Ah… okay. I’ll try to answer your questions. Let me know if this helps.
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No, I didn’t, and no, I didn’t. I glanced at the MPSIMs thread- there were only a couple of relevant posts there that pertained to my post (Boscibo’s, Lynn’s, and Liberal’s three). As for the rest of the information, it’s easy enough to see someone’s posting history- just click on the name and go to “view all posts.” Takes all of… well, on my piss-poor dialup connection, about a minute for the information to come up.
While it may seem odd to do such a thing, I used this information twice for very specific reasons- once in post #166 to refute his assertion that he doesn’t have time to post a “saga,” and once in post #196, to refute his assertion that he hadn’t been able to reply to Boscibo’s post in MPSIMs because he was sleeping. Why? ::shrug:: He’d spent the whole thread weaseling out of short questions like post #2; I figured he may feel a bit more comfortable with a length he was more accustomed to.
No, I certainly don’t think such a thing. I explained what I meant by bait in post #196, but here’s the exact quote:
It is my opinion that Liberal baited Boscibo by 1) intentionally ignoring the mod’s ruling, and 2) replying not with clarification but with a throw-away line that is designed to have the original poster go “WTF?”
I suggested that taking it to email would have been a less divisive, probably significantly more productive way to deal with Liberal’s primary objection, which (it seemed) was a combination of the smearing of his daughter and his reluctance to share personal details of the situation. He certainly doesn’t HAVE to take it to email, but since- as you pointed out- this is a messageboard, he should also be prepared for folks maybe not having the best opinion of the situation.
I’m trying, and failing, to think of a good analogy. My point regarding the email thing is this: If Liberal is sensitive about how people perceive his daughter, and if he sees that a situation regarding her has the potential to escalate into a place he is not prepared to go, then the simplest course of action is to stop his side of it. By taking it to email, he could address his concerns in a way that respects his daughter’s reputation and his privacy.
Plus I can’t follow a line of thinking that goes something like “I hate, hate, hate it when people paint my daughter out to be a monster. It makes me go blind with rage. I’m going to post a thread that invites lots more people to make terrible assumptions and accusations. It’s a good day to burst a blood vessel, I think.”
I obviously can’t speak for anyone else in this thread. My issues are as follows:
- Liberal, after a mod ruling, persisted in hijacking a MPSIMS thread. Whether his initial post can be considered thread-shitting is up to other people to decide.
- After hijacking the thread, he posted this Pit thread in which he accused “people” of slandering (my word, don’t misinterpret) his daughter and of being “fucking half-witted troglodyte(s).”
- Now, that is certainly his right, but what he doesn’t seem to understand is that by posting the OP, as is his right, it is everyone else’s right to come in and question his and his daughter’s actions. Every response that isn’t supportive is seen as a direct personal attack on him, and his original concern- his daughter’s reputation- is becoming more and more tarnished.
- Halfway through the thread he tosses out additional information. And not just any information, but information that (as I’ve pointed out a few times) would have ground the whole thread to a halt if we’d known it beforehand. The cat had problems. Well, shit- that changes things a bit.
- When people point out “Well, shit, dude” he begins a campaign of name-calling, avoiding, and outright lying. When I pointed out that perhaps this whole thing could have been avoided with a few extra words, he completely ignores the entirety of the post and accuses me (later) of witch-hunting.
- His new crime is, in essence and as far as I am concerned, the same as the one he started with. He lies and intentionally misleads/misinterprets in order to engage in a campaign of name-calling and martyrdom.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to bed so I can muster up the energy to go to work tomorrow. Thank you, Caridwen, for asking me for clarification.
