Xander ,'Selfless'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Yikes. I guess the divide is wider than I thought.
My read was that people disagreed with the characterisation (to which I'm sure unfamiliarity contributed). In my eyes (as you can tell by the fact I spoke up) one went over the line.
What continued in here was the "But no one should have been offended! How could anyone have been offended! Your feelings sure get easily bruised!"
That's what I thought got the avalanche rolling, up to and including accusing Shawn of lying.
I think it was also the "don't get your panties in a bunch" statement and the conversation that followed that got more people upset.
eta or what ita said.
I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.
I don't think that's what she was saying. It's a legitimate point that when you make 6 obnoxious statements in a row, people react more strongly to the 7th.
I don't think that's what she was saying. It's a legitimate point that when you make 6 obnoxious statements in a row, people react more strongly to the 7th.
Thank you, Brenda -- that's what I was trying to get across.
Ah. Well, then, there goes most of my conversation.
slap, slap
MM, admit it, you like the bitch-slapping. At least a little.
I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.
It was poor timing coupled with his inability to quit beating his dead horse. And his poor timing.
I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.
WTH?
Rob was told to cool it. (S. came here and asked someone to tell Rob to cool it. Which, YMMV, I personally think was kind of theatrical overkill, but which isn't the point, just my opinion--I'd rather it all been handled in thread) Mixed in with all this is the whole is-he-or-isn't-he-debate (S as M), when M had been banned.
You want to sort through this all and tell me how it could have gone differently?
You want to sort through this all and tell me how it could have gone differently?
All right, tomorrow I will.
Tonight, Kevin Smith will be on Table For Five in fifteen minutes.
Rob was told to cool it.
And -- I feel this is the important point -- he did.
Mixed in with all this is the whole is-he-or-isn't-he-debate (S as M), when M had been banned.
Why do we put up with the whole torture of S & M?
(It had to be said.)
But please remember even if people are new here, they're not (hopefully) new to living among the human race. Of course you can say things to someone you've known a long time that a relative stranger could not say. I think a newbie should go to any community equipped with that basic bit of social knowledge.
I t heart Cindy.