There you go again, interjecting sunshine and light into a festering shitpile. 
Thanks. 
No. Learn to read. Her behavior was outrageous, disgusting and hurtful and the posters reacted to that on reflex. Just as you say you do when you find someone’s behaviour to be outrageous, disgusting and hurtful.
If y’all get to bitch about our behavior…you reap what you sow.
Wow. Impressive. Fuck off back to MPSIMS, lame ass, since you’re no good at this insult game. You keep trying, though. It’s pretty funny.
SA, being civil does not include accusing people of self-hating sexism and jackaldom. You’re no better than the people you condemn.
I’m so glad this thread has illustrated the merits of the so-called moralists. I feel that I can rest my case now, Starving Artist and QG having shown themselves to be full of shit.
Learn to discern. It’s ludicrous to compare anything I’ve said to what was going on in those other threads and even more ludicrous to pretend that anything I’ve said would have near the same effect. But then again, I guess you come by your screen name honestly.
What’s next? You gonna stick your tongue out at me?
It’s all a matter of degree, don’cha know. There’s a considerable difference between a slap and a beheading.
No one was slapped or beheaded. This is a message board. It’s all just words. You’re not a crusader for justice. You’re just a petty moralizer. Get over yourself.
I participated in the pit thread that was the impetus for our discussion. I know I posted to it well over a dozen times. Some where pretty much irrelevant, like me and Aeschines going back and forth over interpretations. But aside from that, the rest was mostly me wading in with input. So, doing my further reading here, I see that there’s some question about using specific cites to illustrate points. Well, since I try never to put out there anything I’m not willing to stand behind, I offer what I’ve written to be used to whatever end. If they’re too harsh/ass-kissing/stupid to live/beyond the pale or inhumane.
I promise that I won’t get upset, no matter what, about the perceptions you (generically) have about them and will indeed take any criticisms to heart, doing my best to change any egregious behavior. Beyond that, all I can do in addition to laying my opinions, willingly, bare, is to link to them to make this whole endeavor that much more simple and easy. If I can be of assistance, please let me know. Truly.
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Those all seem to be in chronological order and that I’ve not missed any. However, there’s been tornado sightings and everything going on around here, and in between the ISP acting up, I’m not positive that I haven’t left anything out. But I tried to include them all. Oh, and I always try to read through to the end completely before I add anything of my own. Sadly, with the weather such that it is, I’m pretty much doing this on a catch-as-catch-can basis. Please forgive me if someone else has already beaten me to the punch. Regardless, let’s do it.
Ah, Ruby baby*, truly you are irony made manifest. 
(With props to Dion and Donald Fagen)
I should’ve brought more paint.
I got through maybe four or five of those links before I gave up, reaching the conclusion that you are a needy attention whore desperate for validation. “Look at my posts, everyone! Praise me for how unjackal-like my posts were! Aren’t I just the bee’s knees?”
You’ve got nothing, eh? Go to bed now. This thread is pretty much over.
Yeah, you’re right. I’m outta here.
(For keeps this time.)
Why do I not believe you?
In other news, I’m back and am going through the original thread now to see if I can spot any jackal behavior, or if I was just on crack when I wrote my OP. (note to my enemies: I dont smoke crack)
Now see, that’s what I’m talking about. Ellis Dee has an opinion that could be completely valid. Being on the outside of myself isn’t an option, so I’ll just have to take his/her word for it. However, I truly, honestly, totally, completely only offered myself up as an example to use because I would not fight back if in a critique I was found wanting. It just appeared to be an impasse that we’d reached and someone, anyone, could facilitate moving forward. [ ::: shrug ::: ] As to being un-jackal-like, well again, I feel that’s up to one’s interpretation. And I have no desire to be an attention whore… you should just see how much that I do NOT post because I have no desire to fall into that category. 
By the same token though, I engage here for the same reason (I’m assuming) that others do, because I wish to have my ‘unique’ vision heard. So, I’m gonna continue to do that, while at the same time, trying to not necessarily make anyone (other than myself) go all hari-kari. Therefore, if other’s take issue with what I said, use me please. Maybe in some way I can be of assistance.
Where you in that thread too? If so, would you be willing to illustrate anyone’s feelings one way or another? If not, than I just thank you for your reply. That’s what I’m looking for, whether it ‘agrees’ with me or not. And I do apologize for the delay in kind, there’s still the storm and all.
Oh, and just so you know. Despite what I hope are my attempts at constantly remaining civil, it doesn’t mean that always happens. I put my shit on the plate because 1) I’m willing to stand behind it either way, 2) I may not always be the best judge of whatever I said and how it came across and 3) if I am a jackal (and I may well be), I’d sure the fuck like to know about it so that I can (in my humble opinion) correct my behavior.
I hope my overall posting history bears this out. Dunno what else to say though and I’m now off to watch a scary movie from my Netflix queu.
Nobody needs to “correct” their behavior because of a few whiny ass pussies who don’t understand the fucking Pit to begin with.
The mods/admins take care of the Pit pretty well, IMO, and have been doing so for the better part of a decade. And the Pit is pretty much self-correcting on it’s own.
We don’t need clueless self-righteous posters appointing themselves overseers of Pit behavior.
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Your posts were fine. Issues or no, you seem, from what I’ve seen so far, to remain quite civil.
As for Ellis Dee’s remarks, funny (really, not) how ‘attention-whore’ is tossed (that I’ve seen) at people who mostly aim to be reasonable but not at all the twits who try to out-badass each other in threads like this.
I’m starting to think the threads I’ve seen that we’ve been discussing might actually the product of high-school pissing contests in which each poster tries to out-morally-outrage each other. I guess the harder you whack at someone you think ‘done wrong’, the more virtuous we’re supposed to think you are. So to have a me or an Auto suggest that perhaps that much wrath is unwarranted might mean all that righteous outrage you managed to muster against a ‘sinner’ isn’t truly appreciated.
Maybe it’s not meanness after all. Maybe it’s just an epidemic of pathetic insecurity in which ego is stoked when people can attack with as much venom as can be mustered.
This is exactly what you’re doing. How can you stand to be such a hypocrite? All that amateur psychoanalysis is hilarious, btw. Don’t quit your day job.
Heh, word on that. That is possibly the funniest post I have seen so far from QG, the Dr. Laura of the Pit. Damn that was funny!
Okey dokey. I re-read those entire 12 pages, and now I’m honestly sick to my stomach. Ugh.
In retrospect, that thread was much less vitriolic than I originally felt. The vast majority of posts were trying to help, which in a way made it much more painful than a simple flame-fest train wreck. Still however, I did find a smattering of posts that encorporate what my notion of a internet jackal is. I left out any posts where the poster was chastised, or where I wasn’t sure of my personal interpretation of the matter.
Allow me to explain my metaphorical jackal, since my OP was too over the top to make it clear. A jackal is an internet scavenger that seeks out an easy meal. By this I mean a poster without a real point of substance to make, whose only purpose in posting in the thread is to attack and/or feel superior. This behavior at least in my mind reminds me of a pack of jackals swooping in after a wounded animal. Of course, in the original thread’s case, it was as if the wounded animal could be overheard saying “oh, please do try my leg, it’s scrumptious.” 
I’m too lazy to code links to individual threads, so anybody who gives a damn will just have to re-read the thread for themself. This will also hopefully prevent this thread from turning into a free-for-all, as I am not calling any of these posters jackals or trying to make me myself in turn feel self-righteous. The following posts are merely what I feel to be jackal-esque behavior:
111, 147, 169, 176, 234, 244, 245, 311, 494, 497, 511, 516, 558
So there you have it folks. For my OP, I still feel that the thread in general was what evoked my wrath, but upon re-reading those posts in particular stuck out. Make of that what ye will.