What crawled up Shayna's ass?

From http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40556

Um… you know how I feel about you? Well I wish you’d share, because I don’t feel anything about you. Frankly, I know your name and that’s about it. I honestly have no clue whether I’ve really even interacted with you in the past. I have no grudge about the people pages. I have never felt this was a competition. As for my comment, it WAS innocent. It had nothing to do with saying “hey you don’t need to wait on anyone at my site” or whatever you said. I simply recalled that someone told me once that a lot of the people on the people pages might not even know about the TMHP, and so I figurd I’d post something about it. I’m sorry you can’t handle that. Yeah, a while ago I did think it was a little odd that people were going gaga over the people pages because people were acting like “finally, a place where we might be able to see pictures of the posters”… and it just struck me as a strange sentiment, considering the long history of the TMHP. I didn’t freak out over it, it just puzzled me. Yes it hurt a little. Whatever. It wasn’t a big deal. Like I said, I’ve NEVER thought of our sites as competing… yours and mine serve very different purposes.

If you’d made an announcement along the lines of “hey, while you’re doing that, why not submit a picture to the people pages” in my TMHP thread, I can guarantee that I would have said “yeah! Send her a picture too!” not spazzed out that you were trying to steal something from me.

I think you need to take a nap or something.
FWIW, it isn’t just me. Here are some things people have said to me out of the blue:

“Jesus H. Christ, but Shayna has to make everything about her.”

“WTF got up Shayna’s ass?”

“hey, what was that comment that i think shayna made? do you guys war, or something? that was pretty mean … [snip unrelated] … it was somewhat rude.”

“She is SO insecure.”

“man, that was totally uncalled for”

Wow. I am not going to get involved in the actual issue here, but I wanted to let you know I think it’s really childish of you to post “quotes” of what unnamed “other people” have said to you about someone else. That’s just fucking stupid. Is this the sort of shit that stands as a flame or valuable comment on other message boards?

I was simply showing that I’m not alone in thinking her comment came from left field.

and no, none of this was intended as a “flame”

The comment definitely weirded me out. I mean, I wasn’t (and am still not) aware of any past bad blood between Shayna and Opal, but either way, Shayna jacked a perfectly decent thread to jump on Opal when an e-mail would probably have sufficed. I don’t know about anyone else, but I certainly didn’t see anything obviously wrong with what Opal did. So add me to the list of people who think the comment came from left field.

Then what exactly is it? For the record, I agree with you and think that Shayna’s comment was a few yards past the mark. But if you are going to assassinate someone’s character, I want to see some links. Show us the proof, or don’t drag other people unwillingly and unwittingly into this mess.

MR

Some links to what? And I’m not trying to assassinate anyone’s character. Shayna jumped me from out of the blue for no reason. That thread was closed, and I felt that I needed to address her accusations. Since it was a confrontation, I chose the pit. I don’t want to flame Shayna , I just want her to understand that she’s being paranoid and imagining things. Honestly, if I had known she was going to get offended that I posted in “her” thread, I wouldn’t have done it. I think the whole thing is silly beyone belief.

No.

We’re not going to have this.

Opal, you wouldn’t put up with this for five seconds on your own board and you come over here and drop this stuff?

No.

If you have a problem with someone else here, take it to email.

I’m closing this thread. And shortly removing it.

your humble TubaDiva
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