Oh, get bent. I didn’t offer an opinion because I didn’t have one! And I still don’t.
I do have an opinion, however, on whether you’re being touchy and oversensitive. My opinion is that you are.
I hope things are going well for you. If they are not, I hope they improve measurably, and soon.
That was an incredibly stupid thread. It deserved to be closed and you deserved to be bitch-slapped.
99 times.
While tied to a wall.
[sub]You take him down a peg
and then make him beg
98 bitchslaps for the guy on the wall…[/sub]
Especially my shorts.
See, now something like that would have been an amusing game, if successive posters were to propose a new torture for the OP with every verse.
I am not, however, proposing that anyone start such a game.
I don’t consider the thread a flat-out game, but of the three things addressed in the stickie (game, post party, padding) game is the only one that seemed possibly to apply. Now people are suggesting padding, which wasn’t my intention.
Asking for clarification from a Mod is “whining” now?
Not necessarily, but asking “What are you accusing me of?” does tend to set a certain tone.
But what was your intention? You haven’t made that clear. It’s not obvious what the “game” was supposed to be - which is one reason it might have been taken for something else.
Isn’t this the point at which someone is supposed to offer up some fact about their favorite kind of cheese?
I suppose this is as gouda time as any, but what does that have to do with the price of gasoline in China, Texas (about ten miles west of Beaumont)?
I felt like the tone was set by the “you know better” in the locked thread.
Sorry, by the way, for the “snark” comment earlier. I guess I read your comments in a tone you didn’t intend. Speaking of tones and all.
My intention was to start off the song and see if it got continued straight through to the end, whether there would be diversions from the song, to see if the thread evolved into something else. Just trying to have a little fun and maybe help some other people have a little fun. If it had continued with just the song then the thread would have run about 100 posts, two pages, and probably died. If it had taken off in some other direction, as it appeared it was going to, who knows how long it would’ve run. I didn’t think of it as a “game” when I started it, along the lines of a trivia contest or the Truth or Dare thread or whatever, but since it’s definitely not a post count party and since, with over 13,000 posts I have no need or interest in count-padding, “game” was the only thing left in the linked stickie.
Again, I’m not upset in the least that the thread was locked. I just don’t get the whole “you know better” business. It does feel like an accusation that I deliberately broke some glaringly obvious rule.
I’m willing to accept Otto’s word that it wasn’t a game thread. Even with the process of elimination, I don’t think it necessarily makes it a post-count thread. I seriously doubt the guy with over 13,000 posts sat and said to himself, “Hmmm…I could use a few dozen more to reach that 13,175 milestone!”
I think it was just goofy and it got shut down for being superfluous.
Does that about cover it?
It’s a thread with 100 perfectly logical follow on responses that will surprise and inform no one. How is that not post-padding?
And the fact that you have thousands of posts, frankly, is not an argument in your favour on this one.
Well damn. Otto beat me to it.
I’ll go find back to MPSIMS where I belong.
me too, as the last poster. Guess I didn’t know better… :o
Otto, the gist of the sticky thread is that, as Hung Mung so aptly stated:
Considering your length of time as a member, I expected you to know this.
I hope this is a satisfactory clarification.
Cajun Man
for the SDMB
Indeed.
When I sigh that it seems the place has been overmoderated lately, I’ll remind myself what even longtime members seriously believe to be valid content and remember what the place would be like without the moderation it has.
I’m not sure. Was the point of the original thread for it to go down to no bottle on the wall? That could be easily taken care of with a sigma sign…
Or a big ellipsis followed by “No bottles of beer on the wall.”
But what if the shelf were a Moebius strip?
Ever seen a Moebius strip?
Where the fuck do you put the bills, that’s what I want to know… ?