… everything: Hey. Get a fuckin’ grip. The awards are supposed to be fun. And funny. Let it go. So what, you’re mad because you haven’t been nominated? Nominate yourself.
I’m sick and fucking tired of the way some people take it upon themselves to regulate the way people interact around here. If you don’t like the cliques, the attitudes, the spelling, get the fuck out. And don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
"Moslem or Christian, Mullah or Pope
Preacher or poet who was it wrote
Give any one species too much rope
And they’ll fuck it up "
Roger Waters
What about the fuckhead that has to whine and cry about how her work is so unappreciated every time she gets in trouble for breaking a board rule?
I for one am sick of hearing about how the big bad board mods are out to get her. Guess what! It’s NOT appropriate to plug your little contest in General Questions or Great Debates! I don’t care if you want those people to know about it. It’s against the fucking rules!
You know what? I do enjoy and appreciate your page. I don’t enjoy or appreciate hearing about how wonderful you are and how little gratitude you get. If you wanna pull the plug, then fucking pull it!
If you don’t like people complaining about the cliques, complaining about the attitudes, complaining the spelling, get the fuck out. And don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
I agree with slyandDavid. Not everyone is going to like everything on the SDMB. There’s room for all of us here.
Opal reminds me of myself sometimes. This is one of those instances. As far as my creative efforts go, I like lots of praise or lots of silence. Negative criticism makes me want to quit. Wimpy trait. I don’t like that about myself and am trying to change it.
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
My goal is to do things because I want to. For the sheer joy of doing something creative or making a statement. Not because I’ll get praise or attention or because 95% of people agree with it.
Seems kind of odd that something as simple as voting for some categories could get so overblown. If you don’t like it, don’t vote. Skip the threads. It’s not that hard.
No, this isn’t high school, and I doubt anyone’s self-worth is going to be immensely changed by winning or losing a slightly less than scientific internet poll. If that is the case for someone, then their life might be a little more shallow than I would have thought possible.
Wow, that voting thing sure was fun. Not at all controversial or overly dramatized.
If that is how some folks want to amuse themselves, fine by me. Opal puts a lot of effort into her toys, if you don’t care to play tea party with her the least you can do is not bad-mouth it to those who do wish to play.
I participate on this board when I feel like it, and read the threads that might amuse me. It matters not one whit to me whether the Mundane Voting Public has any opinion of me whatsoever.
I’ve been pretty quiet lately. GD has been almost exclusively politics and religion, GQ has had people answering faster than I can, and the Pit has been the Psycho Sock-Puppet Theatre. All in all, I haven’t seen much to which I care to contribute. If this scotches my chance to be selected as “Most Curmudgeonly” or whatever I may have been nominated as, who really cares?
Now, that was one of the quietest rants I have seen in a dog’s age.
Dr. Fidelius, Charlatan
Associate Curator Anomalous Paleontology, Miskatonic University
“The idle mind is the Devil’s playground.” -Professor Harold Hill
I just gathered enough curiosity (and boredom; slow day at work) to actually go check out the infamous popularity contest. It seems to be gone. Is voting closed? What did I miss?
Dammit, Opal, it pisses me off to no extent when people I like act like crybabies.
It’s your fucking page, Opal. Run the contest, don’t run the contest, vote yourself Queen of the Universe and tell the rest of us to go to hell.
But yanking the entire site because a few people on the boards here weren’t completely thrilled with the idea of a popularity contest isn’t that much different from grabbing up all your toys and taking them home because the rest of the kiddies won’t play by your rules.
Christ on a badly sprung pogostick, woman! You’re supposed to be an artist. Act like one, dammit. Grow a thicker hide, show some integrity and belief in what you’re doing and tell your critics to go play with themselves (and yes, that does include me, too).
Do I sit around and whine that people aren’t praising me? No. I never have. I DO get pissed when people BERATE ME AND FLAME THE FUCK OUT OF ME for running the site, and I’ll defend myself. If you don’t like it, I don’t fucking care! But enough harping on me already! The site was down for SEVEN HOURS ok? Can you COPE? No, you have to jump in and insult me some more. I had to decide what to do with the site, and in the meantime, removing it seemed the best course. Then when I woke up, I decided to just put it up, remove any interactivity that required my input, and leave it at that. Finished deal. If you like it, fine. If you don’t, fine. If you feel you need to FLAME ME OVER IT then you’re a fucking loser and you can shove it up your ass. I had something to say to Cess, but then I realized people like her aren’t worth the effort.
I think DrF said it very well: “if you don’t care to play tea party with her the least you can do is not bad-mouth it to those who do wish to play.”
Not to add more fuel to the fire (because that would be so unlike me ), but Opal said:
So, let me get this straight. When somebody breaks a rule and is told that they broke a rule, it’s not that person’s fault, but rather it’s the fault of the person who was enforcing the rule to begin with? Hmmm.
I’ll try that the next time a cop pulls me over for speeding: “If you can’t handle one speeder on one road, perhaps you need some counseling!”
), but Opal said: