This is not a pitting. I tried to e-mail you for a more private communication but you don’t accept e-mails.
Before I continue I want to express my admiration for your character, accomplishments, and your moral code. I was glad to see you come back, but since then I worry about you.
I’m an alcoholic. Quit and returned many times because I liked drinking. I wanted so much to enjoy the positive aspects of having a drink, but I had to struggle with the negativity which always came back to bite me in the ass.
This is merely my opinion but as someone who cares about you, I can’t help notice that you are quickly heading for a fall here on the SDMB. You really can’t handle it emotionally, and I’m not that far behind you in that regard. We both enjoy the excitement of being in the pit, but it can be very painful. In your case, it appears to me that you have more weapons than I have that aren’t appreciated by the onlooking crowd. Bruised and battered though I may be, I’ll withdraw for another day. You on the other hand are a tenacious pit bull that will fight to the bitter end. If you were a dog , they might blame your parents.
In your short return here you have done two things that are completely out of your character in order to turn around the pit crowd in your favour.
You publicised the details of your generous benevalence towards another poster recently . The event was several years ago and we know about the generality of this episode because the recipient, out of gratitude, decided to make it known at the time. We all fail, Liberal, this event should have be buried way back then.
You spent a considerable effort in another thread to curry favour with the pit crowd by repeatedly expressing appreciation for their pitting of a newbie troll to the point of tabulating and listing of all the individual names ( newsflash: we all love to hear or read our names mentioned and you know it). What was the motivation for that efforrt Lib ? Wouldn’t a little more time with your family and Edna be better spent? (Speak for yourself Dutchman !)
Lib I really hope you appreciate my effort here. I think your basic excellent character is being undermined by the historically new phenomenon of message boards where general behavior is free of restraints normally present in real life. I don’t want to see you banned or get another suspension and read about the gratititude of other posters gleefully piling on to MAKE YOU FEEL BAD. Take a deep breath my friend. Isn’t it time to quit cold turkey?
Right, well… before this thing gets going, I sure would like to present a counter impression to the “Lib’s a’ headin’ fer another fall” paradigm.
To address quickly the two points the OP lists:
Lib, you painted a portrayal of that aspect of Polycarp which you felt best communicated his giving and loving nature. Yes, you’re a bit tone deaf to the popular way of hearing stories of contribution (many people reading that anecdote would find it self-aggrandizing at Poly’s expense. No, really!). Don’t sweat that; the anecdote did the job it was intended to do. The subject of the anecdote knows, I’ll wager, exactly your intent, and if he is abashed it will be out of humility rather than wounded pride.
The OP doesn’t cite this thread, and I cannot find an instance where you’ve tabulated participants. Let me guess though: you were pointedly responding to someone else’s charge regarding what “everybody”, “nobody” or "a few [fill-in-the-blank]'s] “believed” or “were saying” about the subject. Either that or you were expressing some sort of heart felt appreciation. A link would certainly help and, I imagine, illustrate the inaptness of the OP’s impression of “currying favour with the Pit crowd.” I don’t believe that’s a consideration for you.
IN brief, my counterimpression of your return, Lib is this— You have presented an honest effort to show that you are in a better place behaviorally than you were when you started your sabbatical.
I for one never had any doubt about the intent of your spirit. I often thought your corpus conspired against that, and I don’t see that so much anymore. So, from me, welcome back and please don’t grace this thread with more than an acknowledgement and a thank you.
If Poster A wishes to email Poster B, and Poster B has indicated that he does not wish to receive emails from board members, Poster A may then contact an administrator. The administrator may then contact Poster B telling him that Poster A wishes to email him.
If Poster B declines to reveal his address for Poster A to email him, this is presumably because he doesn’t wish to engage Poster A in (private) contact. I would argue that if Poster A then decides to air the content of a supposedly private communication in public, then he is in breach of board protocol.
I would further argue that Poster A is a fucking idiot.
AHunter3: This thread must have been hidden for a while before it was decided what to do with it. It was definately missing for a bit before turning up here.
