Pizzle Boy:

You, sir, are a groveling, obsequious sycophant.

That may be, you plooky scatophage. However, I can’t help but get a tad edgy with all the talk of banning people.

Obviously my second attempt at a thread was a tad much, however, don’t think that I have recoiled enough so as not to defend myself.

Actually, you remind me of me ::gets teary::

Thank you for calling me polite, enjoyer of contemptible things.

I thought you groveled nicely.

Thanks…it’s an aquired skill :stuck_out_tongue:

Pizzle Boy (where did you get that name?), it’s important for newbies to be on somewhat good behavior, specificly nowadays. You see some people come here and cause conflict and get kicked off the board (i.e. banned) just re-signup and come back as a new person. You see if someone sees a newbie trying to stir shit they suspect he’s a return troublemaker. Ok? So just be on good behavior a while and eveyone will forgive and forget. Make good intelligent posts in multiple forums and you’ll get somewhat respected fairly quick. Comprende?

Nah. Just post intelligently. If “good behavior” = “Don’t be a jerk.” then I guess that’s OK. I don’t want to see every newbie told to sit in the corner and wait for a reg to give them an opinion to voice. I’m not a fan of open hostility, but genuine intelligence edged with a bit of smart-ass attitude is fine.

This isn’t that tough, folks. True trolls and jerks will out themselves. We don’t need to establish a trial by fire or ritual hazing simply to accept new people.

(A first post that attempted to start a fight over nationalities in the Pit would look a lot like a violation of the “Don’t be a jerk” rule, but we don’t need a formal probation period to to let us “evaluate” people who don’t meet our first expectations.)

Just post intelligently, the rest will follow.

I was just giving good advice. :wink:

Pizzle: listen to tomndebb, they are wise. Silo is giving good advice, also, just not phrased as nicely as Tomndebb, Silo may be a smart ass once in a while, but the emphasis is on “smart”. I wish I could add anything, but they have got stuff pretty well covered. LISTEN to them.

Oh, I just thought of one thing, a pet peeve of a few of us, in GD, if you state "since fact “xxx”, conclusion ‘yyy’ follows, you had better be able to back up fact ‘xxx’.

Pizzle Boy:

For whatever it’s worth, I thought you came off as amusing and likeable in the “Goofing Off At Work” thread. I wondered where you were coming from in the thread about Wally, but your comments seemed more “out of left field” than they did jerk-like.

I don’t recall offhand what other threads you’ve posted to offhand, but I certainly didn’t have any “issues” with you.

Caveat: I’m fairly new myself, despite the misleadingly high post count.

yes, yes…all good advice.

Points are noted. I have resumed more mundane, less confrontational postings.

You got a problem with that?!! WEll…??? oh, never mind.

Pizzle come from a long running joke amongst my friends and I ::I have friends?? :eek: :: Flames were delt and received, stories were written, movie deals were talked about etc…

PLus, it’s a very original name. ::whap::

Given the etymology of pizzle, its “originality” would not be enough to encourage me to use it as my name, but you suit yourself.

it’s more of an inside joke…don’t worry about it.

I like. I beleive it. That settles it.