I’d like to point out that 90% of the drama surrounding me specifically involved threads that either I started, or where people called me out specifically. It is not hard to avoid such threads, and if you have the inability to not open a thread that you think will bother you, I invite you to look within yourself and ask yourself what compels you to NEED to read less than a dozen threads out of the thousands on the board?
I also will point out that if people would have just let me have my threads the number of threads would be a lot lower. There wouldn’t have been any ATMB threads where people felt the need to defend me. There wouldn’t have been three separate threads on Mary Jo Kopechne in three different forums. There would have been just one.
Not fair. He was forced to move from forum to forum because of arcane, inconsistent, and arbitrary fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants rules. It wasn’t as though he opened four simultaneous threads. He opened one. People made a big stink over it. He complained in the appropriate forum, ATMB. Then when the mods balked, he opened one in IMHO, where he hoped confrontationalism would be minimal. Finally, he was relegated to the Pit.
So, your “Four…” is misleading. And what it conveys is not true.
You don’t get to “have your threads”. You post people respond.
Perhaps you should focus on fixing the things you post that get people biting at your ankles instead of continuing to do those things.
You are never going to be able to control other people’s behavior. Your best move is to withdraw from the thread and move on. You said what you wanted to say and there is no reason to continue to clarify or defend your comments. Some people will accept it at face value and others will think you’re no sincere. Ya can’t change that.
Free advice, mswas: when you’re in a hole, STOP DIGGING. Nobody had called you a troll in this thread, although Munch implied it, and that, too, was not appropriate for this forum.
No offence, but for the past few days, you’ve been averaging more than a hundred posts per day; that kind of volume is going to get you on the radar of a few people, and that’s not their fault. Maybe you should give things on here a rest for a little while.
Maybe people shouldn’t come to the apology thread just to try and get me riled up.
This is a very fascinating phenomenon, when people tell me that I am not able to control the behavior of others in the same post where they are trying to control mine.
Why? For the most part I am posting in threads that I have started.
The fact is, mswas should have known he was going to spark controversy and put it in the Pit where everyone knew it was going to end up anyway. I strongly disagree with your contention that he “hoped confronationalism would be minimal”, but no one has had any luck in divining the motivations of any posters around here lately. I can hope like hell that my shit won’t stink when I crap the bed, but it’s just not going to come up roses.
“Four” is not misleading, because “four” is the truth - it conveys that mswas’ name is attached to threads all over this place, which has largely contributed to the current tenor of the board.