“people” is plural. She insulted you, not “the people” having a discussion. Taken your way, every instance of an insult could be labeled threadshitting and that would be stupid, since there’s already a rule about individual/personal insults. I’m not going to try and explain it a third time since really, it’s pretty fucking obvious.
No, not every single insult. Only the ones where you belittle the people posting in an off-topic fashion in order to try to convince everyone that the thread is pointless. Are you retarded?
On further consideration, I think you may be right for the wrong reasons. In general, the point of threadshitting is to shut down the thread. **Una **didn’t care about shutting down the thread so much as finding an excuse to get in a few cheap shots.
Shot From Guns, you’ve been around since 2004? Did you have a name change, or did you just start upping your posting in the past year or so? I don’t have you on the radar as one of the board’s snarkers, and I usually have a pretty good memory.
I’ll agree that Una’s reaction was poorly handled. She’s obviously letting you live rent-free in her head, and that is a mistake. That having been said, your characterization of your comment on her question as “gentle” raises an eyebrow, to say the least.
As with so many things in life, this thread seems to be an expression of our tendency to see in the world that which resides mostly in ourselves. So while I can support the recommendation for Una to take a break and clear her head of thoughts of you and her feelings about your behavior, I would couple it with a similar recommendation for you. Take a little time to clear your head and evict non-paying tenants.
And Cat Whisperer, no worries. 
Enjoy,
Steven
No, the point of threadshitting is to be an asshole and crap on other people’s enjoyable discussion. In my opinion, of course.
ETA: Excuse me Steven, trying to answer a post here.
This is a pretty condescending and un-self-aware remark, generically speaking. If you’re reduced to seeing tonal distinctions, especially those that relate to one’s own tone as one perceives it, as being dispositive (i.e., meaning jack-shit) in deciding who’s wrong and who’s right in a Pittable matter, then your case is pretty weak. “Yeah, okay, but you should have been MUCH nicer in your attack on her position” meets my definition of “got nothing.”
You might have a point if Guns hadn’t defended her comment as gentle first. That made tone relevant.
And frankly, it does matter. “You fail, idiot” might be a gentle rib between buddies, but means something much different between strangers.
Wasn’t intended as a value judgment, just a pure observation. Check out the source material. The original response to Una.
Which Shot From Guns later characterized thusly.
Coming out of nowhere, with no history of established friendship or shared sense of snarky humor, I’d be hard pressed to see the former and characterize it as the latter. If there’s a person who is tone-deaf to the posts in the opening volleys here, I don’t think it’s me.
Enjoy,
Steven
But…but… tone-deaf…? Shot From Guns… she… I… Anita Hill… Ginny Thomas… and… when… but…
Ah, never mind.
I registered and posted like one thread in 2004, then was idle for years. I only started actively posting in the spring of 2009.
Oh come on. “Go lay down and watch some TV” is abusive? By the standards I’ve seen elsewhere on this forum, I’d probably have been able to get away with it even outside of the Pit.
Yeah, because mocking someone for asking an ignorant question in a Pit thread is completely equivalent to chasing someone halfway across the forums to personally harass them. :dubious:
No, I got that element. But that element is still tied to the “shitting on a discussion” part. Going into a thread and saying, “This topic is stupid,” or “Everyone interested in this topic is stupid,” is thread shitting. Going into a thread and saying, “You, Individual Poster Number 13852, are stupid for reasons not directly related to the discussion currently occurring,” is not thread shitting, because they’re not shitting on the entire thread, just one person in that thread.
Yes, welcome to post #103.
So you get it now?
Yes, it’s not threadshitting so much as it’s just regular harassment, since the point was not as much “anybody who thinks this is stupid” as it was “you’re stupid and worthless and therefore your opinion is meaningless.” Which is still very much against the rules.
[**Thread-shitting:
Posting off topic messages to a discussion forum. Usually, but not always, with purposeful intent to derail the discussion.**](Urban Dictionary: thread-shitting) – highlight mine.
In short, what Bosstone said.
That’s actually what was helping lean me toward threadshitting, since **Una **was definitely off-topic and purposefully trying to drag things away from “Why was this thread locked” or “should moderators ever have to recuse themselves” and onto “**SFG **is a horrible bitch.”
Side note but “Go drink a juicebox” is supposed to be an insult now? Someone needs to write a new lexicon of insults for the kids of this generation.
Not an insult per se, just an insulting suggestion, as in Una is being cranky so she needs food, like a child.
I didn’t say it was abusive, nor did I narrow it down to that subset of your comment. I’m not sure why you keep changing the context of comments and characterizing them in extremes. Your post, your prerogative of course, but it’s a barrier to serious interpersonal communication.
Didn’t draw an equivalence between your behavior and hers, just your apparent state of mind. If you’re focused on some slight she gave you and she’s focused on some slight you gave her, then you should both get over it. Life’s too short for that crap.
Enjoy,
Steven
It’s something my little brother and I used to say to piss off our dad. Whenever he’d start getting irrationally angry, we’d ask him if he’d like a juice box. Which just pissed him off more, because he knew he was being childish and that we knew he was being childish. Didn’t help much, but it made *us *feel better.
That’s not a “subset of” my comment. That’s was the *extent *of my comment–the original one, anyway. When she started getting butthurt, I started getting harsher.
On the contrary, I personally find it very cathartic to mock someone when they do something stupid. Like follow me across a board to harass me in completely inappropriate ways that are against the rules of the community. I’m not “focused” on it–I simply desired to respond in a way that I felt it deserved, which it would have been inappropriate to do in the thread where the attack happened.
I suppose now you’re going to go through every other post in the Pit and tell them to stop wasting their time? Didn’t you just say something about life being short?