I am curious to know how I am perceived on this board. Do people appreciate my posting style? Will the results split down the lines of people who agree with me vs. people who don’t? Should I just give up and restrict my Net discourse to the NDP chat room?
Commentary?
Just kidding Matt. I like you and enjoy reading your posts.
Please don’t leave. And yes, I do tend to agree with your posts.
Why, thank you, 2sense. That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said about me.
Wait a minute. Economist? How dare you!!
And by the way: I am not a whore. My slutting around is conducted strictly on a pro bono publico basis.
I thought you were an economist. I also left out Pagan idolater.
What presence?
I never even heard of you, you heretical black wearing, Quebec loving, University rug rat pseudo Canuck.
And as for your posting style, I like it, but that doesn’t mean anything. All it means is that I like it. Which means nothing.
You got any problems with that?
I think you’re aces, Matt. Always have. Even if you are an Esperanto speaking Canuck.
thanx. hugs
it’s just that (among other things) i’m involved in a GD thread right now and i’m trying to explain a subtle element of economics, and it seems that the people who are reading it think that i’m lying or obfuscating the issue by explaining a concept that is new to them. they’re building straw men, attacking the personal life of the author i cited, anything but attempt to read the post i made and respond to it on its merits.
it’s intensely unpleasant.
here’s the thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=26279
Who loves ya, baby? 
What’s up with this? Two of the biggest homos on the board, and our Pit threads turn into love fests. What gives? 
Esprix
Good Lord. Don’t tell me Jenkinsfan has managed to touch off a message-board-wide orgy of agonized self-evaluation and neurotic breast-beating. Matt, sweetie, you’re fine. You’ve always been fine.
FWIW, I went and read the thread in question, and yeah, it seems to me like you’re talking on a more abstract level than most of the others. Seems like most of the participants just wanna talk about “how come public housing always gets so rundown and full of drug dealers”, and there you are in the middle, talking about Serious Economics. Sometimes threads just go off at a tangent like a runaway horse, and all you can do is hang on, or bail out.
But you shouldn’t interpret the general lack of interest in Economics Theory 101 as a blanket desire for you to “go away”. IMHO, you are a welcome addition to the board, even if you do sometimes talk 20 feet way over my befuddled head (I think I understood about 6 words in your posts in that thread, mainly words like “money” and “bank”. Now those I get.)
Why don’t you start a general Serious Economics Thread? I’ll come over and post things like, “uh-huh…uh-huh…” at intervals, nodding my head as though I truly understand. And every so often I’ll ask questions like, “Why is Alan Greenspan so famous when he’s so ugly?” and you can decide whether or not to answer them.
(He is the latest in a long line of Famous Ugly People, that began with Henry Kissinger and continued through Gorbachev and Janet Reno. And People magazine allows them in!)
I am an economist, and I’m sorry you’ve been mistaken for one. Don’t worry if people disagree with you some of the time (I do, but hell, nobody agrees with me).
picmr
I agree with DDG; it aint your posting style that’s drawing fire in that specific thread (and elsewhere). It’s the fact that it’s far less fun for these guys to respond to abstract theory than it is to villify the theorist. It’s a lot harder too.
You should start the Economics Theory 101 thread. I’ll join DDG in asking totally pointless questions. He can cover the pop culture references and I’ll throw in an occasional scatalogical reference or semantic derailment of your argument. How’d that be?
In the meantime, grow up ya giant francophilic, thin skinned, pointy headed morphodite.
Good Lord, not an Economics Theory 101 thread. It would just make my little head hurt. Although I could contribute to a thread entitled “Funny Things My Economics Professor Said Back in College”. I kept a list. Honest. It includes such gems as:
“Money Multiplier equeals one over bla-bla-bla”
and
“Women should dress for success. The less the better.”
Honestly mat, it’s nice to see some brain cells at work. Keep posting.
Don’t be sili. What kind of a board would this be if everyone agreed with/liked everyone? We would not even have the pit, fercrisssakes.
I have read your posts in a few threads, and I can safely say I have disagreed with every one of them. But it would be sili to say you should not post here based on that. I don’t remember any unwarranted attacks from you on anyone personally, and you sound like you really believe the things you say (misguided as you are).
I love a good argument, and even though I am new here, so what I say may not mean much, please stick around you liberal, welfare lovin’, government expanding, socialized medicine using commie! (Oooops, it’s a pit thread - that’s fucking commie!)
Sili
Shit, Matt, I don’t want to lose you, I want to adopt you. You can call me Aunt Kimstu.
Kimstu
We loves ya, Matt. And I know it’s cliché, but you know how people say “If I were gay…?” Yeah, well, that too.
And now, a joke for notre ami Québecois…
Two men, one from Quebec and one from Ontario, are walking down the street one day when a magic genie appears. The genie says that he’ll give them both one wish. The man from Quebec says, “I wish that there were a wall, a mile high and a mile thick, all around Quebec, so that we could be truly independent!”
The genie says, “Your wish has been granted.”
The man from Ontario says, “Whoa, wait a minute! You’re telling me that at this moment, right now, there’s a wall surrounding the entire province of Quebec?”
“That’s right,” said the genie. “Now, what’s your wish?”
“Fill it with water.”
Matt,
I like reading your posts. I don’t always agree with what you write, but your posts show well thought out opinions backed up by solid evidence infused with intelligence, wit, and charm.
No husband of mine, trophy or not, will I allow to feel as though he isn’t wanted here! Spit on those who do not understand you. Begone to them I say!
Feel better now, darlin’?
BTW, what’s for dinner? I don’t feel like cooking tonight.
Argh! I have to get used to this new sig lines auto off feature. That post was supposed to have my new, modified and updated sig. sigh
Where would I know you from? Are you a somebody? Is NDP like NPR?
Look, matt, you’re good enough, smart good enough and people like you.
You’re celebrated in Shanya’s sig (which is way too long, by the way). You’re my second favorite gay Canadian (love that Buddy Cole!)
Don’t judge your self-worth by people’s responses in GD. I’ve my ass handed to me every time I’ve posted there despite being the most popular well-liked SDMB member ever.
Just don’t go flashing your pro bono in publico, 'kay?