I am not one of those expressing an opinion about your posting style Guinistasia, but I will express an the opinion that the SDMB is one pond, and online chat/IMing/personal emails etc. between you and your buds abnd non-buds is another, and to the extent that you have an issue with someone’s IRL opinion about you expressed off board you really should keep this issue out of, and off of, the SDMB. IMO this off board personalities issue really doesn’t really belong here nor should it be addressed here.
Oh, suck it up, honey. Again, if you’re on a public message board with as many posts as you have (with as little content as possible behind a good half of those posts), you’re going to be criticized. Especially here–did you forget that this is a tough crowd?
You would be far more respected if you’d actually come in with more than a:
You post in nearly every thread with just a few lines (your OP is the first time in weeks I’ve seen a post of yours have more than three sentences). It’s tiring to read things from you with so little to contribute because I know that you’re not a dumb little girl.
I’m not wishing anything but good things for you, Guin, but honestly, if there is one person on this board who really needs to get out of the house and away from the computer, it’s you.
You don’t know the pit. do you.
Yes, yes. That’s all well and good, but what about the twat sucking?
Ah c’mon, it was worth it just to hear:
“Suck my twat you miserable bitches.”
Guin, I like your posting. You have what I can best describe as a way with words. Don’t change a thing!
Oh Jesus Christ. I seriously doubt astro DOESN’T “know the pit,” Lobsang. I think astro’s advice was dead on.
Hey, I’ll be the first to admit I’m overly sensitive, and yes, that’s my problem.
I’ll make no excuses for that.
It just annoys ME that when someone has a problem with me, they don’t just TELL me. Instead, they go off and make catty little remarks. That’s always been my one sensitivity.
Especially as I considered some of them people I liked.
See, I’d rather have someone like Hama, who at least doesn’t go running to her little journal and instead says straight out, “You suck” or whatever.
And then I can say, “Yeah, whatever, bite me.” Or something.
shrugs
That’s what bothers me-not so much how people feel about me-but how they go about it.
If you have a problem with me, pit me, or insult me TO MY FACE. I prefer it. Really. Because then I don’t feel like such a fool.
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The pit is chock-full of posts about life outside the SDMB. that is why I questioned astro’s understanding of it.
Oh, Astro knows the pit quite well. Also the Admins’ and Mods’ feelings about bringing off-board stuff here. Do you?
Guin, can you explain something to me, as I don’t know how an LJ works.
Are these comments that you mention anonymous? Or do you know who made them, and are they dopers? Or do you just not want to reveal who made the comments?
Sorry if these are stupid questions, but I really don’t know anything about LJs.
Wait a minute. At first I thought “Lobsang, you’re getting on my nerves.” was sarcastic, as I had only posted two short posts. Now I am not so sure.
Well, sorry.
Here’s what I see:
X person makes LOCKED post about how Guin’s posting style bothers them. (Locked so that the general public cannot see it, if Guin is referring to the post that I am thinking of.)
Y person tells Guin what X person said that Guin was not meant to be able to see.
Yeah, I think that shit should be kept off the boards.
I get the feeling the The mods at least have absolutely no problem whatsoever with posting off-board stuff here (I mean off-board as in stuff that happens to people during their day. not stuff that happens on another MB. I know they don’t like that)
I also get the feeling some people have got trees in their bum.
Lobsang: you’re wrong. They’ve expressed before not to bring off board personal fights here.
Thanks for the explanation, Jessity. No need to say “sorry”, though!
Well the mods don’t mind people posting about their experiences at a burger bar, or how they hate their boss, or how the next door neighbours are too loud. That’s all off board stuff. That is what I meant by my earlier posts.
Jeez, why do any of you have a problem with Hama’s post? Guin came in here and just invited people to say to her face what she claims people are saying behind her back (and not link to it, and apparently drag LiveJournal drama onto the board.) So asked and received, you got criticism to your face. I have no problem with non-political driveby posts, so I don’t care if Guin does it or not. But if you’re going to invite criticism here, criticism apparently based on off-board remarks, don’t be surprised when you get it.
And maybe the reason other people didn’t want to make a Pit thread about it is because they did think there were some things better suited to LiveJournal, rather than spread their personal grievance about someone’s posting style all over the Pit. And Guin, maybe they didn’t want to deal with the inevitable tidal wave of defenders you’d draw just in virtue of your ancient reg date and monstrous post count.
If that is what happened then I think Guin’s anger was justified. I too would be angry if someone cowardlyly said something nasty about me behind my back.
However if it is indeed a fact that the Mods and Admins don’t like people posting this type of thing in the pit then You guys are right to say G shouldn’t have posted it and I agree.
But I can’t see why people would feel so strongly about G’s posting style based on what I have seen of her [posts]
Point taken, but I do know that when posters start to drag IRL opinions of other SDMB members expressed offline out of the context of the SDMB, and flog them in the Pit or elsewhere that the thread is likely going to turn into a nasty trainwreck with a lot of pissed off hurt feelings. I admire a good pit rant as much as anyone, but dragging off board IRL posters opinions in here is getting pretty close to the bone and Guin really needs to address this offline.
What? Jesus. If a Pit thread was started every time someone didn’t like someone else’s posting style (or grammar, or spelling, or whatever else) that’s all there would ever BE in the Pit. There are people around here who drive me batty but starting a Pit thread about it? That’s just stupid. Do you wander about your school and/or workplace telling people you don’t like them? Of course not. Yeah, I think Guin’s an empty-headed little twit, but I’m not going to start a thread about it, nor would I walk up to her IRL and say such a thing. What would be the point? Since she asked, however, I have no problems saying it.