Let's get real about SDMB, you cybernerds!

Oh wait, you mean you haven’t literally dug a pit, filled it with spikes and covered it with leaves? Shit, my bad. I had assumed you had literally set up a trap for people when I warned you for trolling. Now that I see you were just metaphorically trying to trap people with your trolling OP, I take it all back.

Oh wait, no I don’t.

[sub]See what I did there? Sarcasm trap. We use them to catch trolls. Literally![/sub]

It was spelt like that on the van. I’m very observant.

Dude, we’re not attacking you because we’re pathetic individuals and refuse to believe it. We’re attacking you because you’re a pathetic individual, which you are irrespective of our patheticness.

And you know what’s really pathetic? More people in here are discussing my sex life than your OP.

(And, for the record: you’re all going on the list, goddammit. The list.)

You’re a looney.

Hey, would you stop butting in? We’re trying to have a joke thread here.

OK. That’s funny.

Have you read this thread at all? The vast majority of the people who have posted have been in the “smile and shrug” category, rather than the “jump down your throat” category. Until you’re able to get your humor sensor recalibrated, take my word for it: No one is bothered by your accusations. We don’t care.

The looney detector van, you mean?

The list of people to call if you need to earn some money?

In the words of Our Reverent Master:

Hmmmm … before you think that bothering me, or any us, gives you some kind of power or authority: nah. You’re the annoying odor that wafts in from the next town across the river. Go away.

I suppose that there might be a squidgeon of validity to that observation. However, you were not attacked for attacking the “drug” of the SDMB, you have been attacked for attacking the other posters in your OP. There is a difference.
Had you attacked the “drug” we would now be involved in a discussion as to the accuracy of your observation (just as we embarked on similar discussions that last dozen times the topic was raised). Since you chose, instead, to attack the members of the SDMB, we’re all just pointing at you and laughing.

I can guarantee that you are in no danger, whatever, of losing anyone’s respect.

I saw that trap all along, very clever it was. I can’t believe how many people you trapped into admitting that they post on a message board! Well played, sir!

I openly admitted in one of my postings that not ALL the posters jumped down my throat. And in the example I gave, the 300 or so people plus the mayor and city council who got upset at Ottawa being called a hick town did not (it may surprise you) represent the total poulation of Ottawa. But the fact that so many did get upset proved that the journalist had hit a nerve.

I rest my case.

Great! It was getting pretty fucking tired anyway.

I can’t believe that nobody made an Admiral Akbar joke in this thread yet…“It’s a trap!”

Right. Just 95% or more.

What I said in that second quote was that many of the 150+ had been abusive. Many does not equal 95% the last time I looked. I did not say 150+ had been abusive. I said many OF the 150+ had been so. Mny OF 150 could mean 30, 40, 50, 90. I did not say the MAJORITY of the 150+. May I recommend a good dictionary?

As long as it’s proscriptive.

An odour is something that invades the air around you whether you want it to or not. If you are reading the thread I started it is because you chose to click on it, right? You could have clicked on a couple of hundred other threads, could you not?

Okay. Say. Why don’t you count and document for us each post that offends you, create another list of those you deem acceptable, and then come up with a definitive jump down your throat ratio. Sounds like a much better use of your time.

It was a snipe? I truly didn’t understand what it was. You trimmed off part of my post, then added a response saying exactly the same thing as the bit you’d just trimmed off, but as if it was somehow original. I don’t get it. I’m not wound up - just mildly confused.

You think I’m in denial about the addictive nature of this place? Fuck off. Of course it’s addictive. and yes, I’m hooked. So what?