[QUOTE=Anaamika]
Are you kidding What Exit. She is going to eat up all of this attention. She’s a classic attention-whore and this is coming from soneone who has a bit of that trait herself. I also think she’s a troll but then again she could really mean it.
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I really shouldn’t add to this thread but it seems like an appropriate time to repost what was said in Post #2.
Please don’t judge all Canadians by QG, most of us really are much more intelligent than you lowly Americans. 
[QUOTE=brownie55]
And still no reply to why she mischaracterized the thread about a way to indicate a Doper’s gender.
Wonder why that is?
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She can’t, because it would require admitting she was wrong, or that she lied. Can’t imagine her doing either of those things.
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
For instance?
I know what I don’t know. I don’t post about things I don’t know about. And if you look above, you’ll see that I do indeed acknowledge when I’m mistaken. I try to make every effort to ensure I’m posting correct information. I’ll frequently double-check things before I post and have often found that new information has come out since the last time I learned about something so I post the new information I’ve found. Of course, when it comes to posting opinions about what people post about their own lives, it’s pretty hard to verify.
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The arrogance and smarminess QG emits is palpable in so many of her posts. The above quote, though, it what got me to chime in. I have never understood the attitudes of people who don’t even entertain the idea that they could be wrong. Even if they research their posts or can’t independently verify other people’s personal lives, they could still be wrong.
You see, earlier it was posted that QG wished she could work among scientists. Well, I’m here (as one of those scientists) to tell her that her attitude just wouldn’t fly. I have always perceived QG as someone who, unless backed into a corner, or decided that there was no personal capital to be lost, will never honestly admit a mistake. I truly hope it’s a misconception, but that is sure how she comes off to me.
In science we research our ideas, thoroughly explore every possibility (like was described in the above quote) and when we are finally sure we’ve missed nothing…
…we take our results to someone else and ask “show me where I am wrong”. You start with assumption that you just don’t have it until you finally assure yourself that you could be right.
QG’s attitude which comes through in her posts is that she never challenges her own beliefs in her correctness. That challenge is not only internal (based on your own belief system, a self check as it were) but also external (does my world view jive with the way other people view the world).
You do not have to accept other people’s views, but they are there to help you examine if your own view of your ideas and assumptions is as correct as you think it is.
I’m not a prolific poster- I prefer to lurk and think of great things to write in my head and then decide that **WhatExit, Twickster, QtM or WhyNot ** (or many of the other terrific posters) will come along and say it better- so do with this as you will.
QG, just please remember, the scientist will always ask- “show me where I am wrong.”
It’s threads like this that make me wish I were capable of a meltdown worthy of a pit thread. Look at all the fun QG is having!
I’m pretty sure that, despite also being a 20something female Canadian, I really couldn’t do such a good job if I tried.
[QUOTE=Apos]
You guys think you have it bad here in the Pit: imagine what it’s like to have to deal with her in GD, where it half the time its painfully apparent that she doesn’t even read what she’s replying to, and her participation generally just tosses threads off into complete nonsense.
The other half of the time, she’s making utterly absurd claims like that the OT doesn’t proscribe the death penalty for things.
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That’s nuthin’.
Try agreeing with her. . . in the Pit. You agree with a tiny underlying point that’s pretty basic and fundamental and she layers it with so much snark and garbage that you end up cringing every time you open the thread because some people may associate her position with yours.
So go ahead. Try agreeing with her. . .on anything. . .in the Pit. I double dog dare you.
Hey, I was just about to say that.
“Isn’t that special?”
So I guess I don’t get why everyone is so irritated. I usually can’t stop laughing long enough to get irritated.*
*(Except when I’m cringing, of course. But even then.)
Oh, and, I’m pretty sure QG’s one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, too. I actually nodded at something gender-related that catsix said.
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
I don’t suffer fools gladly.
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You must have less mirrors than Medusa.
I didn’t have an opinion about you upon entering this lovely pit thread. I didn’t form one solely upon the posts here. However, I can plainly see that while you may post things I agree with, I most certainly disagree in the manner in which you post them.
I’m going to hardly go with IvoryTowerDenizen here, being a fellow scientist. Not only does (good) science ask for you to challenge yourself to be wrong, it asks that you gather data before reaching conclusions. You don’t do that. You claim that people are noting your behaviors in other threads and responding with ‘but I didn’t know about…’. Perhaps you should take the time to figure it out. Sure, it’s more fun to be the first one to get on the bandwagon, wouldn’t you rather be the fifth one on the right bandwagon instead of the first on the wrong one?
And yambling on about having ‘fans’. How assinine is that shit? No one wants to hear about that. Just like I didn’t need the instructer at today’s class going on about his effing daughter for the entire hour of lunch. That type of shit just makes folks go :rolleyes:. Mainly because the lazy ass mods, like Giraffe, haven’t got us our pukey smiley yet. 
On the plus side, if nothing else this thread has helped your coding. It went from shitty to decent in four pages.
[QUOTE=jsgoddess]
For the most part, you are like the woman at the movie theater with the giant hairdo. No one really cares how you do your hair so long as it isn’t obscuring the view of Colin Firth’s ass.
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Ooo - Colin Firth!
[QUOTE=Helen’s Eidolon]
It’s threads like this that make me wish I were capable of a meltdown worthy of a pit thread. Look at all the fun QG is having!
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Well, lemme try:
Durn you, Helen’s Eidolon! Your username always reads wrong in my head, and I think of Helen of Troy playing a violin. Or a mandolin. Or some stringed instrument that only shares about three letters of the second name of your username. I mean, what the hell’s an Eidolon, anyway? What? It’s a ghost? Oh.
sigh
Never mind, this isn’t working at all.
You’re not the only one!
[QUOTE=Ice Machine]
Please don’t judge all Canadians by QG, most of us really are much more intelligent than you lowly Americans.
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Yes, but most of you are just so nice about it that it’s hard to work up a good ire.
[QUOTE=kidchameleon]
I’m going to hardly go with IvoryTowerDenizen here, being a fellow scientist. Not only does (good) science ask for you to challenge yourself to be wrong, it asks that you gather data before reaching conclusions. You don’t do that.
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Help- does that mean you agree with me or not? I’m confused… :smack:
Hey- my kid stories in class are gold, I tell you, pure gold! (well, I try to keep them to a minimum…)
[QUOTE=WhyNot]
Durn you, Helen’s Eidolon! Your username always reads wrong in my head, and I think of Helen of Troy playing a violin. Or a mandolin. Or some stringed instrument that only shares about three letters of the second name of your username. I mean, what the hell’s an Eidolon, anyway? What? It’s a ghost? Oh.
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Oh yeah? Well, I’m way smarter than you because I know what my own username means. It’s so hard to be me.
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena]
The point is that you say over and over in that post that you have to change how you act around people, or just avoid them altogether, because of your superior intelligence.
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So? Yes, if I use big words and that upsets people (and it does), I quit using them unless I’m with someone who has the vocabulary. If people around me are talking about how stuff I find easy confuses them, I shut up. Not exactly sure what you’re getting at. I just get tired of editing so it’s nice when I don’t have to.
From the op:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8557818&postcount=1
From WhyNot:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8558209&postcount=18
[QUOTE=wring]
isn’t it a leap to a conclusion to assume that your detractors don’t “get” what you say? I generally will at least allow for the possability that ‘maybe I wasn’t clear’. even if (especially when) I thought I was. the presumption that some one merely doesn’t ‘get’ you is, well audacious/arrogant, especially in this crowd.
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If people want clarification, all they need do is ask.
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
It’s a Glomfustercluck. Get it right!
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And then try to say it fast five times after a few beers
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
If people want clarification, all they need do is ask.
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It’s not the reader who requires clarification!
This is the scenario: If you get a response that seems unexpected based on what you wrote, it’s you who asks yourself “did what I write come off wrong?”, NOT “those people just don’t get me, again” (or whatever).
That’s what is meant by “entertaining the possibility” that it could be you.
[QUOTE=faithfool]
So in other words, I think it’s very wise to consider all the imput you can have around you and the source doesn’t matter if it makes you more of the person you wish to be.
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You folks are acting as though you are the only humans I have ever encountered and that somehow, you strangers thousands of miles from me have a better insight into me than the real living breathing people in my life. You don’t. Not even close. And, if it’s all the same to you, it’s the people I live and work with and interact with regularly and care about whose opinion of me matters, not the opinions of a bunch of strangers. With the exception of a few people who I never see in the Pit, I’m not thinking that the Dope is a font of great wisdom. Logic, yes, often. Intellect, to some degree yes. People who write coherenly, praise the Lord, yes. People with very interesting experiences and information to impart, absolutely. Wisdom is rare and I don’t see vast quantities of it here.
That said, I do pay attention to what you write, because in the last trainwreck, you wrote some very sensible things to me which were extremely helpful. I think you think far too little of yourself, but then that’s often the case with people who are truly wise.
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
You folks are acting as though you are the only humans I have ever encountered and that somehow, you strangers thousands of miles from me have a better insight into me than the real living breathing people in my life. You don’t. Not even close.
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Of course not. People aren’t telling you to change your personality. They’re telling you to change your posting style which, I venture to say, we DO know better than all your friends IRL.
Do you seriously interpret either of those posts as “people admit[ting] to treating posters differently based on their gender”?
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
You folks are acting as though you are the only humans I have ever encountered and that somehow, you strangers thousands of miles from me have a better insight into me than the real living breathing people in my life. You don’t. Not even close. .
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One thing to consider- because you’re right- you should take the word of the people who know you best- is this:
On the dope we communicate in a far different manner than IRL. Most have suggested that the issue is in your writing style and tone-
IRL people see you facial expressions, a smile perhaps, to soften a comment. They see you work well at the office or volunteer and get a rounded picture and different types of interactions with you.
On the board it is one-dimensional… written- yet it is still real. Put the comments here in context- how you come off in a written format may be different than how you come off face to face. However, that doesn’t give you a free pass- just an opportunity to grow in a new area.
Om edit- What Helen said