But you haven’t explained how he makes it about himself. He expresses opinions, and others lose their shit. Airman Doors explained part of it - he expresses his opinions in a manner that pulls a response from many people. That doesn’t mean he’s made it about himself, though. It means that some people have a hard time with the forceful expression of an opinion that doesn’t have a strong basis in fact.
Is that a standard for moderation now? Is that why I have to tolerate billfish (or whatever the guy’s name is) bringing up Diogenes randomly all over other threads?
As a suggestion, just assume that Diogenes has tacked “in my opinion” to any post he makes. Perhaps that will help with your (speaking generally) self control.
I have a better idea. Maybe Diogenes can start actually appending the words “in my opinion” to his posts. It’s not like he hasn’t been told, repeatedly, at length, that this would be immensely helpful in not derailing threads he is participating in.
And yes, some people do have a hard time with the forceful expression of an opinion that has no basis in fact. Why shouldn’t we?
Really? It’s the message board equivalent of the kid that taps you on the shoulder endlessly or repeatedly asks “are we there yet?” Most of us grow out of that stuff when we get older, but apparently not all of us. In any event, ignoring such behavior is an impossibility unless one wants to simply quit participating here. Which, of course, is why it’s both so effective and so annoying.
Not at all. It’s really quite difficult to ignore someone touching you or asking you a question directly.
This is more the equivalent of knowing that someone in your neighborhood has expressed an opinion that you think is nonsensical, and feeling compelled to go find them and make them agree that their opinion is nonsensical.
See post #7. Arguing that his experience=fact is off-topic. Forceful expression of an opinion that doesn’t have a strong basis in fact is childish. Everyone else seems to be able to discuss things in a manner which provides discourse for the OP.
First of all, I don’t have a problem with self-control. And no, I won’t assume that. He posts as he feels.
Or maybe Dio needs to learn to not start his shit in the first place.
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I disagree. I have to wade through all of his posts if I’m interested in a topic. It’s not at all like searching him out.
It’s nothing like that at all. If “someone in my neighborhood” has expressed an opinion, well, that’s fine. I don’t have to listen to it. They’re a few houses down. I don’t even need to see that person. I probably got the information about their opinion secondhand from someone else.
If someone is posting in a thread I’m actively participating in, it is impossible for me not to read their posts unless I have the person on ignore. Sure, I guess every single person on the SDMB could put Diogenes on ignore. But when one person is causing continual problems due to his obnoxious posting style, I think it makes more sense for that poster to change his behavior, than for every single other poster on the SDMB to have to change theirs.
Dio has a tendancy to make unbacked assertions just because he can. He then repeats them over and over again. Sometimes it comes across as smug and cruel.
He was such a jerk in that thread. Three naturally conceived kids and he feels free to lecture others who aren’t so fortunate how to feel about an awful medical condition.
As I wrote in that thread of course infertility is a medical issue. Infertility is typically caused by underlying medical conditions that need treatment. Women who have PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome are at increased risks of all kinds of serious health problems including obesity and heart disease. If you have a misfunctioning thyroid you need treatment. If you’re in premature menopause that needs to be treated to help the patient avoid risks such osteoporosis and heart disease.
Those conditions needs to be addressed. Your idiotic assertion that they don’t cause pain or discomfort is complete bullshit. Just admit it.
You walked in and downplayed the OP’s pain just because you could. It was not very nice.
In that thread, infertility was being compared to cancer, and taking time off from work to get fertility treatments was compared to taking time to get chemotherapy. The comparisons were retarded. Infertility is not a health threat. If there’s an underlying condition beneath it, then that the mediacal ssue, not the infertility per se (which would just be a symptom, in that case).
Getting pregnant is not a medical necessity, and getting fertility treatments is not a life-saving procedure on a par with chemotherapy. The elevation of infertility to an urgent medical crisis on a par with cancer was inane and clueless and I called it for what it was.