# So wait a minute, certain posters have a issue with me being negative because of what I post in a

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**Created:** [July 31, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417 "2016-07-31T23:06:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/61 "2016-08-03T13:17:23Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> Aw, shucks. Maybe if a dozen people tell me how great it was, **cg16** ’ll check it out.
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> And maybe even act on it…?

Actually, he did. He posted a completely reasonable rant in Workplace yesterday.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/62 "2016-08-03T16:50:30Z")

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Be happy, cg16. No one has singled you out in the [Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=793796&page=2) … yet. You’re working your way there, but you’re not a top troll yet.

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**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/63 "2016-08-06T22:42:54Z")

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This whole website makes me wish I could turn back time and just have the paperback books and the newspaper columns back.

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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/64 "2016-08-06T23:32:09Z")

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> [@Projammer](#):
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> ETA: In your favor though, you haven’t been crapping out any l33tsp34k in any posts I’ve seen.

∯Θຜ 4BOuT iph I Ju$T HiJ4Ck th3 THR34d to R4NT 4BOuT yOuR $Tyupid 133T$p34k?

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/65 "2016-08-07T17:58:33Z")

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I’d almost forgotten about l33t… thank Og\* that most of this board is too smart to fall into a lot of 4chan/reddit traps of “this sounds SO cool this week, I’ll infect _Teh Interwebz_ with it…”

\*And we don’t have TOO many inside jokes that would keep an interloper from enjoying this board…  
(Hi, Opel, is that 1920’s style blimp burning your dog?)

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/66 "2016-08-07T18:27:29Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> ∯Θຜ 4BOuT iph I Ju$T HiJ4Ck th3 THR34d to R4NT 4BOuT yOuR $Tyupid 133T$p34k?

£==7§¶=@/‹ ¿‡\<=§ µ= @ 3@§§¿\>= #=@Ð@(c)#= .

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/67 "2016-08-07T19:18:17Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> £==7§¶=@/‹ ¿‡\<=§ µ= @ 3@§§¿\>= #=@Ð@(c)#= .

I believe it’s “¿ before § except after Ð” [/n33tpick]

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/68 "2016-08-07T19:59:04Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> I believe it’s “¿ before § except after Ð” [/n33tpick]

And “50|\_|N|)e|) |\_1|\<e 4 4z 1N ne19|-|b0.- 4N|) |/E19|-|” 😃

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**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wait-a-minute-certain-posters-have-a-issue-with-me-being-negative-because-of-what-i-post-in-a/761417/69 "2016-08-08T00:29:43Z")

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Feed that into TECO and I believe you get a Shakespearean sonnet 😉

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