# Q.E.D. please be nicer **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 9, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719 "2008-03-09T14:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/101 "2008-03-10T19:22:01Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] What are you talking about? I asked QED a question in post #89 of this thread. He answered me in post #91 of this thread. You then answered, in this thread, in #92, the post I addressed to him. And you do this with some frequency, and not just with me. It’s as if you’re sitting there going, “Ah, I must step in now lest everyone become confused.” I realize you’ve had a boner for me ever since the PRR thing, but that’s settled now. In fact, he has his money and I’ve released him from any further obligation. He may post at will. I understand that you mean well, but your butt isn’t needed in every little skirmish or interaction between two other posters. Your politeness about it doesn’t help. It’s like Thoreau said, “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” Why can’t you just wait until I address YOU and then respond? [/QUOTE] Because I am a busybody I suppose. But please get over yourself, I haven’t said boo to you in quite a while. I don’t give much thought to you one way or another and you raised the ugliness of paying off posters with your lame joke. I answered as I felt like it. Your question got a curt reply from **Q.E.D.** and I tried for something a little different and you got bent out of shape over it and acted like I was stalking you. This thread is of direct interest to me. You raised a question that I thought my opinion might actually help with. I was wrong again. You don’t normally bug me a third as much as a few posters on this board that I generally avoid. Your response to my post is of course well within your rights, especially in the pit, but what the fuck? What did I say to piss you off? Jim ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/102 "2008-03-10T19:44:30Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] …so I budded in, as I am wont to. [/QUOTE] That would be “butted” in. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/103 "2008-03-10T19:56:58Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] What did I say to piss you off? [/QUOTE] I’m not pissed off. Just forget about it. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/104 "2008-03-10T20:04:35Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] That would be “butted” in. [/QUOTE] Not necessarily. Maybe he’s a tree. After all, it _is_ nearly spring. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/105 "2008-03-10T20:11:07Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Not necessarily. Maybe he’s a tree. After all, it _is_ nearly spring. [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t that be budded _out_? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/106 "2008-03-10T20:23:46Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] That would be “butted” in. [/QUOTE] And yet another typical typo from me. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/107 "2008-03-10T21:31:16Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Actually, I was post #14 and I was the poster that lightly challenged **Q.E.D.** in the other thread. I am surprised by the apparent strong dislike that many have for **Q.E.D.**. [/QUOTE] Really? He’s prolific. He himself has admitted he can be snarky. Snarky is somewhere on the continuum that runs from polite to rude to jerk - and its certainly further along the rude/jerk end than towards the polite end. People who have been on the receiving end of his snark are likely to remember it, and when you snark as frequently as Q.E.D. does… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/108 "2008-03-10T22:16:51Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] Really? He’s prolific. He himself has admitted he can be snarky. Snarky is somewhere on the continuum that runs from polite to rude to jerk - and its certainly further along the rude/jerk end than towards the polite end. People who have been on the receiving end of his snark are likely to remember it, and when you snark as frequently as Q.E.D. does… [/QUOTE] I just hadn’t noticed any on-board dislike for him. It is not like he gets pitted very often. I guess I have avoid his snark. I only noticed it in the other thread as I was looking forward to an answer to **bbs2k’s** question. I read almost every thread in ATMB. There aren’t many and I sometimes I learn fun things like the 200 post per page option or that there was a chance of a Game and Sports forum being added. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/109 "2008-03-10T22:41:33Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] I read almost every thread in ATMB. [/QUOTE] You need a hobby! Fantasy literature can be very diverting. As to the OP, **Q.E.D.** has a posting style that a significant number of posters find to be episodically but persistently abrasive. He knows it and doesn’t appear to particularly care. That’s a pity, because the board would be better served if one of our most informative and prolific posters managed to blunt that tendency a bit more. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/110 "2008-03-10T22:49:19Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] You need a hobby! Fantasy literature can be very diverting. As to the OP, **Q.E.D.** has a posting style that a significant number of posters find to be episodically but persistently abrasive. He knows it and doesn’t appear to particularly care. That’s a pity, because the board would be better served if one of our most informative and prolific posters managed to blunt that tendency a bit more. [/QUOTE] 😃 I might have to try that Tolkien fellow I have heard so much about. ATMB is pretty slow moving. It takes a no more than 10 minutes a day to keep up with it. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/111 "2008-03-11T00:19:39Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] As to the OP, **Q.E.D.** has a posting style that a significant number of posters find to be episodically but persistently abrasive. He knows it and doesn’t appear to particularly care. That’s a pity, because **the board would be better served if one of our most informative and prolific posters managed to blunt that tendency a bit more**. [/QUOTE] **Q.E.D.**. Please read, digest, and act upon this advice from one of the most helpful experts on this Board. \*The bolding in QtM’s post is mine–sc ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/112 "2008-03-11T00:42:34Z")
Hah! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/113 "2008-03-11T01:20:04Z")
I must say, this is one of the nicest Pit threads I have ever read. Y’all are being so polite while twisting those daggers… g, d, & r before one ends up in my back 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/114 "2008-03-11T01:33:41Z")
I was going to write my solution to this early this morning, but resisted. Seeing that no one has made the point, I’ll add it now. Be funnier. Seriously, make the snark a little funnier, it’ll be tolerated better. If that proves easier said than done, than follow **Qadgop’s** advice. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/115 "2008-03-11T01:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Hah! [/QUOTE] Hah what? Now that **QED** has achieved some modicum of attention, you can somehow manage to keep flying under the radar despite being one of the most blatant and annoying trolls we’ve had in years? I’m afraid you might be right. Hah, then! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/116 "2008-03-11T02:01:15Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Well. I don’t understand how you can claim to be an educated and intelligent person while failing to grasp such a simple concept. But, there you have it. [/QUOTE] That’s exactly it. Mean-spirited, puerile clunk is ineffective snark. You really don’t know what you’re doing, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/117 "2008-03-11T02:02:07Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Hah what? Now that **QED** has achieved some modicum of attention, you can somehow manage to keep flying under the radar despite being one of the most blatant and annoying trolls we’ve had in years? [/QUOTE] And people call _me_ a prick. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/118 "2008-03-11T02:04:59Z")
I remember why I didn’t post this morning. Nothing here, move along everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/119 "2008-03-11T02:16:09Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Hah what? Now that **QED** has achieved some modicum of attention, you can somehow manage to keep flying under the radar despite being one of the most blatant and annoying trolls we’ve had in years? I’m afraid you might be right. Hah, then! [/QUOTE] \*\*Q.E.D. \*\*and I have had words numerous times in the past and I actually agree with most of the people posting to this thread that he’s snarkier than he needs to or should be but you’re full of it if you think he’s “one of the most blatant and annoying trolls we’ve had in years”. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/120 "2008-03-11T02:22:32Z")
I believe the object of that comment was **bbs2k** , not **QED** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719.md?page=7)