How do you believe it’s coordinated? Is there a secret staging area or is it coordinated instinctively like a pack of wolves on the hunt? How different would those threads turn out if it was just random posters disliking?
They read each other’s posts, obviously.
Regards,
Shodan
Yeah, but don’t you get the feeling he kinda likes it? I think he enjoys getting them worked up. It is funny to watch sometimes.
I could be wrong, though. But anyways, as I often say when I post in these kinds of threads, I like Lib.
Well not starting your threads and giving the subject further life would be a good start. Your thread went over like a lead balloon, didn’t it? And you’ve got a ‘critical mass’ of objectors standing up long after the rest of the people had stopped posting on the subject. Good show.
What a bunch of sobbing pantywaists. Co-ordinated effort, my ass. You make it sound like they have bluetooth headsets and are getting into position to pull the ol’ high-low on liberal in a dark alley somewhere. Why can’t people call him out on the stuff he posts just like anyone else on the board? So a lot of people share the same feelings. So what? It doesn’t follow that that makes liberal a special poster in need of a protective vanguard; it indicates that he’s pissed off a lot of people. Frankly, I don’t pay any attention to liberal and don’t care what he posts but he’s not going to wither and die in a corner because someone isn’t buying everything he says on a message board. All the hand-wringing and looking at the “mob” like they’re torturing a helpless puppy is foolish melodrama. Heaven forbid polycarp was insulted. It was out of line for that forum and should have been admonished by a moderator. End of story. No, instead it’s part of a grand scheme by an unruly mob of assholes. Liberal doesn’t appear like he’s going to change and really doesn’t seem all that distraught over the barbarian hordes on his trail. Much ado about nothing.
I’m getting there. I’m a bit slow on the social uptake. Haven’t participated in the other thread about Grossbottom, on the advice of someone I trust. Yessir. Not a single comment in there, despite all the ridiculous bullshit.
They gather at the snark boards, to which were are forbidden to link. Not defending myself or anything; just answering your question.
She referenced an example, then refused to actually give it. Therefore, imaginary. She didn’t say anything about not wanting to deal with the (admittedly Byzantine) search function - she just said she didn’t want to bring it up.
Again, if you want to throw in your two cents about Polycarp or anyone else, that’s your lookout and obviously none of my business. However, if you want to claim he said something objectionable to you, you should be prepared to back it up. If you don’t want to talk about it, don’t make a claim- just say you dislike him, and leave it at that.
Do you think I’d have said anything to her if she’d just posted, “I don’t hold Polycarp up as some paragon of board virtues”?
Good for you. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Or ignore list, as the case may be.
Regards,
Shodan
I just read your post. Are we coordinating?
Enjoy my humble regards,
Cloudy
We are if you follow my example. If you follow the example of some troll, not so much.
Regards,
Shodan
I guess you have your own special definition of “coordinate”. Must be confusing, but have fun.
Enjoy my humble regards,
Cloudy
Shodan, you’re good at many things, my friend. You’re a damn good fighter for your political and ethical causes. But **CarnalK **is the King of Snark. And I mean that as a compliment. For him snark is an art form. (At least, it comes across to me that way.) My advice, for what it’s worth — bow out.
Pantywaists?!? That’s nearly as bad as saying that I’m not a nice person!
Seriously if it was people just calling him out like they call out other people then those of us who are saying that enough is enough would be shutting up our blowholes. Usually however that kind of calling out is done by people who have been participating in threads that the poster is posting in. And even then, outside of the Pit most of us call someone out with a minimal degree of rudeness. What is happening is very very different. It is people who have *not *been participating in threads then engage with posts that either exclusively harass Lib or then also otherwise annoy the thread with additional garbage. These are people, once again, who are going out of their way to open up Lib related threads in order that they may be offended by his posts and disrupt the thread or to gather elsewhere, on other boards, and gossip like cliqueish pre-teen girls over how awful Lib is and how much they hate him, and who then disrupt those threads that there is no evidence they have any other interest in.
This is different.
There’s a 17 page or so thread on another board which started out devoted to Lib. It’s since broadened out considerably (thankfully) to include trainwrecks and meltdowns of other SDMB memorable characters.but there’s still running updates from various posters alerting us to Lib’s latest posts and there’s still sly discussions about what that asshole tomndebb might call threadshitting, and how he might react if someone posted such-and-such…
At best, it’s egging on participants to mess with Lib, and at worst it’s tag-teaming and ganging up. You may choose to see it as just like-minded individuals acting independently, but anyone who’s gone through public school recognizes clique behavior when it shows up.
So the cool kids don’t like Lib. That’s OK for most of 'em, but some seem to want to go alot further than shunning and casual derision.
Jinx!
Unconscious coordination? Gestalt behavior? You be the judge.
Whoa…Nzinga said she likes Lib.
There’s, um, something we’ve been meaning to tell you…
Is there then an assumption that were it not for the other board, no one here would post that they don’t like Lib?
'Cause I assure you that I only read and post on the SDMB, and I think that Liberal is a despicable and detestable human being as reflected on the SDMB for at least the last seven years since I joined.
Are you one of the people running around and posting in every thread Liberal is participating in, taking him to task regardless of whether he’s said anything in that thread which deserves it? If not (and I assume not in your case), then you are not the type of people that are under discussion.