Finagle, are you trying to avoid every other word in my posts or something?
I thought it was funny though, fwiw.
Munch, you’re not sitting on a winning hand here.
jjimm - great suggestion. I can now while away dull meetings with a browser, yet no big giveaway graphics or logos. What a fantastic product.
Bruce, that’s hilarious! Did you actually do a search of all my posts, or did you remember that particular instance and looked for that?
Gary, I’m not looking to “win” here. Thanks for the concern, though.
Almost correct. I’m trying to avoid every word.
There’s a button for that, if you need any help.
Nah, I was browsing that thread. Greasy cheerleaders. mmmm…
LAME
Munch made a simple request and green_bladder posted with the explicit purpose of pissing him off. No, it’s not the end of the world, of course “someone was gonna do it” – that’s why he specifically asked in the OP that people not do it. g_b added nothing to the thread but his childish assholery. I was happy to see Munch link to this thread, because I had the same reaction. g_b is just the kind of person that reaffirms my faith in the overwhelming idiocy of humanity. Like a schoolkid pushing peoples’ buttons just to push them. That’s not humor.
It really is inevitable that you’re going to have some smartass doing the exact thing you’re complaining about. I posted an entry in my LiveJournal this morning about a behavior I’d been noticing, and wouldn’t you know it, the very first comment I got was a smartass doing that same thing. It’s annoying as hell, but it seems the more you get pissed off about it the more they’ll do it. Some people just get off on pushing buttons, I guess.
But it’s true! Once Munch posted that spoiler box, he didn’t come back to that thread. 
Unclench your sphincter and let that metal pole drop out of your ass, Munch. He posted a little spoiler box… he DIDN’T “shit all over your thread”. If it’s that big a deal, wait until you fucking get home to post… nobody else is responsible for YOU breaking your workplace’s rules. Maybe you should be pitting yourself.
Munch, I think that a lot of the dissonance comes from your concern that a spoiler box is some kind of heat-score at work. It seems hard to imagine that a one-line spoiler box is going to attract more attention than any other page with a huge blue and yellow banner at the top which exclaims
…and which is also peppered with a range of very professional-looking emoticons. :rolleyes: 
What the hell?
Hint: If your co-workers haven’t figured out that you’re slacking yet, a spoiler box is not very likely to tip them off.
Christ, SPOOFE, I don’t ask for much. But it would be nice if you were to pay attention. You don’t even have to read all the posts, but even some mere scanning could help you out here. To recap:
- I can’t wait until I get home to post. It’s not that I’m so anxious to gift everyone with my brilliance, it’s that I don’t have a connection at home:
- It’s not against my work’s rules to be on the internet. As I said earlier:
If you want, I can e-mail those two items to you, in case you don’t have the time to bother right now.
Upon preview:
Excellent observation, Larry Mudd. The first thing I do when the SDMB comes up is scroll down so the banner is hidden. But if someone brought a dog to your house and it crapped on your carpet, and you asked the owner to keep the dog outside, how would you respond if he said, “there’s already crap on your carpet. A little more won’t make a difference.”
The thing I’m having trouble with is the comparison of a thread you start with “your house”. I personally don’t think you have any right to try to dictate the behavior of people in a thread you start on a public message board. Saying “please don’t joke about X” in your OP is a guarantee that someone will come along and joke about X.
I think a better analogy that your dogshit one would be if there was a bar where a lot of people tend to gather on a given night. You try to start a discussion but you first announce that you don’t want anyone to say anything about sex during the conversation, because your wife is nearby and she’ll get pissed off if she thinks you’re talking about sex. Getting mad at the first joker who says “yeah, I really BONED up for that test, it was REALLY HARD” doesn’t make sense to me. Instead, either deal with your own situation so that other people’s normal behavior doesn’t get you in trouble, or stay out of the bar.
I think it’s hard for some people (well, me, at least,) to really “get” why you view spoiler boxes as something that might attract anyone’s attention at all, while other elements on the screen peg the page as a non-professional site from quite a distance. It seems like a bit of an idée fixe to me.
Modifying your analogy so that it suits my appraisal of the situation would yield something like a guy being tolerant of dogwaste and cigar ash on his carpet, but throwing a fit when someone comes in and exfoliates.
For the record, I do think that green_bladder’s post was bland, predictable, and unfunny-- I just don’t see it as something to raise your heartrate over.
Giraffe, absolutely correct. The “my house” analogy is false in that I don’t want to portray that I view a thread that I start with any ownership attached. People are certainly free to act on their own, nor are they beholden to me in any way. Your analogy is much more accurate.
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did you really think nothing will happen when you place a big red button in your op? and sweetening it by saying something to the effect “i’ll leave if you do!”. that’s weak.
your analogy is way off too. it’s more like…, when you’re having friends over for a movie and instead of simply asking them to switch off or silence their handphones, you make a big fuss of your hatred for ringing mobiles and add that you’ll leave the house if they do so. that’s just asking for it.
I read your posts, dipshit. Now read mine.
I dismissed this as irrelevent. The PERTINENT fact is that you’re breaking the rules of your workplace. WHY you’re doing it is extraneous garbage.
And this is even WORSE. You’re not concerned about spoiler boxes because you’re afraid of getting in trouble, you’re concerned about spoiler boxes BECAUSE YOU’RE AFRAID YOU’LL LOOK BAD!
Fucking stuck-up dick.
[spoiler]If you want, you can blow me.
And Rosebud was his sled.[/spoiler]
So you’re worried about spoiler boxes because of your image? Sheesh! Mountain, meet molehill.