Lib, a word please:

The BBQ Pit
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Please give yourself an serious rimjob, because that’ll at least ensure that your head’s out of your ass.

I mean, if you want to go over to another board you have never previously posted to, dig up a thread that’s been dead for sixteen months, respond to a remark made there as if it had been made yesterday, and respond to that ancient criticism of your political philosophy as if it were a personal insult - and continue in this vein even after you had been made aware (in the unlikely event that you were unclear in the first place) that you were dealing with a long-dead thread, then that’s your business.

But as you have frequently done on this board, it has resulted in a thread that was about something else, becoming a thread about you.

And when I suggested we take it to email, you got all huffy about it. You realize (or maybe you don’t, but you should) that it’s Fathom’s policy to take personal differences to email, rather than fighting them out in threads. Yet you have chosen to do the latter rather than the former, for absolutely no good reason.

Since you have denied me that option by not listing an email address anywhere (like it would trouble you too much to pick up a free email account somewhere, just for MB purposes), I’m opening this thread here, so we can stop hijacking that long-dead Fathom thread.

Quit being an asshole, and stop acting as if what you’re seeing over there is some fresh insult that you have every right to act wounded and outraged about. It’s just the same stuff I said to your face (metaphorically speaking, of course - I’m thankful that I’ve never seen your face) on this MB at the time.

However we hashed it out here back then is sufficient resolution for whatever I said back then. If you don’t like seeing it again after all this time, that’s your problem, and not a fresh offense to your dubious name. Drop it.

Note to mods: [sub]I realize that this pertains to something that happened on another MB. However, the Pit has been a forum where one can flame pretty much anybody for anything, anywhere - posters on this board, persons one only encounters IRL, and persons one is only aware of through the news. If there’s a ‘but not someone you’ve had problems with on another MB’ exception, I’m unaware of it. Besides, what happened there has its roots in Lib’s and my long history here. If SDMB policy dictates that this thread should be closed, then do as you will - but I’m hoping that’s not the case.[/sub]

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Kim-

With all respect…this is a really bad idea. It’s just fuel to the fire.

  • Jonathan ‘Thoughtful libertarian voter’ Chance
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For exactly the same reasons why the airing of conflicts which arise in #straightdope aren’t welcome here, neither are conflicts which arise at Fathom, on the Unaboard, at snopes, on the Roundtable, etc welcome here.

Not that long ago we had a couple who had broken up in a most spectacular way attempting to use these boards to air their dirty laundry in the most public of fashions.

If Lib chooses not to make his email address available - and thus you are “reduced” to stating your complaints on a forum in which your conflict didn’t take place - then why the fuck would you give a crap about his opinion anyway?

What Libhas done on any other messageboard with which you disagree is for you to take up with him (or the admins) on that messageboard.

Had this been an anonymous rant about people being assholes on other messageboards I would have had some empathy with your complaint. The fact that you identified both the SDMB member and the messageboard on which he pissed you off astonishes me.

I pretty much disagree with everything Lib posts here. But it would never occur to me to have shit attack about what one person said to me on a messageboard on another - unrelated - messageboard and actually identify that person.

The admins will make the call on this, but if we’re all allowed to publicly attack each other for what we’ve said on other messageboards, then IMHO, we’re establishing a very slippery slope. YMMV.

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Reprise,

And the part of that couple that’s still here can’t seem to get over it and lashes out insanely at anyone remotely connected with the other part.

Pretty pathetic.

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Guest Moderator’s Notes:

Absolutely. I’m sorry you were unaware of this, RTF, but that has been our policy for some time now. I’m also sorry that Fathom does not provide you a forum for this type of venting, but dem’s da breaks. We’re not going to provide a place for happenings at Fathom to be argued either. Should you wish to berate Lib for something that transpired between you two here, that, of course is fair game.

Finally, while this operational guideline, if you will, hasn’t been stated explicitly in the rules or registration agreement of the SDMB, but it has been made public here any number of times. If you wish, send me an e-maul and I’d be happy to dig out some example threads for you.

This thread is closed.