D’oh! :smack:
HA! I was wondering if that little comment got lost in the shuffle. 
As for the rest of you people - I’m glad we got things worked out. I’m happy to know those of that I do, and look forward to meeting those I don’t. So I can buy you all dicks and throw drinks in your face. Or something like that. 
Bitch, if it were possible to buy dicks, I wouldn’t spend so much time on this damn message board.
Thanks! I’m here all week!
Until I leave. I’ve been thinking about it.
If you go, I go.
Ah, who am I kidding. I’m fastened onto the SDMB like a tick.
I never noticed the comment in the OP about cutting oneself and I do believe that to be stepping over the line but everything else? No.
I think it’s rather obvious from his postings that **Lobsang **, like most of us, is insecure and seeks validation. Telling him so may not be the most polite thing to do but as numerous people have reiterated: this is the Pit. Rudeness is its province.
The thing that gets me the most about this thread is how tenacious you’re being in its defense when so many other people have been pitted for lesser things with nary a peep from you. If **Lobsang ** didn’t deserve this pitting because other people have attention-whored, then why are you berating **Demo ** when so many others have flamed?
I’m not trying to attack you. As I said previously, you’re one of my favorite posters, if not my favorite overall. I just *really * do not understand your agitation. At all.
If you post a thread that says I’m depressed, please cheer me up, you’re a part of the community. If you post a thread that says I’m thinking about leaving, you’re a dick. Why? Because the second one says, “I’m standing on a hill looking down on all of you, and if you want to continue to enjoy the favor of my company, then bring your alms and lay them at my feet.”
Liberal that is a very warped view and also wrong.
If you post a thread saying “I’m thinking about leaving” couldn’t it be because the op is thinking about leaving?
It could, but yours wasn’t. It wasn’t even about leaving. It was about not fitting in, not having fun anymore, not being able to keep up with everybody else. Why didn’t you title your thread, Tell me how to fit in? There’s nothing wrong with asking for help or attention, but to frame it as a hostage and ransom situation is melodramatic to say the least. What is everybody supposed to do, slow down? Act dumber? Add text to explain things in a way you can follow? There are a lot of people who post here with far less intelligence and expression than yours. You’re not stupid. Whatever issues you might have have nothing to do with your mental abilities. Just don’t try to manipulate people. It too often backfires and leaves everyone disoriented. If you’re unhappy, take a break. Stop posting. Read more. Learn things. Then, try again later.
Ok liberal now you’ve done it. So far a lot of people have been acting like childish irrational assholes overstepping the bounds of decorum and good taste needlessly adding fuel to an already hot flame.
Now you have to come in here acting all reasonable and shit giving an accurate assessment of the OP and offering perfectly sound advice. Party Pooper. I hope you’re happy now.
:sigh: Just when things start to look like the ‘old home place’ it ends before I can get in.
Liberal nailed it up here a couple of posts back. All dicksmoking aside, it’s the disingenuousness that’s so annoying about those threads. Almost no one leaves after posting a “should I leave” thread. It gets old very quickly.
Haj
I’ve somehow never heard of Demo and I’ve only read about 10 pecent of the 200-some-odd posts to this thread, but that’s not really important. What is important is that I post something, because it looks as though almost every other board member already has, and I didn’t want y’all to think I was snubbing you, or something.
BTW, I’m not thinking of leaving. I’m NEVER leaving. In fact, I’ll probably still be sitting here doing vanity searches when the last white dwarf in the known universe winks out. Now, if the proton ever starts to decay, that may be a problem, but otherwise, I’m here for ya, baby.
Oh, and could I bum a cigarette?
So at most, the biggest crime commited is that he should have titled and framed the thread differently. I disagree that is enough to warrant a pit thread when the feelings expressed are heartfelt.
To make a more extreme example, nobody really likes threads that are titled like **I hate that … **. But say somebody starts a thread titled this way, and inside they say
I hate that … my dad died 
.
If you start a pit thread complaining about I hate that … threads and link to this one you’d come off as rather a jerk.
Well, you stopped reading before the topic sentence. It’s about manipulaton.
Meanwhile, I just want to know, who the hell farted in here!?
Damn, a whole big thread started by Demo with people fighting and I don’t see it until it all gets settled? I wanted to sling some mud too.
You guys suck. Demo especially.
My bad. I had cauliflower last night. I apologize.
Except no one that agrees with the OP thinks the feelings expressed in those type of threads are heartfelt. Do you know many “I’m leaving” “Oh no, we love you, please stay” “Ok, I’ll stay” threads there have been? I don’t see it as heartfelt when after like 25 posts the OP* always changes their mind. In the same thread! It’s not like they take a break, then come back. They change their minds immediately after enough ego stroking. I’m sorry if you can’t understand why I would get the impression that the ego stroking was the true aim of those threads.
*Generic OP, NOT Lobsang directly
And, while I would get annoyed if the same person(s) kept posting “Validate me” threads, I don’t see anything wrong, or annoying with asking for occasional recognition. We all need that. But just be honest about it!
Exactly. The OP I linked to upthread was from, what, three years ago? And I’d seen enough of them that I felt compelled to Pit them? And I’d only been on here for a year? Now think of how many MORE there have been in the intervening THREE years, and you’ll understand (not you, Mauv, obviously) why the “I’m leaving” thread was Pitted.
And if you don’t think that’s the kind of thing that ought to be Pitted…again, I linked upthread to my OP from three years ago, and it sure seemed as though it was an appropriate Pitting then. I can’t imagine that things have changed THAT much.
Again, exactly. I know my (NPFH) opinion doesn’t matter to anyone but myself, but I’m throwing it out here (again) anyhow: I’ve always said that I hated the underhanded attention-whoring of “I’m leaving” threads, but I’ve also always said that “Pay Attention To Me!” and “I’m depressed - boost my ego!” threads seem fine to me…because at least they’re honest.