Yes, a tad over the top. At least we get to test how outrageously you can call someone a troll without a “real” warning.
Ogre, I’m not all that bad. If you read slowly and without rage-haze glasses, you’ll see I’m usually make a fairly rational point.
I really and truly appreciate the sentiments of everybody who took my side in this, I’m actually very touched for those who got irate over the rudeness aspect. I’m extremely sorry that something I started caused so much upset, especially for Ogre who for those who don’t know is a friend of mine in the waking and a bit protective by nature (as well as an all around brilliant and wholly decent person whose antipathy is reserved solely for those who are proudly and aggressively neither).
I visited the rhymes-with-spark website over there and find the posters more to be pitied than reviled (not to say I don’t or didn’t revile them, I just think they’re more pathetic than they are repugnant). But this has gone on enough. I didn’t make the OP (speaking of, much love Snakescatlady) but since I am somewhat responsible for it can I request this thread be locked?
As the OP, I have no problem with the thread being locked at Sampiro’s request.
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Horseshit:
Why did you want to post “I do not know Sampiro, and I am not interested enough to read the whole post about his mother.” if you didn’t find it either entertaining or desirable? What possible motivation could you have for posting that in a thread by a man watching his mother die??? And why wouldn’t I think you were immoral or ostracize you for making a remark like that?
I am not sure what you are on about here. I did not post any remark in that thread as you can see. I am sure there are many people who do not know Sampiro that did not read throught the whole post. I am not trying to be mean. It was not a thread that I wanted to read. I did not read the whole lot. I would not post a comment like Snakesonaplane ( I know that is his name. Why people correct me, I know not. People abbreviate. People often abbreviate my name to blink or blinking.So what.)
Now people will tell me off for now saying I did not read the post and said why here. Whatever. I am just giving my answer to the OP of this thread which I took to be speculation on the possible reasons why Snakesonanplane wrote his comment.
I am a little surprised here. I do not use a spell checker or anything. I often just write and do not go over my sentences with a fine tooth comb. But I am very surprised that you would say my posts are rife with spelling and grammatical errors. Can you give me any examples ?
I was trying to make a point about people admitting they have not read the whole OP. If he has not read the whole OP, then I am not sure you can accuse him of being a jerk because the OP was a very serious post about a guy’s mother dying. If he read the entire OP and understood it and then said he does not care about his mother, this is different, surely.
I do not know Snakesonaplane. Maybe he read the first line and thought the whole thing was a joke. I do not know. We cannot know unless we hear from him.
I went through all my posts here. I do not think there is one spelling mistake. There are a few typos. I missed out the word ‘I’ in one sentence. I repeated the word ‘that’ in one sentence. The grammar is okay. My punctuation is not great in some of those sentences.
The only spelling ‘mistake’ I can see is that I call ‘Snakes on a Plane’, ‘Snakesonplane’. As I said before, this is an abbreviation(maybe I spelt abbreviation incorrectly).
“Rife with spelling errors” is an overstatement on my part. My apologies – I got carried away with the rhythm of the sentence.
I do find your posts very hard to read – you omit key words in sentences, your capitalization is inconsistent and your placement of periods and commas is at odds with standard usage. An example:
Standard usage puts a space (two spaces, according to some) after periods. Hyphenated words do not have a space before the hyphen. Pronouns are not optional, and question marks are a good way to end sentences that are intended to be questions.
Am I nitpicking? Yes. The point is that, while you may have something to contribute, it’s hard to find it. I don’t think you’re unintelligent – you not only spelled “ostracize” correctly, you used it correctly. I do think you need to work on your written communication skills.
As I said, I made a mistake and left out the word ‘I’ in that sentence. The space put in ‘drive-by’ was a typo.
This sentence here- ‘Can I ask the moderator what was so terrible about Snakes on a plane’s post that should require such a response.’
There is no pronoun needed after ‘that’.
By the way, I do not use any ‘periods’. I only use full stops.
I am working on my written skills here. I know that I need work. People still do not understand the point I was trying to make.
There was no self-pity before. Some guy reckons I was asking disingenuous pseudo-questions. So obviously I have not been expressing my self well.
What I was trying to say here was - I would post the comment in this thread. Not Sampiro’s thread.
I was trying to say what someone else here has already said- namely --I have nothing against Sampiro and have no reason to bring him down, but I just don’t like his lengthy, family-based posts. That’s just my opinion and my choice.
I know I am using her exact words. The words I chose obviously did not convey my opinion correctly. Those words convey exactly what I feel as well.
DiosaBellissima was the person who said these words before in post #34. I hope you do not mind me using them too. Thankyou.
Get over it. We don’t use “full stops” here, whatever they may be. We use, oddly enough for a message board written in English, standard English (American or British depending on nationality) with standard conventions for spelling and punctuation. And I too have found some of your posts very difficult to decipher. Your “full stop” theory isn’t working, since I have been unable to tell where one sentence ended and the next began at times.
Oh, and btw, learn to use the QUOTE tags properly, okay? See that little icon above and to your right that looks like a cartoon speach bubble? That’s a set of QUOTE tags, in case you can’t figure out how to use the Reply button.
Speaking as “some guy” (and I happen to be female, although there’s no way you could know that), that’s certainly how you’ve come across to me personally. You have waffled in this entire thread between saying outright that you were also looking for a way to express to **Sampiro ** that his OP was too long and too dull to read, calling **SoaP ** a jerk, and defending/trying to “explain” SoaP’s rudeness. Tell me, do *you * have any idea what you mean? Because I sure as hell don’t at this point!
Here’s a very simple “Rule” for you and CarnalK and anyone else on a message board to follow: If it would be rude or unkind in person, it’s rude and unkind on a message board. If that’s what you want to be, enjoy! But don’t be surprised if you are then disliked or called to task for it.
Hey oy!, I think people in england call “periods” “full stops”, just sayin.
Thanks for telling me - if I ever knew that, I’d forgotten. You should also tell blinking that apparently Americans call “full stops” “periods,” since he denied using periods, only full stops.
I am pretty sure he knew that and was just, you know, making a little joke. That aside I do agree that while this is the pit, it is rude to insult people in threads about tregic events. Sometime though, not this time, but sometimes it is IMO ok. A good example is Spongemoms infamous thread. She was upset, but also incredibly stupid.
Well, I tend to agree. But death or severe illness/injury of a parent, SO, or child is off-limits. There’s such a thing as human decency. Btw, I haven’t seen this infamous thread - can you link, please? I could use something to take the taste of this out of my mouth.
And those are the type of people I tend to avoid in the real world - those that make noise just to be heard. And to do so only in response to a bet/dare is even worse, in my view. They didn’t have an opinion of their own until they were dared to come up with one. So I have no problem with the massive beat-down these two crap weasels are getting. And by extension, people that are defending this type of garbage also try my patience, although to a lesser degree.
Sampiro’s posts are lengthy. His style is in the tradition of the Southern gothic novels - long and rambling, but always with wit and humor. But not everyone prefers Faulkner to Hemmingway (or, lately, Dan Brown), so it’s no skin off of anyone’s nose if they don’t read it. Or don’t like it. But please, that doesn’t mean you (anyone that doesn’t like his writing) is duty bound to tell us, in the middle of his damn story.
You, a small minority of people who truly do not like Sampiro’s stories, have the right to express your opinion. But common courtesy (although not strictly a board rule) dictates you do not express same opinion in the thread. We, a vastly larger group who enjoy reading this man’s words, and in this case have nothing but sympathy and good wishes for him and his, have the right not to be subjected to your childish need for attention and generally boorish behavior.
That and no one is forcing you to open one of Sampiro’s threads and read it.
I thought about not linking so as not to re-open the pile-on, but its locked so I don’t see the harm.
Be honest - we’re all only here because we like the sound of our own voices a bit too much. Don’t get me wrong - the ire expressed in this thread is both genuine and entirely justified, but ask yourself why you really joined a message board, especially those who are members of others in addition to this one. And by “you” I mean members in general, not anyone in particular.
(I thought that after that whole spelling grammar/thing, it would be OK to take this a bit off-topic)
Sure, we all like to talk. But too much? I don’t necessarily think so. I think some of us like to converse. Or argue. Some folks talk a lot because they’re consistently entertaining. Some folks do because their life circumstances prevent their meeting or getting together with a lot of people in real life - **Eve ** in caring for her mom and working full time is an excellent example. Some people are cripplingly shy in person. There are as many reasons for joining a message board as their are for any other kind of socialization. Liking to hear oneself talk is only one.
And I think you’ll find over time that there is this unspoken, unwritten law that allows for any digression over spelling, grammar, or punctuation from any topic, without its being considered a hijack. It’s just part of what and who we are - a crowd of nitpickers, and proud of it! 