# Aeschines -stop being an asshole. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813 "2007-03-21T03:35:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/81 "2007-03-21T18:31:17Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] Google King Canut and The Legend of the Waves. [/QUOTE] Fortunately for us, the subscription of the SDMB’s very own Sea of Stupidity will eventually run out. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/82 "2007-03-21T18:49:08Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] Google King Canut and The Legend of the Waves. [/QUOTE] Okay, I think I have got it: \*\*Wring \*\* ordering \*\*Aeschines \*\* to stop being an asshole is like King Canute ordering the waves to stop? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/83 "2007-03-21T18:53:49Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] Trolling involves some type of deceit. [/QUOTE] Well, you never did explicitly say you were worth listening to at any point, so no deceit at least in that aspect. Calling you an asshole is an insult to the rest of us assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/84 "2007-03-21T18:57:15Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] No, trolling involves posting merely to elicit a reaction. Taunting, as you have admitted doing, is trolling. What you were doing in the other thread was clearly trolling. [/QUOTE] Fair enough. Others were taunting me. That’s trolling too. Everyone’s a troll according to some definition or other. Ban the whole board! ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/85 "2007-03-21T19:06:35Z")
Of course I’m going to re-up, people. I love this place! ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/86 "2007-03-21T19:07:46Z")
[QUOTE=duffer] Calling you an asshole is an insult to the rest of us assholes. [/QUOTE] I agree. You are _all_ assholes. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/87 "2007-03-21T19:27:30Z")
Did someone call my name? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/88 "2007-03-21T19:31:48Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] I agree. You are _all_ assholes. [/QUOTE] Possibly. Though it loses some of the sting when coming from a douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/89 "2007-03-21T19:44:12Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Okay, I think I have got it: \*\*Wring \*\* ordering \*\*Aeschines \*\* to stop being an asshole is like King Canute ordering the waves to stop? [/QUOTE] To be fair, I thought of it more of a suggestion vs. an order. It may not have come across that way, but sometimes if folks are made aware their actions are being seen as childish, idiotic assholery, they self correct. Obviously, that’s not been the case here. I don’t think I’ve ever initiated a pit thread against another specific poster before - the only pit thread I recall doing specifically naming some one was a mild thread about a mod, where I was attempting to make a case that their action should be reconsidered. I would suggest to **Aeschines** that if some one like me found their actions objectionable enough to call them out, _maybe, just maybe_ they should reconsider their sense that they’re behaving appropriately. I also want a pony. and not one ready for the glue factory, either. I think I’m more likely to get the pony. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/90 "2007-03-21T19:48:18Z")
**Aeschines** , where is your apology for the groundless libel you made against Canada? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/91 "2007-03-21T19:51:31Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] And for the past eleven months I thought that SDMB was supposed to pull the plug on [April 13, 2007.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7296944&postcount=15) . Did he predict an earlier date? [/QUOTE] Evidently I was relying too much on my memory. 04-13-07 is correct. :Blowjob: , I mean :Embarrassment: , I mean :o ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/92 "2007-03-21T19:53:14Z")
[QUOTE=wring] sometimes if folks are made aware their actions are being seen as childish, idiotic assholery, they self correct. Obviously, that’s not been the case here. [/QUOTE] You have seemingly missed a rather large percentage of **Aeschines** posting history on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/93 "2007-03-21T20:27:03Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] Of course I’m going to re-up, people. I love this place! [/QUOTE] Where’s **Liberal** ’s check book when you really need it? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/94 "2007-03-21T20:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] You have seemingly missed a rather large percentage of **Aeschines** posting history on the board. [/QUOTE] You seemingly have missed the _entire_ percentage of **wring** ’s post. Or possibly, just one very important word. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/95 "2007-03-21T20:50:26Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] You have seemingly missed a rather large percentage of **Aeschines** posting history on the board. [/QUOTE] A. I said “sometimes” - it was worth a shot B. What can I say? It takes a lot for me to notice some one being an asshole. Once I notice, I’m not likely to forget, however. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/96 "2007-03-21T21:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] What used to happen before the era of suspensions is that the usual crowd would encourage flame-outs in the Pit.\ [/quote] Nobody forces anybody to keep responding when they are only getting deeper into trouble. > [@](#): > > Warnings in the Pit are pretty stupid. Are you going to have an out-of-control part of the board where people can vent or not?\ Not, obviously. There is no out-of-control part of this board, which is part of the reason that I am willing to pay them for what is usually a free service on the internet. > [@](#): > > I’m not going to do a flame-out, but the unfunky uptightness of this site is very tiresome, and many good posters have been lynched. My favorite being the great **SnakeSpirit** , funniest damn guy on this site ever. Nobody has been “lynched” at this site, and I resent your accusation. Anybody who has managed to get themselves banned has only themselves to blame. Yeah, we DO have rules that are enforced here. If you want a juvenile, ridiculous free-for-all, may I recommend the Rest of the Internet? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/97 "2007-03-21T21:10:40Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] If you want a juvenile, ridiculous free-for-all, may I recommend the Rest of the Internet? [/QUOTE] :: slaps **featherlou** with a trout just hard enough not to kill him 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/98 "2007-03-21T21:16:01Z")
The best approach to him (assuming an approach must be made at all), the one he’s least prepared to handle, is talking about yourself rather than talking about him, as though he was a meandering child who through blind chance occasionally stumbles onto something useful. Pick the single valid point he makes every fifty posts or so and sagely ponder it. Keep pondering until he gets frustrated and leaves. He might adopt a posture of fake contrition but it’s a passing fancy at best. His parents must’ve taught him that saying “sorry” will make everything okay. When this doesn’t get the expected response of “there there, it’s okay, it wasn’t your fault” and a free lollipop, he returns to his perpetual tantrum. Or so I’ve observed. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/99 "2007-03-21T21:16:39Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] :: slaps **featherlou** with a trout just hard enough not to kill him 😃 [/QUOTE] Her. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813/100 "2007-03-21T21:17:33Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Her. [/QUOTE] You wanna get smacked with a trout too buddy? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aeschines-stop-being-an-asshole/396813.md?page=6)