Then why are you amazed? Do you think we are supposed to be better than other people?
You spell checked my post? Why on G-d’s Green Earth would you spell check someone else’s post? Seriously… THAT is some serious wierd…
All your response here is to say that it’s irritating. I get that but WHY is it irritating. That is what I am trying to get to.
And that if I don’t get convinced by the OP, I will never be convinced. The OP said, it’s irritating. That’s pretty much it. Well, with that sound reasoning, I am convinced. String 'em up high. Instant bans for the non-sig sigs.
Your post has shed no light or added any information as to WHY it’s irritating. I get that it is to some people. All I have heard is some reference to pomposity and “You wouldn’t do that in a face to face conversation.” Well a) if we banned all the pomposity of this board, it would die of starvation and b) this ISN’T a face to face conversation. This is written text, no matter what illusion to face to face conversation we are trying to create. That’s why misunderstandings in tone and misinterpretation happen alot… As I have said, it’s no more irritating than the title at the top of every page in a book or the page numbers at the bottom of every page. Meaning, it’s not. Literate, intelligent human beings can parse out the unnecessary bits and read the meat of the text.
Seriously, your post here is the verbose opposite of a “Me too”. Couldm’t you have simply said, “I disagree”?
Fuck you all,
CircleofWillis
And the Latin? Is that also because it’s “classy” or are you just practicing homework? It comes across on this board about the same as a high-schooler wearing one of those “I can tie my own shoes” ribbon given to pre-schoolers. I don’t think anyone cares about which languages you are learning, dead or not.
You find the girls ignoring you on Friday nites, don’t you? Ever wonder why?
Let me guess: You have a little monogrammed sweater, too.
For the love of fuck, this thread is retarded.
So are repeating sigs.
But really, so much energy and thought put into this? If the SDMB was not so petty it could power the Hadron Collider.
Yes. Isn’t that the consensus here? That we’re better than the hoi polloi?
“Were”, not “was”. Subjunctive mood.
Me too.
Fuck you all,
CircleofWillis
Careful,
We might be getting into the dangerous territory of comparing the functionality and performance of this board verses others that have similar or greater traffic. Of course we all know that ours is a “special case,” an anomaly which is completely unsolvable by even the brainiest of sys admins who have tried and true vBulletin experience. I mean, what else could be the reason why our beloved benefactors can’t manage to run a message board correctly after 8 years?
I really hope that is not the concensus.
Some browsers include automatic spell check (which is to say, underscore or tint incorrectly written words). My guess is that he quoted your reply and in the message box the spell check flagged those words.
Because in the means of communication where signing is correctly used, like letters or email, signing has a function. It’s there for a reason. When you do the same thing just because, there are several things that go through my head.
a) You may be too dumb to understand that replies in message boards are different things from letters. That’s not necessarily anybody’s case here, but it certainly looks like that. Like a dumb kid who has been taught in school that he has to write “best wishes” in a letter and then he does that for everything else, like his essays, stories or phone conversations.
b) In many cases is redundant: aside from LHOD unusual inability to do so, most of us already know who the guy writing is. Because we read the name at the top of his reply.
c) The regular usage of signatures imply that a long delay to reestablish communications is to be expected. It’s the equivalent in writing of saying “goodbye”. Now, if everyone that did that effectively went away from that thread, that would work. (in some cases, where something else just had to be added, they could always write “PS”, to take the letter analogy even further, just to be polite)
But doing that in the middle of a message board conversation is idiotic and goes against everything we know about the written word. It’s nothing short of having a guy saying: “Well, that’s all, I’m off, have a good day”, but instead of leaving he stands there and keeps talking, and every single time he says anything, even if it’s just “yes” he says “Well, that’s all, I’m off, have a good day”, again, and again, and again. The question is not why is it annoying to us, but how is it even possible that it won’t drive you, or Vox, or Shodan or whoever, exactly as crazy as it does to us? You are literate people. What’s wrong with you? how can you not notice?
d) and, more importantly, because you are wrong. On the Internet. YOU ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET! CHAOS! ANARCHY! THE PILLARS OF CIVILIZATION ARE CRUMBLING! AND **IT’S ALL BECAUSE YOU ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET!!! **
And no, I’m not finishing with a sig. Horse beaten to a pulp already.
Firefox automatically checks the spelling of all editable text, such as stuff other people have said that you quote. And for the record, it’s flagging ‘wierd’.
It’s just ‘hoi polloi’. ‘Hoi’ already means ‘the’, you don’t need to add the article.
To clarify, it’s not my stance, but it seems to be a common misconception around these parts. And to more seriously answer your previous question, I never become inured to tempests in teapots such as this. They always leave me scratching my head.
Both “hoi polloi” and “the hoi polloi” are commonly accepted, and I prefer the latter even if the former’s more correct, etymologically speaking.
Fair enough. still seems odd to start a conversation with a scolding about transposition errors . Might be viewed as… pedantic… which is what this whole fucking thread is.
First off, I assume you mean the general “you” here as opposed to the specific “you”, as I have only been using the “sig” as a bit of sarcasm in this thread and the other where “OMG, NON-SIG LINE SIG LINES ARE THE SUXXORS! I MAY DIE FROM HAVING TO READ EVERY SINGLE LINE OVER AND OVER AGAIN! BURN THE HERETIC!” seems to be the prevailing attitude and by prevailing attitude, I mean the dozen or so posters, out of thousands of registered users, that really feel like putting forth the effort because it it such a drag on their brain power to parse out the unimportant details or are so fucking pedantic that they masturbate in alphabetical order.
Secondly, this a message board. This is the electronic version of chess by mail. Make a move, send it off and wait for a reply. There are no standards. And, if there are, who. fucking. cares. nitwits? Sure, it’s idiotic. Agreed. Sure, it’s repetitive. Agreed. But what’s it fucking to you? There is nothing formal about this place. There is pedantry and pomposity and self-importance in spades, but nothing formal in terms of writing style or grammatical conventions. There are no dissertations. We are not being graded on the curve. Fucking get over yourselves and get on with your day.
Look, I notice you are a guest. IF this is “conversation”, virtual face-to-face conversation with standards and rules, I have never had a conversation where, in the middle of it, some guy comes out of the blue and screams at me “YOUR TV IS PATHETIC! COME TO CIRCUIT CITY AND BUY A NEW ONE!” like the current ad in the middle of this conversation on this page. It goes against the customs and standards of conversation. But guess what? This isn’t conversation. This is a message board.
Relax, it’s ok. Whether “we” are wrong or not, you will wake up tomorrow and the whole of society will not have collapsed into club wielding neanderthals searching for fire and Wi-Fi because this particular pomposity pisses you off more than someome elses pomposity.
Fuck you all,
CircleofWillis
Gotcha, I use Firefox frequently. Never noticed. Generally becuase I don’t give a fuck about spelling. I am reading for context and content. That said, ignorance fought. Thanks.
Fuck you all,
CircleofWillis
How many times have you signed off with this since two mods have said not to do it? I mean if Vox can’t do it, not to mention Daniel and Jim, it seems a more than a little jerkish to repeatedly say “Fuck You All” to us.
I am honestly just curious, I admitted before that I think sigs are stupid but never really came down on one side or the other on whether people should be allowed to do it. But “Fuck You All” seems more than jerkish…
So fuck you.
I was wondering when someone would drag this buckeye out. This very thread is why a lot of people post on internet message boards. When I want to save the world I’ll volunteer for a suicide prevention hotline or do community service.
I have a question for you, if you dislike whiney and petulant why are you even reading pit threads?
Being commonly accepted doesn’t make something not wrong. You’d understand what I meant if I called, say, kanicbird a douchewaffle, but that doesn’t make it a word.
(The above was said in a spirit of lightheartedness. Although kanicbid has been really fucking obnoxious lately with her (?) witnessing.)
How does one masturbate in alphabetical order?
I have no idea. I am not that pedantic.
and if that’s a long winded post, you must’ve missed virtually everyone of FinnAgain’s
just for askeptic,
no sig
Don’t tease me like that!