Or at least make it so he can’t post without adult supervison.
As nails are to a carpenter.
As bricks are to a mason.
As notes are to a composer.
So should words be to a journalist.
WTF is Ed’s problem?
Ed is a journalist at an alternative newspaper (which usually pride themselves on not sacrificing integrity or style for bottom line). He is suspected of ghost-writing a weekly column for a prominent world’s smartest person.
His OP’s dealing with sensitive administrative decisions usually show some degree of restraint and thoughtfulness.
Yet when he posts follow-ups or off-the-cuff attempts to be one of us, he comes off as a total asshole!
My conclusion: his OP’s are carefully reviewed and vetted by people who understand what words can do. His follow-ups and spontaneous posts are not.
My recommendation: Take away Ed’s posting privileges. Make him have someone else co-sign all posts.
NOTE: this is not a comment on his administration ability, just his unwashed posts.
Get a PR rep to fix up your posts Ed!
Either that or re-try communications 101.
A rose by any other name would still have thorns -
Ed, if you’re going to post in MPSIMS you should at least know the local rules. In addition to the “Don’t Be A Jerk” board-wide ethic, there is also the “Don’t Piss Off kellibelli” rule.
Ed works hard to preserve this board, but you take the results for granted, and people like you shit on him for making an effort to extend himself to post with the posters he is serving.
Well, hey! Why not give him the same leeway that other posters get? The mods differentiate their ‘official’ posts from their opinions. I agree, maybe Mr Zotti should do that as well. But in the post which I think you are referring to (you didn’t give us a link, honey), you are inferring that Ed is speaking from an administrative position. I didn’t get that same impression.
You want to sanitize his post because it offends you? Grow a thicker skin. From what I see from your post count, you haven’t been here too long. Otherwise you would have seen posts here that would make you go crying back to your mother.
Cut Ed some slack. He has enough trolls and dickheads to worry about without this garbage you are posting.
Then again, this is all my own opinion. But so is this- Fuck off!
“Penises don’t belong in the mouth, girls and boys. You’ve got the wrong hole there. Just like you wouldn’t shove pizza up your nose.”
-From the Brother Jed flyer-
Told myself that, as a newbie, I wasn’t getting involved in this latest round. But this… this is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, I am a newbie here, but I up until I resigned in disgust I ran a message board that was a lot smaller than this one, so I know plenty about that aspect. To sum up: it was a monumental pain in the ass, technically speaking, and all I got was a ration of shit from a few very vocal contributors. The return absolutely sucked the hind tit right off a sow. What I particularly enjoyed was the way that these five people would continuously dress up their personal dislike for me in terms of “what’s good for the Board”. A bit rich, IMNAAHO.
Being an admin is an awful lot harder than most people realize. Cut the guy some slack, k?
I go to a party. The party has a host. He owns the house, he supplies the food and drink, he allows the get-together to, well, get together.
People start bitching and moaning. They don’t like the way the party is structured! They don’t like the behavior of some of the guests! They don’t like how the host behaves, and think he should be thrown out of his own party!
WTF??? This is Ed’s playground, and Ed’s toys. If you don’t like it, vote with your feet! It’s not fair, you whine, he doesn’t follow his own rules, you whine. So what? They’re his rules, it’s his house, and he can do whatever the hell he wants here. And some of us like the party – a lot – and are getting pretty fucking tired of the bitchers, moaners, whiners, cryers, bellyaching thin-skinned pissants who are doing their level best to ruin it for all of us.
I hate the “me too” posts more than anyone, and I have never done one before now.
But–
What Jodih said, With a glorious “AMEN” at the end.
That movie taught me some important lessons in life. 1. I can build a robot that loves me. 2. I can reanimate my dead girlfriend by jamming bits of metal and silicon into her skull. Both are lessons I use on a daily basis…
Gee, Goldie, have you received a bill? Because I sure haven’t. If you have, rip it up, that’ll show 'em! You’re right, of course, that we can only assume the Straight Dope hopes the site (including the Message Board) will eventually generate revenue, but they don’t make us pay to come here, or even promise to buy anything. So show your disapproval by not buying another damn book – fine with me. That has nothing to do, of course, with the inherent idiocy of sticking around a site only to repeatedly bitch and moan about how shitty it is.
Yeah, and…? So what if he wants to turn a profit. That makes him - gasp! - human.
Damn, Ed, now my perception of you is ruined. You know, I thought you were a really great guy back when I figured you were doing all of this - putting up with the constant sniping, devoting time and energy to the administration of this message board that probably could be better spent elsewhere - out of the goodness of your heart and a desire to give a group of reasonably intelligent people a space on the net to laugh, argue, find friendship, and all the other myriad benefits people have obviously gotten out of this board.
But holy shit, you expect them to pay you, too? You mean all of this undying gratitude isn’t enough for you? You selfish bastard.*
*NOTE: this post contains the correct usage of sarcasm for the sarcasm impaired.
No, it is more like a Tupperware party. No one forces you to go, you can pig out on punch and cookies, you decide whether or not to buy anything, and you still get kicked out if you act like an asshole.
Interestingly enough, I see both sides of the coin.
I host an annual ball for a social group I participate in. I bankroll it, shop for it, host it, organize it, solicit and direct volunteers to do it, and clean up afterwards. And every year I get a ton of “that was fun” compliments, and about 5 people who insist that it was the worst thing they’d ever experienced in their lives - the food was bad, I talk too much, it was boring, there weren’t enough chairs, whatever they can find - and I’d better change or there will be hell to pay, they won’t come back, they’ll try to take over next year, etc.
On the one hand, I do the damn thing for them and really want them to be happy and have a good time. Those 5 complaints overshadow every compliment I get, as I think is human nature. So the next year, I really try to address those problems.
On the other hand, since I’m the one that does all the work and lays out all the cash, shouldn’t I be able to have a party any way I damn please? Maybe those few malcontents just shouldn’t come after all, and to hell with them.
Through this I have come to the realization that you simply can’t make all of the people happy all of the time. Should you make the effort? Absolutely. Will it work? Never. Perfection is a goal, not a destination.
So Keli needs to lighten up, and Ed needs to try harder.
