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I see some selective choosing there. You choose those(which are legitimate questions) to make it look like all I’ve posted so far in the last two hours is one liners, which isn’t true.
What was so special about those posts?
I am supposed to apparently have more content in in my posts. Those are posts that show I am capable of posting more thant one liners.
He posted ofcourse some questions that were one liners although they are legitmate ones. He’s saying I can only post one liners which is just not true.
Get real SmileyDeath. I said those were the most recent posts, and they were.
The complaint isn’t that you’re 100% full of crap, just 90% full of crap. And that’s bad enough.
Ironically, the post in which you try to prove you can post more than one-liners only has eight original words in it.
You asshole.
Smileydeath, as far as I am concerned a 50 word post is still a one-liner.
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How is that?
It does prove my point. I posted evidence that I can post more than one liners. It does the job itself, so why would I need to add more to it?
And why am I a asshole?
Christ, it’s like watching a coked-up cockatoo…
Sweet merciful crap, they banned trader. :eek: I have three words: BWA, HA and HA!
“How is that,” you say? “How is that”? Just what kind of staggering insight into the world’s problems do you think you’re going to provide us with with 50 words? What kind of soul-searching do you think 50 words is conjuring up? 50 words is clearing your fucking throat, sonny-jim.
You offer us three 50-word posts as examples of your exemplary wit, perspicaciousness and discernment? If you think that suffices you have a hell of a long way to go.
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Because you won’t shut up. That’s why.
Ironically, this thread is an example of what I’m talking about. When folks start piling on SmileyDeath, he starts trying to fight back. Would you expect anything else from a male 14-year-old? If he feels that he’s being picked on, unfairly or otherwise, he can’t just let it slide.
It looks to me like simply laying off him for a while would be more effective, rather than beating up on him, obstinately quoting his own posts back to him, and calling him names. Now, if some of the posters in this thread are just trying to provoke a meltdown, so that he’ll be banned, I guess they’re on the right track. Does this seem like an adult tactic to any of you?
Yeah, well, getting the slapdown from their elders is how obnoxious 14 year-olds actually go about turning into useful members of society. Or are you suggesting that we should just leave youths to it and trust that they’ll figure it out on their own?
As for quoting his posts back to him: when I was 10 years old and ate like a pig, my parents put a big ol’ mirror in front of me at the dinner table for a week. You should see my table manners now.
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SmileyDeath, some free advice, for what it’s worth: Quit posting to this thread. I realize you feel the need to defend yourself, but posting one- or two-line rebuttals every fifteen minutes merely reinforces the perception that you’re approaching this message board as a chat room and have nothing substantive to say. Perhaps that’s an unfair perception, and perhaps it isn’t, but the fact of the matter is that that’s what people are seeing.
Unfortunately, you seem to have started out on somewhat of the wrong foot here. Again, maybe you think that’s unfair, but, well, what’s happened has happened. The question is: what should you do now? I think you ought to take a deep breath. Then quit replying to this thread. Then, before you post next, hesitate. Reread it. Maybe don’t post it at all (heck, I wind up not posting about a third of the things I write).
Think about the long term for a little bit: if you quit replying here, this thread will eventually sink to the bottom and disappear. If you modify your posting behaviour as suggested above, people will eventually forgive and forget. Yes, walking away might be tough to do; yes, you might feel wrongly singled-out; yes, it might be frustrating. But sometimes it’s better to quit fighting the battle and start making the peace.
Or, conversely, if he’s going to post on a board for grown-ups, perhaps he should comport himself as one. The fact that he’s allegedly 14 has no bearing on the fact that he’s posting with adults. There are enough teen-Dopers who are exceptionally literate and insightful that I see no need to dumb-down the Board for one person who can’t control himself.
Frankly, I’m getting tired of his idiotic micro-posts (“Huh?”, “LOL” and so forth), and as a matter of fact he was warned by an admin about it. His response? To follow-up (AFTER the warning) with 8(?) more micro-posts. :rolleyes:
I suspect his next tactic will be to do the “padded book report” style post:
*The post I am about to make is about an earlier post which is itself a response to an earlier post. The topic of the post I am about to make is, in general, a question, fraught with overtones of angst. My post consists of the following: “Wha’ ?”.
I hope that I can get an adequate response to this heartfelt query!
(See? It’s not a one-line post any more!)*
Fenris
Depends on the situation, I guess. If the behavior that you find obnoxious meets the definition of “attention-grabbing whore,” then responding to the posts simply reinforces the behavior.
Fenris, you may be right - we’ll just have to wait and see. As long as the minimum age on the SDMB is 13, however, it’s tough to expect all of the younger posters to compete with your erudition. Inevitably, some of them are going to behave like, well, 13 and 14-year-olds. Maybe the age limit should be bumped up to 16.
(Hell, now that I think about it, it’s tough to expect any other posters to compete with your erudition!)
Another thought: we’ve gone from being a civilization of letter-writers, to being phone-callers, to being e-mailers, to being instant-message posters. Some of what we’re seeing on the SDMB may simply reflect [gasp!] what’s happening in society at large.
Maybe, Early, but we don’t have to like it.
And I take your point about the attention-grabbing, though I’ll point out in return that this one isn’t simply a troll and may yet learn from instruction. A man can dream.
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