The He-Man techchick haters club, or my first OP in the PIT

So, in this now-defunct thread, techchick has once more made it perfectly clear that she, too is a moderator. However, <cringe> she is not pleased that I suggested that she lectures too much, as I received an email this morning from some AOLoser that rambled on for a few sentences and then ended in the characteristic "…fuck it"® of the ever-annoying techchick.

As a person with an ego that can withstand the flames, I’ve decided to simply respond to her here. So, I’d like to invite all you techchick haters and supporters to some on out in give her the attention she demands from the SDMB.

Your donation can be large or small; aimed at me or her- I don’t care. Either way, it’s bound to be amusing.

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I can only assume this is techchick. I mostly lurk, but I’m on the board every day. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen you on a thread where you weren’t an obnoxious little miss-know-it-all shit. I’ve seen that you get most of your world view from your rich daddy and that you probably got your work ethic there too.

Nobody (at least me, and in terms of this message board, I AM nobody) gives a fuck what message boards you have or currently moderate. The mods seem to do a good job on their own and probably don’t need you to be the first one in to tell everyone what they should be doing. In short, you suck.

Now, I don’t get involved with flame wars for several reasons: 1. The boards are usually too slow to jump in and start a fight with someone who I don’t know and don’t much care about, 2.it’s not the reason I come to the SMDB, and 3. generally, its sad to see how worked up people get over a message board- it’s like a soap opera.

But in your case, I’ve made my first, and probably only exception. You’re a rich little fucker with no sense of reality, at least your OWN sense. You certainly strike me as the sort who was the classroom monitor when teacher was out of the room- a job I’m sure you relished; the likes of which you probably haven’t been able to find in adulthood- Oh! I’m sorry! You HAVE found a job like this! You’re a MODERATOR. OOOHhhhhh!

And I like your style of confrontation- blather out a few sentences and then “…fuck it…” . Oh, poor, misunderstood techie.

Here are two unsolicited ideas for you:
1. Shut up
2. Take another break from the boards, but not before you sing a sad song about how misunderstood you are. I need the laugh.

Every time I see your handle on a post, my stomach gets that cringie feeling that you get when someone is embarassing themselves and doesn’t even know it.
And remember, when you post to a message board, for every poster you interact with, there could be 1000’s more that simply lurk. So don’t be too confused over why someone doesn’t like you even though you haven’t interacted with them. YOU’RE the one with your thoughts out on display, not me. So of course I could have formed an opinion about you- without you’re even knowing it. Spooky? No. Just common sense.
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And before your panties get too bunched up, I’m not suggesting your daddy doesn’t have a work ethic- only that you, as a result of his success, don’t need one.

::checking with the judges…:

Australia: 9.7
The Netherlands: 9.8
Ireland: 9.9
Japan: 9.9
Canada: 9.7
The United States: 10.0
The Republic of Techchickland: 2.37

It looks good, folks, we might have a winner today!

Yes, I overheard the American say he was giving the perfect score for the 2-item list, sans Opal, a brilliant move.

Why waste the emotional energy required to work up an actual hate and loathing of her? I’ve found that looking upon her with distain is just as rewarding and not NEARLY as exhausting.

Besides, folks who persue attention as assiduously as she will take any attention they can get, positive or negative. I regret feeding her ego at all by posting to this thread. I read her posts and reply to threads like this for the same reason I occasionally swing by rotten.com…it’s vile, it’s reprehensible, and yet almost impossible to pass without dipping one’s cup…

A-fucking men to that.

And you’ve answered your own question. :smiley:

Besides, how much energy does it really take? It’s not like I’m sweating or anything. Besides, even though I don’t like her as a poster, I don’t wish her any ill will, and the responses from her, and from other posters (either agreeing with or shitting on me) will pass the Friday at the office.

Lamer reasons for flame threads have given way to really good threads…

(Oh yeah, Hamadryad, you’ve gotta get some sleep! You shouldn’t be getting exhausted from this type of activity! ;))

Aloha Friday in the BBQ Pit.

sometimes, it’s fun to just watch. Anyone need a beer?

jarbaby

jarbaby, do you really need to ask?

Why, yes thank you so much !! I’m sitting here in Beverly Hills at a hotel, on the laptop in my burgundy Hawaiin shirt ( oh god, why does that look like I spelled it wrong?) and my best LA shades. A nice beeah would go poifectly right about now.

Planter’s Low Salt Peanuts?

Cartooniverse

So, is Aloha Friday one of those “look at the newbie” things?

I’ll take two, please.
And I’d like to officially register a complaint with my score from the Republic of Techchickland- I feel I should have gotten at LEAST a 4 for posting in the right forum! :smiley:

BTW, jarbabyj, you’re hot. Just your attitude- don’t even know what you look like. :wink:

Only because you’re writing with the Cyrillic keyboard, 'Toon.

Throw me a Goose Island brewski…

I brought chips…but mrs beagledave is on this health kick, so I just got these damn WOW fake fat Doritoes

Panama: 9.7

You assume that it’s TC?

You launched this whole vapid thread on the off-chance that a (not very rare) phrase betrayed the identify of the author?

Okey-dokie.

Just for the record, while TC’s prickly personality and the speed with which she has been known to take offense are amply demonstrated by the cheering section that has responded to this thread, a person who has actually read what TC has posted over the last year or so would realize that she is a fairly intense workaholic who invests a considerable amount of energy providing computer services both as an actual paid employee and in the assistance of other people on various message boards.

If you wish to launch some grand “let’s all bash people who are easily irritated” thread, this is the place to do it.

If you wish to hurl insults by creating a straw man to knock down, you just look silly.

If the author of you e-mail was TC, I am rather sure that she did not intend any anonymity–whatever battles she has joined, I have never seen her make an anonymous contribution. (As I recall, she is not a fan of AOL, although that does not preclude her using it.) If it turns out that she was not the author of your e-mail, I am curious what your next action will be.

Funny. Even though I doubt that email came from techie, I’m still tickled pink at seeing most of my thoughts about her summarized so nicely.

French judge: 9.8

Hand me a beer, willya?

Yes, “assume”. There wasn’t any actual name at the end, but since the sender took offense at the posting, I can safely “assume” it was her. However, since it would not hold up in a court, or in the court of the SDMB, I use the word “assume”. However, if you’d like I could use “alleged” or something else…

Vapid. VAPID! I love that word. Douglas Adams used it very well. Well, I’m sorry tom and/or debb, I wouldn’t want to contribute a vapid thread to the Pit!

But your retort has been registered, and I thank you for speaking up. I don’t, as I implied in the OP, want to start a pile-on thread. Mainly, I just didn’t feel that I had a relationship (or ANY relationship) with techchick that would warrant going back and forth on email. Further, it doesn’t even seem all that important.

I “assume” you are implying that I haven’t read her postings. You’re right. I randomly picked her name off the boards and attacked her. Far be from anyone to overstate something in the Pit. (no rolley-eyes needed)

No, let’s just bash techchick. And make that a straw woman you insensitive pig!

I will start a self-bashing thread immediately. Or I’ll just hijack this one. Oh yes, and I’ll type techchick’s name with tons of brackets around it, to show how cyber-sorry I am. More brackets than the world has ever seen! And then I’ll wonder how anyone non-techchick would get offended at what I said.

And yes, tom, I KNOW she helps people at message boards… That’s a main part of the OP.

No offense intended to the OP’er, but those of you who think that was at or near a 10.0 rant really need to get out more.

I found the swipes at Techchick’s family’s wealth gratuitous, too. That her dad has money should have as much relevance to what she posts and how people respond to it as the fact that my mom didn’t have money. So what?

And I guess I didn’t take Techchick’s references to being a moderator in the afore-linked thread as annoyingly as you did, as the thread subject was about how moderators do things (at least one, anyway).

You want to cite particular quotes she made there that you feel are out-of-line, or out of context to the types of things everyone else was talking about?

And, finally, persecuting someone with a persecution complex seems a bit too helpful, don’t you think? If this ends up spawning an incoherent, multi-page melodrama, I think we should put you up on the cross for an hour or so too, smoke, just to teach you a lesson.

Regardless of whether I agree with the OPs statements or not…it seemed to me almost as if the ‘anonymous’ email or IM or whatever was just the straw that inspired him to go off like a gun at the Heston ranch.

Perhaps he just needed a reason to begin the venting, just like sometimes one word or one look or one eyeroll can send someone reeling for days.

Like I said, just an outside observation…I’ve barely interacted to techie, so I can’t really take sides on the arguement. It just seems that smoke’s been building up some anger towards techie and someone said ‘fuck it’ and he went nutso.

Either way. It’s a cause to pull up a chair. I doubt this thread will go down quietly.

jarbaby

However, you made a big deal to imply she had a poor (or no) work ethic–a rather bad implication considering all her efforts on message boards are in addition to a real-live job.

So.