If you will, allow me to rephrase. Why don’t you construct your pitting in such a way that anyone in your supposed “fan club” doesn’t view posting within the thread as an insinuation on your part that they’re following you all over the boards? In other words, they might view this as a ‘loaded pitting.’
LHoD, you are a great poster 99% of the time, IMO.
Sometimes, you can act like a great big whiney dick. I guess we all can though. I don’t think what you wanted to accomplish here will happen.
I, too, think your name is pretty cool.
But that’s specifically why he’s pitting them. If they hadn’t been following him around the board, he wouldn’t have felt the need to start a pit thread in the first place. Are you suggesting that he just pit them without saying why he’s pitting them?
And where are you getting “self-pitting” out of all this?
Not at all. Perhaps he should pit them for jerkish behavior and point to the specific instances in specific threads where they’ve been attacking him personally rather than attacking his arguments. Just a suggestion. Or would he rather argue the highly subjective notion that people are stalking him? That’s a tough sell. It’s hard to say definitively whether someone rebuts your comments in a thread because they don’t like your argument or because they don’t like you.
Not self-pitting in the sense of attacking oneself. Rather, in the sense of presenting himself in a separate thread, accusing people of stalking him, and expecting those he accused to confront him within the thread. In merely showing up, they would lend some credibility to the notion that they are, indeed, stalking him.
It did occur to me that it put the stalkers in a catch-22. I can’t say that the idea displeases me. However, they’re handling it pretty well by not posting here; I applaud them for that, and encourage them to keep not stalking me. (Of course, some of them might take that previous sentence as an invitation to show up here; let this parenthetical comment dissuade them!)
Whatever I say at this point is going to be second-guessed. I can deal with that through a series of increasingly self-recursive comments, or I can just not care much about the second-guessing.
For my part, I’ve bit my tongue on several posts in the linked thread, precisely because I’d like this to die down. There’s a fine line between letting folks intimidate me out of posting somewhere, and not posting something for the sake of showing my defiance; I’m hoping I’m staying on the right side of that line.
Daniel
You know, sometimes people call you an irritating tool because you’re an irritating tool. There are plenty of folks who think you’re an irritating tool without ever saying anything. At least, with the people who “follow”* you from thread to thread, you know who they are.
Perhaps you should consider the prospect that you are, frequently, an irritating tool.
I’m pretty sure I’m not on whatever list you have taped to the side of your monitor, but I generally think you’re a tool, too. You have your moments of being interesting, entertaining and knowledgable, but for the most part you seem like a tool. And I mean, like, an Allen wrench; incredibly useful for an extremely limited number of applications.
- I say “follow” because I often see a lot of the same people in the same types of threads, and I can’t help but wonder if most of this “following” isn’t just “the same people continuing to post to the same kinds of threads I do, because they were interested in the subject matter in the first place.”