation about YOU than about having a conversation.
I understand the enthusiasm–we all do, or we wouldn’t be here. And although many people here are inexcusably rude–especially if you *call *them rude; that’s painting a target on your back–but different people react to annoyance in different ways. Some people react to annoyance by rudely attacking the annoyer, via an unrelated matter. This is called passive aggressiveness, and it happens a lot around here. Someone’s annoyed at you for one thing, so they “take sides against you” in a completely unrelated manner, just as a way to get back at you for annoying them. And people who start way too many threads are annoying.
So while you may or may not have called this or that specific attack down on yourself, you raised yourself above the radar to the extent that many rude people have taken notice of you, and are having fun at your expense.
Now, what could one possible solution to that be? Since you can’t control the passive aggressive assholes who get a kick out of making sport of you, what one thing might you actually be able to control? I’m not asking what’s right and just; that ain’t gonna happen. I’m asking what’s within *YOUR *control?
(Also, Giraffe, you need to start more threads. .6% is fucking annoying. You’re on notice.)
This board is not all about your threads, you damned oaf. And if you’re not here to interact with others but simply wish to have your inane questions answered, well, we’re not bloody well here solely to remedy the gaping deficiencies in your education. Jesus wept, you snivel that everyone is being mean and that you’re not getting any “constructive criticism”, and then when people go out of their way - as if trying to improve you was anything than an exercise in aneurysm-inducing futility - to offer you advice you bloody well argue with it. I said earlier that trying to help you was a Sisyphean task, and fuck me if I wasn’t right - except that Sisyphus only had to roll a rock uphill and not a steaming great pile of shit.
Don’t beat about the bush, Case Sensitive. Come right out and say what you mean. 
Not only that, but a huge number of your posts are in your own threads. They’re also often extremely short (just one sentence).
Good lord, WTF kind of signature is that? (I keep all signatures turned off, so I had to go to his profile to read it.)
What the hell kind of presentation of self are you making there? I don’t think you need to be fat to find that offensive.
Is not the question whether we would notice the difference?
Well, to be fair, he appears to be quoting another poster. Not that it’s any less offensive because of that, mind you.
Okay, you forced me to do it.
How long have you been saving that?
Found it via google image search perhaps 30 seconds before I posted it.
Yes, but what the heck is going on in the picture?
What is it from?
Is that the Giraffe Lair and the Giraffe Plane?
Jim
Your guess is as good as mine.
But I really like the plane in the middle.
Sounds like a good guess, perhaps that’s why Giraffe was curious as to how long I’ve known about his secret lair.
andrewt85 you are now officially my favorite member. The waters were calming, the sharks were losing interest and beginning to swim away. The fun appeared to be over. But you, god love ya, tore your wounds open afresh and rebloodied the water! Magnificent! I shall think fondly, in future years, of the young man who entertained me so with his dismemberment.
It’s not a secret, just a little place I keep in Germany so I have somewhere to crash when I happen to be in the neighborhood. For a while I was staying on a buddy’s couch in Hamburg, but then he got a roommate, who had a girlfriend who was always staying over, etc. etc. You know how it goes. After a while, it just seems easier to buy your own walled compound with armed minions and flaming giraffes.
Is that a mod benny, or did ya build it yourself?
Well, that goes without saying.
Here’s the thing folks-
You have given me the constructive criticism I wanted- and I appreciate it, and am adding it to my document (a copy of which I sent to jrfranchi, and will gladly send to anyone else). But the thing is that I had to beg like a dog for you to stop joking, criticizing, and all around disrespecting and piling-on me before you gave me your oh-so-great wisdom, followed by many of you saying ‘Andrew, you’ve been given our great and mighty words. Go now and live in peace.’
To quote Jesse Custer in Preacher: The fuck I will, mister. I am very thankful for your criticisms, but the disrespectful shit you people pulled before it- followed by the holy tone you had after it- makes me quite perturbed. You should know that in the future, if someone asks for constructive criticism- begs for it, for Christ’s sake- you give it to them, without joking, or insults, or disrespect. That kind of sickening disrespect for someone will alienate the rare future newbie who finds himself in the same spot.
Yes, Giraffe, what you said about me being angry because everyone wouldn’t do what I wanted- constructive criticism- in this thread, is true- people can do whatever they want with any thread. But the fact is that I was begging for CC, and no one gave me it at that time. That’s different- trying to control every single post to a thread is one thing; trying to get one fucking thing out of dozens of posts is quite another. Jesus.
One major theme running through the advice you give me is to let things go- words, etc.- and I feel ready to do just that. I feel like I can say what I’m saying now, not because I want to be isolated from you, but because I want to vent to the people I live with (so to speak) in order to better live with them. To sum up:
- Fuck you for your holy tone after the despicable shit you did before giving me CC
- In the future, do you think it might be better to just give someone CC before breaking down into snarkiness? Especially if they are begging for it
- Thanks, sincerely, for the CC
- Just because I questioned a few points of the CC that you oh-so-graciously handed down to me after all that shit doesn’t mean you should start jumping all over me again
- If you need proof of me taking your CC to heart, ask for a copy of my document, as jrfranchi did
- When I say ‘fuck you,’ I say it so as to vent to people I like so as to better live with them, not to isolate myself further from them
Dude, you’re improving, in fact, you’re improving a lot, but the self pitying tone in that post just dumped a bunch more blood into the water. I wouldn’t be surprised if you get a bunch of responses making fun of it.
Here’s how I would have phrased it: “Thanks for the constructive criticism! I could have done without the abuse.”
What Leviosaurus says makes a lot of sense Andrewdt85. If I may be so bold as to offer you one further piece of advice?
Don’t swear so much. A lot of people, while not necessarily offended by curse words, look at them as generally unnecessary. You seem to use the word “Fuck” a lot. This, much like l33t talk, makes you look lazy, lowbrow and not worth taking seriuosly.
Oh, and Feydeau wow, just wow. I have never seen such wild jumps to conclusions based on such little. Just ignore him Andrew, that was pure moronic crap he was spewing. My guess is he just passed psych 101 and thinks he knows stuff now.