Strange definition of irony I guess. But hey lots of people use that word incorrectly.
Absolutely. And almost never in conjunction with “denial.” But it’s still amusing.
Do you believe me when I tell you I harbor you no ill will? Because I don’t. I do, however, think that there are times when posting on message boards isn’t necessarily good for you, and I do worry a little bit. You’re more than just an annoying poster on a message board to me, because you’re good friends with someone who I know and who I’ve met and who I respect a great deal.
Your posting history and the patterns of your behavior bother me because sometimes it seems like they feed into each other and into your emotional/mental problems and make everything involved worse, in a kind of cybersynergy. I just hate to see you taking steps down the slope, and while I usually decide that it’s not enough of my business to even bring it up, I wanted to just lay out my concerns for you at least once.
I did participate in the Giraffe Board thread, but I’d like to note that I don’t believe I was malicious or mean-spirited in my (amateur) analysis of your patterns of online behavior. And as far as the thread tags go, they’re completely anonymous and open to the membership to change, so it could have been anyone, whether they were even participating in that thread or not, who put “worthless human being” in there.
You’ve recast things to fit some fantasy version that pleases you, but it bears little connection to reality. If you go back and reread that thread, you’ll see that DSeid’s explanations pretty much wrapped up before your page long sidebar. He didn’t study your thinking process and find a new way to explain things to you.
I threw out my opinion that Jeff’s questioning the relevance of your highly irrelevant page of blah blah was valid. You engaged me in discussion about it, presumably because you did not understand my point of view and had an interest in questioning me until your understanding was fulfilling. That is allegedly the mission of the board, is it not?
I don’t think I’m seeing what you’re seeing. I don’t really subscribe to the mob view of message board posting – just because a lot of people agree something or someone is irritating doesn’t equate to a lynch mob with torches. People are just sharing opinions and frustration. I haven’t seen any attempts at coordinated or disruptive actions.
If someone announces on GB that they’re going to make a post on the SDMB that is against the rules, how is that my problem? (Not harassment or anything like that, just posts that might be inappropriate for a given forum.) It’s not my job to enforce the rules here, why should I enforce them over there? I’m not trying to be a jerk here, I’m honestly curious what people think.
What is this? AGBMB? 
At the risk of irony :rolleyes: I’ll take a stab at this.
Your post implies that you might take action if someone was using your board as a staging ground for attempts to hack another board or to explicitly harass posters at another board. Now leaving the issue of whether or not the latter did or did not occur aside, where do you draw the line and why?
I’d suggest the old “golden rule” as a guide. If you’d be upset if SnarkPit or Domeboro (?sp?) was allowed by its mods to be used a staging area to make attacks on your board or its members posting there or to merely encourage breaking the rules (whatever they might be), then probably you should make it your job to exert control if your board was (hypothetically of course) used in that manner. Please note: waxing nostalgic over trolls and idiots of the past or venting about current posters in ways that some may feel is not acceptable any more in the Pit here is not at issue. Now I know you have few rules, so going against your rules may be a difficult hypothetical to imagine, but try.
(Uh oh, two smilies icons in one post. Bleh. But so be it!)
FFS DSeid, get a grip. It may have escaped your notice but the vast majority of the posters on both Domebo and GB are still posting here. What would be the point of a board war? We can just come over here and tell you to yank that stick out of your oversensitive ass. Which you would know if you did more than lurk to satisfy your sense of outraged decency.
OTOH, some may see a post such as “LOOK! They’re pointing and laughing at us!” Incitement to board war. Which is why, as you pointed out (and rightly so), the mods discourage such posts. You know. Like the one you posted. OTOH, some might also consider telling an admin how to run his board junior modding.
Y’know what? Please don’t do more than lurk. It’s a fun board, full of people who enjoy their time and each others’ company. The last thing we need is some sanctimonious hag who measures her importance by how superior her message board is. We already have one of those, and I’m not giving up the spot.
Well, you know, you only have to sign up after you’ve been kicked out. 
Don’t be coy, counselor…are you suggesting Rand came back from early retirement in Belize or something?
Sorry Giraffe, no more responses to your question allowed. Your curiosity will have to be unsatisfied. Syntropy has declared that anyone who engages with you about this is “junior modding” and oh we wouldn’t want to be called that!
You are right Syntropy. I have not spent any significant time on either of those boards. I looked briefly when they first began and saw no reason to add either site to my surfing habits. I merely clicked a link in my “Fat-ass” thread and saw a bunch of people acting like obsessed hateful cliquish prepubescents and had my eyes opened to the degree that some had become obsessed about Lib and with plans to slap him down. I am glad for you that you enjoy each others company. The rest of the board may be wonderful, insightful, and witty; I have no idea and will be unlikely to. Trust me, I will not compete with you for any “hag” position. For several reasons …
As to your comment that pointing out that some on another board (sure call it a splinter board if you want to emphasize its subset, part of the family, nature) are obsessing over one poster and going into threads not for the subject of the debate but exclusively to make fun of that one poster and egging each other on to disrupt those threads in order to slap around that poster, is somehow inciting a board war … well, you remind me of one of my older sisters who would pin me down and drool on me and who would claim that my pushing her off me was my asking to be beat up. Yeah, we are family, but now 40 something years later we are still not on speaking terms.
Hey! HEY! That sounds pretty personal to me! 
Well my word. You certainly have shown me, haven’t you?
Lady, i don’t consider this board or GB ‘family.’ I consider them message boards. Places on which to spend time posting on topics of interest. Considering my post count here and my post count there, I’ll leave it for anyone interested enough to extrapolate which I find the more rewarding.
As to the rest of your post… If you can really tell me that an exchange of six posts in one thread inspires n you memories of being held down and bullied by a mean older sibling…honey, you got more going on than the minor case of inferiority complex your other posts imply.
Seriously. Stick. Anus. Removal. Followed by a few days away from teh intarwebs. You’ll thank me later.
Don’t worry, Invisible Wombat – nobody saw anything – honest! 
Ah, you’re back. So do you still think you know the identity of the second coming of Jesus Christ or not?
Yes. Unquestionably.
I know — that is, I am fully aware — that there have been times when posting wasn’t good for me, or what I should be doing. But…
…my posting history is just that: history. I know that some of it is recent, but that’s the reason I went into the long explanation with DSeid. I believe I recall that he said he didn’t read it, which is a shame, because it would have explained to him why my thought process is so different from that of other people. (It really is. My psychiatrist said so.)
Keep in mind that it is only recently, just a few weeks, that I have been on Tranxene. And the difference it has made in my life is remarkable! I’ve lost 50 pounds (and continuing). I’m spending more time with my wife, and help her do more around the house and in her garden. Things just don’t bother me like they did before. Little things. Like how the glasses where stacked, and stuff like that. I used to go off on a stack of glasses. I mean, Jesus. It’s no wonder I went off like a loon when I posted. But I ask you to examine my recent posts and see whether you do not discern a real difference — not just something temporary, but a calmness that wasn’t there before. That’s what Tranxene is. It’s a tranquilizer. Giraffe or anyone else can call me names, or make fun of me at snark boards, or whatever. And it just rolls right off. I mean, I’ll defend myself. But it’s a different tone. It has manifested in real life. And here too.
I know. I just wanted to know whether it was Giraffe. So I asked him. He hasn’t answered. It’s a simple question. And since he has attacked me, I think I deserve an answer. But note that I won’t freak out about it or anything. I feel calm. I finally have the right treatments for the right ailments all around, and it has made a world of difference. But thank you, jayjay. You’ve always been honest with me, and kind at the same time. How greatly I appreciate that, I am unable to express.
No, it wasn’t me. I was in fact the one who deleted the harshest tags about you, including “worthless human being”, as I thought they seemed over the top. It was one of the few times I’ve ever deleted tags.
Thanks. Both for answering, and for doing what you did. Knowing that what you did was extraordinary, I feel ashamed now for even asking. But I did want to know, and now I do. Again, thanks.
“Showing you” … anything … is of no importance or consequence, and neither is your difficulty in understanding some very basic concepts.
And I have no interest in confirming or denying my gender to you (it is also of no consequence to this discussion), but, I do wonder, why, in this anonymous message board environment, have you concluded with such certainty what my gender is, and to my ear in such a condescending manner (“hag”, for example)?
Really. I am curious.
Remember what I said - if you tell anyone our little secret, God will kill your mommy and you don’t get any more candy.
Regards,
Shodan
Fair enough question. One main reason. Your answers are mostly emotive and intuitive:
your objection based on the hurt feelings of another
your insults are more passive aggressive than direct
your personal anecdote showing strong emotion over an occurrence from over 40 years ago
your attempt at using guilt and shame as a motivator (such as using groupthing/peer pressure: “Hey, guys! Syntropy says…”)
While none of these stamp ‘female’ across posts, all of them together do imply it.
Please note: I do not mean to imply men do not show emotion in their posts. They do. Generally however that emotion is conveyed in a different manner. The earmarks that drew me to infer that you are female are those I outlined above. If I was wrong in that inference I do apologize.