# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 51
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1001 "2024-02-20T16:25:29Z")
It was not what the OP was about, it was a dumb joke and it was all about you. Other than that it was fine. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1002 "2024-02-20T16:26:36Z")
Well, yeah it was a dumb joke. But being called a whore is maybe a bit over the top. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1003 "2024-02-20T16:28:47Z")
Being called an “Attention Whore”, don’t try to play the victim card again. Don’t pretend you don’t know what it means. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1004 "2024-02-20T16:43:52Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > If she had stayed in her lane in MPSIMS, I would have continued to not be bothered by her. I remember, two or three years ago (or more), a Mod explaining why the poster in question was allowed to treat this message board like her personal blog in spite of the rules because a) it was easy to recognize her threads with their “word word word” style titles and thereby skip over them, b) because she limited herself to MPSIMS, and c) because she was harmless. None of those being true any more, maybe that rule should be re-visited for this poster. I remember once, not long after I first noticed her presence here, I called her out for something, fairly mildly, in the Troll thread (before we had this very useful thread) and was visited with vituperation and threats. That punctured something of a hole in the “sweet little old lady” persona for me, and since then I have mostly just scrolled by her posts when I came across them. I guess I’m not the only one. I’ll just note that “auto-Cross-nailing” is a very, very boring and unconvincing strategy (and that I only capitalized “Cross” because it was a direct quote, and is otherwise contrary to my principles). If I, for some reason, had to live with this person, I would probably consider illness and pain a mitigating factor for bad behavior. It does not, however, do much for me as an excuse for reaching out to abuse strangers on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1005 "2024-02-20T16:44:46Z")
It’s an ugly term. Why do I have to be called a whore for wanting to be paid attention to? I see nothing wrong in wanting that. I’m playing cards now? How dismissive can you be? I know, oh I know exactly what you mean and what you’re doing. And so do you. It’s not a good look for someone with your powers. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1006 "2024-02-20T16:46:37Z")
Who exactly did I abuse? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1007 "2024-02-20T16:48:04Z")
Fuck off, I have barely interacted with you, never mind moderated your posts. I’m expressing my feelings as a poster about your garbage posting outside of MPSIMS. Maybe stop it and go back to what you were usually doing. You really do love playing victim. * * * * * * @Roderick_Femm, I know my vote would change on the subject. I’m one of the mods that defended her back then. Maybe the one you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1008 "2024-02-20T16:51:37Z")
Wow! I’m nobody’s victim. But fate. You are really mad at me for nothing I can understand. I don’t get this whole thing. I had a goddamn opinion. So, so silly of a reason to hate someone. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1009 "2024-02-20T16:56:10Z")
I wasn’t mad until that last bullshit with trying to twist my words like I was calling you a “whore” when I was clearly calling you a standard term, an “attention whore”. Though taking/pretending offense from the partial term is ironic when you’ve polluted two threads with your opinions on that teacher. You really do remind me of Liberal, I did not like that guy. He was the 2nd worst “attention whore” in board history and #1 was at least a nice and entertaining person. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1010 "2024-02-20T16:59:01Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Though taking/pretending offense from the partial term is ironic when you’ve polluted two threads with your opinions on that teacher. Indeed. > [@Misogyny and pop culture: don't yuck my yum! (Spoilers for the movie Poor Things)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/196): > > Well, I guess somewhere around there are 4 young people who firmly believe that whoring is evil unless it’s for attention. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1011 "2024-02-20T17:01:02Z")
Snerk! Nice. That was the other Pit thread where it really annoyed me when she hijacked it and made it about herself. But as I was barely following it, I just stopped reading it when it became the Beck Show. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1012 "2024-02-20T17:05:37Z")
Look, I didn’t ever hear the term “attention-whore” til I came on this board. It was thrown at me by who, I can’t remember, early on. I thought then it was ugly and I still do. The whole point of this board is to post here. If not there wouldn’t be a board. I really don’t care about the teacher posting porn. Ultimately it’s her own business. I don’t like it but that’s a personal opinion. As for slut-shaming. I don’t think she’s a slut at all. Sluts, as I understand it don’t do it for money. People can do as they please. My opinion has never stopped any one from doing so. Why does it matter so much to you guys? Just why? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1013 "2024-02-20T17:07:17Z")
Sorry, done feeding you. Bored now. Keep that shit out of this thread please. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1014 "2024-02-20T17:09:08Z")
Yep. DFTB. Are you modding me? Or just sayin’ Need to know. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1015 "2024-02-20T17:10:52Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Are you modding me? Or just sayin’ If they were modding you there would be big bold letters saying **MODERATOR NOTE** and the post would be highlighted in yellow. And there’d be a 200 post ATMB thread whining about it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1016 "2024-02-20T17:11:36Z")
Thanks for the info. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1017 "2024-02-20T17:12:08Z")
You are very welcome. Bless your Southern heart, dear. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1018 "2024-02-20T17:16:14Z")
Heart warming sentiments to you, as well.❤ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1019 "2024-02-20T17:23:27Z")
Exactly, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1020 "2024-02-20T17:25:14Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > lotsa heath problems on lotsa meds > > I don’t want to Internet-diagnose. But I suspect that’s a lot of it. She has said so herself. No internet diagnosing required. > [@What\_Exit](#): > > But Attention Whoring in the Pit An unseemly look, but a popular one. I’m pretty discriminating about which pit threads I follow for that reason. > [@What\_Exit](#): > > and empty posts in FQ moves her into the major annoyance category for me. There’s a mod for that. And he’s pretty fierce. As you well know. I know you know this too, but the fix for that is ruthless reporting by FQ regular schlubs like me and enough mod admonishment to sink in, or to sink the poster if they demonstrate they’re a slow learner. Thanks for the point-out; I’ll turn my gimlet weather eye to those vexations should they continue. As should the other FQ denizens hereabouts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=50) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=52)