Pitting someone for being a drama-llama who can’t tell good attention from bad?
Isn’t that sort of like beating someone for being a Masochist? 
I’m aware that there is a AprilR trainwreck thread. But I haven’t ventured into cuz I can’t be bothered with trainwrecks that don’t interest me.
But I agree that trainwreck posters are entertaining. Even when they are trollish. Last summer’s Incubita situation made for a hilarious couple of days, even though we were being played for a fool. I wish Incubus were still around sometimes.
Moreover, there are plenty of non-trainwreck posters who have become caricatures of themselves through the years. It’s like as soon as you see their name in a thread, you know exactly what they’re going to say. Maybe they know the peanut gallery is laughing at them, maybe they don’t. But I don’t want them to stop, because it is fun being able to point and laugh at something.
AprilR really isn’t any different from those folks. Except that her caricature is a relatively recent thing, and she seems to be eating up the attention rather than playing it cool.
I don’t read those sort of threads, mostly because of my own selfishness, but whatever AprilR’s possible seeming faults she doesn’t deserve this bullying.
Those with sewing kits for attaching scarlet letters should find a new hobby rather than piling on a fairly defenceless girl. I am the last in the world to suppose most imaginary double standards, adored targets of the whiny, exist or are that important if they do exist, but there’s certainly an extra venom in how people attack women.
Totally agree with this. I don’t post much these days either because invariably someone will post something snarky and I’ve come to think “why bother?”. Sometimes I have things I want to ask or say but then I try to think of all the ways someone could take it the wrong way and really, if you have to do that much considering before posting, what’s the point?
First of all, if you haven’t read the thread how do you know she doesn’t deserve this? Secondly, if you think this is sexism, you aren’t paying very close attention. Men get their ass handed to them routinely on this board. It’s equal opportunity ball busting.
Being “fed up” with someone else’s posts about themselves and demanding that they stop is over the top ridiculous. If her posts are so annoying to you yet you keep reading them anyway, that’s a problem you do not need her participation to solve.
Oh dear. We wouldn’t want her to wander off to one of those fun places and have fun.
And this from a guy who posted this, you don’t have room to talk.
Geez, there’s a tool on this board for not reading people you don’t like. Use it.
There’s another tool in your head, called Free Will. It allows you to choose not to read things too.
Oh go on with your silly self. If you had read the thread, you’d know that this isn’t sexist slut shaming. If there’s extra venom, it’s because stupid hurts the innocent bystanders–that’s AprilR’s family and anyone who read her idiotic thread.
As for bullying, AprilR keeps reviving her own thread and bringing it into other threads. Had that not been the case, this Pit thread wouldn’t have been opened. She’s undoubtedly beside herself with pleasure reading the thread.
I can’t get behind this pitting. I eagerly search new posts each day just to see if there’s anything new in **April R’s **little guy friend drama and give a little squeal of delight as each new chapter unfolds. It’s like waiting for the next installment of a penny dreadful. I have to admit, I’m hooked.
So is she going to fuck Guy Fieri or isn’t she?
you’re just pissed because no one sent you dick pics.
And yet he sends out so many !
Seriously, he gives and he gives, and all he asks back is a little bit of respect.
We’re goin’ down to flavor town! That is off the chain.
There’s lots of tools on this board. Starting a thread in the BBQ Pit is the USDA Recommended method for telling them to pull a condom over their heads and lodge it firmly up their rectum.
:eek: However, I am impressed that he collected those himself. Most people leave it to one of the usual OCDs of the Pit to do it for them.
So do I! I’m on pins and needles. 
FWIW, while I cringe in embarrassment (she’s not going to cringe for herself) for April R whenever this story receives a continuance, I remain concerned because she is something of a friend, same as all of you. As I said in that thread, I went through something similar and came out with my marriage as intact as it was before. I hope to give guidance, and that is not done by being hostile.
I want to say I appreciate the Pitting.
It’s helped me step back and look at this with a little more clarity.
Yes, love the attention from Guy Friend. I won’t lie about that. This bored housefrau gets mad tingles from it.
But I love my marriage and family more.
Guy Friend is my friend. Nothing more, nothing less. I’m not going to run away from him. I’m not going to ignore him. I’m going to acknowledge my feelings for what they are. Lustful, ego driven infatuation that can never trump the deeper more cultivated affection and love I have for my husband. He gives me more than I ever imagined I could have in a relationship, and I’m not going to compromise that for a crush, despite what some of you think.
Thanks again, this Pitting was effective, though perhaps not in the way it was intended 
And we couldn’t just let this drop off the front page of the Pit after all. That would be madness.
So now we are back to not ignoring? Sheesh. This interaction is going to give the guy whiplash from all the 180 degree turns.
My brain keeps wanting this to read, “Yes, love the attention from Guy Fieri.” In which case, I would advise you to chuck your family, and let Guy take you on the bus to Flavor Town. That would be money.
On a more serious note, I generally like you a lot on this board, but the thread that spawned this Pitting is positively opalescent.