http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=96741
May not be my place, but a lot of people were concerned.
I believe the situation has been noted by the administration, and appropriate action (whatever it may be) is being or will shortly be taken. As with many such things, there’s probably more going on behind the scenes, or still to come that we don’t know.
On the face of it, it does seem like the little Squirrel who cried “Wolf”… but there could be extenuating circumstances, so let’s not be too quick to judge. Perhaps he wrote it as fiction, meant to continue, but was drawn away for some reason and has not been able to post.
At least I now know why absoul’s thread was closed… Euty had me scratching my head before I read this.
Yeah, it’s over, so there was no need for this thread, eh? 
Hamlet, next time, just e-mail a mod, 'kay? This kind of finger-pointing just gets everybody upset.
Pretty bullshit, if you ask me. It’s definitely the sign of some who needs some help… or a good ass-kicking.
It all kinda sucks because that list of people who I’ll never respect or even respond to hadn’t been used is so long that I threw it away.
I guess it’s time to break out a new one and put SqrlCub’s name on the top of it.
Jerk.
*Preview reveals-
"Hamlet, next time, just e-mail a mod, 'kay? This kind of finger-pointing just gets everybody upset."
Come again?
You’re saying the response to that bullshit needs to be kept quiet and in e-mail?
Unbelievable.
I agree. I feel the people on this board have been used. And for what reason? So it should be discussed openly.
Used… that’s the word I was looking for Reeder, thanks.
Used. Used for the sole purpose of stroking the ego of the imbecile who wrote it.
Who was the last person that pulled this stunt? Little lassie who?
I think you boys may be jumping to conclusions here. Why don’t you calm down until all the facts are straight?
And that nasty thing with little tassie was much more malicious and fucked up, even if the worst possible scenario holds true in this situation.
Is this not the point of the Pit? sigh [sub]Coming from a lurker…[/sub]
Playing with peoples emotions is fucked up, Myrnalene, pure and simple, and no two ways about it.
It’s not a matter of which was worse- little tassie’s or this one’s- all are equally repulsive, regardless of the degree.
A normal person simply doesn’t do that.
CnoteChris, I agree with you and if this is really the case (not that he meant the opening as a joke and then didn’t get back to the boards for whatever reason, but if he was sitting there reading people’s worried responses and didn’t say anything) the you may have Sqrlcub’s testicles to hang from your fishing pole for all I care. But you don’t know at this point, so let’s just save the vitriol until we have a little more clarity. OK?
then you may have Sqrlcub’s testicles to hang from your fishing pole…
Well, it’s not looking very good for old Sqrl right now. Especially not since dcnewsman posted this little gem from said thread:
It looks like they were playing somebody (the entire board perhaps) for a fool.
Of course, if it was a simple mistake, I’ll be the first to apologize.
I’m more than willing to call a spade a spade and say this was a purposeful cry for attention, or a cruel joke. No explanation could, or will, change that.
If it were something that were actually happening, at it turned out to be fine, then he should have come in straight away and corrected that post… he didn’t.
And it really pisses me off.
It pisses me off because it makes those instances of when someone is truly in need of someone, or something, less likely to get it because I’m skeptical.
And I’m skeptical because I’ve run into way too many cases like this one- a person plays someone’s emotions the sole gain of their own amusement or some other fucked up cause.
Fucking sad.
I’m a nice guy and would like to help people, but I find myself doing less of that these days because I keep getting burned.
And it’s fucking sad because someone who may actually need that help- the help I’d normally be willing to give- won’t get it because people like this have made me skeptical.
The fucker should be banned for this.
you shouldn’t really get too mad. he was bouncing out e-mails stating that it was a joke to everyone who posted there showing fear for his life.
i guess he didn’t have time to jump in when things got really heated. if you notice, the space between people who were really terrified and it’s closing was about noon to 7:30. he was probably at work or somewhere and just didn’t have time to fix things up.
To me, that makes it even worse.
What the fuck is with this e-mail thing and board thing?
If it’s on the board, it should be addressed on this board, unless there’s some kind of underlying circumstance riding against it. Likewise, if it’s something that was started in e-mail, it should be kept in e-mail, unless there’s a clear-cut reason to do otherwise.
But here you’re saying that an open thread to an open board- made in front of all- was only addressed to in e-mail?
That’s even more fucked up than what I’d thought happened- that someone had either a screwed up joke, or was in serious need of some help.
Tell me, what the fuck was the point of that thread then?
There’s a whole lotta people out here who simply read it and were following it, without knowledge of the bullshit behind the scenes come clean shit.
Here I thought an explanation would have it make more sense, and make it somewhat understandable- as unlikely as that is to me- but what happens is even worse, we get this bullshit.
I’m sorry, but I’m not seeing or following any of this nonsense- this is fucking pathetic.
This fucker should be banned.
he wanted to see how people would respond to such a thing. he didn’t want what did actually happen to occur, so he was telling everyone who was scared. things got away from him, that’s all.
it was a pretty assholic thing to do, though. i mentioned that in my reply emails.
I posted in that thread, and I didn’t get a damn e-mail. Now I realize that Sqrl and I aren’t pals, but that goes back to what Cnote said: the thread was open to everyone, but only a select few got responses. His apology should be public, for the sake of everyone who read the thread, and for the sake of newbies who might otherwise get the idea that this bullshit is something to be laughed off.
In here, it’s called trolling.
In the real world, it’s called a pathetic, and almost sad and desperate, attempt for attention.
Here, it gets you banned. In the real world, it gets you hated.
Good rules, both here and in the real world… and perfectly understandable.
That guy is hilarious. I am interested in seeing him in a movie costarring with international funnyman Tom Green.