You originally said and I quote for the masses sake:
This is relevent to the topic at hand to make a point…BTW
Then said:
You brought up “specific set of rules” when it comes to me…if that’s not snippy then I must really learn how to read your writing because it sounds very snotty in a reply, Pit or not and I will call you to task over it.
I was talking about OPs in specific topics. If I brought something up in GD then someone wanted to bring it up verbatim in The Pit then I can see where it’s warranted. The thing is people are using complete quotes to matters with regards to the OP that is wasted bandwidth.
Anyone can simply state “regarding the OP”. This doesn’t mean you can’t quote small posts, it’s a matter of people using their noggin.
If that’s too much to ask then I request of Cecil, the Admins and Mods to please take me to the firing range and shoot me now. We people aren’t that stupid that we can’t figure out what people are talking about if they say “OP”.
Okay Hamadryad you have the last word here but you haven’t beaten me. So I got pissed over my football game being preemmpted…how is that related to the topic at hand?
I just appreciate, especially since you have been in the same shoes with this comment “I’ve been annoyed by hellish multi-quoting on old BBSs for years. I take issue with your presentation.”
So why must you harp on my ass over my comment then? Please enlighten me.
I’m responding to this since you went ahead and responded to my appearance flame thread. Thus telling me it is “OK” for me to at least post to your thread.
After receiving two honest attempts at replies, you responded with the following (excerpt - see link for full text):
Well, let me tell you my take on this. I’m not a long-time “Board Celebrity” who expects a certain style of treatment (and I’m not saying you are either, just to clarify things and keep them polite). All I know is this - when I post a thread asking a question or making a statement or whatever, and someone:
Takes the time to open and read it,
Comes up with an answer or intelligent response, and
Cares enough to post it to help me out
I don’t give a Good Goddamn if they re-quote the OP, put the entire lyrics of “The Immigrant Song” at the start of their post, or have an annoying, silly, and ignorant 15-line .sig.
Here’s a question for you - how do you feel about excessively long .sigs anyhow? Seriously? Are you willing to flame people over it? How about people who post while drunk? Are you willing to flame those with the same passionate intensity as you are showing in this thread? What about people who start a thread, and then 1) never return to it when other questions arise, or 2) never thank those that spent valuable time to reply? What about those people?
I see all of these above as being far more rude than quoting the entire OP in a response.
I, for one, am happy that people cared enough to try and help me out, or lend an ear to my problem.
In short, your point is valid but you are coming off sounding rude and unappreciative about it, especially w.r.t. your GQ thread. You run the risk at this point of simply not having anyone knowledgeable bother to respond to your GQ’s again.
No, I must disagree with you. Look around Great Debates or General Questions, and you will see that many of the serious posts are often very long, and address many lengthy points. Asking people to keep flipping back and forth between windows, copying and pasting text to make a cohesive response to a 12-part argument on energy policy, is simply not practical. It invites errors, misquotes, and does not fight ignorance. And would in fact reduce the cohesiveness of the posts in question.
techchick68 somewhat reasonably enquired…
So why must you harp on my ass over my comment then? Please enlighten me.
To which I could easily reply by quoting myself:
“I take issue with your presentation.”
Your OP (“original post,” in this thread, the one to which I am referring…are you still with me?) was…hrm, how shall I phrase this? HEY, I have the perfect word at hand, having read it several times in the last few minutes: SNIPPY.
My gods, is there anything that touches your life that you don’t have SOMe complaint about? People are mean to you. To your friends. About your work. About your life. Interrupting your football game. And…FUCK, quoting your POSTS!!!
If the admins have a problem with post-quoting hogging too much server space, I’m sure they’ll post something about it.
I stated my feelings, you don’t like it get over it.
I was stating an irritant to me, not how people affect my life. I would say more but I don’t think that it’s warranted at this time. I do have some restraint even if difficult at times to hold back.
Now (as I see from the reponse I had not seen till I clicked reply) Hama has responded again…
Hama, you are just angry because I responded to something you posted. I am perfectly content in myself at this time, I may not be a day or a week or a month from now but I am not getting overly upset. I stated my bitch I complained, goody. Get your panties in a wad over it, not my problem.
I simply don’t like people using the complete quote in a reply. Tar me for God’s sakes, some of you are acting as though I have committed the worst sins against mankind. Fine with you. I am giggling because this has become a farce, it’s ludicrious. You are getting on my ass for silly reasons. Reasons you feel are silly to begin with. You need to get over with it.
Is my bitch warranted, yes and no. Should you all get pissy over it, probably not because in the great scheme of things it does not affect your life nor does it stop your life.
I stated my feelings, you don’t like it get over it.
HEY, there you go! You just solved your own problem!
If you think I’m actually angry over a lot more self-centered bullshit on here, then I think you need a long vacation. Angry? This is laughable.
You chose to get involved, I didn’t invite you, don’t blame me for the train wreck. You pushed the car on the tracks, it’s inevitable that the car would get hit.
techchick68 refused to give up the last word when she stated:
You chose to get involved, I didn’t invite you, Oh, but you did; you posted a thread on a public message base. don’t blame me for the train wreck. But you’re driving the train! You pushed the car on the tracks, it’s inevitable that the car would get hit.The car got hit? Damn. And all of those innocent children.
techchick68 further drove the stake through the corpse when she said:
I take it that the chat room is full of this Pit thread…ah I know the drill…
Hrm. Then why don’t you come on in? WAIT…if you were actually THERE, you couldn’t feed your persecution complex because no one would be saying anything behind your back…and then you’d have to hop the hell off the cross, and your fan club might wither. Can’t let that happen.
And for the record, a quote from me, in that selfsame chat room:
<Hamadryad> And I would like to make it clear as well that my opinions of her have not been effected by the people in here. I was annoyed when I was still LURKING.
TA DA! Sorry, you can’t accuse me of backstabbing. It’s firmly in your sternum.
This is a public board. You made a thread. Your thread had points in it. People will disagree with those points, and post to that thread. That’s the way it works.
My post was a response to your post. Your latest post in my Pit thread did not agree with my OP either. Did I tell you “you don’t like it get over it”? No, of course not. I’m not nearly as rude and inconsiderate a person as you are being to me right now.
Since you do not even bother to respond to any of my detailed points, I can only conclude that you are deliberately being rude to me, or consider me too far beneath you to merit an answer. Or would just rather go hammer and tongs with others here instead. Or are associating me with other issues.
But as long as it is permitted, and on-topic, from now on I will by Goddess post and tell you exactly how I feel about every thread and post you make that elicits an emotion in me. If it makes me happy, I will tell you so. And if not, the same.
You are not a sacred cow. As long as you insist on posting here, you will be responded to if I so choose, within the rules of the SDMB and it’s staff.
If you do not like this, please notify the nearest Moderator or Administrator immediately to see if they will declare your posts off-limits to me.
I AM SO FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF YOU “LADIES” AND YOUR PETTY, STUPID ARGUMENTS OVER NOTHING!!!
LIZ: STOP ACTING LIKE YOU THINK THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND YOU AND MAYBE YOU’LL STOP PISSING PEOPLE OFF SO MUCH! *
HAMA: QUIT TAKING EVERYTHING SO PERSONALLY! AND QUIT PICKING FIGHTS!
UNA: How ya doing? Couldn’t resist posting in this thread either, huh? Boy, can I understand THAT!
DROPZONE: QUIT TRYING TO BREAK UP FIGHTS!
I really do mean that. You just BEG for trouble sometimes, and you’ve already pissed off enough people that they are ready to give it to you. Maybe a more reasonable, less self-centered Techchick wouldn’t be the one we know, but she’s pne we might LIKE BETTER.
dropzone very quietly and meekly stated:
HAMA: QUIT TAKING EVERYTHING SO PERSONALLY! AND QUIT PICKING FIGHTS!
Did I? And did I? If you say so. I know that I have ocassionally quoted an entire post, though, and it irks me that this is something I am supposed to watch out for. I quote an entire post if I need to reply to the WHOLE THING, rather than one or two small parts. It makes it easier for me to keep track.
I took issue with the way that the OP was presented. I stated my opinion. In a Pit thread. In a Pit manner. I got my butt chewed off.
At least I’m trying to stay on-topic. With this post. I have many failings.
Haven’t you figured out that I always pick on TWO people when I try to break up fights? This way the person I’m REALLY yelling at doesn’t think I’m picking on her. Jeeze, I thought EVERYBODY had figured that one out!