Oh, HELL no!
I have standards, you know.
What if they didn’t tip?
Or only tipped 12% :eek:
mhendo – what happens to your numbers if you calculate number of threads started : number of posts only in those threads : number of total posts?
I thought about that, but tracing those figures would take a lot more work, and i’m afraid i’m not quite that invested in andrewdt85’s rehabilitation.
Sorry to drag this thread back on topic, but I’d just like to add my two cents to this “debate”. It seems to me that Andrew does have some intelligence, and some of his posts are useful/interesting. But some are undeniably irritating/unreadable/pointless/downright offensive, among other things. For example, I thought the first part of this OP was a noble attempt to apologise and set right some wrongs. Remember, apologising is often the hardest thing to do, and does show a little maturity and respect for other users. Unfortunately, of course, the OP deteriorates in the second half.
To an outside observer, it looks like you can make a good contribution to this board, but too often post before you think, or perhaps start something reasonable and then go off into a wild rant at the slightest provocation. This inevitably leads to a hole you can’t dig your way out of, and further unneccesary attrition.
So, if you can look past my sanctimonious tone (when I’m just trying to add some balance) and take this as constructive criticism, I think you and the board would get along a lot better, and possibly still have a chance of building a mutually beneficial relationship.
Since this is the Pit, everybody is of course free to offer critiques of the above in the customarily robust fashion :).
Personally, I thought that took some balls. Your assertion that Andrew has to follow your rules just because you say he should is a source of humour for me. It sounds like you’re feeling disappointed that he doesn’t want to play with your bat and ball and would rather play with his. Taunting him in that thread of yours that he’s a coward merely amplifies that perception.
Now, now, don’t hedge. We know what you meant.
I wouldn’t say that they’re my rules: it’s customary to reply to Pit queries or accusations in the thread that they’re made. If one of the accusations in that thread is that he starts too many dumb threads and instead of defending himself, making a case for himself, or discussing the matter there he starts yet another thread, well, case proven as far as I’m concerned. And if you’re implying that starting another thread on the subject was a subtle cocking of the snook, you attribute more wit to him than I do.
You have something against Jerry Orbach??? :mad: :mad: :mad:
and… how dare you make generalizations like that!!!
Sorry, my Pit-fu is weak tonight.
Who are you talking to here? Honestly, I might have only been here just 3.5 years, but in the time before you came along I’ve seen some of the most amazing Pit Threads in the history of the internet. Guys like December and Collounsbury for instance. And imagine the sort of stuff that people like Furt and Guinastasia have seen?
Man, your Pit Thread is a pittance. I’ve seen 10 page long trainwrecks where the Pittee fought tooth and nail with 50 people and smashed 'em all. I’ve seen other monsters where the Pittee couldn’t even be bothered writing and just carried on along their business elsewhere on the site. Aldebaran anyone?
You’ve been here 14 months. Your attempt to speak on behalf of all Dopers everywhere is no less conceited than your belief that your Pit Thread has some innate centre of the universe gravitas attached to it. My gut feeling is he decided to treat your Pit Thread with the contempt it deserved. Not a nice message to hear, I’m sure, but dude… you went out of your way to Pit him. He’s allowed to respond anyway HE sees fit, not you.
Yeah, yeah. I’ll bet you’ve seen attack ships on fire off the Shoulder of Orion, too.
You bet I have. Not as often as I’ve seen people like you who think they know how to tell the rest of us what to think.
Weak? Downright pitiful. 
[hijack]
Now I’m really curious. Whose Dope-Fu was strong enough to take on 50 adversaries? Can you point me in their direction, maybe I can learn a few rhetorical tricks?
[bye, jack]
Definitely Collounsbury. Man, that guy was FUCKING AMAZING! Whop. Whack. Chop. AAAAAAYAAAAHHHHH!
Sez you.
My eyes hurt. Gosh, if using big caps reduce your post’s credibility by 10 points, having it huge, screaming, bold capitals must have reduce it by 100 points. And you were already in the red.
Everybody was Dope-Fu fighting! Those posts were fast as lightening!
And where exactly did I do that, Roy Batty? Pointing out that it’s customary to respond to Pit threads in the threads themselves is hardly tantamount to telling “the rest of us” what to think. By the way, you’re the first person I’ve seen since I’ve been here to pull that arguing from authority, “I’ve been here longer so I know what you should do” trick. Pretty weak.
By the way, Guin, you mispelt “lightning” 