I’ve never seen such a pathetic claim to a sense of superiority. Kudos on being “good enough” to “hack it” on the Straight Dope. :rolleyes:
As for the rash of religio-trolls being from the snarkpit or snarkcentral, I doubt it. It’s mainly populated with MPSIMSers nowadays who just want to use bad words and do so anonymously so as not to besmirch their squeaky clean Doper reputation.
Main Entry: re·li·gion
Pronunciation: ri-'li-j&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English religioun, from Anglo-French religiun, Latin religion-, religio supernatural constraint, sanction, religious practice, perhaps from religare to restrain, tie back – more at RELY
1: all the village idiots formed in a union devoted to the service and worship of the supernatural.
Are you saying that the standards for “making it” here are low? If so, then why the rolleyes? If making it here is nothing special, what does that say about those who have washed out?
If you want to talk about pathetic claims of superiority, look no further than a snark board dedicated to talking anonymously about another board…
Given my shock over the answer to my query above, do I even want to ask about what these are?
One of them is easy to find with a google search.
Not to mention constantly predicting the demise of the Dope. Funny, innit, how each snark site goes belly up sooner or later, while the SDMB keeps rolling right along. So much for the predictive powers of the Nostranonymous, eh?
Yeah, I’m saying the standards are low. The only requirement is 15 dollars and not acting like a jerk, as decided by a random collection of interweb dweebs. I think the rolleyes are spot on.
Since what they are is precisely what we were already talking about, it would be pretty lame to ask what they are. But feel free, if you think you’re “good enough” to “hack it”.
ETF, people predict the demise of the Dope ON THE DOPE. Yet they can’t hack it on the Dope! What a paradox!
:rolleyes:
**Carnalk ** over the last year I have seen the place that we cannot talk about go from mostly dumb and fairly hateful to incredibly dumb and very hateful. You are always in the Greek chorus complaining about the SDMB and many of the posters here. So why do you continue to subject yourself to both the SDMB and the other places?
You do not appear to be a bad guy or dumb, but I do not get what you get out of either place. Why do you subject yourself to so much you do not like?
Before you make any claims that I am part of that crowd that you describe, the mod there has been checking IPs and knows ( and I am sure does not care) that I have never posted anything in that place that I would not post here.
Jim
You completely missed my point – or chose to ignore it.
The Snrk Pit is dead. It consists of absolutely nothing material, relevant, or even interesting. It has out-meta’ed its own ironic existence, and now is imploding under the weight of brainless retards attempting to be the first to call the OP of any given snark post scatological names. It has truly devolved to the level of two toddlers in a sandbox flinging the contents of their diapers at each other, people standing nearby, and themselves.
And they have the stones to say SDMB is dying. Hubris writ large. The SDMB has already outlived the Snark Pit.
One other thing: I truly believe that, at one time, the Snark Pit raised issues that had the potential to damage the SDMB (thus, the admin-imposed “hush rule” over here.) However, that time is long past. It’s little more than a comedic footnote now.
Your point, ETF, was that they predict the death of the dope yet anon places close left and right? Since the whole setup and administration(for lack of a better word,lol) of those places is so different I don’t think they’re comparable enough to call “irony” on them. YMMV.
My other point is that it is populated by many current BBQ Pit and MPSIMS denizens, as well as some skinflints and bannees. It’s simply a goofy little adjunct, like the SDMB LJ.
What Exit, I’m am not always in the Greek chorus, that’s just perhaps where you’ve noticed me most. The other place I don’t post at much anymore. Here, I’ve been trying to get back into it and there are definitely some fun threads I’ve read. Unfortunately, there’s often ample opportunity here for me to engage in my little online vice - poking pomposity. Sometimes I can’t help myself.
Patronizing little shit, aren’t you?
From the spelling and grammar demonstrated in their posts, I’m going to guess candy or stickers.
Strangers with candy! 
Thanks for being such a snippy little prick. Two things: 1) we’re NOT talking about it, we’re talking around it, so my question was aimed at cutting to the matter and clarifying what had merely been hinted at; 2) could you please point our where I’ve ever said or implied that the SDMB was some sort of intellectual elite or somehow superior to other message boards? Your bitchy little quotation marks suggest that such is my attitude; with comments like yours quoted above, it’s obvious that I could never think such things.
Yeah, sorry about that Manatee*. There was no reason for me to be snippy with you. I was in a combative mood; the quote-marked “hacking it” and “good enough” were more of a side swipe at Voyager than you. Sorry again.
As for the hints, the places I mentioned are what in the first few posts Loopydude, Oakminster and later Voyager were talking about . I’m afraid links are quite verboten so you’ll have to Google the first name you asked me about +sdmb. Or I could email you a link.
No skin off my nose; I was just thrown by where the bile was coming from.
I gathered from the comments above that posting links here was out of bounds; I guess I was hoping for a clearer sense of what those boards might entail. So yeah, send links if you’ve got 'em.
Manatee, my email to you bounced back. Is the address listed in your profile still good?
And on the subject of apologies and snark, I’ll take this opportunity to give a long overdue public apology to CarnalK for my major overreaction/meltdown directed at him some while back. It was not warranted by him personally but he caught it only because he is one of the few snarkers with the cajones to use the same name both places, and for that I must respect him.
Major and sincere apologies, CarnalK.