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xssve -> RE: The 3 faces of D/s on CM (1/30/2012 1:42:33 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Lockit
I'm sorry xssve, by page four, I would have eaten the dude myself. [:D]
Yeah, well, perhaps, you're entitled to make that call, the question itself interested me more than the person who asked it possibly, but after page 4 or 5, it's pretty much nonstop snark.
And, while you're perfectly entitled to tell the OP what you think of him, or her, within the bounds of the TOS, if you haven't managed to make an impression in One or Two posts, I don't see where Sixty more in the same vein is going to be any more productive.
It's your time, waste it all you want, but when it gets to the point that if anybody else wants to say anything, it's lost in all the noise, then you're wasting everybody else's time. You might get one on topic post in three or four pages of drivel, and nobody wants to read through all that just to find something besides ad hominem and recipes for fattening deserts - we have forums for those things, politics and religion for the former, and this one here, off topic, for things that are, uh - off topic - and, there are chat rooms for chattering at each other, polls and random stupidity for random stupidity, etc.
So, it's not like there's no place for it, the topic forums are for the topics they're named after, and message boards generally, although usually you get little side things here and there, are for discussing one particular topic at a time, with space provided for more than a sound byte or a quip if you are so inclined, a chance to express yourself at length on a given topic, not just to drag your off topic discussion into and continue like you're not doing anything unusual.
I shouldn't even have to explain it, pretty much the same thing going on in every other forum on the interweb, and none of 'em put up with that kind of spamming and harassment for long. There are links to netiquette guidelines in the FAQ if you care to look.
Anyway, I responded directly to the OP without reading the whole thread, at the risk of being redundant because I didn't want to wade through all that to see if anybody else said it first, I was pretty sure from page one how it was gonna go, and got jumped left and right, even got accused of stalking somebody I hadn't even addressed a post to or knew was looking at that thread, very odd and disturbing, snark isn't against the TOS, as I've said, but harassment is.
You can call that whining if you want, but I didn't go there to get into a pissing contest, like I'm supposed to know they're all in there just waiting for me or whatever, and if that was signalling some kind of new trend, I have every intention of nipping that motherfucker in the bud.
I'm saying that in the years I've been here, I've seen many a flame war, many a thread hijacked, but I've never seen what looks like a crowd of people go around apparently deliberately harassing people and hijacking threads, and if it seems to some people like I'm being out of character it might be because I'm seeing something I don't usually see - I don't like it, it's annoying and it's against the TOS for reasons that ought to be patently obvious, but nobody seems to want to admit to it - "man up"?
Lol, haven't seen so much rationalization and projection since the last election cycle, and I've no doubt this will only generate more of it, "who - me"? Rules are for everybody else, and blah, blah, yadda, yadda.
So, I appreciate your peacemaking efforts Lokit, I've stated my reasoning, haven't changed my mind, not going to be talked into seeing something different, not going to roll over for anybody, and I really don't care if anybody thinks it's out of character or not.
It's not, and now everybody knows, deal with it - I call 'em like I see 'em, and I'm gonna call a troll a troll - you might be seeing a lot more of the new me - then again, maybe I'm a goddamn sock puppet too, who knows.
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