What is "threadshitting" v.2?

[Whack-a-Mole]

@Thudlow_Boink

Have you noticed that no one else in this thread is on your side?

Is that how you decide what is right or wrong?

[Whack-a-Mole]

@Max_S

First you say members aren’t familiar with the rule against threadshitting.

Then you say, the mod should prevent threadshitting with some form of “stop it”.

Yes.

Words mean things.

Telling me to stop posting useless things I get.

Telling me I posted vile content and should stop is something else.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Whack-a-Mole

Is that how you decide what is right or wrong?

It’s better than deciding what is right or wrong by a link to an Urban Dictionary cite with more downvotes than upvotes.

[Whack-a-Mole]

I provided more than one link to a definition.

[Atamasama]

@Whack-a-Mole

Is that how you decide what is right or wrong?

You brought a subject to ATMB in an effort to change the board. So absolutely the fact that you are the only person who wants a change means you are wrong. Especially since what you are proposing is that the community change itself.

So again, yes, that is the only way in this case to determine what is right or wrong. You are explicitly wrong here.

[Whack-a-Mole]

@Atamasama

You brought a subject to ATMB in an effort to change the board. So absolutely the fact that you are the only person who wants a change means you are wrong. Especially since what you are proposing is that the community change itself.

By your argument the only person to say slavery should be stopped in some southern state in the 1700s was wrong because they were the only person saying it.

BS on the face of it.

I know the SDMB can do as it pleases. If it wants to cling to an 18-year-old definition because “reasons” then fine. But don’t pretend it makes any sense.

[Borborygmi]

Maybe it would help if we all agree to keep the current board definition but pronounce it differently for the benefit of confused definithing enthusiasts?

[Atamasama]

@Whack-a-Mole

By your argument the only person to say slavery should be stopped in some southern state in the 1700s was wrong because they were the only person saying it.

Get over yourself. You’re not freeing slaves here.

Next time, don’t use garbage sites to argue your case and maybe you’ll get support for your pet definition of something.

[AlsoNamedBort]

@Whack-a-Mole

I provided more than one link to a definition.

Here’s three:

Urban Dictionary: thread-shitting

Urban Dictionary: threadshitter

https://faq.metafilter.com/221/threadshitting-and-threadsitting

[pulykamell]

@Atamasama

I’ll tell you it’s an obscure term everywhere. I’ve been on hundreds of forums over decades and I’ve never even heard of the term outside of the SDMB.

Indeed. I’ve been here over 20 years now, and I know “threadshitting” as that which was described by @Colibri. I had no idea there was any controversy over this definition.

[Max_S]

@Whack-a-Mole

Telling me to stop posting useless things I get.

Telling me I posted vile content and should stop is something else.

“Stop posting useless things” doesn’t communicate the same message as “please don’t post what the rules define as threadshitting”. If Colibri had written “stop posting useless things”, you would probably be here in ATMB arguing that you weren’t posting useless things. Or worse, you might think the mod note didn’t apply to your “useful” posts.

~Max

[engineer_comp_geek]

@pulykamell

I had no idea there was any controversy over this definition.

There isn’t.

And we’re not changing our definition of threadshitting just because Whack-a-Mole happened to find one definition (out of many) that was slightly different than the definition that we use.

This is just ridiculous. Thread closed.