First of all, calm down. You’re taking this way too seriously. I don’t really care that much about your opinion and I don’t expect you to care that much about mine.
Secondly, I don’t dictate how people should act. No one is forcing you to listen to me. If you don’t like to hear me complain then why are you in the BBQ Pit?
Thirdly, I mentioned BBSes twice. Both times was to point out that no one was as obsessed with trolling then.
Actually, do you have any real points? I mean do you have something to say to me about my posts outside the Pit? Because it’s kind of stupid to complain that someone’s posts in the Pit are abrasive. Duh. They’re supposed to be.
You know, BBQ, fire… flames…?
Besides, being abrasive isn’t the same as being wrong.
[QUOTE}Secondly, I don’t dictate how people should act. No one is forcing you to listen to me. If you don’t like to hear me complain then why are you in the BBQ Pit?[/QUOTE]
What are you saying, Konrad? If someone doesn’t agree with you, they should stay out of the pit?
<QUOTE>Thirdly, I mentioned BBSes twice. Both times was to point out that no one was as obsessed with trolling then.</QUOTE>
Bullshit. Read again the thread you started about my sig and how you explained how you dealt with trolls, and how skilled you were at flaming.
Megaprops to Konrad for having written a sonnet about the SDMB. I don’t know the guy, and I see he is in a tangle with some other posters, and my intention is not to support him or his enemies in his battle, but, geez, when was the last time someone wrote a sonnet about any message board? Konrad must love this place, despite his fights with other people here. I’d like to suggest that OpalCat put this one on her list of all-time classic posts.
there you go again.
friends…enemys? what the bloody hell are you talking about?
we are doing what is called debating here(and in the bbq pit thing are supposed to get heated) but you are not supposed to make enemys.
MAKE ENEMYS?!? of all the stupid things you could do on a messageboard is to decide that this(whoever) poster is your enemy.
in icelandic we call that “vesen”, that is “making trouble that isnt worth it”.
now, please MIND YOUR OWN BLOODY BUSSINESS*!
*included:
thou shalt honour every poster as you honour yourself
thou shalt not call another poster a troll
thou shalt not post against the truth
honour the moderators and administrators
thou shalt not use a false id to confuse others.
thou shalt not troll
thou shalt not speak against the truth before thou knows the truth.
OK, the Ten Commendments are here, let’s see how I score:
thou shalt honour every poster as you honour yourself
Hmmmmmmmmm… mostly true - some people deserve my Eternal Wrath though.
2. thou shalt not call another poster a troll
The hell I will bj0rn, ya damn Troll
3. thou shalt not post against the truth
As in thou shallt not lie ? And if so, shallt thou also not lie even is it isth a joketh ?
4. honour the moderators and administrators
Yup, I do that all the time. No, really.
5. thou shalt not use a false id to confuse others.
Nope, never done, never will.
6. thou shalt not troll
Never done that either. Hey, where did bj0rn go all of a sudden ? And what’s that little smoke cloud that smells of sulfur ?
7. thou shalt not speak against the truth before thou knows the truth.
It’s “knowesth” of course
What is the truth, anyway ? I’ve never debated proven facts, if that’s what you mean.
8. thou shalt know that all you post is read.
Huh ? You mean, I should consider that everything that I post will be read by at least one person ? Yeah, I figured THAT much.
9. thou shalt not post offensive material
Awwww c’mon, give us some fuckin’ measurable objectives to work with here ! What the hell is supposed to be fucking offensive ?
10. thou shalt bloody well behave like a human being.
I think I can do that. No, really.
Thanks, bj0rn. I’m a better man now.
Not much to say, because most of my responses have been covered. Oddly enough, even Konrad said somethings I would agree with. That’s a hell of an argument to have with someone; the opposition making your points before you can.
At any rate, the main thrust of my first post was that contrary to Konrad’s first post, people who are not newbies do call people trolls. Konrad has not responded to that, probably because I got inflammatory and distracted him from the real point.
If Konrad can reconcile his statement that only newbies use the term troll with the fact that many nonnewbies call people trolls, I’ll be glad to hear it.
All trolls are in good company! Socrates was a troll - always asking those pesky, goading rhetorical questions. The government banned him from several forums, and in typical troll fashion, he over dramaticized everything, including his own death.
Are you retarded? I said “If you don’t like to hear me complain then why are you in the BBQ Pit?”. That means if you don’t want to hear about disagreements don’t go into the pit. Not having disagreements is not the same thing as not wanting to hear about them. Can you even read? I mean you can’t even understand a simple post like that.
Gee you mean the post where I said “Real men didn’t need to point out to other real men when someone was trolling”? So basically you’re just confirming what I said. I mean do you try to look stupid or does it come naturally to you.
I think you really must try to look stupid. Because not just anyone can be that stupid, you really have to work at it. It takes a lot of practice or an exceptional natural talent. But you don’t strike me as a prodigy, even in the field of stupidity.
I’m serious. You gotta be pretty dumb to 1) Ask a question that is answered in the very post you quoted, and 2) Bring up an example which actually shows why I’m right and act smug about it. This should be a case study for Reading Comprehension 101.
Unclebeer sez:
You know, you’re about the best heckler I could ask for. You don’t really make any clear attacks on what I said, and you provide easy links and references to things I have written both on and off the board. If I ever need publicity I know where to go.
I suppose there’s a non-zero chance of that. Maybe my statement could be rephrased: Someone who is obsessed with troll hunting is more likely than not, a newbie.
I’m probably spending more time in the Pit than in Great Debates now… Calvin had some good ideas about immediate satisfaction winning over long term-goals.
Since this is a statement of opinion, (in that it pivots on the definition of obsession, which may vary from person to person) my objection to Konrad’s post is resolved.
Nothing at all, bj0rn. But you still are the same person, so you can be held accountable for things you say in other threads. I just found it funny that you are here preaching about “facts” in this thread, right after you posted that God-awful list of “facts” in the other thread. That’s all.
Of course, there is the possibility that you weren’t being sarcastic in your post on this thread, and you actually don’t believe that facts have a place in the Pit. But that would make you even more retarded, since you were attempting to win another argument with your idea of “facts.”
Stupid enough for ya?
The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group.
Coldfire: What have you got against trolls???
They may be irritating at times but without them the message board in general would be alot less fun and alot smaller (no ‘kill the trolls’ threads), so before you go around exterminating them have a think about what you would do without them…
If we’re talking about one of your posts, this is probable.
Yeah, bj0rn, I’m a “stupid sod” because I don’t realize that “spelling=pen” is a fact. Whatever you say, cheif.
I agree, but I’ve already stated that you can be held accountable for statements in other threads.
Ah, but according to you, bj0rn, facts are facts are facts. If they are not “facts of life,” that would imply that they can be argued. See statement #1, part “a.”
The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group.
rousseau: you st…(no i think i will stop calling you that, since it seem to encourage you to do more st… things) sod!
wouldnt you say its a fact that your name on this message board is rousseau? my name on this message board is bj0rn, but not in life. still its a fact that here i am bj0rn, you are rousseau and the same goes for everybody else. in my scenario it was a fact that spelling=pen, but that was only valid for that particular scenario you sodding fool.
now if you want to argue further about it may i please direct you to the correct thread http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000351.html
bj0rn - please excuse me for any off-topic posts, please direct any accusations towards rousseau.
