I think #54 and 55 summed it up nicely. The OP is the only poster I have ever asked where they live, because he uses the Locations of so many other posters to denigrate and dismiss them.
so are you 2 supposed to ignore each other from now on or something?
Its really a Mod call; if they see nothing wrong, well, they the boss.
vanilla, from Ohio
Of course. I value this board and if a Mod tells me to change anything I’m doing, I’ll stop it. But frankly I’m not the one starting Pit threads or leaving several puzzled and indignant posters in my wake in every other thread I post in.
If the OP is indeed posting from a country where the government is such that he will get into trouble for what he writes, then all he has to do is say so and he will gain the sympathy of every Westerner on the board, including me. But Belgium, the only country we know for sure he posts from, is not one of those governments. So far as I can tell the secrecy is an affectation.
It can help give you a perspective on that person’s point of view.
- Thread Title:
Learn how to read sarcasm where it is used. I’m not some immature teenager who thinks some unknown immature woman an a message board has what you call “a crush” on him. The fact that some posters here even come up with this shows only how immature they reason themselves.
- To my little harrasser:
a) I did not say “posts” on ATMB, I wrote thread. Once again you only read what you would like to be written.
b) Since when do you “know” where I post from? Do you by some miracle became an administrator or moderator of the SDMB and hence can look at my IP’s? Which then makes you think you “know” where I physically am, not even thinking about it that “by proxy” means that the real IP is hidden behind a chain of proxies?
Yes, we had here someone who thought she had some - to me still very strange- obligation to help you with your obsession to figure out “where I am” .
You can read all about that in the thread I made about this strange situations on the ATMB forum. If I recall well, it has even your member name mentioned in the OP.
c) Are you actually saying that you don’t even think about it to stop the harassing, that you have the intention to go on with disturbing threads with your obssession to spread false information about me, that you are going to continue to do this wherever you can in the hope that someone would read your fabrications and spread them to add to the confusion you intentionally created already?
Salaam. A
[QUOTE=Keapon LaffinMehitabel is free to speculate on your location, as are others. I’m not sure why this bothers you so much. Even if other posters believe her and continue the rumor, so what? [/QUOTE]
I explained why it is disturbing.
Well, it would be sad it the behaviour of an anonymous poster opn a message board would affect me. Yet her behaviour affects the discussions I aprticipate in, as I also already explained.
If you talk about situations happening where you live, and others jump in to declare that you do not live there and hence don’t know what you talk about - because “they know” or “it is known” or even “Mehitabel said it there and there”, I want to take a bet on it that after 17 months of this ongoing deliberate attempt to undermine your credibility you get a bit irritated.
The same counts for her fantasies about " Aldebaran the Saudi".
She deliberately chooses a nation where - as we all know- a lunatic sect of Islam makes that everyone who even hears the name of that country gets pictures of men oppressing women etc… and inaddition immediately makes the connection with 9/11, terrorism and whatever you can come up with.
I’m sorry, but I have more then enough of this harassing.
Maybe she thinks her ongoing harassment, her spreading of false information about me to cause confusion and hatred, her preventing me from posting without her behaviour following me around, her disturbing threads with her unrelated comments about “Aldebaran the Belgian” or “Aldebaran the Saudi” depending the day… is subtle enough so that it would not count as violating the SDMB rules.
Well, everyone can read them and since she is here once again told by me in person that she spreads false information about me, she is in my view in clear violation of the rules. This not even including the confusion she intentionally creates which influences the other members and more then once disturbs the discussions with wrongly inspired assumptions.
Salaam. A
I’m sorry, I don’t think it’s immature of me to see a thread title called “I am married. Stop stalking me” and expect to see a thread about a man who is receiving unwanted attention from a woman who has unreciprocated romantic feelings towards him. That is plainly not the case, so your thread title itself is an immature taunt, whether it’s meant sarcastically or not. I certainly didn’t know it was sarcastic when I saw it because I knew nothing about you and Mehitabel when I opened it.
Second, if it was just a catchy thread title and meant only as sarcasm, why do you persist in discussing how you have 2 gorgeous wives already and don’t want Mehitabel’s attentions? This implies that you either perceive that she is romantically interested in you or you wish to denigrate her irritation with you by labeling it a schoolgirl crush on the level of pulling pigtails. Either way, I really think it’s you being immature, not me.
In any case, I think you’re both pretty immature and need to leave each other alone. I used to teach high school, and what I’d do in this case is move your seats away from each other and forbid you to speak during my class. Further contact would lead to further action. If , after this public display of hostility and silliness, you continue to read each other’s posts and respond to each other, you’re both pretty immature. The mature thing to is stop, now. But hey, do what you want.
Well you can take it however you want. It was not adressed to you. Mehitabel knows that I am married and knows that she is stalking me with her unwanted posts since I first became a member.
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Second, if it was just a catchy thread title and meant only as sarcasm, why do you persist in discussing how you have 2 gorgeous wives already and don’t want Mehitabel’s attentions?[/quote)
Read to which post this was a reply before you comment on my reply. Someone was as immature as you are, telling me that I liked the “attention” (or whatever) of an anonymous poster on a message board.
Salaam. A
Gorfot:
STALKING is for me not related to “heaving a romantic interest” at all, and most certainly not when posting on an anonymous message board (which should already be a clear indication that no “romantic situation” could ever be involved, is n’t it? Or do you have Live Cyber Kisses and Live Cyber Sex these days? )
It is a reference to someone who follows you around bothering you, harassing you, being rude and intrusive and who is so obsessive about it that it is impossible for that person to stop the behaviour.
Salaam. A
If you didn’t want other people to read this and comment on it, why didn’t you privately e-mail her? You posted a thread on a message board for all to see, and in that thread title you strongly implied, sarcastically or not, that Mehitabel had romantic feelings towards you. She’s not stalking you because she loves you, so the fact that you are married is totally irrelevant. Why keep bringing it up?
I don’t think it’s very fair of you to be calling me immature for pointing out the absurdity of your characterization of Mehitabel as someone who’s stalking you out of romantic interest. I am not taking sides here-- I think you’re both in the wrong-- but at least Mehitabel hasn’t attacked ME for saying so. THAT is what is immature here: your total inability to accept culpability in this situation. If you could just admit that you both need to knock it off, then do so, things would improve immediately.
Let’s see here…
Aldebaran is a pompous ass with delusion of organized thought and a persecution complex large enough to house Bush’s imagined WMD.
Mehitabel is unable to resist skewering the dim wit.
I’m calling a draw but giving Mehitabel bonus points since I understand the chronic condition she struggles with. 
Wow. Monday morning train wreck.
Another vote for just putting her on your ignore list and getting on with your life.
Read my posts here and you know why.
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You posted a thread on a message board for all to see, and in that thread title you strongly implied, sarcastically or not, that Mehitabel had romantic feelings towards you.
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Read my loast post here and you know you are inventing what is not there.
Read my posts here and you know why I brought that up (not “keep bringing it up”)
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I don’t think it’s very fair of you to be calling me immature for pointing out the absurdity of your characterization of Mehitabel as someone who’s stalking you out of romantic interest.[/qutoe]
Read my posts here and you know why I find your prematurely jumping to conclusions that are not even remotely intended rather immature.
So sorry to reming you, but it is you who called me “immature”.
You do it agin.
Sorry, but what “culpability” do you speak of?
So you think it is my responsibility that Mehitabel has some strange obsession to follow me around with immature, obsessive posts spreading willfully and knowingly confusion and false information about me? And this since about 17 months non-stop? I almost can count on one hand the threads I could participate in whithout Mehitabel popping up in it with her a-topic, disrupive and immature nonsense. Whenever she is around on this website you can almost bet your life on it that she pops up where she discovers me participating in a thread.
The sad fact is that I repeatedly asked her to - as you called it - “knock it off”.
Hell, I’m even making a thread on thisd foum to ask her to “knock it off”.
Do you see any intention coming from her side to “knock it off” in the posts she made here?
I see quite the contrary. Must be my bad grasp of the English language, I suppose?
Or do you think I have some sort of obligation to post to an immature poster on a message board: Yes Mehitabel, I shall send all my posts to you for approval before I post them, because obviously you have no clue what I talk about in the posts I made and in addition you obviously have some strange need to feel in power over an anonymous poster on a message board. This need is so strong that you posted your “conditions” to me because I simply ask you to grow up and stop harassing me.
Salaam. A
Well, at least I can send people attacking me because “I don’t live where I live” because “Mehitabel says so” and hence “I don’t know anything” about where I live to this thread. Telling them to ask Mehitabel to explain why she is so obsessed with getting informed about where I live while knowing that I do not post that information on a message board, and why she is so peristent in posting her fantasy lies about that unknown location of mine all over this message board.
There is an advantage at everything in life.
Salaam. A
My point exactly.
As an alternative to this Celebrity Pit Death Match, how about an Alde and Mehitabel comic strip?
Opening strip: Alde, waving his arms wildly as he fulminates about American perfidy, trips over his robes, spilling out dozens of passports to various countries.
Trailing him at a discreet distance and scooping up the fallen passports for clues to his nation of residence is Mehitabel (who looks uncannily like Jack Chick’s “Lil’ Suzy”).
The permutations are endless.
a) Many of the posters to this thread, and others, have already stated that your location is not an issue for them. b) Mehitabel has never claimed she knows your nationality or exactly where you are located, and I think everyone here understands that she was speculating on this, not stating it as fact. There has been no damage to your credibility, IMO, from this speculation. Just how much credibility you actually have here, and how your tedious behavior either enhances or reduces it, is beyond the scope of this thread.
I know, based on your past behavior on this board, that you will continue your whining about this non-issue until the Mods take pity on us all and close this thread, but I’ll make one last attempt to reason with you anyway. You yourself, in this very thread, have stated that the Mods do not consider Mehitabel’s speculations to have violated the rules, so you are unlikley to convince anyone here that a rules violation has indeed taken place, no matter how many repetitive posts you choose to make. You really should take it to E-mail, or drop it. There’s nothing else to discuss here.
Nah, Chick thinks I’m part of the Whore of Babylon Vatican Conspiracy to take over the world. He’d make me look more like the Evil Pagan Teacher than heroic L’il Suzy.
Note: It’s my turn to oil the Scaliabot this week.
Anyway. I repeat:
Here’s the deal: I will no longer post in any thread you post in if you refrain from this point forward from stereotyping the other posters in the thread by where they are from. Do not assume that all Westerners, Americans, or Europeans support a certain position that you disagree with. Do not ask questions in a leading or snide way. Do not attack those who disagree with you in a personal way. Be humble and try to learn like the true scholar you claim to be.
I’ll sweeten the deal: I’ll take steps to ensure that I’m not bugged by your posts anymore, although again I can’t do anything about people quoting you.
Why not take this opportunity to turn over a new leaf? We need a poster with the ME perspective that’s not so…vehement all the time.
c) The universe doesn’t revolve around Aldebaran, everything isn’t a personal attack, and using one’s location as an excuse to make assumptions and/or attack them is unbecoming.
We already have a few, they’re just not anywhere near as vocal (or annoying :)).