# Threadshitting on a thread to whine about threadshitting **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2009, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397 "2009-02-04T10:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397/121 "2009-02-06T20:00:11Z")
> [@Ensign\_Edison](#): > > [In this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=501811) the strong consensus is for the idea that most people randomly asking for handouts are crooks, liars, lazy, and so on, and that personal charity is much better. If nothing else, it should demonstrate that your hypothesis that there’s a taboo on the Dope against speaking ill of those claiming to need charity is false. You know better than that. This is the laziest evasion I have seen in months. You haven’t even demonstrated that there is such a consensus in the only thread you cited, let alone the board as a whole. You made a claim - > [@](#): > > The majority here is strongly in favor of the idea that most people looking for handouts are greedy or lazy Prove it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397/122 "2009-02-06T20:14:37Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > You know better than that. > > This is the laziest evasion I have seen in months. You haven’t even demonstrated that there is such a consensus in the only thread you cited, let alone the board as a whole. > > You made a claim -Prove it. > > Regards, > Shodan I don’t understand. Are you demanding cites and then refusing to read them for yourself? If you want me to go through and count how many posts agree or disagree for you, you’re out of luck. As for whether it represents the board, okay – what measurement are you using that produces evidence of a board-wide taboo against calling panhandlers lazy crooks which just happens to be suspended within that one long thread? ---
**Author:** ![Br\_er\_Lapin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Br\_er\_Lapin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Br_er_Lapin)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397/123 "2009-02-06T20:17:35Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I beg to differ. How fucking insulting are you trying to be here? I do not desire, nor did I ask for, people’s opinions on the best or most efficient way to give away something that currently _belongs to **me**._ I made it clear that I had already made up my mind on how I preferred to give the formula away. Thanks for letting me know how incredibly wrong you think I am for trying to help out a specific group of people and not going about it exactly how you would, because I was honestly dying to hear what you thought about my methods. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397/124 "2009-02-06T20:47:42Z")
> [@Ensign\_Edison](#): > > I don’t understand. Are you demanding cites and then refusing to read them for yourself? If you want me to go through and count how many posts agree or disagree for you, you’re out of luck. well, if you won’t, you won’t. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397/125 "2009-02-06T20:51:01Z")
Damn, 4 and a half hours and **Diogenes the Cynic** has no responses to my [post #112?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10791683&postcount=112) **DtC** , you were really quick yesterday with jumping all over me, but when I clearly show exactly what you said, you duck and run? I know you’ve seen it, because you have responded to other posters. So I am done with you on this thread, I think maybe you are the **SelfRighteous Shriekypants** as well as being a thick headed numbskull. **Br’er Lapin,** I’m glad to see you here to call him on his shit too. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397/126 "2009-02-06T21:32:44Z")
> [@Br\_er\_Lapin](#): > > How fucking insulting are you trying to be here? Don’t you get it? He’s just trying to be _encouraging_! As in “I encourage you to stop being so pompous with your piddling little donation.” He has only the _very best_ of intentions. Don’t you feel _encouraged_ by this? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397/127 "2009-02-06T21:35:40Z")
**Dio** , thanks for making the world a little bit of a better place with your donation to the food shelf. May I offer you the benefit of what I’ve observed around here over the past 9+ years? Well, I’m going to anyway. You have exactly zero chance of getting a consensus on record in this thread to the effect that you’re being unfairly maligned. The perception of you, and your motives, and your style, with the offer you made is what it is. The only changes that you can make from here on out would be to strengthen, rather than reduce, the perception of you as being high-handed and domineering. It sucks, but there it is. **Br’er Lapin** , good for you for wanting to spread the bounty a bit wider than might be reached in your specific region. I hope that every package of formula goes to the baby who can benefit the most from it. ETA: **Shodan** , shut the fuck up, you fucking troll.[/Cervaise] I LOVE that tag. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threadshitting-on-a-thread-to-whine-about-threadshitting/484397.md?page=6)