This is how to not hijack an MPSIMS thread.

The BBQ Pit
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You start a NEW thread. It’s easy. Watch this:

a) My name was mentioned in the OP.

b) However, YOUR lyrical literary stylings are the standard for which the rest of us should strive.

c) Yes, you would, or you would have started a new thread, much like I am doing now - so as not to start a hijack. I’m even going out of my way to not hijack - GASP - a flirting thread. “Don’t bother replying” often means “I won’t be able to think of an adequate response.” I do hope you’re not going to disappoint me in that regard.

Oh, and if you’re going to criticize me for being critical in a flirting thread, the least you could have done was mitigate your hijack by giving an example of decent flirting. Since you’re, you know, so much better than me in every way humanly possible…and your writing is just light-years past my “litter.”

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AND HERE WE GO! :: pulling up a chair, marshmallows ::

Hama, that thread sent bells a ringin’ in my head as soon as I saw it. It struck me to be almost an attempt at Hama baiting, coming so soon after the Great Deviled Egg War of two days prior.

I’d be delighted to hear what he intended.

jarbaby

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Moderator’s Notes: I’ve posted to that thread asking Johnny to send me an e-mail explaining his comments. On the chance he wanders through here prior to returning to the thread in question, I’m making the same demand in this thread.

Johnny, a response to my demand is imperative. You should send your explanation to rseaney@teamsigma.com ASAP.

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Ok, I’m going to go a little bit of both ways on this one, as I don’t see either side clearly guilt free here.

Ok, this is helpful and in fact common practice to show that a thread topic has already been covered. I would have done it myself, but the proxy kept timing out on me and then I saw Hama beat me to it.

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What brought this on? Ginger never says she wants that title, but that can be inferred from your comments here. This is not a personal insult, but you skirt the edge IMO.

What if I said, “if Hama wants to be ‘the poster with a giant stick up her arse,’ a title for which there is slim competition…” would you not take that as something rude to say? BTW - I’m not saying that about you, just using you as an example. And if you say you aren’t insulting Ginger with your comment, then I’m sure you’ll agree that I’m not insulting you with mine.

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Intelligent people can’t have fun flirting?

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And now this is an insult to everyone in the thread up to that point. Sure, she’s answering the OP with this line, but was this last comment really necessary? A simple "I don’t wish to participate in flirting threads would have been sufficient without slapping the other participants in the face.
Was that called for, UncleBeer? I don’t see what Johnny did that was so wrong that you demand an explanation from him in the way you did. He’s new, wouldn’t a simple emailed or posted reprimand done the trick? The only thing Johnny did was make a newbie mistake, and I believe you’re overreacting a bit UncleBeer.

Hama’s comments were not that innocent. Sure, Johnny’s comments were out of place there and more harsh than Hama’s. But I think some of Hama’s were also out of place there, yet she got no warning and was demanded of no explanation. The only difference I see is that Johnny got more personal, while Hama tossed veiled insults at the thread participants in general.

And Hama for someone who claimed she has no problem flirting in a flirting thread, why did you take the time to piss on everyone there when posting in a flirting thread? If you don’t want to participate, simply don’t participate. There’s no need to post about how we’re all beneath your standards.

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How about if we just take it as a given that nothing I say about flirting will ever be acceptable? How about if I make sure not to open my widdle mouf any more about anything? How about if I make not a single blip on the radar?

Oh wait - too late. My mistake. Please, CF, continue to deconstruct me. I love the feel of your vitriol on my inanity.

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Now what is this? How can a dialogue be accomplished with you having this attitude? I am not attacking you, Hama, and you’re using the same juvenlie tactics to avoid any points I may have raised as you did in our last run in.

What vitriol? Where am I angry or using foul language? I was content to let your comments in that thread go, in case you hadn’t noticed, I said nothing until someone else (you) started a Pit thread involving those comments.

I know, it’s about Johnny, but he wouldn’t have been pulled to the Pit if not for your original comments, so I thought it’s only fair we take a look at your comments from the same thread. This is not a personal attack on you Hama, so don’t start behaving like it is one.

I freely admit that Johnny’s comments weren’t appropriate there, but I don’t see why they demand such harsh attention from our moderator. However Hama, you’re comments didn’t seem that appropriate either, and I explained my reasons for thinking so above. Instead of clarifying what you meant, you dodge and act childish. To quote you, “…strange in an area marked for its posters’ intelligence.”

If I misunderstood your intent, please correct me. But your martyr act (“How about if we just take it as a given that nothing I say about flirting will ever be acceptable?”) and imagined persecution by yours truly (“I love the feel of your vitriol on my inanity.”) only serves to distract from the issue at hand. I’m trying to converse and discuss, you’re hiding from my comments and being flippant.

Act like an adult and respond intelligently.

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If you are going to be a jerk to her, get yourself in her and explain it, fuckdrop.

[sub]Important hint*: answer UncleBeer at least, it is not a wise poster that raises his ire.[/sub]

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Not to interrupt a perfectly good pit thread, but,

Bahahahahahaha! Typo of the week!

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Crunchy: re: your vitriol and my inanity: That was FUNNY, you boogerhead.

And when CAN I be flippant, if not about a fuckin’ FLIRTING thread?

And I have no way or reason to defend myself. I was deliberately posting flirt-antagonistic messages in a thread about flirting. I don’t know that it was FOR flirting…it looked like it was ABOUT flirting…but if no one else is going to call the folks in it on their violation of the OP - including me* - then I shan’t.

Of course, if you could hear my TONE, you might stop being such a brat about it.

I think lurkernomore is a hell of a lot closer to the mark than anyone else has been.

And thank you, aenea, but I don’t want that guy NEAR me, much less IN me. :smiley:

*violating the OP, that is

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:rolleyes:
*Aenea blushes

Manny would notice that right away too. :o

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I totally missed that. I believe the term is “Woosh”

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Don’t you understand how important and serious those flirt threads are? Don’t you see that – aw fuck it, you have a point there, no sense trying to BS my way out of it. Sorry.

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Ah, and here your logic falls apart, here your – oh, no wait, you’re right again. The OP was a poll and got lost in all the following posts. Well now I feel stupid.

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Unfortunately, that’s always a drawback to communication in this medium.

Well, anyway, I still agree with you about Johnny’s initial comments to you not belonging there, so at least I made ONE statement I can stand by. And I still don’t understand why UncleBeer decided to treat it so seriously. I still think a simple reprimand would’ve done the job.

I’m off your ass about the deal now, Hama. Sorry about being a brat. :frowning:

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Yep, the way I read the OP it was a question about if there should be more flirting threads and who should be in them. So the OP was hijacked way in the beginning, but most are newbies. Crunchy you need to get the bug out of your butt about Hamma’s threads and posts. Your constant nagging and bickering is getting old. Give it a rest, it doesn’t impress the rest of the board and certainly doesn’t gain you any respect from the rest of the Dopers.

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Uh, didn’t he just apologise 10 hours before you posted this?

Fran

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Is it just me, or does everyone else get all deliciously shivery and quivery when UncleBeer starts talkin’ like this?

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Read the post again, Fran. It’s not just this thread I’m referencing. It’s just about all of Hamma’s threads. Ike I know just what ya mean guy.

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I know just having a mod post in one of my threads makes me feel…strange, and sort of tingly. Is this what the girls were talking about in high school in the locker room? And that assertive tone, the masterful wording…

My goodness. I think I have to go lay down for a while.

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A Hama supporter steps in…

My OP was really aiming to get some of the cool posters who stay away from the flirt threads to tell us why they do not participate, and if and/or how it was possible to get them to participate in a flirt thread.

Of course I had nothing against its turning into an actual flirt thread itself, but still, I consider the OP answered clearly enough.

Hama actually took the effort and wrote a couple of replies, which makes her a “hopeful case” in that if she sees some flirting that is genuinely intelligent for her taste, she might just join!

Sue Duhnym looks like a hopeless case for flirting, since she never wrote a line of reply even though her name was mentioned in the OP, and she did post on the SDMB a lot of times in the 3 days the thread has been active.

So the two people who were mentioned in the OP took their stances by appropriate ways, I should say. And nothing derogative can be said about either one.

Trying to bash someone because he/she gave his/her opinion when it actually was asked is stupid - if nothing else.

My two cents!!
Go Hama!!!

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Two threads, ultress. Count them: two, including this thread. That’s hardly constant, considering Hama and I have both been here for over a year. The two instances have both just happened to have been close together.
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Give it a rest, it doesn’t impress the rest of the board and certainly doesn’t gain you any respect from the rest of the Dopers. **
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I gave it a rest long before you posted this crap.
And not that it’s any business of yours, but we’ve recently passed a couple friendly emails that I think will end this once and for all. So you see, I’m perfectly capable of handling my affairs without you telling me how to do it.

But if I have any further questions on what the rest of the board is thinking, I’m glad I now know who the SDMB spokesperson is.

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And that’s a lie, unless Hama has only opened up two or three threads. I have not been following her around and picking fights with her constantly. As I said, there’s been only two instances that I can recall interacting with Hama and this thread is one of them. Get your facts straight before suggesting I’m stalking and pestering a poster.

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Despite not being one of the “cool” posters (proven by a quick search of your thread which showed that I wasn’t mentioned once) but one who has stopped even looking at those threads because I find them embarassing, I’ll answer your question: because I find them embarassing.

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And this, students, is how to hijack a Pit rant into a flirting thread.

Is this recursion?