Seemed like a rather harmless thread to me. What’s wrong with flaming for flaming’s sake? This place is called the BBQ Pit right? There are many instances where people flame here just to flame, it’s quite common. On the forums page it says, “BBQ PIT” - “If you gotta flame, do it here.”
Hmmph!
What’s wrong with harmlessly/randomly flaming someone? Maybe it’s because I’m tired but I think it’s bullshit my thread got closed. What do you pit folk think of this?
Well, it’s Lynn’s forum.
I’ll admit, I was a bit disappointed, though; as I had just finished up a zinger of a reply, but the thread was locked before I could send it. I have seen “fake” flames get a very bad reception on here before; but in those cases, the flames were presented as serious, and people didn’t find the “joke” very amusing when it came to light. People were getting their dander up, taking sides, etc., and then found out it was all for nothing. That’s just instigating pointless conflict, and borderline trollish, if you ask me. Yours stated right up front that it was tongue-in-cheek, though; so it didn’t seem quite the same as the others to me.
But I’m not going to be the one who suggests you start a thread for flaming Lynn. Not me, nosiree…I like Lynn, lots and lots. [sub]Insert fictional brown-nosed posterior-smoochin’ smiley here.[/sub]
Satan started a thread like like that a while back, but I couldn’t find it in the search engine. That thread was closed because somebody, who had asked to be flamed, complained to the mods. My guess is that they are trying to avoid a repeat of that. And, IIRC, this forum was created more to prevent threads in the other forums from disentigrated into flame wars, rather than to encourage flaming. Personally, I think people are being a little thin-skinned, but I can certainly see their point of view.
Anyway this has nothing to do with Satan but it’s probably a good idea to stop as IIRC in that thread the only people who got flamed were people who asked for flames. Still somebody complained. As tater said some people just are too thin skinned for this type of thing but don’t realise it till to late.
Yup, Satan’s flame made me cry. But did I complain? Nooooo. Of course, now I have serious issues that will probably require expensive drugs and/or shock therapy…but the point is, I asked for it and didn’t complain. No siree, not me.
If it makes you feel any better, Silo, you have my permission to e-mail me a flame.
Flaming via e-mail is just not as satisfying unless you send copies to everyone you know…
A lady we know did this the other day and her flame was just unjustified. Now my address has been shared with god knows how many people and I am getting replies from them in regard to the initial e-mail.
Wah wah wah, I’m right and the mods are picking on me. You whiny cretin.
Your tale of woe reminds me of a story my father once told me:
I hope you can see the parallels even if my daddy’s anecdote was a little more interesting than your drivel. If it is a little highbrow for you just let me know.
:wally
All right, I am a putz.
And a hypocrite, come to think of it.
I get annoyed when I read posts in other forums that start out with, “I know this isn’t the Pit but…”, go on to throw around some insults, and then apologise for it.
I also had a flame ready last night and couldn’t post it. It was a bit longer than that one but not really much better. Anyone still wondering why I don’t hang in the Pit much?
So anyway, I have seen the error of my ways and I am going to go sit in the corner.
When I first logged on last night, that thread caught my eye because it was sandwiched between two others that had been posted within 15 minutes of it. The other two had 80-90 views and 8-10 replies. There that poor, lonely thread set, one view and no replies, it hadn’t been locked yet so I opened it for a peek…yes, I admit it, I was the second viewer.
It struck me as a bad idea, even with the best of intentions, things like that tend to get out of hand.
I think Lynn chose to lock it because she felt the same way, but it probably wasn’t necessary, the teeming millions by their lack of response had already given it a thumbs down.
VaHermit, the thread was locked so quick hardly anyone had a chance to respond to it in the first place. BTW, nice to see a fellow Virginian in the Pit.
Getting back to the OP, the thread in question was meant to be fun–a joke. Guess some people can’t take a joke. Seems quite lame (and anal) that you can’t have a “flame game” in “the pit.” Even though I usually respect Lynn’s decisions, I don’t in this case, this is my stance on the issue.
Don’t forget Needs2know and Johnathan Chance, not to mention our honorary citizen, ChiefScott, who IIRC is based in Norfolk. The Old Dominion is well represented here.
I used to be a Virginian until my parents dragged me, kicking and screaming, to (ahem) Cleveland. I still don’t know why they were kicking and screaming, but I didn’t want to go.
I saw your original thread and thought it was small of Lynn to shut it down so fast, but I assumed there were deeper issues. Apparently you are still on double-secret probation, Silo. I had seen the potential for problems in MPSIMS when Coldfire started a thread where people could be good-naturedly flamed without asking for it, but that was there and this is here, and people would be asking for it as part of the ground rules. I was disappointed because it sounded like fun.
But a quickie for ya’ll:
You want to know something that hasn’t made it into Virginia’s history books? Ya’ll lost. Ya’ll got whupped real bad. And that was good news for you because that’s how you didn’t end up being another Mexico. The war was 140 years ago. Get over it.
Yeah I was thinking if if someone else posted my thread idea it wouldn’t have been shut down so fast (or maybe wouldn’t have been shut down at all). I don’t know about the double-secret-probation (but I don’t think so since I have talked to one of the mods), but I do think there is a bias present. It was an ignorant decision of Lynn to do what she did (IMO). I’d appriciate if she’d speak up a little too. I’m sure she’s read this thread.
And, those of you who know me and my attitudes towards unnecessary flaming in The Pit, please note that I said that I, me, dropzone, thought Silo’s idea looked like fun! I would think that’s like an okay from some insufferable prig, since it is, so how offensive an idea could it be?
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