You’re damn right it was a shot at According to Pliny. I was making a point. The point could probably have been better made in the Pit, but what’s done is done. I think everyone figured it out anyway, and that’s what matters.
Should I have been warned? Probably. Well, actually, I think I should definitely have been warned. So what the hell. I made my point, I got my hand slapped, and that’s the end of that.
However, I do think that something needs to be done about people being obnoxiously self-righteous in threads that don’t concern them. There’s no reason that ATP had to do what he did, and it happens far too often elsewhere. We have so many rules here, how about another one that specifically calls people “jerks” for doing what he did?
Okay. If your interpretation is correct the two threads, I think, may be read as one. I’m not privy to the thoughts of administrators and moderators.
Nonetheless, neither the thread title, nor the OP. nor any subsequent post, maligned, defamed, threatened, or otherwise harmed any other poster. Neither did any post inside the thread. Frankly, I’m often tempted to shout down gun-lovers’ posts, especially (I’m not brave) when I think I’ll have lots of company. But this thread did not threaten this community, its administration, or any individual poster. Airman Doors expressed an opinion about the previous thread, certainly. But he did it within the context of an otherwise permissible thread, and he did it without breaking any rules. Good for him: I might disagree, but he and I apparently believe in the same rules for civilized discourse, so I wouldn’t impose my anti-gun beliefs on this thread any more than he would charge into a thread I started asking for constitutionally permissible limitations on gun ownership.
Nonsense, he opened a thread for the purpose of taking a swipe at another poster. That’s what the Pit is for, his thread was in MPSIMS. His post would have been, IMHO, perfectly fine if he put it here rather than in MPSIMS.
Airman, all you should be doing when someone posts garbage like that is reporting the post. Don’t feed his ego by opening up 3 threads about him, don’t argue with him, just let the post be a lonely reminder of how stupid he’s being.
Our mods take time to act, but they keep track of these things, and will ban posters for too many jerkish posts.
Now that I’ve read Cajun Man’s post (It wasn’t there when I first posted) it seems to me that it was closed (and Airman labeled a jerk) primarily because it was a gun thread, and the Pliny thing was indeed secondary. By a mile. No smilie required.
That being the case, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
IMO, AtP was at best being a jerk and at worst trolling in his post in the first gun thread. The thread title clearly labled the thread as being pro gun and told anti- gun types they may want to stay out. Given that, AtP comes in and says that pro gun thread are being shoved in his face and that he will continue to post in them, and it would seem with the intent of de-railing them. How was that not worthy of a warning from a mod? Granted, that doesn’t excuse Airman Doors and his choice of thread titles, but really how does AtP come through this scot free?
Unfortunately, this kind of title is impossible for some people to ignore.
If I started an “Adam Sandler haters join me in hating him” thread, it might last 5-6 posts before an Adam Sandler fan would come along and defend the man’s honor. Hilarity would not ensue.
Penises, maybe.