Pool is the person that even managed to get a warning in the pit because of attacks on Margin who’s cat died. https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22141624&postcount=132
IMHO his comments on the Snowbird death are just a part of his pattern.
Okay. Your contention is that the linked thread is no different than the one you got warned in. Let’s look at the differences.
That thread was from four years ago. Moderation errs much more on the side of ‘don’t be an asshole’ than it used to. This is known.
It took about a day before people started joking around, and the poster who joked first did it with a disclaimer. Yours was four hours after the OP.
The OP in the thread you got warned in had a much more distinct tone. It was quite somber. The OP in your linked thread wasn’t much more than a link.
You didn’t get warned for making jokes about a bad situation. Many threads here, even the ones about tragedies, eventually move into snark or humor. You got warned for threadshitting because the post was completely inappropriate in context.
It was a good warning. It was a really tone-deaf post. Perhaps the next time you’re pointing out the “irony and subverted expectations” of a tragedy you’ll take a moment to consider before you hit the reply button.
Edited to add:
Oh shit, I forgot about that. I think I probably wasted a bunch of time here.
The purpose of warnings is to get posters to change their behavior. If this one gets you to give a moment’s thought before posting something, and not make such insensitive remarks in the future, then it has achieved its purpose.
A mod note could have achieved the same thing.
Not sure what one has to do with the other, the pit is supposed to be a place where you can go beyond a certain decorum and that thread was not about a tragic current event.
Not known to me and many other apparently, seriously you don’t think I can find numerous current examples?
Completely Irrelevant
Not really there were many sad faces and somber posts prior to the jokes
I don’t think it was threadshitting I think it was completely relevant to the reality of what happened vs the ostensible purpose of the flight, it was merely an observation, from my point of view.
I don’t think you wasted your time.
I’ll also add I’ve had maybe a handful of warnings over the years, and I’ve never challenged one because I knew I was in the wrong, this time however I feel differently, I sent a private message to the mod that warned me asking their thoughts about this but I haven’t heard anything back.
We can’t tell what you intended. We can only go by what you posted, and what you posted was snarky and insensitive, given the topic and tone of the thread.
I don’t know what more you expect me to say. Others in this thread have already pointed out why the post was jerkish and inappropriate. Your reaction seems to indicate that you do not understand why this is. I don’t think that I can explain it any better than they already did.
There are two moderators in MPSIMS. I gave you the warning. If I hadn’t, the other moderator has already stated that he would have, so one way or another, you were getting a warning for that post. We both felt that a warning was the appropriate response under the circumstances.
I don’t think so. You’re still trying to defend your comment, which in even the most generous interpretation was grossly insensitive. And you said in the OP you wouldn’t even agree with a mod note. Why would you change your behavior in the future if you continue to insist that you did absolutely nothing wrong other than “expressing yourself poorly”? :dubious:
Welcome to the kinder, gentler Straight Dope.
Hey, they’ve been talking about raising the tone of the board for years. Now that they’re actually doing something other than just talk…