# 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:** 8
**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, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/141 "2008-03-11T18:10:54Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] If that isn’t the most blatant trolling attempt you’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is. I had no intention of bringing Chris’s silly PM drama to the public eye, mostly because no, I don’t have a beef with him, and my life isn’t that affected by his standing here at the Dope. But I feel clarification is now necessary. Mods, if I’ve stepped over the line, I apologize. I didn’t know how else to tell the story. [/QUOTE] My PM’s to you are your’s. You can share them all you’d like. -my name is Chris ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/142 "2008-03-11T18:13:13Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] But I feel clarification is now necessary. Mods, if I’ve stepped over the line, I apologize. I didn’t know how else to tell the story. [/QUOTE] You have stepped over the line, for the second time. I’m not giving you a warning because you don’t seem to be doing it maliciously, but you really need to knock it off. I couldn’t care less who posts what on the snark blog, or in response to something you posted on the snark blog, or accusing you of posting something you didn’t on the snark blog. The snark blog is retarded. It’s just the latest incarnation of LiveJournal drama we’ve had on this board since the beginning, with a bit less content and a lot more juvenile attempts to be edgy. If you choose to participate, that’s fine, just keep it off here. If you are getting unwelcome PMs from someone trying to drag you into drama over there, simply ask them to stop messaging you. If they persist, forward the exchange to a mod and we’ll tell them to knock it off. Either way, please keep it off the boards and out of the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/143 "2008-03-11T18:47:21Z")
That’s great coming from you, **Giraffe** , since you are the biggest asshole I have ever met. Your trolling is legendary! I can’t believe everyone else doesn’t see you for the truly awful person you are. :mad: Not really. See, I thought this was a pitting of **QED** , but instead it seems to have turned into a pitting of **Everybody**. I was just trying to keep up. _pets **Giraffe** _ I so sowwy…you are a good giraffy yes you are… ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/144 "2008-03-11T19:13:03Z")
This shit’s like a soap opera. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/145 "2008-03-11T19:36:06Z")
Naw, soap operas make more sense… ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/146 "2008-03-11T20:29:49Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] **Frylock** , just cruise GQ one of these days. I don’t spend much time there anymore, but when I do, it seems like every (or nearly every) thread has an FPB by our hero, Google Man. Its tone is generally somewhere between “You’re so lucky that I, God’s gift to ignorance, am here to save the day” and “Wow, you’re fucking stupid. How come you couldn’t figure that out on your own?” [/QUOTE] So, you got squat, right? Two days later you have absolutely nothing to back up your bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/147 "2008-03-11T21:16:20Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Are you seriously asking if I have some unspoken beef with **bbs2k** , or are you trolling me? If the first, try reading my post again. All the “beef” you need is in there. [/QUOTE] Definitely trolling! No.. wait.. the other choice. Is that like a ‘cake or death’ question? Anyway, I think your beef comes from a mad cow. I see his ‘baiting’ as playfulness. I think I see what you’re saying, that his posting can be akin to poking a beehive with a stick, but that doesn’t qualify as horrible troll in my book. I admit I know him in person, so I may be biased. C’est la vie. ---
**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 12, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/148 "2008-03-12T03:02:45Z")
“Horrible” is your word, not mine. Although I wouldn’t lose any sleep if he were banned, I find **bbs2k** ’s trolling mildly amusing when he’s not trolling me. And he doesn’t troll me that much, although I have a feeling that’s about to change. C’est la vie. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/149 "2008-03-12T03:15:52Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] You need a hobby! [/QUOTE] Seems to me he has one 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/150 "2008-03-12T04:33:34Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] “Horrible” is your word, not mine. Although I wouldn’t lose any sleep if he were banned, I find **bbs2k** ’s trolling mildly amusing when he’s not trolling me. And he doesn’t troll me that much, although I have a feeling that’s about to change. C’est la vie. [/QUOTE] **Hostile Dialect** , I have finally read this whole thing and have taken it all in. The accusations of trolling, the posting of private messages, as well as dragging in off-board snarky crap. I have thought about it, and I have two words. I’m sorry. I don’t believe I am so much an ego-maniac that I believe everybody on this board recognizes my name, but I was under the impression that for those who _did_ they knew I was often sarcastic. I’m sorry that you thought I was purposefully trolling you, and I sorry that it’s gone this far here in this thread. I never meant to be intentionally annoying to you. I’ll try to stay out of your way from now on. -I guess everybody already knows I’m Chris ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/151 "2008-03-12T04:36:32Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] If you “can’t count” those times, would it be fair to say that they are “countless”? That seems like a lot of times. Out of said instances, that are beyond counting range, might you present us with a few exemplars? These instances seem to be countless, surely there must be a wealth of them. I’m most interested in the instances where he answers first, and then is proven wrong if it matters to you. Otherwise, he may or may not be faster at providing factual info via search engines. That can certainly be called a skill of sorts. [/QUOTE] It doesn’t matter at all to me, dude, it makes me laugh. Yes, he is quick at googling, I’ll give him that. A rare skill. :rolleyes: Reminds me of DDG back in the day. This is the fucking pit, and I don’t care enough to provide you with cites of QED getting his balls busted on lame answers. I don’t post here to accommodate you, I post here for my own amusement. This board gives me **countless** minutes of entertainment. [SIZE=4]Countless[/SIZE], I tell ya. ---
**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 12, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/152 "2008-03-12T04:37:06Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] It doesn’t matter at all to me, dude, it makes me laugh. Yes, he is quick at googling, I’ll give him that. A rare skill. :rolleyes: Reminds me of DDG back in the day. This is the fucking pit, and I don’t care enough to provide you with cites of QED getting his balls busted on lame answers. I don’t post here to accommodate you, I post here for my own amusement. This board gives me **countless** minutes of entertainment. [SIZE=4]Countless[/SIZE], I tell ya. [/QUOTE] I like you. ---
**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 12, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/153 "2008-03-12T05:00:53Z")
I am also not about to dig up “cites” for behavior anyone with at least one eye and/or a functioning screen reader can find ample evidence of in under 20 minutes. If you spend 20 minutes in GQ and still don’t believe me, that’s your right; I, however, reserve the right to laugh at you, like **Klaatu**. And beebs, apology accepted, although I admit no wrongdoing (except for the SDMB rules I’ve broken in this thread–no _moral_ wrongdoing, I mean), thanks to your laughable but irritating “blackmail” game. Time will tell whether you’re whooshing me. For now, I believe your apology is sincere, and I commend you for rising above the level of he-said-she-said, which many of us (myself included) sometimes struggle with. ---
**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 12, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/154 "2008-03-12T05:50:48Z")
Please be nicer. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/155 "2008-03-12T07:55:46Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] It doesn’t matter at all to me, dude, it makes me laugh. Yes, he is quick at googling, I’ll give him that. A rare skill. :rolleyes: Reminds me of DDG back in the day. This is the fucking pit, and I don’t care enough to provide you with cites of QED getting his balls busted on lame answers. I don’t post here to accommodate you, I post here for my own amusement. This board gives me **countless** minutes of entertainment. [SIZE=4]Countless[/SIZE], I tell ya. [/QUOTE] I pointed out a pretty well known one and everyone ignored it. Not sure if that’s cuz I’m a jerk or because everyone loves the G(ED)oogler. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/156 "2008-03-12T09:40:58Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] And beebs, apology accepted, although I admit no wrongdoing (except for the SDMB rules I’ve broken in this thread–no _moral_ wrongdoing, I mean), thanks to your laughable but irritating “blackmail” game. Time will tell whether you’re whooshing me. For now, I believe your apology is sincere, and I commend you for rising above the level of he-said-she-said, which many of us (myself included) sometimes struggle with. [/QUOTE] I am serious, although I apologize if you are somehwat dubious. I run into this a lot, I tend to be far more sarcastically toned than I really mean, so when it comes time to actually say something serious I run into the problem of “the boy who cried wolf”. And in your defense, I thought I was going to try to continue fighting with you too. Unfortunately/fortunately when I sat down to write a proper post in the Pit, I just really didn’t have it in me. I’ve gotten into fights before, and they never really end well. It’s not a trainwreck or anything, it’s more of a simple frustration with issues never being resolved or talked about. What’s the point? I wasn’t under the impression that I was actually somehow annoying you. I’ve traded similarly toned PM’s with the likes of \*\*What Exit \*\* and **Autolycus** with nary a worry. Hell, even my pitted pal **QED** has sent me some of the funniest messages I’ve ever gotten, even though he’s admitted to me in the past that he finds me mildly irritating. I’ll know from now on that I should tread more cautiously around you. I’m not trying to be critical, I’m just saying that I sometimes have a hard time understanding how my behavior appears to others. Back this past Novmeber I acted like an ass and got myself suspended. Was I trying to? Hell no. And it wasn’t until after it happened, and everyone went, “hey **bbs2k** , what the hell were you thinking?” that I could actually go back and see that a couple people were noticing a bizarre and dramatic change to my posting style ( **ETF** , and the now departed **Sapo** are the two I have in mind). So yes **HD** , I am being serious. I’m not going to put you on my ignore list, and I’m not concerned about shying away from threads you or I start. If I am bugging you though, I’ll do my best to knock it off. In the future though, if you enjoy accusing people of trolling, both myself and others, please come up with some more evidence than just a couple poorly toned personal messages. (Christ, no one is every going to want to trade PM’s with me again, how the eff do these things alway manage to get out?!) ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/157 "2008-03-12T13:18:52Z")
Two words, **bbs2k**. Live journal. And this has to be the lamest pitting ever. Really. Starts off with , “please be nicer,” gets all the way to unsubstantiated accusations of countless-_gasp_-snarkiness. At least once, really! And we even accuse him of using Google, like Himmler used to. Then the thread devolves into two boys playing trainwreck in HO scale. Jesus fucking Christ people, is this the best we got? **GED,** I’m sorry. You deserve something better than this half-assed tard fest. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/158 "2008-03-12T13:33:04Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] \ Jesus fucking Christ people, is this the best we got? \ [/QUOTE] It’s a slow day. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/159 "2008-03-12T13:36:00Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] **GED,** I’m sorry. You deserve something better than this half-assed tard fest. [/QUOTE] That’s the spirit! Even though I think this thread is just about all worn out. That certainly was waning and weak semi-rant I submitted you all to. Allow me to humbly FOBTMPSIMS. If anyone needs me I’ll be captioning cat pics and and catching up on all the baseball threads. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719/160 "2008-03-12T13:53:13Z")
Oh, and **Hostile Dialect** , you’re a complete asshole for posting PM’s, even if they were unsolicited and stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-e-d-please-be-nicer/440719.md?page=9)