Huh. You wanted them to rub their legs together?!
I was actually hoping for a real response. . . with words.
There used to be a time when they would call you a child molester before circling the wagons. Silence might be an improvement.
… of my recent “meltdown” in The Pit (Back in early Dec., I believe).
A bunch of us thought it might be a good idea for me to stay out of both The Pit and Great Debates, because of my tendencies to get overwrought/emotional. (Is that a good enough description? If not, then suggest another one! :))
However, sometimes I don’t watch where I wind up, and look - here I am again!
But (and see if this makes sense) recently - in another thread I’d just as soon forget - I was admonished that I should not “talk back”. This thread, however, was in SDMB.
Okay - so no talking back in SDMB, got it.
Then I stumbled onto this one, and now I’m wondering if I am not allowed to “talk back” (BAD Quasi!:D) then I’m pretty much screwed, because I can be told whatever and not be able to defend or explain myself because I’d be breaking the rules.
So I am trying to adhere to this “Quasi” Agreement, and stay out of here and GD, but if someone calls me a dumb ass as the result of something I may have written that maybe was dumb or at least misunderstood in any part of the forum, then if I come back with a post, I can be warned and maybe even shut down and that doesn’t seem fair to me.
Of course, I may be misunderstanding the whole thing, and if so, please correct me.
Thanks
Q
Let’s experiment:
Quasi, you dumbass!
Your turn.
Affectaciously,
~NickInUpperLeftCorner
I am not a dumb ass!
Q
Humor, obviously. Much like me saying “Fool of a Took” to What Exit? from time to time, though I don’t think him a fool and strongly doubt that he’s 4 feet tall.
Actually, more interesting than an official response which, as I said, would make no practical difference, I would like to hear from Colibri.
Colibri, did you or did you not cry uncle? Were you really “taken aback” by my “threat”? If you did, why did you pop two days later to play it cool like nothing happened? If you didn’t, why is Ed saying you did and why are you letting him get away with ridiculing you like that?
(Speaking only as a poster, not in any official capacity)—do you just enjoy stirring up shit, or are you unable to help yourself?
It is, to me, a fair question and the only untied end on the whole thing. Colibri’s reaction to my “threat” was that of someone who took it not as a threat but as a joke. Then comes Ed saying he was crying in a corner and Colibri was never to be heard again.
I want to know if Ed was making shit up or not. A quite relevant fact, in my opinion.
It’s only fair.
Hostile Dialect,
Hostile Dialect, Narcissist
You’ve got your well-earned moral victory already. Now you’re trending back toward Asshole. Actually, not just trending: sprinting, with your dick hanging out of your fly.
Just, y’know, FYI.
Moral victory? No such thing. This is not something for anyone to win or lose. If it were, Ed should have taken the moral victory when Colibri laughed at the face of danger making a joke of my grievous threat.
Seeing me crushed by that should have been more than enough for moral victories. Still, he decided to bellyflop in the shitpool and make an idiot of himself doing what nobody wants him to do. How is that for stirring up shit? Making a production of what was a resolved encounter.
I don’t care if his little mind still thinks that he did the right thing or not. I don’t care if he sees the signs of how his fumbling around is dragging this place down. In the end, I won’t even care when he finally does drag the place down.
What I do care to know is whether Ed’s statement about Colibri being devastated by my imagined threat is true or not. As I have said, I do have respect for Colibri, and the Colibri I know is the one that says “you are good for chuckle”, which is the Colibri we all saw. Ed says something that just doesn’t fit with either my mental image or with the evidence and I want to know if what he is saying is true or not.
Ed might be a shitstain in all so many different ways but this is, to me at least, a new theme of his shitstainery. Inquiring minds must know if we are in the presence of something new.
Of course Ed and Colibri are free to continue weaseling out of this one. It is not like decency and moral rectitude are requirements for internet life. Not only that, but it is SOP for TPTB at the sdmb. Fucking up and hiding it out are the bread and butter of the admins here. Still, by being a persistent asshole, I just make sure that they cannot later claim that they thought this was an “asked and answered” and that nobody expected anything more.
So I will make it clear once more: I don’t care to hear Ed saying whether he thinks his moderation was correct or not. I don’t care to have the warning rescinded or ratified. I don’t care about popular support for either side of the matter.
I would like to hear Colibri say whether he seriously took my post as a threat or not.
I don’t even care to hear him explain the logical follow ups to either response. Why did he try to make it a joke if he took it seriously or why did he let Ed say he did if he did not. I just want to know his honest interpretation of my post. That’s it. I won’t consider it victory or defeat in any case.
Crickets speak louder than words, don’t you think?
I withdraw my tepid support.
Which I am sure is all TPTB need to pretend they didn’t fuck up and tell themselves they don’t need to answer.
I would have liked to hear from Colibri and Ed Zotti on this issue as well. However, considering your language and attitude, I can’t see any reasonable person in their position bothering to respond to you.
First, we need a rule setting out that anyone posting to the SDMB must have an account with a positive balance in the Slap Bank. A positive balance is created by slapping oneself – one slap equals one credit.
Instead of threatening a person with slapping, you simply ask the person to transfer credits from his or her slap account into the Hamster Fund (e.g. Oh Honourable Opponent, would you please be so kind as to feed the Hamsters three credits?). If the person does not have enough credits, he or she will not be permitted to post again until his or her Slap Bank account is brought back to a positive balance.
You must have credits in your own account equal to or greater than the number of slaps you want the other person to transfer to the Hamster Fund
The Slap Bank fee deducted from your account for requesting a transfer of slaps will be 25% of the number of slaps you requested to be transfered, or a single slap, whichever is greatest, with the fee being put toward the Hamster Fund.
With enough slapping, I expect that the Hamster Fund will grow large enough to purchase CL and get rid of the rule about not posting non-threats.
Oh well, acquitted on a technicality, I am sure the moral high road passes over there too.
ETA: Plus, I don’t think it is me they need to respond to. They need to respond to all those who have always supported them and now were surprised by their actions. The people they let down, that is. Not me, I am just a monster.
Muffin, I will support your initiative if you call it the Slapo Bank instead.
Slapo Bank it is.