I’m sick and tired of the fallacies currently doing the rounds about attention whoring.
First, whoring is not a choice - it’s biological. You don’t like that? Tough.
Second, just because a poster chooses to post their photograph on the world-wide web doesn’t mean other posters have the right to comment on the photograph. Or to use it as wallpaper or as a screensaver. Or even to look at it. You don’t like it? Take a hike.
Third, some posters do not in fact choose to post their photographs. Their action is controlled by the part of the brain dedicated to online interaction, the bricka liberalis. You don’t believe me? Suck my 17" monster.
Fourth, you have no right whatsoever to call another poster an attention whore, unless they send you an email and ask you to specifically.
Fifth, neither have you the right to go to their LiveJournal site or their HotOrNot site (even if they link to it) unless it is to tell them that they are are “hot” or “smokin’”, or to write “How you doin’?”
If you wish to respond to this thread, you may do so in one of three ways:
Start a poll in IMHO “Is roger thornhill hot, or is he smokin’?” (notice the lower case - show a little respect)
Start a new photo thread in MPSIMS “roger, post your Canon (geddit?) Powershot (geddit again?) photos here”
Start a thread in GD “If roger was gay, would you still want to do him?”
I can’t fucking STAND OPs like this. Look goddammit, if you’re going to dish invective filled gossip, you’ve got to tell us what the hell you’re talking about. We want to know! Let me into your secret clubhouse, I swear I won’t tell anyone else the secret knock.
I think poor roger has been under a bit of strain lately. He’s married, he lives in Hong Kong, women here have been coming on to him, and he’s got a major league case of the hots for Angelina Jolie. (Plus, he’s from England, you know.)
So please, cut him a little slack. He’s just going through a bit of a tough time right now.
Starving Artist, if you have nothing better to do with your time than to stay up half the night poring through all my previous posts, then all I can say to you is why didn’t you mention my gifted bilingual 8 year-old daughter?
neuroman, what’s with the gratuitous “fucks”, dude? Not getting enough lately? You and treis mates by any chance?
Have you forgotten your goddammed netiquette already?
A little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. That’s all I ask. Seems like even that is too much for some dickwads around here.
So you have a beef with some other website, you bitch about it here, and then you don’t fully explain what the hell you’re on about? Tell me again who’s the attention whore?
Please give me a little credit, roger. I do have at least a minimal memory, you know. My post had nothing to do with poring over your previous posts. (And besides, given the context of my post I would have thought mentioning your daughter would have been something of an insult.)
But regardless, no insult or annoyance was intended. Our cyber-interaction in the past has been jovial and I meant my post in that way. If you were offended by it, I apologize.
Bravo! this is turning into a magnificent Pit thread, full of misunderstandings, name-calling and profanity. Starvers, no offence taken, I assure you. I respectfully bubble-wrap your apology and send it back state-side. With a 1985 bottle of Dow’s Vintage Port.
I thought this was a reference to the current Doper photo thread in MPSIMS, where I freely admitted to being a photo whore and posted something like seven pictures, and then others are complaining because they’re not getting any compliments.
I dunno, the whining about not getting noticed bothers me. I can totally understand wanting people to think you’re attractive and wanting to get attention and stuff. I feel like that too. But when you go and post about it in a poor-little-me way, it just seems a little pathetic and attention-whore-y. I bet there are people who look at your photo and think you are cute/attractive/handsome/whatever, but they just don’t post about it. I only post about the people who I think are really amazing. That definitely doesn’t mean that I think everyone else is average/unattractive/hideous.
There were also a couple people in that thread who complained about not getting noticed, who had definitely gotten lots of compliments in previous photo threads (I’m not going to point fingers). That just seems kind of …lame to me. In fact, I had paid one of those people a compliment in the past. I just assumed that that person would remember it and I wouldn’t need to repeat myself.
This isn’t a major offense, certainly, and it’s nothing I would have ever mentioned if I hadn’t been given the forum (or at least misinterpreted the OP enough that I thought this would be the correct forum). It’s just something that slightly bugs me, and might make you look bad.
