Please read this...

Ok, so I’ve been here for 5 months. As most of you know I was a troublemaker at first. Feeling that I’m somewhat a part of the board now I feel bad about what I did. I didn’t understand the place back then, and now I have grown a sense of love and respect for it.
And if you look over at my post count you’ll see a count of six hundred something posts.
I lurk way more than I post. And yes at times am a little of a smart ass, but the majority of my posts are candid and just me. And I know I’ve helped nail plenty questions posed in GD for instance.

My beef is this:

I put time and effort here, and while I have a small handful of people that give praise and acknowledge me here. I am mostly ignored. I admitted my past, I’m still not sure why I did it, but I was honest. I would rather be known for who I really am as opposed to who I was. It’s frustrating sometimes; often I post and get no response from anyone, no feedback at all. Then I look at someone else and they get tons of feedback. I’m envious of that. I’m getting slightly more respect these days, but still very little. I’ve been thinking about this for a few hours and I thought I’d make a thread to express my thoughts. The way I feel about it now is: If I’m still widely ignored (like I am now) when I hit a thousand posts. Don’t expect me to stick around. I just get that feeling often like I’m not wanted here. So why waste my time. If I do end up leaving…I wont be coming back.

Who is this guy?

Just kidding, Silo. I hope you realise I like you. But I think you know that.

Hey, everyone likes validation. I think I ripped on you pretty consistently during that first go around, but I actually think you are a pretty valued poster at this point. Heck, anyone that can make jokes at their own expense over previous shenanigans is OK in my book. Plus, you have actually posted a couple of things that have made me laugh outloud.

So, stay around you monkey felched goat licker.

:wally

Silo,

Keep your chin up. I don’t get responses half of the time, and I’m incredibly cool. In my own mind. Ususally.

Since it’s the pit: Here’s a quarter, go fuck yourself.

Here’s more,

I never saw you in your previous incarnation although I did catch the odd referance.

I would never have known any differant either as your posts have been fairly bland, and maybe that’s because you’ve been watching your P’s and Q’s so carefully.

There is nothing wrong with a little spirit if it can be justified, maybe it is time to loosen up a bit and have some fun, just don’t take the returns too personally.

Silo,

I’ve got to tell you that I have experienced the same thing. Thought about quiting as well. Then I realized that this board was much better than others I had been posting to. So I figured that I’d stay and force everybody here to like me. And just like fighting ignorance, it’s taking longer than I thought. I also realize that most of what I do here is to amuse myself. So quit whinning :wally

When did The Pit become a fucking love fest?

My $0.02:

[ul][li]You were a prick. A big one (with a little one). You were reviled. You got your ass kicked.[/li]
[li]You come back. You mea culpa. You’re still treated with contempt and a whole heap o’ doubt.[/li]
[li]You post like a normal human being. Some people even change their minds about you.[/li]
[li]Time passes.[/li]
[li]Now you’re whining.[/ul][/li]Couple of things: first, although I haven’t forgotten what a prick you were, it’s obvious you’re reformed; second, I don’t read the questions board, so all I see is the stuff you post here, MPSIMS, and GD, and frankly, I’m not all that impressed (which means not that I don’t think you’re smart, and not that I don’t think you contribute, but there just hasn’t been anything inspiring enough for me to warrant responding to you; and yes, I still take a lot of what you say with a grain of salt based on your past); which brings me to third, no matter how much time has passed, some people are going to forgive and forget, some people are going to forgive but not forget, and some people are always going to think you’re an ass - you made your bed, and that’s what happens when you lie in it; but my most important point is, coming on here and whining about not getting responded to makes those of us who were somewhere in the middle of hating you to liking you, like you less. I dunno, just makes you seem like, “Waaah, look at me, I’m all better now, pay attention to me or I’m leaving, you guys suck, waaah!” (Yeah, yeah, I know that really isn’t the tenor of what you said, but I’m exaggerating to make a point.) Isn’t that just as bad as trolling? Sorry if the board isn’t living up to your expectations. :rolleyes:

I’ve made some pretty big mistakes in my life, and sometimes, no matter how much time passes, they haunt me. (And that includes this board - I can name you five people off the top of my head who really don’t care for me.) But tugging on the sleeve of those who I’ve offended and saying, “Hey, do you forgive me now? Do ya? Do ya? Huh?” doesn’t seem to me to be the best way to let time heal all wounds. My advice would have been to just shut up and wait a little longer, (or, more accurately, just accept at this point that some people like and respond to you and some people don’t - that’s the way it goes), but it seems you’re more impatient than me.

Whatever. I don’t hate you, but I haven’t read a post yet by you that’s wowed me.

Esprix

  1. Number one reason why nobody posts to threads–they didn’t see something that interested them. It’s as simple as that, babe. You gotta learn not to take it personally when only 6 or 8 people post to one of your threads. If you’ll look at the threads that go up to 2 or 3 pages, you’ll see that they fall into one of two categories. They’re either “vote here”/poll-type threads, “what’s your favorite X?”, “join the club” threads, or they’re threads where two people get in an argument, and it just goes on and on and on, and other people join in, and newbies who just arrived find it at the bottom of page 5 and bump it back up…It isn’t necessarily because the lucky OP happened to think of the one hot topic that everybody in the whole wide world wanted to talk about.

So, don’t take it personal, OK?

  1. This is the BEST place on the Web. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot because you’re so busy wondering what everybody thinks of you that you lose track of which way the barrel is pointing. Don’t worry what people think of you or your threads. Don’t interpret the fact that tons of oldbies don’t rush up to post every time a Silo thread appears as rejection. Just say what you’ve got to say, and devil take the hindmost.

  2. I’m like Casdave, I wasn’t here for the Michael Masterson incarnation, so I dunno from trolls. What I’ve seen of your stuff as Silo is fine, except for this teeny little tendency towards juussstt a slight whiff of martyrdom. I’d be down here hollerin’ atcha ta get off the fukkin kraws, we knead the would, except that you haven’t been that bad, so in good conscience, I can’t. But you’re verging perilously, dude, I haveta tellya. 'Kay? :wink:

Get up on the podium, make the statement–“Hi, my name’s Silo, and I used to be a troll”–and then get down off the frickin podium, we need it for Dr. Laura, who is expected here at any minute. (All those 10,000 screaming fans out in the parking lot aren’t here for you, babe. Sorry. I know it was one of your dreams. Not everybody can be a worldbeater.)

Here’s a thread-posting hint: it’s the same thing as your high school English teacher used to tell you. “Write what you know.” Don’t try to think of what OTHER people want to talk about. Post what YOU want to talk about. If you post a Pit rant, make it on something that really, truly grinds your gut. Even if the style is lacking, the emotion will come through and people will respond to it.

Resign yourself to the fact that by far the VAST majority of threads in MPSIMS, GQ, and IMHO get about 6 to 8 responses, and then slowly slide down the page into oblivion. You can’t expect every topic to be a winner. Just post what really interests you, and if nobody responds, well, that just means that nobody else wants to talk about Spam, or meter readers, or whatever. (Those were a couple of my “worldbeaters”. But hey, I’m over it. Aren’t I?)

Didn’t you ever sit around a kitchen table with a big group of people, talking, and throw out a thought, and maybe one person said, “Um, well,” and added something, and then the conversation went right back to where it was, and it was as if you hadn’t even spoken? Happens to me all the time. That’s what is happening when nobody posts to one of your threads. Shrug, drink some more beer, and wait for another chance to contribute. Don’t take it personal.

Oh, and so Esprix doesn’t worry that this is turning into a Love Fest–shape up, Silo, you troll-felching offspring of a gerbil-eating yak herder and his syphilitic mother, whose sagging breasts trip her while she walks and whose female parts compare unfavorably with spoiled Limburger for aroma and with a puddle of dog’s vomit for looks.

Silo, don’t worry about it so much. Speaking as someone who wasn’t a troublemaker (that I know of) I can say that I get ignored all the time. No big deal really. Sure, I can feel neglected when I post something I think is just fucking killer. But just because what I contribute ain’t to everyone’s (or anyone’s) taste doesn’t mean it’s not fun to contribute. Besides, what else am I gonna do at work??

And maybe it’s just me Esprix but that came over kinda harsh. I’d like to think I could screw up without people holding it against me forever. After all, I know I’m only human and likely to make mistakes.

I don’t think Esprix came off as harsh. Honest maybe, but hey, if you can’t take it don’t ask.

Silo, I think everyone would kind of like some kind of recognition, and maybe some feedback on how they are percieved by other people. Unless you act like a total jerk around here though, most people just don’t really comment. I mean, often I read a thread where someone just cracks me up, but I don’t want to post too often to just say “hey man, that was funny”. Most people usually just post if they have something to add.

Would you like some feedback now? I’ve told you in person how I felt about your Michael Masterson incarnation here. It sucked. All that Esprix said. It was flagrantly awful, and I could not believe for a while that you wanted anyone to take you seriously.

I think that you have now come to see many of us posters as people, not just anonymous typers. That has helped your posting style tremendously. I tend to actually read your posts now, instead of cruising by them. But as I said earlier, most of the time I don’t post unless I have something to add.

Don’t read too much into my reaction at the recent Shindig. I was not asking you to lay it on the table because I want some, but because you keep bragging about your huge penis and I wanted you to back up that brag. I have yet to see any confirmation of the whole “big bad booty daddy” persona. To me you are just a nice young man, who is apparently bored a lot and is not currently getting laid.
So hang in there you pus-lipped bum-licking schmuck!

Trion

Eh, shaddap you yak felcher. :wink:

Hey, it’s the truth, and it’s human nature - some people forgive, some people don’t. “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me” vs. “Forgive, forget, and turn the other cheek.” If he couldn’t handle it, he never should have either been a troll or come back.

And that’s the way it is.

Esprix

Well, Silo, I for one think you’ve come a long way from the old days. You certainly were a horse’s hind end then, but that’s all water under the bridge you used to live below for most of us.

But like Esprix said: There are 7000-plus different people around here. Some hold grudges. Some post where they post, and nothing’s going to change that.

I haven’t noticed any, “Let’s freeze out Silo” sentiments on these boards – both in threads you start and those you contribute to.

You, of all people, should know that sucking on your bottom lip and threatening to take your toys and go home tends to bring out the venom in most here.

So, in summation, relax.

Chill Silo!

come on… this is the Thread killer extrordinaire here… just look in GD!!

Anyway, I’ve noticed that people read posts, and they will agree, but wont feel the need to respond because they have nothing else to add!!

keep going at what your doing, coz your doing just fine.

and if I catch you moaning again, I’ll open a can of whoop-tushie on ya.

:wally

Oh stop your fucking whining you putz. A while back I had a post in the pit that pissed off some people and someone started a goddamn thread in MPSIMS about it instead of keeping it in the pit and it humiliated me so much that I stayed away from the board for a month and lurked for another before posting again. So I think you got off pretty easy for being such a troublemaker when you first came here and you have won a lot of friends since. Most of us here are pretty bright people, and probably even considered clever to our friends in real life, but in such an elite group of people as these on the boards it is only the very bright, very witty or very acid tongued who are going to stand out. Don’t confuse not being acknowledged for not being noticed or liked.

That’s Mr. yak felcher to you.

:wink:

Yo Silo -

Couple of things. I was around for the MM troll fest. And yes, you were a jerk. A rather large jerk, actually. And you left, and came back. Couple of things now:

One, you admitted who you were. Quite honestly, you didn’t have to do that. You had to have known the risk involved in admitting you were the famous Michael Masterson.

Two, hell boy, I’ve been here a year, have over 1700 posts, and MY threads sink to the bottom after 8 posts. Do I care? Not really. Threads do that. Does that mean I think people ignore me? I’ll be honest here - yeah, it did. I thought I was one of those posters who kinda fades into the woodwork. But several people have beaten it into my head that I’m not. (waves at Coldfire, Chef Troy, Satan, and DB) And I bet the same is true for you.

My point is this. You may feel you’re being ignored. You’re not, hon. You’re a very sweet guy, and one I enjoy talking to, both on the boards and in chat. Stick around, you putz. :wink:

Honestly, Silo, very few people actually feel like they get noticed around here. There’s very much an attitude of “no me-too’s!”; in general, that’s probably a god thing, having seen the horror of one good post followed by thirty-seven “That was gud!” follow-ups.

Just buck up and assume that silence means acceptance. I mean, look at me. I wrote up “Shortest Books Ever Written”, the Doper version- sunk like a stone. I wrote up what I thought was a very funny post in the “Why do Pits use Fuck as every other word?” and the only acknowledgement I got was from the troll.

Quite frankly, if I assumed that silence meant people didn’t notice or like me, then I’d have left a long, long time ago. So stop worrying, and consider silence as golden.

As least it’s not someone reaming your ass, right? (No offense meant to Esprix, or any other posts to who a good ass-reaming may seem enjoyable.)

John: I went right over there, and I couldn’t find it. There was just something about “secret codes” that I couldn’t make head nor tail of. Did Alphagene delete the funny one or sumthin’? I know he’s sensitive to comments about his hairstyle; did you poke fun at it?

Goddamn it. That explains it. I write all these goddamned funny posts, and then the moderators slip in and edit out all of the good parts and put in their own lame attempts at humor. No wonder nobody likes me around here- they all think I’ve got the same sense of humor as Alphagene, and who’d want to hang around a guy like that?

I know exactly how you feel, John. We’re trying to have a serious literary discussion of the works of Edgar Allan Poe over in GQ, and manhattan or Arnold or somebody keeps sabotaging us with all these horrible puns. I’m so embarassed for them.