# Alrighty then... my 1001st post **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622 "2005-08-04T21:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/81 "2005-08-05T14:05:36Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > Typical keyboard bully behavior, which is the only weaker thing than in-person schoolyard bully behavior. Go look up **Reverend Mykeru** for some _real_ keyboard bully behavior. We’ll wait. > [@The Weird One](#): > > His complaint about people jumping into threads to make snarky, “Woo, this thread is gonna be closed like a motherfucker”-type posts is valid, though. Those posts are getting obnoxious, especially when they’re erroneous. I can’t find the thread anymore, but there was one a week or so ago where one or two people started making thread-closing comments, only to have everyone else point out that it was, in fact, a valid thread. If you’re referring to the [Hhow to flame](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=325535&highlight=board) thread, I was one who argued it should remain open. It was clear that the OP wasn’t trying to incite a board war. **Crandolph** ’s thread leaned more toward the post count itself rather than using it to foster a conversation. IMHO, of course. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/82 "2005-08-05T14:22:20Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > Like **Hal** , **SkipMagic** may have missed that tree for the forest. Well, not really. The tree was more balsa wood than anything else; in fact, the whole forest was kinda skimpy. I’m not saying that a good, well-phrased OP questioning and polling the posting habits of other Dopers isn’t allowed (because it is, even if it might be only ephemerally interesting), but _your_ thread, **Crandolph** , failed because the title was pretty much a twin to a lot of the other post party threads; and because your one question (“Is this about average for a Doper?”) looked like it was just thrown in there, and not as the main thrust of your post. It’s really not that big of a deal. If you don’t want the attention usually blasted at folks in the Pit, and if you feel the thread deserves to live again, you’re probably better off just e-mailing the forum’s mods explaining your views. I’m not promising you’ll be successful, but you’ll avoid the public drama this thread has seemed to spawn. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/83 "2005-08-05T14:58:13Z")
“Oh boo-hoo, no one understands me. Everyone’s calling me names. I’ve been in the military, so how dare you call me a pussy or whiny? I could beat all of you up, so you better stop!” Listen, Fokker: Your outside experiences may be noble as hell, but here you’re only judged on what you post. And if I knew you IRL, and you were being a whiny little sot or an idiot, I’d sure as hell tell you. If you chose to beat me up afterward, well, how exactly does that make you a better person? > [@](#): > > So it’s “interesting” to have “debates” here when your response to people with whom you disagree with is to call them a “whiny little idiot?” Yeah, saying how strong you are and how you could beat people up is soooo much better. > [@](#): > > This is the best you can muster? If that’s all you took away from this thread, you need to work on your reading comprehension. That isn’t all that was mustered. However, since it did come up with an alarming degree of frequency, you might want to do a little self-reflection. I’m not saying your complaints/inqueries, the ones buried deep within your own passive-aggressive insulting language, don’t have some validity…just quit being such a overly-sensitive whiny dolt when people react with some degree of negativity toward you when you whine. > [@](#): > > You’re doing searches on the other Pit thread I posted from months ago even (which I was encouraged to open by a mod incidentally, and which I had already mentioned in this thread in any event - congratulations on your ability to use a search engine.) This is truly the best use of your time? Honestly. I don’t think 90% of the time I spend here is the best use of my time, Charlie. I’d wager you could claim a similar pecentage, as could a lot of people here. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/84 "2005-08-05T15:04:18Z")
A thousand posts? Very impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/85 "2005-08-05T15:06:55Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > I’m not saying that a good, well-phrased OP questioning and polling the posting habits of other Dopers isn’t allowed (because it is, even if it might be only ephemerally interesting), but _your_ thread, **Crandolph** , failed because the title was pretty much a twin to a lot of the other post party threads; and because your one question (“Is this about average for a Doper?”) looked like it was just thrown in there, and not as the main thrust of your post. I am in complete agreement with this assessment. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/86 "2005-08-05T15:32:28Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > A thousand posts? Very impressive. Ouch! Fresca up my nose. Damn you, **Liberal**! ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/87 "2005-08-05T15:36:54Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > Lord help anyone who questions a tenant of the One True Faith! I have some questions for the tenants of the One True Faith (and Lord help me): How much is the rent? Do I have to give first and last _and_ a security deposit? Is there covered parking? Is there secure access? Pets allowed? Someone please give me the scoop, I’m looking to relocate. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/88 "2005-08-05T15:45:11Z")
Re: “tenants of the One True Faith”: > [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > How much is the rent? Duh! $14.95 a year! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/89 "2005-08-05T15:51:23Z")
Can someone confirm that I am catching all of the nuances here? The OP opens a post party thread in MPSIMS, and it is locked. Although the OP is, generally, far to good to post much in the Pit, he figures that he will open a thread in which he seems to be daring people to flame him and when folks (very mildly) oblige he basically threatens to beat them up IRL? But we’re the assholes? Do I have all of this right? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/90 "2005-08-05T16:01:47Z")
[Apparently everyone who visits the Pit on a regular basis is a flaming asshole](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5821104&postcount=173). > [@Crandolph (in a previous Pit thread)](#): > > This is my last post to this thread. All of you that turned what could have been a 10-15 post thread in which someone who wanted to address my questions addresses them into a 4-pager can have your little playspace now. It’s your thread. Enjoy it. In fact, it’s your Pit, enjoy your thousands of meaningless insulting posts and all that wasted time in your little lives. This is the only time in my life I’ve ever bothered to post in a forum where people exist to hold and watch flame wars. You people need to get out more. If you have thousands of posts in something called a “Pit” you really need to seek help. Seriously. > > The SDMB really needs to have a forum for discussing moderation issues outside of a place where people call each other assholes at the drop of a hat. Since many of you appear to enjoy being sycophants and piling on people who question moderation this probably eases the mod job by people giving up in frustration instead of getting concerns addressed seriously. So I don’t know that that’ll happen. > > Oh, I also saw that post in this thread in which a member on here suggested that TubaDiva quote-unquote “got in trouble” for her mod attitude before. That disappeared pretty quickly. So I’m not the only one who had a problem that way, eh? > > I’m going to continue posting to and reading the more fact-based threads on these boards, which is all I’d been doing here for several months. In that time I don’t recall a single one of you who have been moaning about what an awful poster I am contributing to threads I’ve been involved in in any meaningful way. I suppose that’s because posting in those other areas would require either knowledge or research, instead of flaming. > > Keep this up and you can be Lords of the SDMB (which will get you how far in the flesh and blood world exactly?), but you’ll drive all of the people with differing perspectives out. And your boards will suffer. > > I’m leaving the Pit now, permanently unless a thread of mine gets sent here again. Don’t fuck with me on the other parts of the boards, OK? You claim your first rule is “don’t be a jerk.” ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/91 "2005-08-05T16:22:00Z")
Does anyone find it a bit unusual that someone accuses people of being “keyboard bullies”, then procedes to inform us of how tough he is and how he’d kick our asses if we called him names in person? I thought not… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/92 "2005-08-05T16:28:07Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Apparently everyone who visits the Pit on a regular basis is a flaming asshole](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5821104&postcount=173). Not that I ever would, it being against the rules and all, but damn it if posts like that don’t tempt me to stalk him aroung other forums and “fuck with him”. What a douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/93 "2005-08-05T16:31:02Z")
Phew, wish I’d read this early enough to jump in wearing my relavance, but hell I can jump in nekked, right? Last week, I (full disclosure to follow) kind of stupidly did a similar thing. Kind of a 500th post party, offering beer all around. 9 Posts later it was closed and deservedly so. I kinda remembered about post padding and such, but I was so frigging euphoric that all caution just got tossed into the wind and there I was. Had I know I could have ranted and pissed everyone off here in The Pit, I would have done so. Instead, I silently “oopsed” myself :wally and continued on my merry way. Of course, I’m not a whiny little bitch, so maybe that was my error… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/94 "2005-08-05T16:40:39Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > If you’re referring to the [Hhow to flame](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=325535&highlight=board) thread, I was one who argued it should remain open. It was clear that the OP wasn’t trying to incite a board war. **Crandolph** ’s thread leaned more toward the post count itself rather than using it to foster a conversation. IMHO, of course. Ah, yes, that was the one. Thank you. And I completely agree that **Crandolph** ’s thread should’ve been closed. I’m just also tired of silly little “Countdown to thread closing” posts. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/95 "2005-08-05T17:01:59Z")
> [@Thunder](#): > > My Uncle Bob has never been a moderator here. Interestingly, my actual name is Bob. But on a more sober topic, I would like to offer an apology to Crandolph for my initial post in this thread. It was quite unnecesarily a bit abusive and I regret that. Such behavior and language was uncalled for. ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/96 "2005-08-05T17:51:27Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Interestingly, my actual name is Bob. > > But on a more sober topic, I would like to offer an apology to Crandolph for my initial post in this thread. It was quite unnecesarily a bit abusive and I regret that. Such behavior and language was uncalled for. UncleBeer just shot me an email with much the same message to graciously apologize, which was duly accepted. We’re all squared away now, he and I, and I wanted to acknowledge this very big behavior on his part in the same public forum he offered it. That’s the sole reason for me returning to the thread; to post this. I’m out again. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/97 "2005-08-05T18:14:08Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Re: “tenants of the One True Faith”: > > Duh! $14.95 a year! 🆒 Mine’s rent controled. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/98 "2005-08-05T18:32:36Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > …That’s the sole reason for me returning to the thread; to post this. I’m out again. Thanks for that. I sure hope that you didn’t get too dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/99 "2005-08-05T23:49:28Z")
This is my 3,022nd post. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622/100 "2005-08-05T23:53:24Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > This is my 3,022nd post. Wow! That’s fantastic! Congratulations!! You must be so proud!! I wish more people would celebrate their post counts. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alrighty-then-my-1001st-post/315622.md?page=6)