< giggling harder than she has all day! >
I goofed!!!
Oh my that is too funny!!!
< snort >
hehehehe
I can’t stop laughing! I am not kidding.
Whoda thunk?
Oh sheesh, I have not been in best form lately but I sure know how to make a big boo boo, giggle!
You evil, evil person you. You need to be punished. I will tie you to your bed, and spank you.
I still prefer the chocolate.
I have found a personal solution to the immature rudeness problem I have always seen here. I have allowed my mean streak out and I’m ready to pick fights with all comers.
Well, at least I don’t have to worry about that.
Jally, take to heart what you are being told in this thread, but don’t take it too seriously. Don’t take the SDMB too seriously, either. We’re just semi-imaginary netizens who like to get together with like-minded folks. Try not to piss off our real halves too much and get your free email from someplace else. God, Goddess, Gods and/or Goddesses, Satan, Nobody, or Sam the Dog all know there are plenty of places to get that. And they don’t get as overloaded around 12:30PM CT.
Thanks! Coming from you, I consider that a compliment.
Actually, three bunny mama did:
Anyway, my opinion is that if Jally decides he does not like it here, he can leave. But what a waste of time and effort to attempt to point out his mistakes so everyone can hate him too.
You remind me of the high school bully who makes it clear to everyone who the outcasts are. Or even worse, the dirty politician who doesn’t have much leg to stand on and thus points out all the opposition’s flaws. It’s low and ridiculous.
Not all of jally’s posts have been out of line. And after reading his other posts (which I did before my original post, thankyouverymuch), I don’t think he was out of line, simply unfamiliar with how it works here. BUT he is a newbie and that is to be expected. So he doesn’t have plg’s immense respect for Manhatten? Maybe because he doesn’t know who he is (duh). Give the kid a fucking break.
It takes newbies some time to get acquainted with the board. The purpose of SDMB is not for the old-timers to run around pointing out trolls and kicking people around, or using stupid shit like this entire post to make everyone hate them.
It’s childish and silly, and as I said, it makes you look (to me) like a bored high school bully. I have seen way too many of your “I hate this person! He sucks! Everyone kiss my ass! I hate her now too! Wah wah wah!” posts to take one of your flames seriously, anyway.
If I recall correctly, techchick, you were ready to leave the board because people did not like Mike, who was a troll at first. Poor kid gets a bad rep and you stick up for him. So why are you trying so pitifully to give jally a bad rep too?
Nacho, you are taking this way to seriously. Please read my posts again. In addition to that, most of the problems stemmed from the chat room. Yes I know, it was in the chat room I didn’t leave it where I should have, in the chat room. I screwed up and admit that.
To quote me:
If I wanted jally to up and leave, I would have come right and said it. I don’t think I was being overly harsh. jally has run around this board calling people names, putting down the board and the administration of this board. jally also has been a member since May with 136 posts, some of those posts are actually okay. A seemingly great majority of his/her time though has been spent poopooing everyone and everything related to this board.
No I don’t know how often he/she has actually comes to read around (lurk) but you don’t go around and do these things without people taking notice. Newbie or not, this is inappropriate behavior and after this many posts and the people that have stated such in replies, you would think he/she would get a clue about it all.
I am not the bully here. In fact, after my experiences with Mike, I am more than likely to call someone on their behavior and hope that by using a lighter style it would turn people around. I am not sitting here picking on jally and calling him/her names; I am bringing to light how his/her actions will and are being percieved.
So Nacho, if my post is percieved by you as being a bully then you are a very sensitive person. I would hate to see what would happen if someone had gotten sick of jally and flamed him/her with a blowtorch and gasoline. I would rather use correction methods rather than letting things get to a point where all hell breaks loose.
Take that as you will, but I do think you are being overly sensitive and are reading into my posts intentions that aren’t there.
Hey techchick, Glad to see you’re still full of… well I’ve seen you full of beer once before but this seems a bit more acidic. But anyway excellent work on the research of jally’s threads and after reading them I am in awe that he wasn’t taken out and gutted in the sun.
I’ve not been on the boards for awhile but thing appears to be running smoothly. You guys wanna run my hospital?
Carry on,
The Germ
(Techie, should we plan another Denver Doper bash for the fall. I haven’t had a beer since May 
)
I see no attempt on Techie’s part to make us hate Jally. I see her saying, “Hey, this guy screwed up… if you see him acting like this in other threads, you know it’s nothing new.” Now, exactly how is this inappropriate?
No, but a good number of them were, pressing an issue well beyond the breaking point. Like I said above, he made a couple mistakes, and he’s being told, “Hey, c’mon, keep it cool.” Again, how is this inappropriate?
And what, exactly, are YOU doing, Miss Sara? It’s now considered “bullying” to dislike it when someone explodes on several others with minimal provocation? There’s a reason the Pit exists, you know… if you don’t like this “bullying”, stay in MPSIMS.
A. I love your irrational exaggeration. The OP seems to be very calmly and politely worded, offering excellent advice for a new poster.
B. The OP wasn’t really a flame, at least not by Techchick’s standards (I’ve seen her flame, and this is not a flame). Like I said, it seems like a well-deserved admonition.
C. Judging by your reaction to this whole thread, it seems that you’re taking this TOO seriously. Perhaps you need some Ex-Lax too?
I know Techchick hardly needs me (or anyone else) to defend her, but still… you’re jumping all over her over THIS?
Well, I guess we’re all going to have to agree to disagree, because I still think this whole thread is childish and silly. It’s like the thread about rules for older women - if you don’t like the way someone posts (or dresses or whatever) then ignore them. I didn’t follow my own advice because this is, lemme see, the 19 thousandth post like this I have seen that strikes me a utterly pointless and stupid.
I come to the Pit for good juicy stuff like flames against the gov’t, Mormons, etc. But this…this is lame.
I’m not jumping all over anyone. I just think techchick was out of line. I can get nastier too, but that is not what I wanted. I’m just sick of the self-righeousness some of the “old-timers” tend to exhibit.
My point is…who is techchick to admonish anyone?
Aren’t you admonishing her?
N4S threw the ball up in the air and Byz dunked it. Beautiful.
Nacho said:
So according to what I read here. I should never question anyone on these boards. I should never state an opinion. I should always keep my opinion to myself and never, God forbid, let anyone know otherwise.
BUT, if you, Nacho, have an opposing opinion to something, we all should stand up and listen. Your opinion is the only one that matters and damnit even if you consider yourself a newbie here, which your not, we must overlook it no matter what behavior you bring about on the boards.
It doesn’t matter if we are old or new here. You are taking the “newbie, whoa is us” attitude. I was a newbie here once too you know. I have made my fair share of mistakes and been called on it. The difference is, I looked at it from a stand point of, learning the ropes and not a personal attack on me and when I did (look at it as a personal attack) I took a step back and regrouped rather than run around all the SDMB forums blaming everyone under the sun, including the moderators and administrators.
Look Nacho, I could see you getting your panties in a wad if I came over to the Pit and called jally a goat fucker or a whining, sniveling little newbie that needs to be tarred and feathered. But you see, I didn’t do that. I pointed out the errors she is making and by doing so you decided I was being a bully. If pointing out obvious errors that a person is making is so out of line, then we may as well walk on eggshells around all new people. Oh dear, we might wound their newbie pride.
My opinion is, if you can’t figure out a message board after 80-100 posts then there is a possiblity that a person doesn’t belong there. I am not stating that there still isn’t some learning to do but if you look from about 07/23 to 08/12 of jally’s posts you will very much see a trend. I didn’t list them all, I only pointed out a few.
I look at it more like, you have this anger towards me rather than seeing what the others are saying here, they are agreeing with me. Maybe you want to play the mother hen just as much as I have for Mike. Hey that’s cool. But you completely took my intentions and twisted them for your own use rather than what the intention was.
I tried to reason with you and it doesn’t work. Fine. But the next time someone behaves in the manner that jally has, I will not be quiet just because you think I am being a bully. If I was mean and hurtful in my OP, then that’s the time to get on my ass, but I wasn’t.
Oh and to add something else. jally refuses to use The Pit for her rantings. She’s been called on it but apparently the use of The Pit is beneath her even though some of her postings are Pit material.
Actually, this thread is pretty silly. It is too bad that we don’t have a different way to guide the newbies than a thread in the Pit. “Spare the rod and spoil the child” can also refer to using a shepherd’s crook to guide the young person.
TC, I know you are not a bully but what you say can sometimes be taken that way, especially by someone not familiar with your ways. And searching out his posts here and at ATMB and making links and writing a full-page critique does look a little, um, obsessive.
That this is a fairly regular thing here by many people, and I admit to recently swatting a fly with a howitzer, too, doesn’t make the SDMB a very welcoming place. Especially to newbies who are entirely new to the net. I’m not saying that’s what jally is, but the paperware Straight Dope will attract them. We shouldn’t frighten them off by looking like a bunch of psychos going ballistic over annoyances.
And yes, Byz I am admonishing her. I hope gently and I hope she sees it as coming from a friend.
As for jally, does he/she even know this thread exists? Does anybody care to email this person so they can come see it?
Freak, this isn’t a basketball game.
Finally, Sara, without my self-righteousness I’m nobody. I do “pompous windbag” ever so well! 
A Different Mike
Not jumping all over anyone? Does any of this ring a bell?
Now, perhaps you don’t have a good grasp of the English language, but that’s known as “being inflammatory”, which, in turn, is “jumping all over” someone.
Now, compare your post (which is chock-full of assholicness and petty insults) to these…
Now, Nacho, read those four quotes. Do those seem like a “flame”? Do those seem inflammatory? Do those seem like petty insults or “bullying”?
Or, rather, do they seem like good advice to someone in need of good advice?
Darned simul-posts!
TC and Spoofe, when will you learn that MY opinion is the only one that counts?
drop,
I realize that my posting looked as though I was possibly looking for a reason to bring this up, aka being overly concerned. The truth of the matter was, I was reading through several ATMB postings that included jally in them.
Her posts seemed to have taken a weird turn. She was berating the boards, members, mods and admins in an inappropriate way. My curiousity made me look into her other posts. After seeing a pattern, rather than post to individual postings, some of which had been closed, I decided to bring it up as a topic.
I didn’t do it out of spite or anything at all like that. I didn’t go on a hunt as some may think, what I did do is try to understand this person that I had seen some somewhat intelligent posts from before I made a judgement. Unfortunately, I saw something else and thought I would bring it up.
FWIW, I don’t go around the boards looking for people to flame. I don’t actively seek out people’s posts to see what kind of people they are. I will, however, look at posts if I am confused about people when reading what they have expressed.
Believe me, I would love for all message boards to be all fun and flowers but this is not reality.
BTW, doing a search of The Pit, I have only flamed specific people 2 or 3 times (as a topic I created) out of a reported 131 threads I have participated in. So I 'spose my Pit Life should be considered that I only pick on new people? I hardly think I am on a mission to put people down… Those would be AvenueB, drainthelizard and now a light rant about jally.
Please throw me to the lions for I am a horrible person for doing this.
God forbid I have an opinion.
No, dear, as I said the problem is that you don’t have MY opinion. I’m old, full of myself, and try to make things I say sound reasoned and reasonable. So I MUST be right. Whether or not I’m actually right generally means little to me, since I’m convinced I am.
I read enough of those threads to think that jally goes through life with a bigger chip on her shoulder than ME, even. No, she doesn’t look like a “good fit.” And you and I have both admitted regret at some point in this thread that the Pit is where discussions like this end up. That is why I wish there was another procedure for correcting miscreants. Flaming is so indelicate, although you did restrain yourself admirably. We could email them, but that seems intrusive. (You can’t imagine how long it took me to work up the nerve to email you about something NICE.)
Sorry drop,
I should have broken that last post of mine up. AKA to read for the rest of those reading this before this quote:
Meaning that was meant for all that read this thread.
I pulled a bad one…failing to clarify to whom I was talking to. Something that has been apparent in this thread. Because I didn’t break it up, you assumed I was talking directly to you on that part, but I wasn’t.
Sorry drop.
< must make it clear techchick…butthead > hehe
Only if you agree with me, Droppy 
The SPOOFE is always right.
…sigh…
Lexicon,
sigh??? Please esplain Lucy.