Chat Overspill

The BBQ Pit
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In the pit I just saw some pretty heated stuff about what went on in ‘SD’ chat.

The only thing it seems to have done is draw people in to even more contentious dispute.

There may even be those who were not involved in the original issue but who know the various participants .

If you have a problem elsewhere then leave it there please it just spreads like an unwanted rash.(aren’t they all?)

When there is a dispute on the board and it goes pitwards that is fine to me, at least I have all the relevant info.

Yes maybe I should leave the hell alone since it had nothing to do with me.

It also had sod all to do with every other Doper too but that won’t stop them taking sides and ruining the atmosphere

Fire away!!!

But don’t expect me to care

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Yeah and if you have something happen at home or with your boss, don’t come here to talk about it. If it doesn’t involve us, we don’t care!! And in MPSIMS, if it doesn’t relate to other dopers and stuff that is happening on the board TAKE IT TO EMAIL.
Um… wait… having the board just be about the board would pretty much suck.

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You raise a good point, Opal, but it’s true that if you weren’t there for the incident in question, it’s frustrating and confusing to get a read on what happened.

I’m not one to publicly take sides (or post much in the pit, period), but often I read stuff like this, and I am curious as to exactly what happened.

Meaning, I can see the OPs point of view as well.

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I’m with Opal on this one, as I told TGIF in my post on that thread.

“Marina Sirtis is a complete idiot”? I don’t even know who in the hell Marina Sirtis is.

“Here’s to you, US Magazine”? Don’t read it… never read it… never will read it.

“Scott Hamilton isn’t so great”? I know he’s some skater from ages past, but I wouldn’t know him if he mugged me in an alleyway.

The whole Cuban thing? I don’t know much about immigration laws or much besides what the media has told me about it, so stop talking about that as well.

I’m not a professor, so don’t talk about your students on this board.

Ok, ok… so I think I’ve made my point. If you don’t know anything about chat or whatever, then don’t worry about the specifics of it. Doper meetings don’t occur on this board, yet they get discussed here all the time. If you have questions, then go ask – I thought I had done a pretty good job of explaining what had happened from the technical point of view, and anyone can read and see what the gripe was about Silo, so what else is there to ask about?

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They just feel left out. :frowning: Isn’t that sad?

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It’s not the subject of the discussion that is the difficulty IMHO.

It’s the way it is degenerating into personal attacks on people who are here .

I don’t mind being corrected, I expect it, but this could easily get into taking sides territory.

Is that a benefit to the SDMB ?

If it is then I don’t see it.

Besides that ,why not resolve the dispute where it started?

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If ya don’t want to read about it, then don’t. No one’s forcing you.

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Let up. You don’t have to whine either, but you seem to do a lot of it. And PepperGirl.

If the thread in question had been properly titled, it would have been easier to skip without reading.

OpalCat- If you love this thread so much, take it to your site and spare the rest of us.

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FreakFreely – I hate that response! And this has been said before, but it’s right up there with “if you don’t like this country, then move.”

I also dislike responses telling others how to respond. Which is what I just did. Hmmmmmmm.

Going away to think now.

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True enough, Csdave in that it doesn’t really help the board. I will admit that if there’s any proper place on the Board to bitch about it though, it’s in the Pit. There’s plenty of other posts in here about Person A thinking Person B sucks and this is much the same thing, except that Person A learned about Person B sucking on a different format than the SDMB.

That said, I’ve tried to stay out of the Silo part of the #SD complaints. Personally, I hope that those who don’t like a user – any user – learn how to use “/ignore” so they simply don’t have to know that user is there, nor hear from him. Likewise, I hope Tech returns, MrCynical realizes that DALnet is the work of Satan, and that everything is kosher once more.

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Well, it took me about fifteen seconds to open the thread and realize it didn’t pertain to me. You could’ve done the same thing.

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Ditto. Then I popped open the lawn chair and learned how to bitch about IRC. I don’t mind mixing it up with some different stuff once in awhile.