:rolleyes:
Ha!
Well, if I say something to somebody in real life, and they roll their eyes at me, that’s how I interpret it. What interpretation do you intend when you use it?
Contempt for the argument. I didn’t agree with what you said, so I used words to express my disagreement, was the idea. Reference to OP.
Is it? Seems to me that, if they’ve responded to you and all you have for them is a rolleyes, that’s not any different from any other use of the rolleyes. Because you haven’t actually said anything. Put another way, if they were waiting on your response, they’d still be waiting. Unless you rolleyesed them and then responded, in which case, again, what purpose did the picture serve other than as an insult? And if the person really is enough of a tithead that you really need to tell them “you, sir, are a tithead, you fuckbird, you,” you can do that. Just not in GD.
But we’re talking about GD here. The whole point is somebody’s presenting an argument, let’s hash it out on the merits, right? In theory, at least, it’s not supposed to be personal. If the idea’s dumb, the point is to tell’em why. If you don’t have time to explain to the person why the argument’s so ridiculous, what are you doing there?
“Stupid,” in other words? And, again, why respond at all if your only sentiment is “This merits no response,” unless you feel like the other poster needs to know that you think they’re dumb?
You are correct. The important point here is that I feel superior because I flap my fingers more. My post to the effect that I post infrequently in GD because I am unable to keep contempt out of my replies was a ruse. Obviously I overestimated its cleverness.
(Actually, the grin’s fine; although I don’t really use any of them. I could use it here to indicate I’m not really getting all worked up about this and that it’s all in good fun, for instance. It’s the opposite of the rolleyes.)