Don’t worry about it, Venoma. If you’re still around in a year and still being ignored, consider it an honor, a sign that you’ve arrived. As oxymoronic as it sounds, you’ve got to be noticed to be ignored around here. At least, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. And if you think you’re more ignorable than me, honey, you’ve got another thing coming.
By the way Jodi, I wanted you to know that even though the 9/11 discussions had us on opposite sides, it was the just about the first time I’ve ever disagreed with something you’ve posted. And it certainly didn’t cause any animosity. I mean, I can live with you being dead wrong if you can! *dashes out of reach *.
No seriously, I thought that was worth saying because I didn’t want you to think I was among that group of people whom you claim doesn’t like you or is indifferent to your presence.
But as for those bitches mags and jarbaby? Don’t get me started.
Nor shall you, as I originally agreed, and thank you for the reminder. Anything I might do would, indeed, take place off this message board, I assure you.
Take that to heart, kiddies - we all can make mistakes.
To those who care what others think; to those who don’t care; to you ambivilationists:
Screw you guys, I’m going home!
Especially you, Eve. Not for your views on this subject; I just think you should be screwed. I think about that quite a bit when I’m on this site.
A belated welcome back Eveykins. Are you staying around for a while?
Like other dopers, most of the time I rarely pay attention to the names, I go more for the content of the thread. I’m sure that there are dopers that don’t like my style of posting, I can’t say one way or the other whether they like me or not because they don’t know me. And since there are quite a few that I don’t know I can’t say that there is anyone I don’t like, I just may not care for their posting style.
Generally even if someone does post something to me or about something I’ve said, it gets resolved quickly and I move on. I don’t let it bother me one way or the other. There are too many topics and too many areas of different thoughts on different ideas for me to let a disagreement on just one keep me from reading or posting to another doper’s opinions. Diversity is one of the reasons I enjoy the board.
I’m not here to forge personal relationships. I’m here to be enlightened and, most of all, to find amusement. I read a few threads, submit a few posts, and then I’m outta here. In fact, I usually don’t even read the UserName before I read the post. I’ll admit it: I’m a SDMB slut.
Now some people are so passionate, or so insightful, or so funny, that they DO make impressions on me and I will make mental notes about them…for instance, “don’t bother arguing with w”; “y is a homosexual”; “z is dry and glib” --that sort of thing. But for the most part you are all a bunch of anonymous, faceless, sometimes even sexless, people. And that’s the way I like it. Because I could never express myself as freely with my flesh-and-blood friends. The veil of anonymity is part of what makes this place great.
Now, that doesn’t mean you can’t count on me to help you out in a pinch…well, okay, yes it does. Deal.
How very nice, Mr. Green Bean. Thank you for letting all us newbies know that there are rules of inclusion. Pretty please would you tell us how to kiss your ass just the way you like it so we can be noticed? Pretty pretty please?
Oh, and be sure to use really really neat phrases like the blues one, too. That’s really cool
I think sometimes this IS true. But I have one person who follows me around sometimes in threads and brings up OLD issues to harp on. Seems like I have a lot of influence there.
And I also received an instant message from someone who basically said I must be paying someone off to be allowed to still post here. He hates me.
Well, yes, Mr. Yondan, there are rules of inclusion, one of them being ‘don’t act like a jerk.’ Statements like you made above are usually reserved for the ‘Pit’ and not this forum. I’d say you pretty much just got yourself noticed…in the worst way possible; especially since the post was not directed at you.
And Jar, I just can’t help butt think some of the responses you’ve described are the result of repressed jealousy or desire on somebody’s part. I’ve not seen elements in your post that should elict outright anger and cyberstalking as a response.
I don’t know who doesn’t like me. I guess I don’t particularly care. Probably no one’s noticed me enough to care. There are those I don’t like, but I try not to be snippy to them.
I don’t dislike someone on the board, I might dislike what they say. But we all have our ups & downs & sometimes people say things when they are down, can’t hold that against them can we?
Plus, I haven’t met most of these people in person & things are a whole nother world in person. even those who dislike me or what I say on the board, i can have them laughing in a few minutes in person.
I don’t know of anyone who dislikes me for the simple reason I strongly suspect not many people know me. The reason being I don’t post much and when I do it’s here in MPSIMS. I suppose I am always so scared of making an arse of myself that I don’t post alot of things I would like to, but IRL I’m nearly funny…honest!
Jarbabyj I know you said you don’t want to hear this (in your other thread, but I’m going to say this anyway) you are one of my favourite posters, the reason being you are open, genuine and honest (yes I can tell from her posts!) You like to come on here, have fun and make people laugh. You don’t try to be someone your not. As you have already said, you can’t please all the people all the time, I’m sure if I was a more prolific poster I would come up against oposition from time to time, that’s just the way of the world, but as I am a coward and want everyone to like me,so far it hasen’t happened <g> I would love to meet you in person, but as I live in Scotland, well ummm bit on the far away side.