Maybe you do know more than anyone else in the whole damn world. Maybe your shit doesn’t stink. MAYBE you could reply to someones thread without making snarky remarks about their intelligence. Or better yet, if it’s a subject you don’t approve of, DON’T OPEN THE THREAD!
And another thing. Quit scaring off the newbies! Newbies are cute and cuddly and we need more of them to lighten this place up.
… Because nobody’s allowed to have an opposing opinion…
Yeah what she said. I’m like McDonalds and love to see you smile.
I’m not talking about opinions, we all have them. But some people seem to think that what is merely their opinion, is actually written in stone. It’s the opinions I’m defending here. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
As a still-relatively-new and thus cute and cuddly newbie 
I tend to agree with you, but I’m not really sure what you refer to. Maybe I’m getting used to the way things go around here, but on the whole people are fairly nice to really nice. The few exceptions are not so dominant that they scare people away.
But it is true that some people seem to be personally offended if they say something and some poster dares to say something that doesn’t agree with that. Even worse, some people seem to take offense if a poster has the audacity to say something that doesn’t agree with their own knowledge. I’m all for divergence in opinions, which makes for lively debate, and I’m open for corrections in misconceptions, but you can at least give the appearance of being civil and gentle in your responses. We’re all human and we all make mistakes. (insert joke her)
Do you have a link to something specific?
::Sniff, sniff:: Smells like a rose garden.
“Hey you, what the hell are you doing in my flower bed?!”
They are set in stone. That’s ego not intellect but “Hey” they’re the most fun.
hillbilly queen,
I don’t know what the hell you are talking about. Provide a link or stop bitching, please.
You rang?
One single profanity in the thread title and none at all in the body of the OP?
Get back in your double wide, hillbilly queen, and don’t come out until you have something really pit worthy.
Besides, if we don’t scare the newbies, how else are we going to weed out the weaklings?
Interesting the responses here. My advice to newbys: Keep poking, I’ll even give you the stick. Lots of people (especially the GD crowd, that bunch has turned spinning in useless circles into an artform) NEED to be poked. And prodded. Mercilessly. Somewhere they got the idea that Jesus himself speaks through their keyboard, and they need to be reminded that they’re just happy idiots like the rest of us.
While I don’t entirely agree, I see where the OP is coming from. There is nothing to be gained from the input of, say, the Christian right Jesus-nazis in threads about homosexuality or when the topic is other religions. They have nothing worthwhile or original to contribute. However, as a general principle, the OP is probably not that good of an idea.
There are no links because it wasn’t induces by any particular thread. More of a growing trend.
Zenster, thanks for the compliment. The sanctimonious assholes are bad enough, heaven forbid, I should be seen as a pit asshole. 
Opposing opinions are great; I love to have my opinions intelligently opposed and have the opportunity to see a point of view that isn’t my natural inclination. Please keep that up.
I agree with Weirddave and the OP. Say your piece when you have something to contribute to a discussion, whether it is in agreement or not. If it isn’t in agreement, make it clear why you don’t agree with others, without calling names or any other behaviour that would get you sitting in the corner in kindergarten. It really isn’t that hard; attack the argument, not the poster. Then we can all live happily ever after in pink fluffy bunny land.
Maybe there should be yellow cards & red cards, like in soccer. For when people are venturing into the land of snark.
You make that seem like a bad thing.
Hillbilly Queen makes me hot.
Never kiss an animal that can lick it’s own butt.
Darn cookies.
Followed by:
I see at least one SA who didn’t read the OP.
Usually it takes at least two pages to hit Godwin-mass. Congratulations!
Regards,
Shodan the SA/CRJNIOT
Interesting… one banned poster to reply and he/she was a newbie. So much for cute.