If a kid wants to lurk around a board like the SDMB, feel things out a bit, and still choose to post stupid, cryptic OP’s - they get what they get. Who knows what she googled in the first place to find the Pit, but it’s obvious it’s the only forum she even looked at, and obviously not for long before starting her own threads.
Did you even read the thread that got all this started? It took a zillion posts of squeezing a fucking rock to even get out of her what the fuck she was getting on about. She posted the equivalent of a FB update that says: “sigh.” Which is certainly the kind of thing that gets a lot of people kind of riled up. Because the only reason people post shit like that is to see how many comments they can get of people asking, “Oh, what’s wrong?” “Poor sweetie,” and “Aw, can I help?”
The fact that she’s managed to get multiple pages of responses out of the people here, without saying much of anything at all, speaks volumes of trollishness to me. If she’s really 17, she’s immature, but not a child - I’ve never met a 17-year-old who I would characterize as a child - and posting on a message board that is clearly populated by not-teenagers is a risk she gets to experience in all it’s glory all on her own.
I think the problem (not really a beef or anything) I had when I first encountered your post is that it seemed so random and left out critical context that was important. Your post felt like a facebook status update as opposed to a topic for thread-goers to discuss.
The hate going on in these threads has nothing to do with her post content or attitude. It’s her age. Dopers are old, fat, and lonely. They hate anyone young and healthy that gets attention. If you’re under 35, keep a low profile. If you’re under 25, try not to post at all, unless it’s to honor the oh-so-wise posters here that are clearly past their prime. Y’see, Dopers HATE when any young person dares to enter their sandbox and they’ll do anything to make that person feel uncomfortable so they’ll leave the baby boomers alone.
Wait, I thought that we hate because are anti-women. Or because we encourage child prostitution. Now you’re saying it’s because we’re old? It’s hard to keep up here.
So to sum up, we’re all old, anti-women, child prostitution lovers, and that’s why we hate.
ETA: Whoops, sorry Lamia, we forgot to hate you. I guess we just missed you. Or you don’t post like a cretin. One of the two.
Are you and Johanna having a “dumbest post of the thread” contest? I thought she had it nailed up with the hilarious “dey hate our WIMMENZ!” shriekery, but damn if you aren’t a surprise contender.
Plus, wanting to use her own money to buy stuff has nothing to do with being insulted. If someone offers you money for sex, are you pissed because you were being taken for a whore, or because you don’t need the money?
Doesn’t pass the sniff test.
ETA: What high school student refers to a college student as a “college kid”? College “guy”, maybe, but when you’re a kid yourself, you don’t refer to someone older than you as a kid.
Actually, these are exactly the kinds of comments I expect. Verbal abuse and I go well together. While I may be brought down a little on the inside by other’s words, I’m not one to let that get me down. What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger. I like to read over everyone’s comments, whether upraising or insulting or just plain mean. They help me know what I should change, to better myself as a person.
This child is too lazy to use a dictionary, or even figure out that there is a DICTIONARY.COM, but she thinks she’s going to get her finals down pat?
She supposedly has enough mylenated brain cells making just enough synapses to register with this site and post her mundane facebook drama but can’t arsed to look up a word.
Either really dumb or troll. I’m going to hope troll.
Whatever. I identified the reference on page one of this thread, and still have the keen ability to recognize the annoying whinging of Teenagerus Americanus
I will give the OP for one thing, though: thank you, thank you, thank you for posting with full sentences and appropriate punctuation rather than textspeak. Seriously, thank you.
That’s the part I really don’t get. Even if you’re not interested in the subject matter, it’s not like she posted with ellipses or unnecessary "OK, so"s. Other than the occasional CAPS EMPHASIS, she didn’t even do anything annoying.
So WTF is everyone’s problem? Sometimes I think the Pit posters just climb aboard whatever band wagon the first replier pulls up with.