# Liberal--Some questions about your posting style **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 5, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041 "2005-06-05T20:41:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/21 "2005-06-06T00:05:59Z")
But how about the time he pulled Timmy out of the well? Well, OK, admittedly, he didn’t actually physically _pull_ Timmy out of the well, but he did point out that, under a Libertarian governance, Timmy would never have been coerced into the well in the first instance. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/22 "2005-06-06T00:11:01Z")
> [@furt](#): > > **Lib** can be flippant, and even too flippant; a lot of long-time posters, myself certainly included, do the same. And certainly he takes a number of positons that range from unpopular to downright unique. > > But none of them merit the pathological hatred that people like **desmo** have for him. I actually respect him a lot more because of his patience in dealing with the mountain of shit people dump on him for the crime of being an unapologetic freethinking individual. > > Do not mistake the noisy few for the majority. Oh, agreed, **desmo** was a major ass when it came to **Lib**. But that doesn’t follow that everyone else is. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/23 "2005-06-06T00:18:02Z")
> [@](#): > > _elucidator_: > …under a Libertarian governance, Timmy would never have been coerced into the well in the first instance. Unless he was pulled in by the squid! Why isn’t the government doing something about the squid problem?? ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/24 "2005-06-06T00:23:57Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Unless he was pulled in by the squid! Why isn’t the government doing something about the squid problem?? Excuse me? Under a true free-market government, corporations will naturally arise to take care of the squid problem, funded by voluntary payments by the citizens rather than coercive taxation. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/25 "2005-06-06T00:24:00Z")
I really don’t understand why some people feel compelled to respond to people they think are constantly unreasonable. “But we’re trying to squash ignorance!” No, you’re not. If someone’s been on this board for the 6+ years of its existance and has 22,000+ posts and is still ignorant, then they are a lost cause (not that I’m calling **Lib** a lost cause, but I’m sure that’s some people’s opinion of him). If he bothers you that much, then I suggest you follow **Left Hand of Dorkness’s** recent advise on **ElvisL1ves** : ignore him. Stop responding to him. If, as **monstro** says, he’s just an attention whore looking for any kind of feedback be it good or bad, then not responding to his posts will take away that attention and maybe he’ll go away. If that’s what you want. But I really don’t think it is. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/26 "2005-06-06T00:25:42Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > If I was going to describe **Liberal** to someone just encountering him on the boards I would do so thusly: > > [multiple links removed–Veb] What part of _stop acting like a jerk_ don’t you understand, **CarnalK**? You [were just warned for posting this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6231680&postcount=84) a few hours ago. You are NOT permitted to drag your dreary little off-board trolling agenda into here. TVeblen ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/27 "2005-06-06T00:26:23Z")
Ooooh, don’t say the word “ignore”. It’s cursed. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/28 "2005-06-06T00:27:45Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > I really don’t understand why some people feel compelled to respond to people they think are constantly unreasonable. “But we’re trying to squash ignorance!” No, you’re not. > > If someone’s been on this board for the 6+ years of its existance and has 22,000+ posts and is still ignorant, then they are a lost cause (not that I’m calling **Lib** a lost cause, but I’m sure that’s some people’s opinion of him). > > If he bothers you that much, then I suggest you follow **Left Hand of Dorkness’s** recent advise on **ElvisL1ves** : ignore him. Stop responding to him. If, as **monstro** says, he’s just an attention whore looking for any kind of feedback be it good or bad, then not responding to his posts will take away that attention and maybe he’ll go away. If that’s what you want. But I really don’t think it is. We’ve tried it, and it doesn’t work. He’ll repeatedly destroy decent threads time and time again. We ask him politely to take it to another thread, he flips out and cries persecution. Or someone simply asks for clarification, and it takes about fifty more posts until we finally get it. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/29 "2005-06-06T00:27:56Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Why isn’t the government doing something about the squid problem?? The Squid Well Infestation and Child Ententacling Investigation Committee has been defunded due to the budgetary diversion of available appropriations into the Defunct Equinoid Assault Deterrence program. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/30 "2005-06-06T00:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > What part of stop acting like a jerk don’t you understand, CarnalK? You were just warned for posting this a few hours ago. You are NOT permitted to drag your dreary little off-board trolling agenda into here. > > TVeblen Hold on a second. I was warned for posting a link to my snark site. Every thing in my post in this thread is an SDMB link- I looked up everyone myself. Why do you insist on calling it “off-board”? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/31 "2005-06-06T00:31:54Z")
[Fixed link to warning](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6231680&postcount=84) ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/32 "2005-06-06T00:32:35Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > If he bothers you that much, then I suggest you follow **Left Hand of Dorkness’s** recent advise on **ElvisL1ves** : ignore him. Stop responding to him. If, as **monstro** says, he’s just an attention whore looking for any kind of feedback be it good or bad, then not responding to his posts will take away that attention and maybe he’ll go away. If that’s what you want. But I really don’t think it is. asked that very question several posts ago with no response. You may also notice that fairly often responses to Lib are leaning toward hostility. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/33 "2005-06-06T00:33:10Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > We’ve tried it, and it doesn’t work. He’ll repeatedly destroy decent threads time and time again. We ask him politely to take it to another thread, he flips out and cries persecution. Or someone simply asks for clarification, and it takes about fifty more posts until we finally get it. Then report him for hijacking a thread and let the mods deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/34 "2005-06-06T00:38:52Z")
Hijacking a thread is illegal? Oh, I am _sooooo_ banned! ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/35 "2005-06-06T00:40:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > We’ve tried it, and it doesn’t work. He’ll repeatedly destroy decent threads time and time again. We ask him politely to take it to another thread, he flips out and cries persecution. Or someone simply asks for clarification, and it takes about fifty more posts until we finally get it. In the thread I was in he clarified right away. The problem was that posters either didn’t get his explanation or just seemed insistant on nit picking his wording {which was admitedly less than clear} ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/36 "2005-06-06T00:47:38Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > What part of _stop acting like a jerk_ don’t you understand, **CarnalK**? You were just warned for posting this a few hours ago. You are NOT permitted to drag your dreary little off-board trolling agenda into here. > > TVeblen No offense, but how exactly did he troll in that post? ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/37 "2005-06-06T00:52:56Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > What part of _stop acting like a jerk_ don’t you understand, **CarnalK**? You were just warned for posting this a few hours ago. You are NOT permitted to drag your dreary little off-board trolling agenda into here. > > TVeblen **TVeblen** , it’s no longer an off-board link, which is what he was told not to do. **Dewey Cheatham Undhow** has a list, essentially, of **Liberal** on Libertarianism that he drags out when arguments over the topic arise with **Liberal**. That list isn’t nice either, but neither seems all that much more jerkish than many behaviors condoned here. At any rate, **CarnalK** ’s list is not much different from that one that has appeared frequently. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/38 "2005-06-06T00:56:13Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > What part of _stop acting like a jerk_ don’t you understand, **CarnalK**? You were just warned for posting this… From your link: > [@](#): > > The “I’m Feeling Lucky[sup]TM[/sup]” button automatically takes you to the first… Could you maybe fix that? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/39 "2005-06-06T01:03:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hijacking a thread is illegal? Oh, I am _sooooo_ banned! No, it’s not, but consistantly and constantly hijacking threads could be considered being a jerk, and that is a banable offense. If you (general you) think that’s what **Lib** does, then make your case to the mods. Otherwise, shut up about it… ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041/40 "2005-06-06T01:05:57Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Then report him for hijacking a thread and let the mods deal with it. Thats not the answer. IMHO mods already warn too much, having them warn for hijacking will just make it worse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberal-some-questions-about-your-posting-style/307041.md?page=3)