Doc, remember that someone has to set and maintain standards…and I hasten to add, sometimes educate others around them. It is sometimes tedious, often painful, and rarely rewarding, but the outcome is better than the alternative of talking out of one’s behind. Not everyone is as meticulous with the facts as you, and I applaud you for it.
[suggestion that factual questions and factual answers belong in GQ, while opinions belong in IMHO]
Yup, that’s pretty much my understanding of what the rules are.
Nothing against you. This is actually the first time you bleep on my radar. But. Do you need to be asked? Would you oblige if you were?
Everybody is here for reasons of his own, some fight ignorance, some have ignorance to be fought, some starve for the recognition of getting right answers, some are here for entertainment, some are here for attention. Most are here for a combination of all those.
Wanting to be asked to leave, though, is a bit dramaqueenish. If you want to leave, nobody can stop you, if you don’t want to leave, well, I guess you could be stopped from that one if you behave badly enough to be banned.
Is this what you want? to leave here in a blaze of glory? Banned away? Paid to leave? By popular demand?
If all it’s going to be is speculation and discussion of opinions, we have a whole forum for that - IMHO. You can basically post anything you want there with the disclaimer, “I think blahblahblah” (and lord knows, I do).
I don’t think it works like this. Popularity and righteousness do not necessarily go hand in hand. Especially here at the SDMB, one would hope that the truth would hold, even if it came from the one against the many.
I think there’s sometimes a difference between speculation about the factual answer to a question and discussion of opinions about an issue.
(1) I don’t know yet. (2) Yes, I probably would.
I do not care for drama. I hate any sign of complaint or neediness in myself.
I don’t want to leave. But if people feel I add nothing and annoy them, then I have no purpose in being here. My standard is perfection. If I fail even once, I should quite and allow someone else to play.
Apparently my posts here are considered useless by anyone who notices them at all. Why should I continue to inflict my uselessness upon them. So, yes, I’m a failure. If that is how people feel I ought to leave. I am morally obligated to remove myself from people I harm.
I have neither glory nor dignity, and will never have either. I don’t care to be banned, and would rather everyone just forget about me if it came to that. I suspect t ouwl dnot take long. And then your lives would, in some tiny and infestimally small way, be improved. Wouldn’t that be a good thing? And if so, then I logically have no excuse to remain.
I apologize for wasting your time. I will try to avoid making posts in the future.
Then why is everything after this statement nothing BUT drama?
That’s one way to deal with the issue.
Or, you could shrug your shoulders, smile, lighten up a bit, and continue to participate.
Your choice.
Oy. :rolleyes:
Geddown off the cross, we need the wood.
Nobody’s asking you to leave; nobody’s saying you’re the sand in their coffee; nobody’s saying they resent your every pixel and wish for you to absent yourself from the SDMB and go and drown yourself in a bucket of white noise.
Up till this point, yanno, I never registered any particular displeasure with your posts. You always sounded just fine to me, just another Doper, eh.
But if a simple Pitting makes ya go all crazy and get out the Gloria Swanson outfit and start swooning and weeping all over the place…
But really, just go take a couple days off, quit posting here in this thread, let the whole thing die down, then come back. People get Pitted all the time, doesn’t mean it represents a huge groundswell of “'Smiling Bandit Sucks!” public opinion. Just means somebody took issue with something you said. No biggie.
I mean, geez.
[QUOTE=smiling banditI do not care for drama. I hate any sign of complaint or neediness in myself.
I don’t want to leave. But if people feel I add nothing and annoy them, then I have no purpose in being here. My standard is perfection. If I fail even once, I should quite and allow someone else to play.
Apparently my posts here are considered useless by anyone who notices them at all. Why should I continue to inflict my uselessness upon them. So, yes, I’m a failure. If that is how people feel I ought to leave. I am morally obligated to remove myself from people I harm.
I have neither glory nor dignity, and will never have either. I don’t care to be banned, and would rather everyone just forget about me if it came to that. I suspect t ouwl dnot take long. And then your lives would, in some tiny and infestimally small way, be improved. Wouldn’t that be a good thing? And if so, then I logically have no excuse to remain.
I apologize for wasting your time. I will try to avoid making posts in the future.[/QUOTE]
Humm. Not sinking in yet? Why not hang out in MPSIS, IMHO, or GD where there aren’t the same expectations?
You do play the martyr part really well, though.
[QUOTE=smiling bandit]
…Apparently my posts here are considered useless by anyone who notices them at all. Why should I continue to inflict my uselessness upon them. So, yes, I’m a failure. If that is how people feel I ought to leave. I am morally obligated to remove myself from people I harm…QUOTE]
Apparently reading comprehension is also an issue. I tell you, you’re a natural for MPSIMS.
Meltdown on aisle 4!
smiling bandit, at first I thought you were being sarcastic, but after your last post, it seems you could use a couple decades of psychiatric help. Or maybe just a good blowjob. Seriously, man, you need to chill. I’d tell you to light up a joint, but that’d probably just make things worse in your case. If you are determined to stay on the cross, though, let me know, 'cause there’s all kinds of fucked-up shit I’d like to do if someone’s getting ready to die for my sins.
Go back and read the full post, not just the part I quoted. **Brazil84 **is suggesting that others are reading this thread as he/she is. The thread may have been initiated by the actions of Smiling Bandit, but it clearly is more general than that, and easily applies to **Brazil84 **(go to the link I gave for the thread he/she caused to be closed).
I can’t decide which is more hilarious, this:
or this:
I donno. There’s a lot of reading comprehension issues on other forums as well. There’s one recent case of someone in the Pit or IMHO having her own completely different meaning for common words.
Well, at least you’re not overly dramatic.
Can I just check something…
If the dialogue in question had gone something like:
[SB]: Someone who is usually right told me X, is there any truth to that?
[GQ ensemble]: no, but X closely resembles a piece of SF we’re familiar with, so it sounds like you’ve been told a version of that
[SB]: Oh, OK
-Then we wouldn’t be having this pit thread at all?
That’s my understanding of how it’s gone down.
Thank you Sapo for rejecting John Mace’s request to take a vote.
In which post do I post “wild speculation?” The answer to this question is a number between 1 and 155. There’s no need to post more insults – all that you need to do to answer the question is provide a number.