Actually, I’m not doing it for you, Suspenderzz, I’m doing it so the Clique will chuckle at my wit. Your place in this whole thing is purely incidental.
It seems to me that she’s getting off on all this attention. Is that not the very definition of troll?
What does DNFTT mean?
Oh never mind. Just figured it out. Do not feed the troll. Witty. :rolleyes:
This whole thing is kind of bizarre to me. Suspenderzzz asked about the policy of closing threads. In doing so, he quite naturally raised the question of whether events and circumstances wherein his thread was left open but others were closed indicated any particular bias on the part of the mods. That hardly seems like a cause for weeping and gnashing of teeth. Mods are human and have biases. They have favorites. Each of them likes some posters more than others.
In fact, their behavior in this thread, for the most part, is rather jejune and serves to validate that they are indeed biased. Had Poly asked the question (maybe he wouldn’t have, but if he had) then there would not be one mod cursing him and calling him a worthless piece of shit.
What? You mean that’s because they know Poly? And they know that he wouldn’t be disparaging towards the mods? But they don’t know Suspenderzzz from Adam?
Well, likewise for Suspenderzzz. He doesn’t know the mods. So how should he know whether they play favorites? The question could have simply been asked and answered. Instead, Manhattan — whose firecracker reputation is well known — moved the thread and fired off an incendiary post. That’s nothing but bullying pure and simple.
And then others piled on, reaching into archives to show that Suspenderzzz has said stupid things and therefore deserves no respect. Few of us are without some history of lapsed judgment, myself foremost among all. The mods, too.
Anytime a moderatorial decision is made in the spirit of “By golly, I’ll show you!,” something rotten is bound to happen. Here, something rotten did.
Wait just a goddamned minute here. You were asking why a thread in MPSIMS, not the Pit, wasn’t closed when you asked? And I (a moderator of MPSIMS) recommended that you e-mail the forum moderators with your request? And you, instead of taking that advice and actually e-mailing the fucking moderators which likely would have yielded the results you desired, instead chose to continue with your loathsome accusations of partiality among the staff? You couldn’t even be bothered to post a link to the request in a thread you knew I was monitoring?
You’ll have to pardon me if I fail take any of this seriously. This all looks like intentional effort to be an antagonistic bore. And I’ll admit that I do have a partiality—a partiality to those who actually put forth some effort in helping themselves, something you’ve totally failed to do. I can now gleefully tell you to piss off.
Yes, if you have a post you want edited or a thread title changed, use the “report this post” feature. It will email all the mods and include a link to the post, which is a lot better than getting an email from unknowndoper@aol.com that only says “hey cn you fix my coding thnx”. Don’t use “report this post” for general MB questions or personal communication with the mods.
I think there’s a difference between occasionally saying stupid and incendiary things; and constantly doing so. I’m willing to cut most people some slack. Everyone has a bad day sometimes, or says something silly every once in a while. But I think he gets a perverse pleasure out of riling everyone up.
Steve Wright:
Or perhaps, “I’m creative, he’s tiresome, she’s a troll.”
[sub]“Yes, thank you Bernard. That will be all.”[/sub]
Lib, goddamnnit. Go back and read my initial response to the OP on the first fucking page. (It’s obvious you haven’t or you know that Suspenderzzz is female.) What you are claiming the mods should have done, was indeed done. By me. In a fair and civilized manner. Even though there was from the very outset, ample provocation to respond in some other, and more heated, manner and move this thing to the Pit.
Indeed. Your previous post is an excellent example.
And that’s why I finally got around to reading this. Suspenderzz means nothing to me, but I occasionally enjoy outlandish idiocy and the resulting humorous responses. It’s as good as meditating, and comes in handy when I feel the need to insult somebody.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Now you’ve done it. You’ve crushed my gentle spirit.
<weeping uncontrollably>
Listen, Suspenderzzz, let me give you a tip:
No one here actually cares about you. These folks are playing with you - you know, like how a cat bats around its catch before eating it? Or how a child pokes a particularly nasty, smelly dead thing with a stick? Yah - that’s pretty much what’s going on; only you’re the nasty, smelly dead thing.
See, here’s the thing - If you posted about no longer having access to a computer, and not being able to afford a new one, no one would try to raise the $$ to get you back online.
If you posted about needing to take a break from the boards, there would not be an outpouring of support from Dopers, sad to see you go.
If the administration was considering a “Pay-for-Use” policy and you lamented that you didn’t have the $$, a flurry of Dopers would not jump up offering to pay your way.
This is because you’re not important. You don’t count. You are merely a blip on the collective SDMB radar. Next week, some new moron will come along, and you’ll be completely forgotten. Really, you are no one that anyone here is going to be that concerned about.
Now, why don’t you run along?
Well, fuck. Who’s going to make fun of our dreary conformist lives now?
It really wouldn’t kill you to write just one post in which you don’t act like an ignorant, arrogant. close-minded sow.
Just one.
That’s all I ask.
I would like to suggest that the OP consider the thoughts of Carl Jung. Jung spoke of the human tendency of getting upset about qualities in others actually being a mirror into what they truly hate about themselves. So, that which makes you angry is that which you hate about yourself. Accusing the mods of not giving attention and being petty could be an indication. An indication that your your subconcious has noticed that, on several occasions, you have been petty and made sad plays for attention. Perhaps you secretly (even to yourself) realize that this is not the behaivior of a socially valuable and mature idividual. Perhaps the frustration you feel is your own way of dealing with a deep-rooted awareness of your own faults. Of course, it’s all just theories. Psychology isn’t an exact science. . . yet.
My advice? Stop acting trollish, contribute to a thread if you have something posititve to add (like knowledge, wit, or empathy), ignore the place if you don’t. Life is too short to spend generating negativity, even if it does generate attention. This place is about making ourselves better people, for must of us, anyway. Becoming smarter. Making ourselves and the world a little less ignorant &, hopefully, a little more mature. We are forced in this process to become aware of the thoughts and ideas of others. Bettering ourselves through understanding and communication in hopes of making the world a better place is the real goal here.
We like to eliminate ignorance, and laugh while we do it. These are the things that alot (dare I say “most”?) of us here strive for. Granted, varying degrees of success are achieved, but it is what we strive for.
If you can find a way to contribute or benefit from this process, I advise you to do that. As it is, you just come off as petty, and it seems like you just want to get people mad. Shit for shit’s sake it deplorable and allows the most barbaric in a person to guide them. Don’t be the 5 year old kid pissing on the rug. Don’t be the self-hating attention seeker who just wants to piss people off. Be a knowledge-seeker. Spread truth and kindness, not hate and spite. When folks act like this (petty/ blatant attention whoring) around here, the worst in these same folks comes out. A cruelty that can perhaps be savored all too much by the posters tends to come out. Don’t be a part of that, or your contribution becomes worthless. And it is obvious from your posts that you really would like to be worth something to people. I think you still can. Just accept your shadow side so that you can subdue it, and then join us in our quest for knowledge. A 5 year mission to boldly seek out . . .
Wait a minute, I mean . . . Hail Cecil!
DaLovin’ Dj
Obviously, I was addressing Suspenderzz.
And I need to work on my punctuation.
I’ll start. lno, every time you put a frozen pizza in the oven, you are submitting to soulkilling bourgeois drudgery. You know my Mr. Clean is laughing? He’s laughing because you don’t own the means or the factors of production. He’s laughing because you don’t understand the Labor Theory of Value. And he’s also laughing at your bad, uberconformist haircut.
Has any body within such a short time of joining had so much ‘lapsed judgement’? Can I give you an example?
I don’t doubt for a second that she’s ‘taking us for a ride’ on purpose.
And then in a thread about what’s unforgivable (bolding mine):
It’s not only trollish behavior, but hypocitical as well.
While I appreciate all the (albeit a bit puzzling) energy and focus that’s being expended here on my behalf, I must decline the thinly veiled, yet blatantly desperate offers to take the bait. Not that I am not deeply moved at all the adrenaline that’s flowing here – apparently set in motion by yours truly; don’t get me wrong.
Whenever this thread fizzles out, I have no doubt that some people here will have something akin to drug withdrawal. On the upside, if I have succeeded in offering you a safe platform to get out frustrations that you have about things in your real lives (if you have any real lives, that is), then I’ve performed a good deed. The repartee is clever and wise, not to mention thought-provoking – really it is (please, God, don’t strike me dead).
It’s interesting to watch some of the almost conciliatory commentary when the thread seems temporarily in danger of dying. They will do anything to get a reaction out of me. Sorry that your efforts will fall flatter than a bad souffle. But keep it up for a while. I enjoy watching people looking foolish. It’s in my sadistic nature. But then, you already knew that.