# 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:** 3
**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, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/41 "2002-11-27T17:10:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\*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?!? > > \*\* You know, I really wish people would stop waving their reg date and post count around like its some fucking trophy. You have no idea how long I’ve been on this board/read this board. Only that this particular ID has a recent reg date and a relatively low post count. But hey, anyway you need to compensate, sunshine. ---
**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, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/42 "2002-11-27T17:11:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Alas, Manda JO I have none. Ask around. If you have nothing noteworthy to say, how do you expect your “meandering soliloquies” to garner "the audience they bring? ---
**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, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/43 "2002-11-27T17:12:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > \*\*I’m interested in hearing his opinion, period. I want him to say it. \*\* We would have to start a new thread in “In My Humble Opinion” 😃 ---
**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, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/44 "2002-11-27T17:12:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\*Strange. _Every_ e-mail I’ve _ever_ sent a Mod/Admin has been answered. \*\* Guess its just me then. I have several e-mails that have gone ignored or unread. :shrug: ---
**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, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/45 "2002-11-27T17:13:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manda JO \* > \*\*If you have nothing noteworthy to say, how do you expect your “meandering soliloquies” to garner "the audience they bring? \*\* I was referring to board users in general. People post here because they want other people to read what they have to say, no? Or maybe I’m missing the whole point of this “message board” thingy. ---
**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, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/46 "2002-11-27T17:14:09Z")
Feck ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/47 "2002-11-27T17:16:26Z")
Gee, this is the first time anybody’s ever been tactless in the Pit. I’m shocked, I tell you, _shocked_. Since we’re all just kinda throwing our opinions around here, I’ll toss in a few of mine. 1. Eidolon was right, if tactless. MPSIMS is generally the “tea and sympathy” forum, and I didn’t understand why it was in the Pit, either. 2. Sometimes I don’t get a response to my moderator e-mails, either, but I just assume that that’s because the moderator in question is too busy reviewing his jackbooted Nazi troops to come to the phone. 3. Twisty, I don’t think we needed a Pit thread just to chide someone for being tactless. You’re devaluing the whole Pit experience here, mate, and what will the harvest be? Soon we’ll have Pit threads taking issue with increasingly trivial offenses, like grammar and punctuation and spelling… Oh wait. Never mind. 😃 ---
**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, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/48 "2002-11-27T17:18:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*Gee, this is the first time anybody’s ever been tactless in the Pit. I’m shocked, I tell you, _shocked_. > > Since we’re all just kinda throwing our opinions around here, I’ll toss in a few of mine. > \*\* DDG, you need to leave _immediately_ no reasoned, rationale thought is permitted in this thread. I’m very sorry. ---
**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, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/49 "2002-11-27T17:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > I was referring to board users in general. People post here because they want other people to read what they have to say, no? People talk in breakrooms and at bus stops becuase they want people to hear what they have to say. But if they jump into someone else’s story with a lound “Phhhh, my opinion on that would piss you off”, their behavoir is rude. There is a difference between wanting people to hear what you have to say that is worthwhile and a need to have people hear every thought that trickles through your brain–regardless of how insensitive, inappropriate, and mistimed it might be. You’re a teacher, no? You teach because you have something to say to your students. That dosen’t mean you say **everything** you might think to say to your students. ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/50 "2002-11-27T17:19:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eidolon909 \* > **You have no idea how long I’ve been on this board/read this board. Only that this particular ID has a recent reg date and a relatively low post count.** Errr … you do remember that registration agreement thingy, right? And the bit about registering under multiple IDs being a complete no-no? Suggesting that you’re a sock or a returning troll is _not_ your best move in the current circumstances … ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/51 "2002-11-27T17:20:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\*Strange. _Every_ e-mail I’ve _ever_ sent a Mod/Admin has been answered. \*\* Don’t you know, Fenris, it’s because _we’re in the clique_. :rolleyes: Seriously, Eidolon909, you come across as a big jerk. Everything I have seen posted by you in the short time you’ve been registered has been inflammatory or rude or deliberately mean. Get over yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/52 "2002-11-27T17:21:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eidolon909 \* > \*\* > > You have no idea how long I’ve been on this board/read this board. Only that this particular ID has a recent reg date and a relatively low post count. > > But hey, anyway you need to compensate, sunshine. \*\* So it seems to me that you are saying that you have multiple IDs here. I wonder what the unresponsive mods will think of that? As to suicide, all I can say is it’s a pity you didn’t try it before you discovered the SDMB. ---
**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, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/53 "2002-11-27T17:24:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manda JO \* > \*\*People talk in breakrooms and at bus stops becuase they want people to hear what they have to say. But if they jump into someone else’s story with a lound “Phhhh, my opinion on that would piss you off”, their behavoir is rude. > > There is a difference between wanting people to hear what you have to say that is worthwhile and a need to have people hear every thought that trickles through your brain–regardless of how insensitive, inappropriate, and mistimed it might be. > \*\* MJ, may I call you MJ? You’re obviously a mental health professional, or someone with a high degree of education in the associated disciplines. Am I wrong? Then it should go without saying that the normal social rules and schemas that apply to _real life_ don’t hold for the internet. Perhaps the enlightened individual would desire internet behaviour to mimic those of public, social settings. I’m not one of those enlightened individuals. _inside, the terrible freedom_ ---
**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/54 "2002-11-27T17:26:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\*So it seems to me that you are saying that you have multiple IDs here. I wonder what the unresponsive mods will think of that? > > As to suicide, all I can say is it’s a pity you didn’t try it before you discovered the SDMB. \*\* Thats your ignorant assumption. Wishing death on someone? Now thats a class act. Um… I hope a truck hits you. There. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/55 "2002-11-27T17:27:40Z")
Sheesh you guys. When I read his comment I thought he meant to imply that: 1. The OP was probably mistakenly put in the pit and it should be moved. 2. Out of respect for the subject it should be moved. I could understand her putting it in the pit if the thread was more along the lines of “My selfish friend killed her self, what a jerk”, but she did not express those feelings. Others might believe that she meant to, and then make comments expressing so which would only lead to hurt feelings and flames. ---
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/56 "2002-11-27T17:30:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > \*\*Errr … you do remember that registration agreement thingy, right? And the bit about registering under multiple IDs being a complete no-no? > > Suggesting that you’re a sock or a returning troll is _not_ your best move in the current circumstances … \*\* The only one suggesting anything is you. One does not need an ID to be a lurker… or a number of any other possibilities. But yes, feel free to jump on the worse case scenario. No rules have been violated. I’m sure you’re dissapointed. ---
**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, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/57 "2002-11-27T17:32:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \* > \*\*Sheesh you guys. When I read his comment I thought he meant to imply that: > > 1. The OP was probably mistakenly put in the pit and it should be moved. > > 2. Out of respect for the subject it should be moved. I could understand her putting it in the pit if the thread was more along the lines of “My selfish friend killed her self, what a jerk”, but she did not express those feelings. Others might believe that she meant to, and then make comments expressing so which would only lead to hurt feelings and flames. \*\* Look, like I told DDG, no rational posts allowed. Only hatred and vitriole. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/58 "2002-11-27T17:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > _From Manda JO_ > If you have nothing noteworthy to say, how do you expect your “meandering soliloquies” to garner "the audience they bring? I would say this thread sort of answers that. I admire your optimism here, but when something looks, swims, and quacks like a duck, I strongly suspect that it’s not a fish. So to speak. ---
**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, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/59 "2002-11-27T17:34:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \* > \*\*Sheesh you guys. When I read his comment I thought he meant to imply that: > > 1. The OP was probably mistakenly put in the pit and it should be moved. > > 2. Out of respect for the subject it should be moved. I could understand her putting it in the pit if the thread was more along the lines of “My selfish friend killed her self, what a jerk”, but she did not express those feelings. Others might believe that she meant to, and then make comments expressing so which would only lead to hurt feelings and flames. \*\* I think that’s a little generous. Seems to me that Eidolon just wanted to be noticed, and to have someone ask him what his view of suicide was. > [@](#): > > No rules have been violated. No, but common decency has been completely shit upon. DNFTT. ---
**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, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126/60 "2002-11-27T17:35:56Z")
> [@](#): > > You’re obviously a mental health professional, or someone with a high degree of education in the associated disciplines. Am I wrong? Actually, I’m a high school English teacher. > [@](#): > > Then it should go without saying that the normal social rules and schemas that apply to real life don’t hold for the internet. Wait, wait, wait. My entire point was that adults are not under any compulsion to share everything they feel. YOu seem to be saying that this is true for real life, but not the internet. Are you sugggesting that you are under some sort of compulsion to share everything you feel? > [@](#): > > Perhaps the enlightened individual would desire internet behaviour to mimic those of public, social settings. I’m not one of those enlightened individuals. I don’t thnk it’s so much about being enlightened as it is about being effective: people that do not adhere to basic social formulae in any situation soon find themselves maginalized, which contradicts your statement about finding an audience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eidolon909-just-for-you/139126.md?page=4)