You can’t modify posts in quote boxes, but there is a lot more leniency when using quotation marks. Been that way for awhile.
I think Grotonian is his own Silent Majority.
Fun to watch this meltdown. At first, I considered it stalking–he obviously does have me in mind a lot–but now it’s just watching with horrified fascination.
The one thing I feel bad about is that this thread was never supposed to be about me.
From your lips to the FSM’s noodly ears.
A poster may put anything their little heart (and even tinier brain) desires within quotation marks. One of the reasons for allowing this is that text within a quote box is sacrosanct. Therefore, we know that if the poster is quoting you in a quote box, it’s a real quote, and that if he’s quoting you within quotation marks, it’s something made up out of thin air.
That said, while I was troubled by your reaction to your son in re Mother’s Day, it’s pretty clear who was the asshole in that thread, and who is being the asshole in this thread.
Hint: it’s not you.
Ah, okay, thanks to you and others who explained that. It felt to me as though he was attributing those exact statements to me, you know, as quotation marks usually indicate, but I get the distinction here now. In my own defense, it is subtle–and not codified anywhere that I can find.
Like I could say, “Listen to Grotonian, ‘tapu should not be allowed on this board because she’s a lesbian, and mentally ill, and a child abuser,’” and that would be fine because quotations here mean something different than verbatim quoting. (I’ll have to work on getting this.)
Well of course you considered it stalking. Isn’t that what stalking is, disagreeing with someone on an anonymous message board in two whole different threads? I’m practically a peeping Tom. How can the mods tolerate this kind of harassment? Don’t they know that YOU should be able to insult people but be immune to responses in kind?
But you’re not delusional. At all.
And we all know already that you feel bad about this being about you; you are supposed to be able to insult people without them insulting you back. We got it, Babydoll.
Y’know, pal, I’ve been around this board for a while, including a few years as a moderator, and one thing I’m happy to know about the SDMB is that people with your style of posting do eventually get banned.
Have fun while it lasts!
Will not be a hot second too soon.
No, I’m afraid it’s about you. You did a great job of turning the ire of this thread from the OP onto you. You really are being a jerk.
Because the mods are jealous of his wit and popularity, no doubt. Why must they silence him?!
Yeah, and there’s always a really nice obituary in ATMB when it happens. Then revelry and naked dancing in the street ensues.
protoboard, consider rephrasing your original question. Maybe something like: Am I not welcome here, compared to Grotonian?
Exactly. I’m the asshole because you people had a nice, unanimous dogpile going on a guy who was obviously having a bad day, if not a bad life, and I fucked it all up. I should be banned for that alone, not to mention my many other transgressions.
God damn mother fucking Canadian border guards. Those shits have ruined more of my good times than I could list.
Yes, exactly. You didn’t enter this thread to support the OP; you entered it because it gave you an opportunity to viciously attack posters against whom you hold a grudge.
Supporting the OP would have involved something along the lines of, “I don’t hate your guts; you should stay!”
This is the pit, so I think I’m allowed to say:
Why yes, you do seem to be an asshole. I’m learning all sorts of things about several posters in this thread.
You may not believe it, but several people, including tapu, were trying to be helpful towards the op. Apparently, he wasn’t just having a bad day, he routinely has bad days. And when that happens, you have to look at yourself and say, “what can I change to have more good days and fewer bad days?” Because we all live in the same world, and some of us have more good days, and a lot of the differences are things we can control.
Maybe he needs to find a new job, or a new field that suits him better. Maybe a girlfriend would help, or a boyfriend. Maybe anti-depressants would help. Maybe it would help if he simply adjusted his attitude. Maybe he should try proactively being nice to people, and that will prompt them to be nicer to him. Maybe something else would help. I don’t know the guy, and don’t know his history. But I’m old enough to know something about human nature, and people have a lot of control over how happy they are on average.
I have just reread the revised rules for the pit and I wish to withdraw this request for the mods to monitor misquotings, and the request to help me understand what is/isn’t appropriate to complain about in the pit. It was inappropriate to question modding in the BBQ Pit as made explicit in the revised rules in ATMB. I acknowledge that, and will not post anything similar again. I will take it to ATMB.
-tapu
Read my first post; I said essentially what you recommend. I did add that he should consider the source, not because I have a grudge against anyone, but because tapu hurled the same insult at the op as she did at me. He IS in good company. Awesome company, actually.
Then she wanted to call me delusional, so I said it right back. Then she wanted to scream for the mods, or anyone else, to save her. So I redirected her advice for crybabies right back at her. She, and this entire thread, can stop engaging me at any time.
If three people tell you you’re a horse, maybe you’re a horse.
– some old saying I used to hear in Appalachia
But you’re a human band-aid. The more you’re engaged, the faster the band-aid comes off. The less you’re engaged, the longer the torture lasts as you pluck out our metaphorical hairs one by one.