perhaps your wife should have lurked on the boards just a bit so she could see that almost 95% of the posters here have been jabed and poked fun at and spoken to in a manner that would make OpalCat’s responses look like a Vatican Ceremony.
Good luck with your new baby.
Indeed. The SDMB and The Pit have been around much longer than we’ve been posting to it, and will continue on much longer after we leave it, just fine. It’s a pity she didn’t take the time to see how things run (and quite well at that) before jumping in with both feet.
IMHO, I saw nothing wrong with that thread. But perhaps that is it’s own thread and we oughtn’t be taking up this thread with this hijack.
Esprix
One last post by Jeanster’s husband:
Thank you, jarbabyj. Yes, perhaps she should have lurked a bit first to get a clearer understanding. But the jabs from OpalCat were fast and nonstop right after this thread was carried over here to the Pit, from what I can see.
Could you clear up some confusion here? So here in the Pit it’s a normal and acceptable practice to post comments in a not-very-courteous manner. If so, that would explain the taunting comment she received from The Mermaid that went like this:
“And watch out all of you. Now that she’s got that pointer finger warmed up and she’s not afraid to use it”
Yet when my wife responded to that by saying she refused to engage in a battle of wits against an unarmed opponent, GingerOfTheNorth else scolded her:
“Typically, we enjoy discourse on an intellectual level. We don’t sink to petty insults and hissy fits and tantrums when we’re disagreed with. Perhaps you should pick up on that, jeanster.”
Yet GingerOfTheNorth did not scold The Mermaid for taunting my wife.
You see where the confusion here lies?
I shall take my leave now. I can hear my ride pulling up outside. Good day and thank you for your good wishes about our baby.
jeanster (and Mr. jeanster), perhaps this would be better discussed in http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162163”]this appropriate thread.
Esprix
Yes let’s continue the discussion in Esprix’s thread.
I can relate. My OB went on vacation the morning I went into the hospital. I was dealing with nurses all night, and then when it was time to deliver, some guy came in, sat down between my legs, reached up between my knees to shake my hand and introduce himself as Dr. Whoever.
Yes.
J
Perhaps your wife should not have jumped into the Pit all at once like she did, if she was worried about being offended.
Perhaps she should have waded in, dipping her toes first?
Besides, a comment like, “I think your point is ridiculous”, wouldn’t even get you into trouble in the other forums, I don’t think-because it’s not a flame.
All we’re saying is, we’re NOT new around here. We’ve been here for God knows how long-Opal’s a veteran around here. I think she knows what’s acceptable around here better than you do.
But hey-whatever turns you on…
Guin, his wife didn’t jump into the pit, her thread was moved to the pit by a mod, if I’m not mistaken.
But still, it was one of the mildest pit threads I’d ever seen.
Although I have responded in the pit thread I still feel that I have one more thing left to say here.
In my “viscious” attack on the apparently powerless jeanster I was merely attempting to point out how childish her remark sounded. I read it as a thinly veiled threat that anyone else who might disagree with her would be reported as well. If we are not supposed to say someone is on our ignore list, I don’t think we should be allowed to tell a third party that you reported someone to a mod either. That definitely amounts to taunting in my book. Also, not only is that type of behavior innapropriate, it does nothing towards solving the problem.
I think if you have a problem with someone you should take it to the source. ie: tell the offending party, don’t tell someone else to relay a message for you.
It was no more my place to tell Opal to not talk bad to the girl than it was Ginger’s place to tell me to not talk bad to the girl. If jeanster wants to tell me that she felt my comment was accusatory and uncalled for then she should respond to me, not send her hubby to talk to another person about it.
Maybe I am obtuse but I didn’t even catch that I was the intended target of the “unarmed person in a battle of wits” comment the first time I read it. It might have hurt my poor little feelings if it hadn’t been about the one millionth time someone had said it. But having finally caught on, I would like to reply.
jeanster don’t be such a crybaby; it was a mild reproach at best.
jeanster’s hubby don’t fight your wife’s battles for her.
I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I’ll ask anyway:
recently the mods have asked us to not publically accuse people of trolling, but to report all trolls to the mods privately.
What’s the definition of “troll” being used here?
Thanks for the info. It’s still a little unclear to me who we’re supposed to report, since the page you linked to dates to the era when we could still say “DNFTT”.
The definition has not changed just because we ask people not to accuse trolls publicly. Report the kind of people whose posts cause you to want to say “DNFTT”.
Ah, thanks. I’ll do that.
May I ask for an explanation of closing pointlessly hijacked Pit threads? I remember some doosies concerning mooses and other things, but lately, other hijacks get admonished and closed. Is there a rule I’m missing? Or is the current feeling of the Mods to keep Pit threads on topic? Not a complaint, just wondering.
And if your pit thread was closed because of a hijack but there wasn’t really time for a resolution are you supposed to open another one and tell everybody to stop hijacking it or what?
**BTW, I have no interest in opening another thread on the same topic. I highly doubt any resolution anyway.
I humbly apologize if I broke any rules. I just thought if a poster lied to a mod about another poster to save their own ass that it was pitiful, pardon the pun…
The problem with the SDMB’s policy is that it doesn’t give any suggestions about what to do about well-liked, respected trolls.
What should we do when someone ignores counterarguments or proofs, and continues repeating the same sort of statements again and again?
With respected trolls, they usually do this across multiple threads, with periods ranging from days to weeks between incidents.
Ignoring them allows ignorance to flourish. Responding to them only increases their posting. So what do we do?
I’m confused! (Not an uncommon state for me.) I noticed that The Ace of Swords is noted as banned, on a post saying in part:
+++ The catch-22 comes when one is banned and invited to e-mail the moderators to discuss. Being banned also bans access to the e-mail accounts, thus preventing further discussion of said status, apologies, chocolate bribes, what have you.
Not that I’d have any experience with that, mind you. cough +++
So, it would appear that Ace must have been banned from the SDMB before posting this, let alone further comments. Yet Ace is taking part in the discussion in this thread. How is this possible? Asks the humble newbie.
People can be banned and reinstated, or have their posting privledges taken away temporarily, or even have themselves banned for a set time so they can actually do something with their life. 
You can access an administrator’s e-mail without being a board member.