# Eidolon909, just for you **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 27, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126 "2002-11-27T16:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/21 "2002-11-27T16:54:27Z")
You really are a fucksock, aren’t you, **Eidolon909**. ---
**Author:** ![Eidolon909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@Eidolon909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eidolon909)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/22 "2002-11-27T16:55:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*Wile MPSIMS is usually where those threads go, the pit is by no means the wrong forum to speak about a friends suicide. She could have alot of anger. Just because she dosent curse or rant in the OP dosen’t make it any less of pit thread. > > Regardless, it was insensitive in the highest to try to hijack it towards your ethical beliefs on suicide. \*\* She didn’t seem to be expressing any anger there, chief. Why do I always need to repeat myself with you? What hijack? I said move the thread, end of story. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/23 "2002-11-27T16:56:21Z")
**Eidolon909** , I didn’t think your comment in that thread was awful in itself, so much as unnecessary. Really unnecessary. That thread was simply not the place to make a pointed reference to your low opinions of people who commit suicide. Feel free to start your own thread. Feel free to mutter under your breath at the computer screen. Putting your opinion in that thread makes you look like a dick, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/24 "2002-11-27T16:57:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eidolon909 \* > \*\*You’re so eager to vilify, I find it rather lubricating. 🆒 \*\* Are you serious? I seem to remember you making sme defamatory statements regarding **jjimm** proping up the bar, your justification - because he’s Irish. At least describing you as an arsehole is backed up by looking at your own posts. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/25 "2002-11-27T16:58:00Z")
Wow, in the space since I wrote out my response, I see **Eidolon909** has been acting like an asshole. Dude, don’t get all defensive and make things worse. Step back, take a breath. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/26 "2002-11-27T16:58:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tir Tinuviel \* > \*\*You consider her feelings regarding the death of her friend as mundane and pointless? \*\* A bit of history MPSIMS’s\* name came about because the original AOL board only had GQ and Comments on Cecil’s Columns. However, the Teeming Millions being what they are chatted about anything and everything. There were debates about the appropriateness of this. Eventually someone created a thread called "Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share wherein s/he posted stuff like “I found belly-button lint in my belly button today”. The term became a joke and warning to the Cecil Purists that the thread was not of the same cosmic importance as Cecil’s words, which is not to say that stuff posted there isn’t important. That said, I think we can come together to agree that **Eidolon909** is a jackass. Fenris \*Paraphrased from a half-remembered post by someone. Probably Opal ---
**Author:** ![Eidolon909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@Eidolon909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eidolon909)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/27 "2002-11-27T16:58:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > \*\ ***Eidolon909** , I didn’t think your comment in that thread was awful in itself, so much as unnecessary. Really unnecessary. That thread was simply not the place to make a pointed reference to your low opinions of people who commit suicide. Feel free to start your own thread. Feel free to mutter under your breath at the computer screen. Putting your opinion in that thread makes you look like a dick, in my opinion. \*\* Fair comment. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/28 "2002-11-27T16:59:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eidolon909 \* > \*\*No, because the Moderators on this particular board don’t answer their mail. \*\* **So** not true. The small amount of email I’ve sent to moderators has always been answered–maybe not within an hour, but it HAS been answered. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/29 "2002-11-27T17:02:22Z")
Yeah. I’m also aware of the fact that the expansive nature of the boards means that we don’t all need to try and compete for the audience of every individual thread–the most effective way to build and influence an audience is by devoting your time and resources to threads that allow you to showcase your noteworthy insights and understanding., not by jumping into a thread that is clearly about someone else and making enigmatic, informationless, facile posts. Look, to the rest of the world, it loks as if either you were: 1. So gripped by emotions that you couldn’t help but post, which indicates a certain immaturity. or 1. You were so concerned that someone else had an audience that you had ot jump in and claim some of it, which indicates a certain immaturity. Maybe that’s not how oyu meant to come across, but a skilled writer understands that it is their job to convey their meaning in such a way that people understand, not the audience’s job to divine what the writer "really’ meant. ---
**Author:** ![Eidolon909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@Eidolon909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eidolon909)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/30 "2002-11-27T17:02:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tir Tinuviel \* > \*\*Are you serious? > > I seem to remember you making sme defamatory statements regarding **jjimm** proping up the bar, your justification - because he’s Irish. > > At least describing you as an arsehole is backed up by looking at your own posts. \*\* Actually, I was referring to your insinuation that because I suggested MPSIMS for her thread that I thought her grief was mundane and pointless. And if I’m not mistaken, dear jjimm, is English not Irish. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/31 "2002-11-27T17:02:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eidolon909 \* > \*\*She didn’t seem to be expressing any anger there, chief. Why do I always need to repeat myself with you? What hijack? I said move the thread, end of story. \*\* Maybe it’s because I’m a fenian bastard. :rolleyes: You didn’t just say “move the thread” you said they should move the thread before you juped in and told everyone just what you thought of people who killed themselves. It was extremely innapropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/32 "2002-11-27T17:03:12Z")
My experience of contacting moderators is limited … but suggests that they do, in fact, respond as time permits. Patience may be a virtue in these cases … For whatever it’s worth, I agree that MPSIMS would be the most appropriate forum for that particular thread - if only because people in the Pit do, so often, feel they’re free to be complete arseholes. Saying so in the thread itself, though, comes across as distinctly snarky and insensitive. “The more outpouring of support the more irritating it would become.” ?? Blimey. Lighten up, Ebenezer. This board already has several resident curmudgeons, and we are not accepting new applications for that position at this time. ---
**Author:** ![Eidolon909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@Eidolon909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eidolon909)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/33 "2002-11-27T17:04:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > \*\*Wow, in the space since I wrote out my response, I see **Eidolon909** has been acting like an asshole. Dude, don’t get all defensive and make things worse. Step back, take a breath. \*\* Your concern is noted, but seriously, you’ve obviously missed my other threads. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/34 "2002-11-27T17:04:41Z")
Eidolon909, I read the offending thread; my take: while you’re right on the merits – the thread does indeed belong to MSIPMS, you were wrong to comment to anyone outside of a moderator. You may not be aware that the moderators work for dishware, and out of their own love of the board. They’re busy folks – they get sick, their pets die, they have to ban the occasional asshole – in short, they’ll get around to it. I don’t know about you, but for most of us, when someone close to us dies, we can’t always be expected to act logically, or fret over posting to the correct message board. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/35 "2002-11-27T17:06:44Z")
What a fucking jackass. Let me get this straight: 1. You see a thread in what you believe to be the wrong forum. 2. Said thread is full of condolences and emotional responses. 3. You drop your line, most likely seeing what kind of response it will get. (There’s a word for that, but I can’t think of it right now…) 4. You can’t possibly be trying to get the mods’ attention, because you are so versed in mod behavior in your long two months here, that you just _know_ that they don’t answer their e-mail. So a quick post in the thread in question should do the trick?!? Seriously, what the fuck is your problem? Mom didn’t pay enough attention to you? You grade school classmates would only talk to you or about you when you did something inappropriate? Learn some goddamn social skills you piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/36 "2002-11-27T17:06:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eidolon909 \* > \*\*No, because the Moderators on this particular board don’t answer their mail. \*\* Strange. _Every_ e-mail I’ve _ever_ sent a Mod/Admin has been answered. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/37 "2002-11-27T17:07:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eidolon909 \* > \*\*Actually, I was referring to your insinuation that because I suggested MPSIMS for her thread that I thought her grief was mundane and pointless. > > And if I’m not mistaken, dear jjimm, is English not Irish. \*\* Your post in the original thread implied that you thought nothing of her grief only that you might feel the need to let your opinions be know about suicide. So he is, Sorry **jjimm**! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/38 "2002-11-27T17:07:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tir Tinuviel \* > I seem to remember you making sme defamatory statements regarding **jjimm** proping up the bar, your justification - because he’s Irish. FYI **jjimm** is English living in Dublin but he’s not bad at proping up bars not Irish good but good all the same 😉 [quote] Maybe it’s because I’m a fenian bastard. \*\* You’re a stupid Fenian you forgetful bastard 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eidolon909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@Eidolon909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eidolon909)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/39 "2002-11-27T17:07:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manda JO \* > Yeah. I’m also aware of the fact that the expansive nature of the boards means that we don’t all need to try and compete for the audience of every individual thread–the most effective way to build and influence an audience is by devoting your time and resources to threads that allow you to _ **showcase your noteworthy insights and understanding** _ Alas, **Manda JO** I have none. Ask around. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/40 "2002-11-27T17:08:05Z")
I’m interested in hearing his opinion, period. I want him to say it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126.md?page=3)