I don’t worry about whether I’m liked or not on the board. Like Jodi, there are posters whose opinions I respect (and I hope I’m in that group for her, because she most definitely is for me), posters to whom I’m indifferent, and a few posters I wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire.
I’ve liked every poster I’ve met IRL, and no doubt if time and distance were not barriers, we’d be the best of friends.
::sigh::
JAR is married, my dahling is inscrewtable and I get linearly no younger.
I guess I only care what anyone thinks of me in a flirting sense.
No one ever has; I even offered to flirt with REDBOSS once and got no response. I’m tellin’ ya, times is tough for the old and filthy.
EVE, I ain’t givin’ up, just in case you somehow become screwtable.
Well too my knowledge no one here likes me… but that doesn’t stop me from hanging around and writing on the walls anyway…
The odds are on my side tho… someday I’ll say something someone notices…
The cat’s pajamas, even.
I know that various people on this board dislike me… but I always lose track of which ones they are. So much as I’d like to avoid them, I can’t. 
Heck.
Just put the “people hating you” thing into perspective.
Probably well less than 1% of the members out here actually hate you.
I know this. I once was successful in proving that less than 1% of the members out here hated me. I’d cite it for ya, but I can’t find the thread.
…thing is, the few that do hate ya will often try to speak for hundreds or thousands of others.
It’s not how many you piss off…it’s who you piss off.
Take it from me.
Think about the people who don’t like you. Why is it so important that they like you? When I know someone doesn’t like me, I don’t dwell on why they don’t like me. I think about why I should like them. By doing this, I usually find out that I don’t like the kind of person they are, so it doesn’t matter if they like me or not.
I apologize Green bean et al…
In all my years of being pushed to the front to deal with people (my job required that I learn to communicate effectively with anyone seeking to tap the resources I controlled) I’ve come to accept that some people just don’t like me. So I just continue to be myself, and I don’t really care if I make a good impression or have any significant impact on them. You should not bring yourself to worry about pleasing everyone, and you should not apologize for being you. Your “enemies” are as much entitled to their opinions as you are to yours.
However, I’m a firm believer in not fighting fire with fire. So if someone has maligned you, don’t waste your time lowering yourself to their level, or trying to defend yourself against their maliciousness. The only time you should hold yourself accountable is when someone you care about or someone who cares about you questions your point of view. Then you might have some 'splaining to do.
when i come across a doper that doesn’t like me, i first reation is to get all mad at myself thinking about what i did wrong, but i know there are those dopers who don’t like me even when they haven’t had a chance to know me; it happens every once in while. then there are always those who make it obvious that they don’t like me. in life there are bitter relationships and good freindships and if someone doesn’t like me, another person will . . . it’s not much to worry over in the end 
Oh alright. Be at my place at 7.30 tonight.
As regards the OP I have a few people that I really loathe. I usually avoid their posts, but sometimes check them out just to reassure myself how awful they are.
It’s un-nerving when I atually agree with them, of course. But my lips are sealed. Enough tackiness creeps in as it is.
Oh, and ageless, bring your own beer this time.
Redboss
What gets me is when they get all bunched up about something you’ve said, and then get all “superior” about it.
“I’m smarter than you, nyah nyah>”
Its funny to me.
I got into a bit of a flamewar with someone on here once, I felt that they had misunderstood me and it hurt. It bothered me for a long time, I still wish it hadn’t happened, I think I over-reacted quite a bit, that is what comes of being ridiculously hyper-sensitive like I am.
So I now avoid that person’s threads and posts, best thing, I think. Kind of wish I had taken it to email now, I really don’t like the idea of anyone disliking me. Still, chances are that person has forgotten now, after all this time. I sure hope so!