Are you kidding? The site for that is here: www.straightdope.com
Thank you AudreyK for answering me. I will only read GQ and GD.
Thanks everyone else for just making fun of me, especially the moderators that are supposed to help me.
So, in real life, when someone tells you an amusing story, do you get all up in their face and scream “CITE?”
A small quibble: unverifiable events and anecdotal evidence are not “not allowed” in GD and GQ, but they’re given considerably less weight. If one of our resident neo-Nazis said “White Supremicists have never engaged in violence” and I responded “I personally have been harrassed by you neo-Nazis.”, I’d be perfectly correct to post it, IMO. It’s just that it would be given less weight than a cite from the Federal Department of Dealing With Neo-Nazi Thuggery, say.*
Fenris
*And why ISN’T there a Federal Department of Dealing With (via Clubs and other blunt implements) Neo-Nazi Thuggery anyway?
Dammit. You mean I missed my chance to get rid of him completely?
:bangs head against desk:
Poor choice of words on my part. I thank you for the correction, Fenris. Or whoever the heck you are.
Captain ARGYLE to you, innocent civillian!
:: flies off in a cloud of plaid ::
You mean you were serious in your original post (OP?) I thought you were lying!
But since you claim to be serious, I’ll speak to you as moderator to member. Don’t show up at a message board and immediately accuse the posters of being a bunch of liars. It’s just going to irritate the moderators and make you look like a troll - someone who posts only to start fights. If we suspect that you are a troll your posting privileges will be removed.
If you wanted to make amends, you could go apologize in the other threads where you accused some of our posters of being liars, without any proof.
AudreyK: goody two-shoes!
The OP must be friends with my mom.
Mom: “Prove to me that you’re gay!!”
ME: “Would having proof REALLY make you feel better?”
It’s been made clear to me Arnold. Fair enough, I won’t post in those forums. Unfortunately it’s gone beyond apologizing over there, I’ve been insulted too much. I’ve already stopped doing it, but they won’t leave me alone.
Oh my heart bleeds for you.
Maybe if you actually offered an apology instead of suggesting that people continue to engage in mutual masturbation you might, just MIGHT be able to live this one down.
But I doubt it.
It doesn’t matter where you post, it matters how you post. Perhaps this website will offer you the opportunity of some self-examination.
On the off chance that you’re being serious -
It is perfectly permissable for you to stop answering those threads. eventually, if you stop checking in to tell them to stop, the thread will die off. fewer people will respond. Honest. and if you’re getting emails notifying you of responses in that thread and don’t want to get such notifications, email a mod from that forum and perhaps they’d be kind enough to get that stopped. Furthermore, if you don’t generally want to be notified, go to your ‘user control panel’ and find the part where it says ‘default setting email notification of responses’ (or something like that) and make sure it’s set at ‘no’.
Innocent civillian? Goody two-shoes?!
I’ve been insulted too much! I’m not posting to these forums anymore!
wring - to stop e-mail notifications, you can also go to “user cp” (the button at the top of the page) and unsubscribe to those threads.
AudreyK: you’re lying, aren’t you? I bet you’ll be back by next Wednesday at the latest.
really?? Coooo—ellll!
When I’d first posted here, I had the default set to “email notification”. not bad, considering I didn’t post often at first.
but then I made a major error. I posted on the first page of
“which is better cats or dogs”.
:eek:
and for some reason, even though I never checked back in that thread, it emailed me every bloody time some one posted to it. I was getting up to 10 emails an hour. and since, at the time I was using a work related email (mistake #2), it was a major problem for me. I emailed a mod and they (thankyew once again), turned it off. And told me how to shut off email notification. And I’ve been blissful ever since.
well maybe not blissful, but you know…
at any rate, that was my only experience in how to do it. good to know there’s alternatives.
No. I’m back. I forgive you guys.
I’ll even forgive you for calling me a liar just now.
I won’t.
:: slaps Arnold across the face with a glove ::
It’s pistols at dawn, suh!
Fenris
It’s not pistols at dawn.
I lied.
I do that sometimes.
It’s fun.
Am I here?
I can’t tell.