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Fenris, let me educate you since you apparently can’t be bothered to educate yourself.
A bully is defined as: a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates those perceived to be smaller or weaker. It is a pattern of behavior repeated over time. That definition fits the majority of people in that thread who responded to me, and in other threads as well. Not a single one of them has ever tried to prove me wrong on anything. It’s simply, “Clothahump is stupid” as a response to my posts, like 5 year olds picking on someone in a sandbox.
Sometimes I have a bad day and it annoys me. Most of the time, though, I just laugh at them like I laugh at the monkeys in the zoo throwing shit right, left and sideways.
I was never a super popular kid in school, but I wasn’t really ever bullied either. I did notice something in those early school years: The bullied kids would often actually seek out the attention of their tormentors. They’d keep going back for more as if any attention at all - no matter how negative - was better than none.
Now, it’s not my goal to compare Clothahump to a child desperate for the attention of his bullies.
But I’ve made similar observations on this board in my time here.
Where did you get this definition?
So you’re calling yourself a bully?
ENOUGH!
EVERYONE, take the personal jabs and snark to The BBQ Pit.
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I don’t think this is the usual pattern. The bullies prey on their victims. They lie in wait for them. The victims would be pleased as punch to be left alone, and, in my experience, they never sought out their tormentors.
I’m not saying you’re wrong… But, holy Jeeze, it goes exactly opposite every experience I’ve ever had.
That may be true in some cases, but it’s far from the most common experience. I was bullied in elementary school, and I didn’t seek out being tormented. I was smart and had some minor emotional development issues, and wasn’t great with social dynamics. I had a baseball cap I wore all the time - had to take it off inside, but wore it all the time on my own time. Except when the bullies took it to play “keep away” to provoke me to cry. Etc. I didn’t go looking for people to take my hat, or do anything to prompt them, often would go off on my own precisely because I felt unliked and did not want to have problems.
I accept the dubious characterization: like I said the reference pit thread wasn’t egregious, so there’s room for disagreement about shades of gray.
I disagree here: investigation occurs all the time. Police and gun control rants are 2 examples. Trolls have been outed in the pit, via careful internet sleuthing.
Also, there’s a fair amount of Devil’s advocacy and defenses of the difficult-to-defend on this board, and the pit is no exception. So on the contrary, I find that sort of stuff in the pit all the time.
Certainly. As is the occasional hand wringing.
I dont.
Quit trying to bait people into catching a warning here by sharing evidence of how often you post over there in the “Behind Your Back” forum. Because it would be easy for somebody to forget the mod’s instructions and link to a search showing all 211 of your posts in that forum but to do so would go against mod instructions, which you know. Stop being so transparent in your machinations.
Moderator Action
The SDMB aspects of this discussion seem to have run their course. In order to prevent any more snark and cross-board nonsense (of which we’ve had far too much in this thread) I think it’s best just to close this now.
If anyone has a compelling reason to re-open it, feel free to PM me and we’ll discuss it.
Thread closed.