But counting the words in another person’s post is not behavior that needs to be questioned?
Maybe you haven’t heard, but there are these really neat new gadgets called “computers” and they have the ability to automatically count words. Who would have ever imagined such a thing?
<------ There’s my smilie, maybe you should have put one in your post, around here it is hard to tell when someone is kidding…
It takes 5 seconds to paste it into MS Word and do a word-count.
It’s the intent, not the effort.
So you weren’t kidding. That’s unfortunate.
The only thing that would be more pathetic is arguing about it.
Oh yeah, and… 
There is such a thing as carrying a joke too far…
I’m not agreeing with Liberal’s post, by the way, but this whole “take a break from the board” analysis is a little silly. If you don’t care to see his posts, well, you know…
You’re new so you may not know that Lib take breaks from the Board quite often. It works wonders…for about two weeks.
I was trying to fix it but I ran out of editing time. How did you fix it?
You have completely misunderstood the sentiment.
It is said from a point of concern for someone who seems to take the place seriously, not from being sick of seeing his posts.
Fair enough. If you’re all really concerned with Liberal’s well-being, I stand corrected.
I changed backslash to forwardslash in your close quote tag. I would have changed the quote=I part but I wasn’t sure if you wanted it to be quote=me or quote=Lobsang. Besides I felt I was skimming the fringe of a rule violation as it was just for the changes I did make. Hope you know it was all in fun.
2 rules I live by:
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Don’t stick your hand in the crazy.
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DNFTT or DNFT addiction.
The statement itself is not especially egregious. A bit snarky, but nothing to cause too much grief, in and of itself. The thing is, though, it’s just another little straw dropped on the camel’s back. They add up.
Not only that, but it occurred in the context of one of the most dramatic and controversial changes in the board’s appearance in the whole history of the SDMB. The multiple threads, stretching into multiple pages, show how upset many people were that the members were never even consulted about the loud, obnoxious banner ads. To be so dismissive of such concerns, especially when they were being voiced by so many people who never normally criticize the running if the boards, was pretty unprofessio0nal, in my opinion.
Not only that, but the sentence you quoted came after another one that actually contained misinformation. It said that the ads were only being activated while Jerry was “chasing down an infrastructure problem.” Now, i don’t know exactly what the communications between Jerry and TubaDiva over this issue looked like, but as far as i can tell, “find[ing] the bug” was never the reason for activating the ads. Someone either bullshitted, or took a guess based on crappy information.
Either way, to offer a completely wrong explanation, along with a sneering dismissal of members’ concerns, is pretty unprofessional. Of course, that could have been alleviated by coming back into the thread and saying something like, “Hey, my bad, the ads are actually permanent, and your concerns were justified. Sorry about that.” But we never got that. What we got, as Liberal says, was a new thread in which her earlier dismissive tone was ignored and forgotten, and in which she attempted “to align [her]self with [the members] as pretty much just another poor sap whom the Powers That Be ignores”
Of course, now i’m sitting here wondering why i even bothered to type all of that. Most people will dismiss it out of hand as just more whining about non-existent problems by someone who has a hard-on for the admins.
The thing is, though, i don’t. I like this place, and for the most part am very happy with the way it’s run. And i also have no problems with mods and admins getting snarky in the right places. If someone is shitting on a thread or otherwise breaking the rules, then a smackdown, complete with sarcastic or angry tone is completely warranted. I’ve been on the end of a couple myself in the past, and probably deserved them. I don’t even have trouble with mods responding to mod pittings with some attitude of their own.
But one area where this should not apply is in ATMB, especially when it’s an issue of the members expressing valid concerns over the actual running of the board at an administrative level. That’s something that needs to be handled professionally, and there are times when that just doesn’t happen. I think the post you quoted is a good example.
Rather poisoning the well, is it not? Everyone who disagrees is thereby a sycophant?
As it happens I mildly agree with you in general ( re: Tuba’s frequently unnecessary testiness ), but not in the specifics ( the example you have chosen ). Tactically, this thread is a mistake. IMHO.
I don’t think Lib’s at his ‘take a long break’ point. But a day off might not be so bad.
Every pit thread criticizing an admin risks being a tactical mistake, which is why it was chosen by the admins as the venue for criticizing them. But the reason I’m responding to your post is that you missed the other reference to her support. Search on the term “wall”. (Or in the alternative, read until nearly the end.)
There’s nothing wrong with telling a poster to knock it off. Liberal, your hypersensitivity really is leading you to obsessive behavior. The result of this is that to the vast majority of posters, you end up looking like a kook. Writing such a long post about such a minor comment is really borderline crazy.