I try not to post more than once a year. I hope I’m not overdoing it.
I know you weren’t talking about me, but in general I think I was regarded as a good board citizen who posted appropriately; then for most of calendar year 2017, I echoed my weekly blog posts. I think it was a combination of too many posts + too many posts harping on the same damn topic. People in general did not have it in for me before that (minus, perhaps, a couple folks who found me annoying) so it was my posting behavior, specifically, that generated the antipathy.
So, yeah, in broad general terms I think the OP here has a point.
My annoying patterns aren’t quite the same as the annoying patterns of the person I think you’re alluding to, but that person would be well-advised to consider what’s being said here, and not to take it personally. There’s a difference between “we don’t like you” and “we don’t like your posting behavior”.
Translation: I want to pit Beck, but I don’t have the balls to commit to it, so I’ll just start a pit thread to “discuss” the subject of posting too much and create the most passive-aggressive pit thread ever.
Why do you assume it’s Beck? You’re guilty of it too. It might be you.
I love playing the pronoun game. What is the “it” that I am guilty of?
It’s not that hard to stop yourself, in real life or here before hitting submit, and ask, “Am I contributing anything of interest; is it relevant; am I off-topic; is it at least amusing; am I stating the blindingly obvious; does anyone give a shit; do I even have a fucking point?”
Beckdawreck suffers from at least not being able to stop hereself, assuming she has the presence of mind to ask herself those questions.
Oh man, it’s worse than I thought. Are you saying it’s unintentional on your part?
I hope you have told Zeldar - you must be the oldest doper…
It may be unintentional, but it’s hard to believe you aren’t aware of it by now.
I mean, when the neighbors have seen you do it in their bushes, when there’s a separate section in the Employee Handbook devoted to you, and when you’ve had mall security called on you for doing it in the fountain, you’ve got to start thinking “Maybe it isn’t everyone else who’s crazy here…”
(But seriously, the vague pronoun thing does make this more passive-aggressive)
I see … well at least the whole starting a passive-aggressive thread makes more sense to me now, as you are obviously a passive-aggressive little bitch.
I can live with passive-aggressive. It’s like having a gun and no bullets. You don’t really want to shoot anyone for singing too loud in church, let alone a handful of them.
I feel your pain, was it something I said?
This. Except she kind of has said the “and you can’t stop me” bit. Which is fine if you ask me, which nobody did. She’s not a troll as far as I’ve seen.
At worst Beck’s … and whomever else this thread might be aimed at … posts are white noise you can read quickly, weigh, and choose to either consider or toss aside without overusing your mindbrain. But I’m not recalling any undue hostility or unusual derailing tendencies in her. My posts, on the other hand can get quite lengthy and still be ultimately useless. Wait a minute…
Is Morganstern actually pitting Inigo Montoya? That’d be so meta!
You know, the mouse roller comes in really handy when you don’t want to read a post.
Oh, I forgot, that’s not today’s technology.
So how do you know you don’t want to read a post until you read it?
Yup, you are very much like a gun with no bullets … completely fucking useless, and a bigger danger to yourself than anyone else. I’m glad we are in agreement on the subject.
How is a gun without bullets a bigger danger to itself than anyone else? It could still be used as a bludgeon, no?
My thing with Beckdawrek is that, didn’t we used to have rules against post padding? She posts. on. every. thread. And it’s always the first or second comment, and it’s almost always a one or two word response. It’s like she just sits there refreshing the home page so she can be the first to comment on everything without contributing anything.
The whole “scroll past it” thing doesn’t really work when it’s on every thread. At some point you keep seeing her name and associating it with overuse, and it’s very hard to ignore it. I’m sure she’s sweet, I’m not talking about her personal character, but damn girl, take some time to just read, you know?
Dude, you’re a troll. I see what and where you post. Your wit is mediocre, your intelligence is that of a pool-noodle. We can agree on this too?
I’m pretty sure he’d get pitted.
Oh god, I just spent five hours writing and revising this imaginary pitting of a dead celebrity physics genius. What’s wrong with me!?! 