It’s otherwise interesting. Do you only participate in activities that at no point irritate you? If so, can you tell me what they are so that I may join in as well? I’ve yet to find a perfect pastime.
Okay. I’m not a linguist, and I don’t really care about descriptivism vs. prescriptivism so I’m not going to argue its usage. However, being one of those the term describes, I will continue to use the article whenever I use it.
I can only guess…
It’s a guess
just for askeptic,
no sig
You say that as though it’s a good thing.
That’s twice in one thread. You can keep tempting fate if you want but the way discipline has been handed out recently, is it really worth it?
:dubious:
Depending on your point of view most pit threads could be considered whiney or petulant. It makes me no nevermind. Maybe you are better than most of us. Still, I always do a roll-eyes when some one suggests they are shocked at this board’s behavior and then reads pages of whiney and petulant and still takes time to post in that thread.
Dear Mr. Junior Mod,
Go fuck yourself.
Sincerely…
Hey, some of us live for being shocked at the whiny and petulant… don’t take it away from me, it’s all I got!
Hardly think it’s junior modding to point out something which is the subject of the thread. But you’re an idiot so I know YMDV…
Therein lies your problem. Thinking ain’t your strong suit, is it?
It’s not junior modding to say that it’s unwise to do something that the mods have expressed displeasure about in this very thread. Maybe we need some kind of “Junior Mod FAQ”.
I see a lot of people defending signing off of posts by pointing out they’d never dare write a letter or an email without signing off as it’s rude, and therefore they think it’s similarly not proper etiqutte to omit a signature on a message board post.
I think they’ve somehow missed the fact that this is a “forum” not a “post office”. In other words, this is not the electronic equivalent of sitting down at a desk and writing a letter to a friend (in fact, that’s what email is, so that’s why you typically sign an email). This is the electronic equivalent of sitting around with your friends in a coffee shop. How tolerant would you remain of Shodan if every utterance he made all evening long was followe by “Regards, Shodan”?
Maybe once all the signers came to that understanding they may see why they piss so many people off by signing their comments. Even once in a thread. Especially when that sign-off means “see ya later!”.
Sorry, I’m not the most eloquent in the world, hopefully I’ve made myself clear.
It amazes me that anyone gives a shit about this stuff, one way or t’other.
well I consider it slightly less stupid than posting merely to point out how uninteresting you think the topic is…
Or, indeed, taking the trouble to respond.
Exactly. That is the thing in a nutshell. This is not a group of people corresponding. This is a group of people having a discussion.
When you add to the mix that they choose pompous tags such as “Regards” :rolleyes: or the even more obnoxious “Valete” :rolleyes::rolleyes:, you begin to see from whence all the venom.
Not that I care…
I was using the signoff because I wanted to, asshole. And I don’t need nor do I care for your (plural) permission (I do make it clear to the mods that I will no longer do so, except in the first post of the thread). Congratulations on personifying your nick, though.
The plural of “your” is “y’all’s”.
No it’s not :). Chat/IM is the equivalent of having a conversation in a coffee shop.
This is closer to an even more public e-mail list server. How much closer is a function of the type of discussion and how quickly posters respond. Fast moving flame-fests over ridiculous minutia ( i.e. this thread ) can resemble conversations. But long debates with post replies coming hours or even days later are closer to an exchange of e-mails.
I will agree message boards are more often conversational than not. But they’re not on one end of a continuum, but rather more in the middle. While current netiquette does seem to be trending towards leaving off signatures, I’d argue it is by no means a slam-dunk analogy to invoke face-to-face interactions. This ain’t that.
ETA:
One does not preclude the other ;). I always saw it more as correspondance, but I can see why other people don’t.
To the contrary, I did not declare my dissinterest.
Hit a little too close to home, did we? 
Relax. Lose the fake persona and the girls might show up.