Nice Moderating, Jonathan

The “shits all over it and derails it” is a quote from the OP, not CairoCarol’s own words.

I think it has been sufficiently established in this thread that Shodan neither shit all over that thread nor derailed it. For someone to make up a hypothetical that re-asserts those very things is insulting.

Nobody is doing that. Or anything vaguely like that.

I’m baffled that anyone could turn ‘you know, the way Chimera phrased his accusation of threadshitting sounds like the start of a joke’ into ‘Shodan threadshit’.

I note that you have an opinion. I do as well.

An observation.

If a group of people were at a party discussing the topic of the original OP, and Shodan joined in adding his thoughts as he did in the thread, the group would break up and rejoin later, avoiding Shodan.

No snark intended, and I understand the mod note.

A joke about a joke is not a hypothetical. That post was commenting on the OP’s phrasing, not endorsing it.

A party would be analogous to MPSIMS or IMHO, but this was in Great Debates where evidence and reasoned logic should be front and center. To continue the analogy that would be more like a business meeting or a lecture hall.

Also, there may be some folks at the party who would be interested in finding out whether there’s any evidence to support the conjecture. Not all parties are the same.

You were the victim of a random and unprovoked assault, so it doesn’t count.

You are correct, and welcome at my party.

It was a thread in Great Debates, not party chit chat, so I don’t see the relevence.

Chimera’s OP is full of wrong, so his sarcasm makes him look bad.

Cairo Carol was just making a random observation: Parts of Chimera’s OP sounded like a stereotypical joke setup. If there was any hostility toward Shodan -or anyone else- I didn’t detect it.

Yes, I get it, sorry again.

And hats off to SmartAleq for answering the original OP with cool cites.

Wouldn’t telling somebody they are Jr Modding actually be a type of Jr Modding? I mean, if a non-Mod was doing it? Just report a post if you think it’s a rule violation. of course it this is true, my post is now Jr Modding, so I have to report myself.

Did you seriously just tell us you were going to report someone? Totally unnecessary bit of junior modding there, junior; consider yourself reporte–

Aw, CRAP!

Reported…

:stuck_out_tongue:

As to the OP, I have to agree…it was a nice bit of modding there. :wink:

That was no insult - intended or otherwise - it may not be appropriate for this forum either way, but you’ve taken it way out of context and intent.

Maybe someone should clear thier throat or something.

Yeah, not an insult. Just a comment about how someone’s phrasing sounded like the setup to a joke.

This is why we can’t have good jokes here.

Well crap. I guess we’ll never hear the end of the joke now.

At the very end, Shodan replies “The Democrats!”

Enough.