No, that’s actually the correct spelling for the southern vernacular term.
Edit:That’ll teach me to skim a post. Ya’ll isn’t the correct spelling, y’all is.
Is that what y’all think?
Fer OG’s sake, young lady! You have a computer, an internet connection, and a browser that allows you to have multiple screens open simultaneously!
Agreed. If you’re getting shouted down here, it’s usually because you’re an idiot, not because you’re a woman.
Actually, according to what she said, she was being hit on by some guy who was older, who clearly had a girlfriend already, and who was offering money. And she’s either underage or just over it (given that she’s in high school. If you’ve ever met an 18-year-old, you know they’re not a ton different from 17-year-olds.) And she’s already, amazingly, gotten shit here for complaining about that.
So, in fact, she is getting shouted down for complaining about being a teenager who is being offered money for her, um, company.
I mean call me crazy but I guess I am sympathetic with a young woman who maybe is a little freaked out about being offered money for “companionship” by some dude on the bus. I am, in fact, so crazy that I don’t think she deserves to be blamed at all for not wanting such treatment.
But like obviously I am in some small, nutty minority, thinking that teenagers have a right to ride the bus without shouted offers of money for companionship.
She’s not getting shouted down for complaining about being offered money for her company - she’s getting treated like an idiot because she’s posting like one. If she had made a thoughtful OP about her problems in MPSIMS, the response would have been completely different. She’s just using this place as a toilet at this point, which is not to say that she can’t learn and become a contributing member here. She doesn’t seem too interested in that, though.
Okay, I saw people complaining about her complaining about the treatment she received. I’ll assume that that’s not typical and the creeper who claimed that “Firstly, from the information we have, the college kid’s sole crime was hitting on St_Jimmy” (elaborated further in his post, of course) is totally atypical of this place, and most people here, unlike him, wouldn’t think offering an underage kid money for companionship was okay. Or, like, was she wrong to complain about a guy offering her money in that circumstance?
So, call me crazy but I don’t think it’s asking a whole lot to be a bit compassionate to a girl after people tell her shit like that. I mean, that’s a fucking awful thing to say to a kid. I don’t even like children but even I think laughing at their difficulties at turning down offers of money for sex goes kinda far. Until now, I had totally thought that was a pretty normal viewpoint.
Okay, she is wrong for posting in the wrong forum, and thusly “using this place as a toilet”.
I agree that she deserves pretty much any insult possible after committing a crime like what you describe. Really, nothing is sufficient for a teenager who doesn’t immediately gauge the point of a web community. I mean, men attempting to purchase her for sex is just not enough punishment for using this place as a toilet, really, by any rational standard at least.
Jesus fucking Christ. Are you sure *you *are posting at the right site? I don’t know where the Oprah Group Hug message board is, but it sure as hell ain’t here.
Okay . . . um, I guess this is a website where people who are technically children get ridiculed for not being okay with offers of money for sex.
I uh literally was not aware that I should be okay with child prostitution before I agreed to post here, but thanks for informing me. Honestly, this helps me a lot with understanding this place.
St_Jimmy, girl, get yourself away from here, for god’s sake, just run and don’t look back.
It seems really unpleasant, to me at least, to not exercise just a little grown-up-style restraint when talking with kids. I understand that that is not the norm around here.
Mmmm, it’s like the anti- Qin particle…
Let’s hook them up 
So…
Our new poster, St_Jimmy writes a post which says:
And from this, you get that she was “being offered money for “companionship” by some dude on the bus.”
And then you go on to extrapolate that “children (are being) ridiculed for not being okay with offers of money for sex.”
Not content with that egregious exaggeration, you then really pull out all stops with accusing the SDMB of being okay with child prostitution.
I can’t wait for your next performance, where you will claim that those posting here support genocide.
No, this is a place where people get ridiculed for posting in the wrong forum. The OP is free to start a thread in another forum if she is looking for a shoulder to cry on.
That’s one of the weird things about this place. Sometimes it is the rule. Other times, any restraint is just coddling people and/or letting a troll get away with something. (Oh, the horror!) I honestly think this is one of the most moody places on the Internet.
hahahaha
She’s getting ridiculed for using the SDMB like Facebook/Myspace/whatever the cool kids are using for social networks these days. She finds this place, and immediately starts several threads about the various people in her life sucking. She’d get a lot more compassion if we actually KNEW her from previous posts. The differences between the SDMB and a social network is that we have a goal other than just social networking, and on a social network, your posts are put on an account so that people have to search you out, or have to be following someone else to see a reply. I have some posts on LJ and Facebook, for instance, but the average LJ/FB user isn’t going to see them, unless s/he searches for me in particular, or my interests, or has found me through a mutual friend.
I do have compassion for people who get hit on when it’s pretty clear that they don’t want this sort of attention. Been there, had it happen to me. Yes, it’s very unpleasant to downright scary. However, there’s a gazillion sad and angry people who have access to the internet, and frankly, I’m gonna reserve what compassion I do have for the people that I know a bit about. This particular poster expects the whole SDMB group, who are basically complete strangers to her, to be immediate friends and supporters. Some of us have been here for over a dozen years, and we know each other. We don’t know her. I’m outraged on her behalf, but I’m more outraged on the behalf of the people at Hollaback, for instance. I only have so much compassion (some days more than others) and I’m much more likely to be supportive of someone I know.
Don’t flatter yourself love, 99% of people on this site have no idea who you are or what you’re talking about. The other 1% don’t care.
You’re over-estimating your importance and your impact on this board.
(TLDR - lurk moar)
Well, it’s also a place where children don’t get coddled. Grow up fast or get lost.
Right now, we’re Qin-cultivating.
She’ll fit right in!
Why would you say that? You’re horrible! I HATE you!
DON’T LEAVE ME!
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