# You, Esprix, are an attention whore. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 14, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418 "2003-07-14T16:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/81 "2003-07-15T08:13:07Z")
Hey, my sig has **matt\_mcl** and my hunny in it, though I suppose you could argue that I’m bragging about her choice in rings…does that make me an attention whore, **CC**?😉 [sub]And no, I am not going to invent comments by every mod to save your ass from being flamed this time:D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/82 "2003-07-15T12:51:22Z")
Apologies if this was mentioned and I missed it, but if you go to User CP, Edit Options, there’s a checkbox for “Show users’ signatures.” Choose “no” and voila! No more reason for complaints. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/83 "2003-07-15T13:00:36Z")
**punha** , you are neither a one-trick pony nor an attention whore, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/84 "2003-07-15T13:19:04Z")
I think Canuck has a crush on Esprix. Esprixnis envy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/85 "2003-07-15T13:28:55Z")
Although Esprix is very nice and worthy of attention, there can only be one Alpha attention whore. And that man is [Jack Batty](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=55343) ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/86 "2003-07-15T14:29:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wilson \* > \*\*That’s just brilliant, **Giraffe** - can I use a variant of that in a business meeting I have tomorrow? It sounds great, plus, it would be a good way to find out if anyone else in the meeting reads the SDMB… > > - Wilson, the non-attention-whore (Thanks, **SuaSponte** ) > \*\* I don’t know, **Wilson.** You could have sent **Giraffe** a private e-mail, but instead you broadcast your request for all the world to see. Kinda whorish, if you ask me. 😃 Sua ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/87 "2003-07-15T14:42:23Z")
> [@](#): > > you are neither a one-trick pony nor an attention whore, FWIW I could be a one-trick whore, but then I’d be Anna Nicole Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Stephi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/88 "2003-07-15T14:52:33Z")
Now, would you all call this a pile-on, or a meltdown? Can you have both in the same thread? (I’m voting for meltdown.) ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/89 "2003-07-15T14:53:34Z")
I’m trying, **Sua** , I’m trying… it’s tough to break the habits of almost two years of lurking. Good to know I’m getting it right, though! ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/90 "2003-07-15T15:00:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wilson \* > \*\*That’s just brilliant, **Giraffe** - can I use a variant of that in a business meeting I have tomorrow? It sounds great, plus, it would be a good way to find out if anyone else in the meeting reads the SDMB… > > - Wilson, the non-attention-whore (Thanks, **SuaSponte** ) > \*\* I don’t know, **Wilson.** You could have sent **Giraffe** a private e-mail, but instead you broadcast your request for all the world to see. Kinda whorish, if you ask me. 😃 Sua ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/91 "2003-07-15T15:02:22Z")
> [@](#): > > _Hamish_ > and I’ve even seen a newbie on this board go from homophobic to gay-positive after reading through a couple of them. That part was pretty cool, although I didn’t understand why the magnetic field died away so suddenly even if the Earth’s core _had_ stopped spinning. 😕 I must change my sig to link to where Cecil insulted me. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/92 "2003-07-15T16:11:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*I could be a one-trick whore, but then I’d be Anna Nicole Smith. \*\* When the going rate’s $90 million, who needs a second trick? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/93 "2003-07-15T17:05:18Z")
Hey, if I’m the attention whore (and no offense to **Jack Batty** , of course), then **CuriousCanuck** (who I’d never really noticed before) will always be a big fucking crybaby whiner to me. But I promise not to start a Pit thread about it. 😉 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/94 "2003-07-15T17:05:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The\_Stranger \* > \*\*a quote from **Giraffe** : > > “Well, I for one add value by leveraging synergy across multidisciplinary platforms in order to create a new paradigm, thereby strategically enhancing our message board market share and post-to-debt ratios” > > That’s in the top five Marketing “gibber-speak” lines I have ever read. > Thanks for the laugh. \*\* My ploy has worked! I will now sit back and bask in the attention that I have whored for myself, before a link to this thread to my sig. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/95 "2003-07-15T17:10:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*But I promise not to start a Pit thread about it. 😉 > > \*\* Definitely going to hold you to that. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/96 "2003-07-15T17:28:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*Hey, if I’m the attention whore (and no offense to **Jack Batty** , of course), then **CuriousCanuck** (who I’d never really noticed before) will always be a big fucking crybaby whiner to me. > > But I promise not to start a Pit thread about it. 😉 > > Esprix \*\* Well now that you noticed me, maybe I can add it to my sig with a link to procalaim to the world that the mighty **Esprix** noticed me. That way I might be \*ever so popular \*amongst all the posters when I proclaim that you know who I am in any and every thread, whether it is related to the OP or not. Big Fucking crybaby whiner here, eh? A choad in the accompanying LJ discussion. All becuase I statted pubilcally that your sig line was attention whoring in my opinion. The Clique lives on, I am piled on, I can accept that. What saddens me though is how absolutely close minded you and other dopers can be when it comes to pitting a member of your fabeld group. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/97 "2003-07-15T17:40:57Z")
:rolleye: The Clique. Oh, horrors, the Clique! They have medication for paranoid fantasies now, you know. What I still haven’t figured out about this whole tempest in a teapot is why the fuck it matters? So **Esprix** is an attention whore. As was stated already in this thread, we have a word for the people here who aren’t attention whores, and it’s _lurker_. How does **Esprix** being an attention whore hurt you? Perhaps it would be more effective to get the men who are holding the guns to your head to force you to read his posts to stop doing so than to Pit him for that. And just a parting word of advice…whining about a so-called Clique to soothe your hurt feelings over a Pit thread that turned around and bit you in the ass is not the way to garner sympathy, except in a very limited fellow-paranoid-fantasist group. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/98 "2003-07-15T17:50:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\* As was stated already in this thread, we have a word for the people here who aren’t attention whores, and it’s _lurker_. Hmm. So you’re either an attention whore or a lurker? Which are you, **jayjay**? ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/99 "2003-07-15T17:54:06Z")
I knew that posting this would probably turn around and bite me in the ass. I accepted that since at least I would get to state my opinion. I am not trying to garner sympathy. I don’t need it. I don’t mind the pile on. That is every poster’s right, as it was mine to pit Esprix in the first place. As for how it hurts me? I am not a moron. It does not hurt me in any way. I don’t need to read Esprix’s posts. Again, you are correct. It is not his posts I am having issues with for the most part however. It was his sig. So I pitted him. I am not paranoid or a fantasist. If you think I am, please start a thread and explain it to me so that I may understand. As for “The Clique” I didn’t make up the phrase, I am just re-hashing the phrasing already used. Anyway, feel free to keep posting to this thread. I mean that to all. I understand that my view here may not have been a popular one and do not mind hearing about it from others. Hell, I bet there is at least one or two other Dopers out there who might even agree with me. I could be wrong. I have been wrong before. Anyway, you may feel my opinion is wrong, or inane, but I stand by it. If you want to disagree, feel free to do it here, or start a thread in MPSIMS giving Esprix a virtual hug/ hand job/ or ego boost. Either way, I honestly could give two shits. I stated an opinion, and that is all there is to it. I have mentioned that it wasn’t Esprix himself I disliked (although maybe my choice of phrasing in the pitting didn’t accurately reflect that), but since I have read his responses from here and elsewhere, I think I may have to change my opinion there. But I’ll wait and reserve judgement on that. ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418/100 "2003-07-15T18:29:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CuriousCanuck \* > \*\*Anyway, you may feel my opinion is wrong, or inane, but I stand by it. \*\* I don’t think people are calling your opinion wrong or inane, but are simply saying, “Yes, and…?” **Esprix** himself acknowledges he’s an attention whore, at least here in the Dope. Your pit thread just seemed stating the obvious. Which is in itself really not very pit-worthy. But that’s _my_ opinion. It may be just as “duh!”-worthy as yours. 😃 JOhn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-esprix-are-an-attention-whore/188418.md?page=6)