# Poster mischaracterizing your posts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 21, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-mischaracterizing-your-posts/664130 "2013-07-21T19:57:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-mischaracterizing-your-posts/664130/9 "2013-07-21T22:52:30Z")
> [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > Probably true. But I had no idea that it could be one person’s entire MO throughout their whole posting history. Are you criticizing me or the moderation here? Here, check out these headlines: USA Today: “Jamboree campers thinned out: No obese Boy Scouts” CNN: “Boy Scouts ban obese kids from outing” NBC: “Obese Boy Scouts left out of national gathering” Troppus: “Disney excludes pregnant women from rides” Do see any similarity in the above statements which made national headlines, and the statement I made? Those headlines made an abbreviated, blanket statement which most people understand. But those headlines aren’t “the whole truth” as you’ve demanded it. \*All \*obese Boy Scouts are not banned. Did you apply the same fervor to your letters to the editor insisting they correct the headlines to “Morbidly obese Boy Scouts with BMI of 40+ banned from Jamboree”? I’m guessing you didn’t. You just chased me through the thread to push an unimportant point because… why? Here, look at your posts: > [@Obese Boy Scouts not allowed to attend Jamboree. Fat discrimination or common sense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/78): > > snipped… why criticize them for declining to serve kids with a BMI above 40 but you’re not criticizing Disney for excluding pregnant women from rides? > [@Obese Boy Scouts not allowed to attend Jamboree. Fat discrimination or common sense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/84): > > Not all rides. According to one of Disney’s websites, only “thrill” rides are off limits. Everything else is completely acceptable. > > [http://disneyworldforum.disney.go.com/questions.aspx?qid=35681&cid=57](http://disneyworldforum.disney.go.com/questions.aspx?qid=35681&cid=57) > [@Obese Boy Scouts not allowed to attend Jamboree. Fat discrimination or common sense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/150): > > My point was, that you seemed to ignore the first time I responded to you and again the second time, was that you were wrong. After seeing you in action in multiple threads, I take it that you don’t cotton to having that pointed out much. Again though, you never admitted your error about rides at Disney and now, you can’t seem to grasp that I was illustrating how your rallying cry every post was futile. > [@Obese Boy Scouts not allowed to attend Jamboree. Fat discrimination or common sense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/154): > > God, seriously? Are you that wedded to being right that you can’t ever admit to being wrong? Here’s my quote since you’re reading comprehension failed you initially. I’ll bold the relevant part. > > snipped > > My only point, reiterated several times now, is that you were wrong about Disney. If only you’d have come back and accepted the correct facts, I wouldn’t have given a shit about any of the rest of this. But I suppose your incapable and here we are. So I guess I’ll be waiting for the multiple retractions that’ll never come while you keep up the good and sanctimonious fight. I thought you went a little shrill trying to force the Disney issue, and didn’t feel your point was relevant to the discussion. You can’t force someone to respond you, and chasing them repeatedly through a thread is just… odd. Someone on the internet is wrong, I guess you feel it’s your job to right the travesty. Thing is, this is a casual conversation, I didn’t provide cites, and I’m pretty sure that most readers knew that Disney has attractions that pregnant women can attend, well, because family. But the larger point is that parks have the right to protect attendees from themselves, and themselves from liability. Your needling wasn’t necessary, unless you do make a habit of correcting headlines, professional writers, reporters, etc. The moderators may very well tell me to tone it down or post in a less contentious manner, and I’ll follow their instructions. But they aren’t going to force posters to apologize to you for declining to respond to your repeated demands for attention, I’m certain of that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-mischaracterizing-your-posts/664130)._