You completely miss the point. There’s always a variation of women being lesbians/porn actresses/abused/etc. in these “fun” hypotheticals. Some people have just had enough. I challenge Skald to write hypotheticals without the sex of any of the participants being germane. If these are truly “just for fun” that shouldn’t be a problem, and it shouldn’t be if these are moral/ethical quandaries, either. Eliminating sex as being relevant would actually crystallize the argument.
And no, telling people to not read the threads doesn’t work. Would you (general you) say the same if white supremacists were posting here?
What a ridiculous argument. Like said upthread, would your stance be the same if someone were outraged about a white supremacist posting here? The “God hates fags” folks? NAMBLA members?
Of course not. You’d be outraged, and rightly so. But when it comes to Skald’s little stroke stories that involve, say, sexual humiliation of women, ain’t no thing. You guys lap it up and lick his boots. Being a long term member apparently excuses one from anything and means Dopers will happily line up to take part in whatever weirdo fantasy he’s dreamed up this week. Ever notice how when he’s not getting the answers he wants, he adds details or changes something to direct it towards the response he wants? Ever notice that the female characters in his stories are always attractive, awesome, amazing women, and did I mention sexually attractive? I didn’t? They’re sexually attractive. Yeah, he’s not getting off on this at all.
Also, Skald’s legal blindness apparently leaves him unable to read or respond to posts pointing this out (he seems to have no trouble reading and responding to posts that are participating in his stories). Because he’s a coward and he has no defense for what is being brought up.
It is really outrageous how much people are willing to excuse and shrug off because he’s a popular poster. How does what I’ve linked to not inspire outrage in folks? Why are you so willing to brush it off? This really shows a side of this board which is unpleasant. Women have told Skald his behavior and words makes them uncomfortable, he ignores it, and Skald’s fan club makes excuses for him. You, BigT, and anyone else who sticks up for him are part of the problem. You’re enabling him. Are you proud of yourself?
It looks like Skald has been on hiatus with the hypotheticals for most of the time I’ve been here–the first one (that I remember) running across was this one from a month ago, which came off as incredibly odd to me. What stood out to me at the time was some of the irrelevant details (why do we need to know that the superhero is black and bisexual for this situation) but looking at it again I see that it involves the graphic abuse of a woman, too.
That one post was enough to tell me that his threads were something I would skip.
No, the issue was the one brought up by the person who I was responding to.
Your issue is something different. Problem is, it’s one based entirely on a falsehood. If you’d actually been reading Skald’s thread before the one thread you freaked the fuck out over, you’d know that Skald regularly does not include the sex of the people involved. He intentionally uses unisex names.
The problem here is that you guys hold grudges. Once you get an idea of who a person is in your head, you don’t ever check to see if you are wrong. It’s why it’s so common to bring up shit from years and years ago as if it’s relevant today.
You guys saw one thread where he did somewhat reference a sexual thing. And then you guys flipped out and pretended like that’s what all his threads had been about, because of confirmation bias. You ignore all the other threads, including the one just before that one. Because those threads didn’t align with your beliefs.
Now that you have been informed, you have a choice. You can take my word for it. You can go and look up Skald’s threads. Or you can continue with your falsehoods, and then it becomes lying to attack someone you don’t like.
And I will respond to the latter as a “white knight” as you guys call it, as I will defend anyone against bullies, but especially a guy who went blind and is still trying to make interesting content for us. He can’t as easily defend himself, so I will step up for him.
Plus, well, the fact that you guys didn’t have the guts to Pit him (or rez a pit thread) when the thing you were upset about was actually happening, and are now hijacking a thread that brought up a completely different topic, of Skald being “annoying,” not your pet theory that he’s some sort of sexual deviant misogynist.
So, to put that in simple terms for people who skim my shit: LEAVE. SKALD. ALONE. Stop making up shit about him.
And a lot of people lumped you into being a little asshole because of the first post of yours that they read, where you were all anti-social justice and shit. Many people responded quite badly to that, too.
Should we all have just skipped all your posts from then on? Or, you know, should you judge someone on what they post in general instead of relying on a single thread and a bunch of people who hold grudges?
You’ve read one post. That means your evaluation is as invalid as someone calling you a racist because of one thing you said one time.
I was unaware of the drama at the time, but apparently it was a little more that just that. He’s built up a poor reputation for some at least based in part on off-board behavior.
Thanks for admitting I had a point. I’ve pointed this out several times, and I will continue to do so: when you are dismissive rather than refuting a point, you are admitting that you can’t provide a counterargument.
I do not know why you guys think this in any way contributes to anything. I’m literally never told to shut up any other place, real life or online. Because most people get that telling someone to shut up just makes them look like a child who doesn’t want to hear the truth.
Well, then again, you think the way to deal with trolls is by responding to them and allowing them to clog up threads, and thought that California could actually break off and become a separate country. You’re not too bright.
You’re being kind of ridiculous now. Nobody is picking on him because of his disability.
I’ve never been a fan of his hypotheticals but I did read one a few years back and made a smart ass comment (as we all do from time to time). He PM’d me with a “FUCK OFF, TROLL!”. I thought it was a little over the top and uncalled for. I decided the dude has serious anger issues and have avoided him ever since.
So while you might be a BIG FAN, BIG FAN. Some of us find his schtick old and tired. That said, I’m not in favor of hounding him off the board. Live and let live, in this case. I simply don’t read his threads. But the raising of an old pit thread sparked my curiosity for a brief moment.
Things that, once again, happened a long time ago! He apologized for what he did, and then didn’t do that thing again. It’s been years, but people are still attacking him.
And it wasn’t in the form of “Hey, Skald. That one part looks a bit like the creepy way you used to post. Remember to be careful about that sort of thing!” They instead made false claims that Skald regularly posts in this manner, while trying to drum up people to get all outraged and attack him. They pitted him outside the Pit.
Plus, well, his reputation off board is entirely 100% irrelevant to this thread, which is about finding Skald’s posts annoying, and was rezzed because a guy found the posts to not say anything about the human condition, and thought that meant the posts didn’t have any value.
There are people who posted about how Clothahump was a decent guy off board. Did that mean we shouldn’t have attacked him for his shit on this board? Shagnasty has been nice to me in PMs. That didn’t mean I didn’t tell him off for his shitty posts.
Carrying personal vendettas onto this board is no better. If you hate him, fine. The solution very much is to not read his threads. If you have problems with something he said, then the solution is to specifically mention that thing he said and ask him not to do that anymore, not to bring up that one bad thing he did in the past to forever hang over him as a Scarlet Letter.
Making up bullshit to try and turn everyone against him? Or bringing up offboard shit that was dealt with years ago, without including his apology and attempts to do better? That is an agenda to attack a guy you don’t like, and is 100% bullshit.
Disgust over Skald’s behavior and hypotheticals predates his stated vision problems, so it’s not like people set out to “bully a blind man.” Not to mention the fact that it’s condescending as fuck to claim that Skald should be protected from the consequences of his posts because he can’t see. All the blind people I know would like to be treated as morally equal to sighted people, thank you very much. Blindness in no way excuses being a creep.
Your characterization of poor Skald, eyes watering as he bravely strains to see just enough words on the computer screen to keeping entertaining the SD, is absurd. You really think he posts his hypotheticals for anyone’s benefit but his own? It’s blindingly obvious (heh) and has been for years that Skald revels in the attention he gets. Defend him if you must, but don’t for a moment pretend it is any way noble or a sacrifice for him to write. He clearly enjoys both preparing his tedious hypotheticals and basking in the attention he generates.
Please go fuck your mama’s mouth with your micropenis and shut up BigTard.
The reason nobody likes you here or in real life is because you’re annoying whiny white knighting condescending little moralist twat with no ethics whatsoever. You are a Fred Phelps but without the ambition, looks or “Logical “reasoning.
Please do not die – because wishing death is against the rules – but keep working on that meth lab in your basement.