I don’t think Maureen was assuming you’re a female. I call many dudes cunt princesses.
It is the Pit, after all…
Discretion is the better part of valour. No speculation as to the cause of Aesiron’s unemployment was necessary. Nor could a reasonable deduction be made from the information in that single post. Making such a comment was unwarranted and the content unsupported. legion has done the right thing by apologizing. It was a fine action to take. Second only to the best thing he could have done, which would have bene to refrain from making a judgement in the first place.
You seem to be saying throwing judgements around based on a single post in a single thread is just ducky. I would not recommend making this a habit. People have every reason to complain about unsolicited value judgements of their lives.
Enjoy,
Steven
Bravo, Mtg. If someone posts only that they ate Wheaties for breakfast; I’m not going to assume they used urine vice milk to make the flakes soggy and digestable. I’m sure legion was only being funny (and it was pretty funny IMHO) and he or she or it (remember, no assumptions) apologized when Aesiron was offended. Uzi’s defense of legion was misplaced.
I thought it was funny, too. It was the reaction to the joke that bothered me. He made a joke based upon the information he had just as anyone else may have done. As you see all the time here and elsewhere. If the person offended had an objection to the joke based upon information they had withheld from their original post then give the extra information eg.
“I am unemployed because I was hit by a truck and have been pretty fucked up ever since because of it, but I can see how you’d think otherwise based upon what I said, lol!”
If Legion wanted to apologize then I wouldn’t have said anything. Yet, they jumped on him for being an insensitive ass based upon nothing more than that single post. Kind of the same thing they were accusing him of, don’t you think?
Yeah, you’re right, also. I wasn’t attacking you. And if i was the recipient of Legion’s post, I would have thought how clever and funny it was.
This seems as good a place as any to make this point, but lately I’ve felt less and less inclined to make any comment in any thread.
I don’t think I’ve lost interest in the issues discussed in some threads, but I rarely feel I’ve got much to add.
So, I lurk, therefore I am.
And I was so close to 1,000, too.
So what’s the weather like in Everett? Been a while since I’ve been in that neck of the woods, but I used to live in Seattle…
What is the appropriate forum in which to Share Mundane Pointless Stuff that you wish for?
:rolleyes:
Lookk who’s talking. You’ve MADE your 10,000 posts. What about the rest of us, hunh?
I’ll join in - FUCK YOU. You try getting hit by a car and see how you feel.
Of course I didn’t see the very nice apology. Knee, stop jerking. Legion, apologies.
When I have been hit by cars, it hasn’t felt very good, I must say. Of course it was only the once, and the car was moving quite slowly, so I don’t really know how I would feel now if I was to be hit by a car, especially if the car was moving quickly or I was moving quickly.
Absolutely. Calling legion an insensitive ass or impugning his character in general based on that post would be unsupportable. Calling that particular post assholish and referring to him as an ass in response to that statement is more reasonable, or at least understandable. Not the best way to win friends and influence people, but the most visceral reaction was from Aesiron and it was also the most understandable as he was the object of the comment.
Point the first, the joke was not obvious to everyone. I know people in real life who would make that same statement and mean it as a joke and I know people who would make that same statement and mean it as a character judgement. Some people have a dry sense of humor, some are just venomous bastards/bitches. Assuming your humor will be understood, especially in a text-based medium, is like playing with fire. At least some of the time you will come off sounding like a venomous bastard/bitch.
Point the second, being offended, on your own behalf or on behalf of a friend, at what is percieved to be an unsolicited character judgement from some random person based on their own assumptions about your/your friend’s life is a completely understandable response.
Enjoy,
Steven
All of which shows that message board interaction can be quite different from real life interaction.
Message boards afford one the oportunity to really think out what one is about to say and also to be able to say a lot of things at once. So, the danger is that one’s post might be taken at face value as some sort of censure because we make an assumption that the poster means exactly what they say, since they have the opportunity to really put forth some effort in what is said. Plus, we lack the oh so subtle visual cues which often make it extremely obvious whether something is meant to be taken at face value or as a joke.
So, when someone says you deserve to hit by a bus, someone way think they are wishing actual physical harm to come to you.
Of course, on the other side of the coin… Just because we have the option to really think about what we are saying and how it presented in a MB format, doesn’t mean that we actually do. Often, we post without thouroughly thinking things through. How is the subject of the posting to know? Unless we are already very familiar with their posting style, we probably can’t. Likewise, perhaps the subject and the poster are familiar, yet others in the thread don’t realise it. Then, an inside joke/jab looks like a hateful attack. Who’s to blame then? I say, Canada.
Note to: C K Dexter Haven, and continuation of a ‘thread’ of conversation from the closed ATMB thread…
Sarcasm was unnecesary. I percieved you as directly acusing us members of intent to deliberately sabotage the message board and took offence to that. I’m not saying we accidentally post in those threads. :rolleyes: I’m saying that doing so is far from a ‘deliberate attempt to sabotage’ anything. We’re better than that, come on!
Then you corrected yourself and said in your opinion they should be treated as such. I disagree still, but you are in charge here so whatever. IMO they should be treated as unnecesary use of SDMB bandwidth and deleted accordingly, not as deliberate sabotage!
Actually I don’t want to continue with this futile excercise. I’m probably being an ass about it anyway.
Don’t you see? Getting rid of a few years worth of threads wouldn’t correct the situation at all! But two or three game threads will bring the board crashing to its knees! Won’t somebody think of the bandwidth? AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!
Canada has apologized several times for Celine Dion.
From the attitudes displayed in my ATMB thread, I’ll wager that this ‘argument’ is a pointless venture. Can’t say I didn’t try.
One thing for all of us to remember: It just doesn’t matter! Not terribly much, anyways. Sure, I pays me money t’ be here, I participate in thoughtful discussion of any number of topics, but try to simply enjoy myself? “Sorry! You’re a jerkish troll!” :rolleyes:
Have fun with the rest of this thread. But don’t let it become yet another deliberate sabotage attempt.
Seriously, what’s the point of any further discussion? Especially now that we know that there is a server problem once again. Seems all the fees are going to a good place. Where? Not any upgrades. But, that’s another topic for a future time.
Did you miss this thread?
SDMB Transitioning To New Host
Or are you claiming that wasn’t an upgrade?
I sure thought it was an upgrade.