I’ve been modded before. I’ve even been warned a couple times. I have, as most of you know, even experienced bannination AND resurrection. But I can’t remember ever being so thoroughly bewildered by a mod scolding as I have by this one.
Now I’m not so stupid that I don’t realize that by merely opening this thread I am, metaphorically speaking, similarly opening myself up—goatse-like even—to what will surely be an extremely entertaining pounding of vitriol from my usual suspects. Let’s just take that as read, shall we? I’ll be ignoring those in a sincere effort to understand fut the whuck just happened.
(Initial disclaimer: I admit that “fanboy wanking” was not the friendliest way I could’ve described what I saw the OP as doing, so I’ll take that ding. I probably could’ve come up with something about dancing angels or something more, I don’t know, dancing-angeley. It was an emotional response to being called a *child *for making what I thought was a valid, if admittedly snarky, point.)
So, breaking it down:
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[li]Let’s define threadshitting. [/li][LIST=a]
[li]An unpopular opinion in a general, open-ended thread, depending of course on the gratuitous snark level[/li][li]Crashing a feel-good-party thread just to say you’re glad you weren’t invited [/li][li]Other (please define)[/ol][/li][li]Let’s define namecalling[/li][LIST=a]
[li]Must include swears[/li][li]Anything poster-specific and disrespectful (e.g., “child”)[/li][li]Other (please define)[/li][/LIST]
[li]Please explain to me the cognitive dissonance I feel in this modding.[/li][LIST=a]
[li]My own blindspot, I was an unmitigated jerk, there’s no ambiguity, bias, double-standard, or mod-overzealousness anywhere near this[/li][li]Dunno, bizarrely illogical all around[/li][li]Other (please explain)[/li][/LIST]
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Bottomlining it here: [ul][li]Was this relatively heavyhanded modding (I know I know, there’s been worse; it still struck me as overdone) just for “fanboy wanking”? If so, is there a double standard for overlooking “child”?[/li][li]Minus my snarkiness, was my desire to discuss the sifting-through-minutiae trend evidenced by the OP entirely out of place in the thread? If so, did it rise to the level of threadshitting?[/li][li]Am I weaving connections out of thin air in wondering if this has anything to do with the new “tone” mandated by Ed’s recent micromanagement?[/ul][/li]
Thanks in advance for all of the constructive input in this thread. *Extra *thanks for all the entertainment I’m looking forward to from the unconstructive input.