Here on the boards, so far, their have been few polite people here. Most of the people I’ve encountered are rude jackasses who take it up on themselved to attack new people.
I posted a poem, then had someone post it in the pit, which was followed by a bunch of jerk posters insulting it. I did post it in CS to have it critiqued(and I also wanted the opinion of the mods).
And secondly, the mods are trying to hold me down, closing all my threads for no good reason…
SSA,
This is my best effort, please accept it or don’t.
This is a fairly tight knit community of really decent people who do their best to oppose wrongheaded attitudes and much else of humanity’s foolishness. Your landing here, while spectacular, has been rather abrasive (this, from the King of Abrasiveness[sup]™ [/sup]).
You may have heard this a lot already but it bears repeating, take your time. Lurk a bit and try to launch threads that are not focused upon criticism of others or any sort of spitefulness. Show a gentle demeanor and it will go a long way here abouts. I’ll not dwell upon our own interactions and instead try to point you towards a successful path at these boards.
This place is one of the most outrageously fine locations on the net. Don’t abuse your position here and, most likely, you’ll not be abused either. You’re not being held down by the mods and you’re not being treated unfairly. Trust me, I know. Read my most recent Pit thread to get some perspective. Hurt any of our family at these boards and we’ll most likely make your life miserable. No threat, no promise, just fact. Again, take your time, be cool and do your best to be a genuine contributor here. If you can do that, you’ll find some of the best friends you can meet or have.
Again, this is from someone that many people hate, or dislike at best. I’ve managed to survive here for several thousand posts. Take my advice and you’ll probably last for twice that many. Don’t and there’s a chance that you won’t. No hate, no anger, no animosity, no sarcasm, no irony, just some words straight from my flinty heart.
Warmest Personal Regards,
Zenster
FWIW, I think a lot of people outright didn’t get your sense of humor, and when you went on assuming they did, an air of hostility arose from that. In a written medium there is often large room for miscommunication and misunderstanding. It is far better to err on the side of being too clear than hoping your audience understands you.
Sit down, relax, don’t try to be Mr. Popular (Polycarp has that crown and I don’t see anyone dethroning him for a while;)), and get a sense for the people behind the screen names:)
The night is beautiful and you light it up like a firefly.
StupidSmartAgain, I’m afraid that last post only lives up to the first part of your name.
I gave you advice in yesterday’s debacle, but you almost completely ignored it and went on rather nastily insult someone. That’s one of the things which got you in trouble.
Right now, you’re acting like an attention-whore. I can sympathise – I tend to be a bit of one myself – but that won’t work around here. Even if it doesn’t get you banned, it will lower people’s opinions of you until they can’t get any lower.
You spoke of rude people and jackasses. From what I’ve seen of you, you’ve spent most of your time here acting like a jackass yourself. If you want people to talk to you, rather than braying at you, you might want to stop hee-hawing yourself. A lot of us understand what it’s like to be obnoxious, anti-social teenagers – I was pretty expert at it myself. This is one place, however, where being a teenager doesn’t make a difference. Just ask iampunha, agentfroot, or any of our regulars who still are teenagers. If I’m wrong, and you’re not a teenager, ask yourself how I got that impression and if it’s worth it to you to change it.
You’ve already ignored my advice once, so I don’t expect you to follow it again. On the other hand, you remind me of some aspects of myself. This isn’t an easy community to offend, but if you deliberately insult people here, you’ll do a very good job of it. We’ll give you a break or three, but not if you throw them back in our faces. You’ve shown us the first part of your name. Want to show us you can live up to the second and third parts of it?
CJ
“I gave you advice in yesterday’s debacle, but you almost completely ignored it and went on rather nastily insult someone. That’s one of the things which got you in trouble.”
Show me where I nastily attacked another person without merit. Chances are, they were deserving of what I said.
Also, I an not a teenager. 
Since you asked, cite.
Also, the reason I thought you were acting like a teenager is because you were acting like one, in my opinion. That’s not related to chronological age, just the tone of your posts.
As to whether or not Seven meritted what you wrote, that, too, is a matter of opinion, and ours clearly differ. To me, what Seven wrote wasn’t entirely unfair. I suspect my opinion of you also differs from your opinion of yourself right now. One thing to keep in mind when it comes to opinions. Whether you like it or not, moderator’s and administrators opinions on some matters do matter more than the rest of ours, especially when it comes to being a jerk. If you are unwilling to put up with that, I’m told there are other message boards.
CJ
You post some serious issues you’re having at these boards. You wonder why you’re being treated in such a fashion. Two longtime posters come in and give you applicable advice. You reply with the above unresponsive and immature drivel. Expect to be flamed, you’re an attention seeking clown. Until you learn to be cogent and respectful, don’t hope for anything that’s much different from what’s been happening already. If, indeed, the mods are holding you down, I’m grateful to them.
StupidSmartagain, there are only so many times people around here will tolerate someone shitting on the boards. Like one, if that. We are not here to validate you in any way, shape or form. We are not required to hold your hand, take you in as our own, or otherwise so much as acknowledge your presence in a positive way. Nobody here has been given what would be the arduous task of “Taking care of the newbies.”
That said, most of us will give you a break if we can see that you’re trying, or you don’t mean to be doing what you’re doing, etc. Exhibit effort and you’ll go further than you have.
But do not think that, after 75 posts, you have some sort of claim to the welcome wagon:)
Siege, it’s interesting that you say that, because most of the teens on the board don’t get thought of as such because they don’t act their age. Then you have people who come in and don’t act their age … but in the bad way. I haven’t been a teenager since around fall of 2001, btw, in case you’re keeping track;)
If you only wanted people who liked your poem to respond, you should have been more explicit. Then again, you probably would have been complaining about the lack of repsonses.
Haj
“HAY GUYZ WAT IZ GOIN’ ON IN THIS THRED??~” <— One sure fire, guaranteed and absolutely rock solid way to intensely piss off almost everybody at these boards all at the same exact same time. If you doubt me, just keep it up and see what happens.
How old are you SSA?
…yet?
Q.E.D when you hit 4000 (in about three minutes) what are you going to do to celebrate?
I dunno. Where’s that cutie KCSuze or Loneraven? Or maybe both. No, I’ll save both for 5000. Yeah, those two, a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream, and some light jazz. There you go.
:rolleyes:
I got plenty of good responses when I orginially posted it.
Bwaaaahahahahahahaha!
Most excellent, Q.E.D.. Happy (soon to be) 4K!
PS: Keep it up with the obtuse crap, SSA. That way no one else has to help you dig any deeper.
So, Zenster. Am I to assume your not makiing me an apology(something I had to apparently give if I was wrong), in that pit thread?
Are you even going to respond to it? Or are you going to continue to rage against me, forgetting that my example was valid?
Whoa, there SSA; Zenster tried earlier in this thread to give you some helpful advice, despite whatever issues the two of you had in this Pit Thread earlier. When you continued to be an absolute twit in response to his efforts, he called you on it. I think that hardly counts as “raging against you,” SSA, that’s called getting what you deserve, a dose of your own medicine, or maybe, calling a rose a rose, or, in this case, calling “obtuse crap” “obstuse crap.”