# Personal attack on a smug alarmist **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 1, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239 "2019-12-01T14:46:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/21 "2019-12-01T21:37:15Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Why didn’t you report it then? In any case, although there were some factual responses, your own post didn’t come anywhere near being one of them. I would also note that although you profess to be embarrassed or distressed about the warning, you seem to be determined to bring as much attention to it as possible. In addition , i did not report the thread then because reporting posts, or posters is not an activity I have ever partaken of before. If someone annoys the hell out of me I put them on ignore and go on. However about an hour ago I did report that thread for a forum change. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/22 "2019-12-01T22:20:18Z")
> [@chela](#): > > THat’s the post I was warned about, you sound a bit incredulous about the warning, if I read your implication correctly. It is what it is man. I don’t have a dog in this fight, so please take my suggestion at face value: this warning isn’t worth disputing. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/23 "2019-12-02T11:24:05Z")
Now that you’ve gotten a warning, you can wear your leather jacket with pride. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/24 "2019-12-02T12:00:45Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Now that you’ve gotten a warning, you can wear your leather jacket with pride. IT’s pleather man its pleather, and one cannot even see the which scarlet letterwith which it’s been branded because it’s covered in mud, debris and a slime of unknown origin, I think it was pulled out of a sinkhole. I’m wearing it now ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/25 "2019-12-02T14:15:25Z")
I’ve gotten a few warnings in the 20 years I’ve been here. Every one I knew would result in a warning and I took it in stride. What I said needed to be said and They followed my internal rule. If I would say it in person, I’d post it. C’est la vie. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/26 "2019-12-02T18:53:12Z")
So while you are over here whining about getting a Warning, you’re still over in the other thread trying to make a fight of it. I mean one person says the sinkhole is dangerous and to get out now. Somehow he’s being a smug alarmist. Then another poster says to contact the city or county. But you’re hung up on the inconsistency of it being dangerous and taking time to contact the city works department, even though the suggestions were posted by _different people_. Look, I get that the warning thing bites. I went forever here without any warnings, then finally was given one over something I thought was okay. But I didn’t huff and puff or whine about my reputation or worry I’m somehow now going to be banned for any little thing. I took it and moved on. You should do the same. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/27 "2019-12-02T20:05:06Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > So while you are over here whining about getting a Warning, you’re still over in the other thread trying to make a fight of it. > > I mean one person says the sinkhole is dangerous and to get out now. Somehow he’s being a smug alarmist. Then another poster says to contact the city or county. But you’re hung up on the inconsistency of it being dangerous and taking time to contact the city works department, even though the suggestions were posted by _different people_. > > Look, I get that the warning thing bites. I went forever here without any warnings, then finally was given one over something I thought was okay. But I didn’t huff and puff or whine about my reputation or worry I’m somehow now going to be banned for any little thing. I took it and moved on. You should do the same. shoulda coulda woulda you do you and I’ll do me. If you want to discuss sinkholes further please return to the original thread. In the meantime I got shit to throw down the quarry. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/28 "2019-12-02T20:28:09Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > So while you are over here whining about getting a Warning, you’re still over in the other thread trying to make a fight of it. No, my favorite part is that he starts a thread here and insults the poster a second time in the thread title. He’s not mad that he was warned for “personally insulting another _poster_”, nope; he’s mad that he was warned for making a “personal attack on a _smug alarmist_”. Had he insulted a regular person, things would have been different, you see. He merely insulted a smug alarmist, so that shouldn’t blemish his permanent record. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239/29 "2019-12-02T20:33:54Z")
> [@chela](#): > > shoulda coulda woulda you do you and I’ll do me. If you want to discuss sinkholes further please return to the original thread. In the meantime I got shit to throw down the quarry. **Moderator Note** At this point you’re verging on trolling. Before you get yourself in further trouble I’m going to close this. You have expressed your concerns with the warning, and they have been noted. Do not open another thread on this particular issue. Colibri [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-attack-on-a-smug-alarmist/844239.md?page=1)