The need to let close friends know you are a success is just as sad. If someone posted here as an insult to me, “I bet you make minimum wage”, I, like a normal person, wouldn’t give a shit. You, however, would email them your tax forms.
And I don’t care how long the online relationship, if someone doesn’t know your real fucking name, you’re not friends.
Please just stop, this is cringe worthy.
CMC fnord!
Do you understand the meaning of the “icing on the cake” metaphor? No? Let me explain. You’ve now established yourself here as a well-rounded asshole and douchebag. The Ebert thread doesn’t prove anything by itself, it’s just more proof of what a reprehensible idiot you are.
And I forgot to comment on this bit:
So apparently you are a legend in your mind as a paragon of reasoned discourse. So reasonable and non-insulting, in fact, that in your short time here you’ve already been banned from at least one thread and earned at least one warning for personal insults. You’re also engaging in obsessive posting again, now derailing this thread to make it all about you. I don’t know what the hell is wrong with you, but maybe you just calm the fuck down.
You should also keep in mind that most of the posters you’re insulting have been here much longer than you and have generally earned the respect of the others here. So your insults do nothing more than reveal your own indiscriminate assholery.
I agree! I am only here because two a-holes mentioned me. No more mentions, no more posts from me!
You really don’t get this “insult” thing, do you? To sting, an insult has to have something to do with reality. You can’t insult LeBron James for being short, or Bill Gates for being poor, or John Hamm for being ugly. Just saying random shit doesn’t have any impact.
Nope. It was obviously a lie.
I get it, if someone with more posts than you insults you, don’t respond, you just take it, right, like a parent correcting a child? You, like many, have a waaay too high opinion of this board and denizens- a loser is a loser, whether 1 post or 100,000.
But you are right, this thread is getting redundant (but wrong about the derailing, it was derailed 150 pages ago). Plus how do you derail a thread that is nothing but insults? So don’t mention me again, and you wont hear from me again.
Promise?
No. Probably closer to literally millions. I have bought many, many used hardbacks on Amazon for 1 cent each plus shipping over the many years they have been selling like that.
As the person who’s message was misunderstood in this fashion I apologize for the massive doorking that resulted. (I mean this meltdown is a fairly common response to accusations of trolling, especially from actual trolls, but it lacks a good term.)
And because pedantry is the soul of SDMB. A cite is required. The message calling you out included one.
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Nope. As in life, respect comes from a track record of behavior, nothing to do with the board or any other venue. And your record so far is that of a self-aggrandizing toxic asshole. Calm the fuck down. And, pro tip: someone who thinks you’ve been acting in the manner described isn’t “a loser” due to that fact. That just makes them “observant”.
What would you expect from a Russian? 
I’d forgotten about that ridiculous thread he started. Jeez, it just get worse and worse. Also, it appears that the incoherent OP there was a direct machine transliteration from the Russian:
Last post in thread, pinky swear- No, actually I get what you’re implying and its a view shared by many long time posters (LTP’s going forward) here I think- basically, how dare it not only be allowed here that a new poster (NP) can engage an LTP, but also even be allowed in certain forums to insult them? Fair enough.
So what are the alternatives? Petition the board to no longer allow NP’s? Nah, Im sure they like the traffic. Perhaps request a separate board of LTP’s only (like minded ones of course- conservatives, Trumpians and the like not allowed). No, LTP’s would get bored with every thread being 'Do you like apples", and thirty people responding affirmatively, that would be a good circle jerk, but would get old- LTP’s need NP’s to insult and call trolls for fun now and then, and to show off their wit and what not.
maybe a test board, separate from the main board, for NP’s with 1000 or fewer posts? Once you reach 1000, a council of LTP “elders”, if you will, convenes, reviews the posting history, determines if a troll or otherwise unworthy of main board status, and then either allows admission to main board, or advises them how they “failed” and sends them back to the test board until their posts are deemed worthy of the main board?
Or maybe something similar to the mafia where you have rank based on your number of posts and party affiliation,- someone with x number of posts cant post in a thread started by an LTP, or can post but cant engage or insult the LTP, that type thing?
Or, even better, realize that the world is changing, not everyone here is over 60, not everyone who disagrees with an opinion is insincere, and if you cant understand that, start your own board, and stop the schoolyard bullying, which hint, doesnt work on adults?
And I love the reasoning regarding troll accusations- if you are accused of being one and say nothing, proof you are, if you respond, well that proves you are as well- similar to Salem in the 1600’s!
Depends on how you respond. If you reply with stupid childish behavior, for example making up ridiculous and easily refuted lies, as you have here, you’re not going to earn any respect. If you’re accused of stupid behavior and respond with stupid insults, you’re just going to prove the case against you.
Good luck changing the mentally ill that post prolifically in the Pit. They’ve been doing the same thing for decades now with no sign of change.
Once again, Dork, you totally miss the point. Which is understandable, since you’re a fucking idiot, but none of your bloviations are relevant.
You somehow think this has something to do with “seniority” or something. No, it does not. It has to do with the fact that to some degree many established posters here know each other, if only in terms of how they think, what their views are on particular issues, their political ideologies, and so on. So when a pompous moron like yourself arrives and starts pushing everyone around and smugly telling them that they’re wrong about everything, it reflects more on said pompous moron than on those being criticized. That pompous moron would be you, in case you’re not following. “So what are the alternatives?” How about a period of quiet observation before you start shoving your oar in and insulting everyone you come across? Not your style, I know, but it’s one answer. Or you can just fuck off, I don’t care.
We’re well past any expectations of change, octopus. We know exactly what we can expect from you on the boards and we’d miss it if you were to suddenly show signs of cognitive improvement.
Helmut Doork = Plonk