Hyperbole seems to escape you. So sad.
This one pissed me off. Opal’s looking for fake dashboard thingies for her brother’s car. Dopers help.
Post #9,
Bolding mine.
In post #11, jasg shares a link to Archie McPhee’s. Opal responds in post #12 with classic Opal:
It’s the dismissive, chiding tone of “See post #9” that bugged me. If Opal hadn’t been so anxious to get to the next thread, she might have remembered that she had just said she’d consider putting them in her own car if she could find them!
Why not simply thank jasg for helping?
I kinda wrote it that way… lol.
No, but here’s a Missing Poster for your perspective. It’s not that hard to be Opal-less. I rarely notice her as a poster and suspect this is a case of seeking out something to be mad about.
Over the past few weeks I have noticed her all the damn time. Again, I’m not on the warpath about this, but if you haven’t noticed her posting then it’s just a random fluke, because she’s been posting a lot. In a lot of different threads.
I wish I could get that on a T shirt!
If you haven’t noticed her lately, you have her on your ignore list. Or you’re blind. As other people in this same thread have pointed out, her posting rates have increased astronomically over the past several weeks. Good for you that you’re so Zen you literally cannot see what you wish not to see. Maybe you can start a monastery.
If you’ll re-read the thread, you’ll notice that I am not the only one that’s 1) noticed the increase, 2) noticed the patterns (both recently and for years), and 3) want to bitch about it. As much as you’d like to continue to pretend that this is a “failed” Pitting because I and the OP are the only ones annoyed, the numbers seem to be against you.
I just looked at her 25 most recent posts and of the threads displayed, 12 of them were greyed out signifying that I had opened them. That’s just under half, although she’s posted a couple of times to one of the threads which I only counted once so it’s actually a little over half. So in my inexpert opinion, I haven’t just missed the boat here.
I have no idea what this is supposed to prove. Seriously.
…and apropos of nothing, here’s another perspective. Her posts do tend to be retarded, annoying, altogether too personal, and dismissive. They are not inordinately so for this board in quality but far more so in quantity. It is not at all difficult to find a thread (sometimes dishearteningly so), as either an OP or a contributor, with her special brand of input.
In sum, I think its the cumulative effect of her specific brand of attention whoring that is remarkable. There’s lots and lots and lots of smarmy, lazy, TMI, “I’m a special brand of child abused vegetarian flower” attitude that gets annoying and is difficult to avoid.
I don’t have any particular opinion about Opal or whether she deserves to be pitted, but I will point out that I’m on this board every day and can’t think of the last time I read a thread in which she posted. And I haven’t seen this barrage of threads she apparently launched after Thanksgiving.
My point is simply to say that it’s possible to enjoy the SDMB without letting any particular poster ruin your day.
I never said it was a failed pitting. From the point of view of expressing irritation at another poster, it seems to be doing quite well. I only mentioned failed pittings because you seemed to think it was inappropriate of me to disagree with the OP, and the example of a failed pitting seemed like a good counterproof. Finally, I’m only talking to you because you quoted my post with an error and then a difference of opinion. I wasn’t planning on saying anything more until your post arguing with me.
And I don’t have anyone on my ignore list, actually. but I approve of its existence on a theoretical basis. I’ve never been that annoyed with someone. You may call it being zen if you like. I suspect it’s more a case of being easily distracted.
You said if I haven’t noticed her then I must have missed all the threads she’s been posting in. I have not, I’ve read fully half of the 25 most recent threads she’s posted in and remember several of her posts.
Furious George, I don’t know what to say to you. I was going to tell you that you can put her on your ignore list but apparently that answer’s not acceptable. (Hey, isn’t there a poster here famous for not accepting people’s suggestions when she has a problem?) If you think this pitting will change her attitude, then you’re more optimistic than me.
So, you did notice her posts. OK then.
In the way I notice yours or John Mace’s or Carol the Impaler or any of countless other posters. I haven’t noticed any trends, disturbing or otherwise.
Hey, remember when I reminded you that sometimes people post in the Pit just to vent, without really expecting anything to change?
Yea.
I don’t think it’s gonna change her attitude either. Especially, in that, her style is well supported, excused and protected.
As for iggy list, yeah sure, but that doesn’t invalidate a well deserved pitting.
Well, since Thanksgiving, you’ve posted 10 times. I’ve posted 120 times. As Dallas Jones pointed out upthread, Opal has posted 750 times. If you haven’t noticed, it’s because you aren’t paying attention. Or hang out exclusively in the Pit and the Game Room.
Heh. That is beautiful.
“What can I use to make vegetable broth?”
“Well… you could use vegetables…”
“Nah, I don’t want to use those.”
<drives knitting needles into eyeballs>
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not denying Opal has done all this posting. I’m just saying it hasn’t ruined my little corner of the Dope (mostly Cafe Society lately, with a smattering of Great Debates, General Questions and the Pit thrown in).
You’re right that I’m not paying attention, in the sense that I don’t particularly look for Opal’s contributions or even notice when I do stumble over them. Apparently, I’m happier in my ignorance than the people who pay attention to her.
PS – 10 posts since Thanksgiving? That’s quite an explosion for me. Didn’t realize I was getting so chatty. 