Open Mic Thread (Mod Sponsored): Discussion on Insults, Personal Attacks, and Flaming

[cybrsage]

Read my post again. The entire post. Read and comprehend.

Pro tip: "Reading" means not stopping after five words. It means reading ALL the words posted.

I stop reading when the post hits a very high level of stupid.

 

[dmcowen674]

Remember when you were a kid and if you weren't tall enough for a ride you had to watch the others go on the ride?

Well there should be a minimum skill level in the use of the Internets to post on the P&N forum. Not so much OT but certainly P&N.

You should be pretty good at reading comprehension and at least be able to put keywords in a search engine.

There is a huge lack of skill on the part of many posters in here and it causes problems.

 

[monovillage]

Remember when you were a kid and if you weren't tall enough for a ride you had to watch the others go on the ride?

Well there should be a minimum skill level in the use of the Internets to post on the P&N forum. Not so much OT but certainly P&N.

You should be pretty good at reading comprehension and at least be able to put keywords in a search engine.

There is a huge lack of skill on the part of many posters in here and it causes problems.

A great idea, but only if I get to administer and grade the tests.

 

[dmcowen674]

A great idea, but only if I get to administer and grade the tests.

It doesn't say you are a Mod next to your name so doesn't look like that will happen.

It would cut down on a lot of work for the Mods that's for sure.

The forum software clearly has levels of access built in.

It should be used for more than just the Mod area.

I have multiples on mine. Editors have an area. Administrators have an area.

New posters are confined to a new area until they meet minimum guidelines etc.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Lol who is the mastermind behind all this "change" in P&N? Do you have any idea of what you are proposing? Do you plan on moderating by yourself? All these recent attempts at making P&N a fluffy white cloud with pink elephants prancing around is a pipe dream. The sooner you put down the ganja and get with reality the rest of us will be here waiting....

 

[JEDIYoda]

Lol who is the mastermind behind all this "change" in P&N? Do you have any idea of what you are proposing? Do you plan on moderating by yourself? All these recent attempts at making P&N a fluffy white cloud with pink elephants prancing around is a pipe dream. The sooner you put down the ganja and get with reality the rest of us will be here waiting....

You actually believe P&N is doing well just the way it is........thats a new one on me.......
Heck do you even post in P&N.......

 

[NoStateofMind]

You actually believe P&N is doing well just the way it is........thats a new one on me.......
Heck do you even post in P&N.......

You totally missed it.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Lol who is the mastermind behind all this "change" in P&N? Do you have any idea of what you are proposing? Do you plan on moderating by yourself? All these recent attempts at making P&N a fluffy white cloud with pink elephants prancing around is a pipe dream. The sooner you put down the ganja and get with reality the rest of us will be here waiting....

-- depending on who you are talking to....I would say the mods are 100% behind Idontcare`s efforts to clean up and make presentable once again P&N!!

But if you are talking to dmcowen then let cowen blabber on...it makes for good reading!!

 

[shira]

I stop reading when the post hits a very high level of stupid.

No, you stop reading a post when you recognize that you have no possible defense to it; when it's pushed you into a corner from which there's no escape.

You make the outlandish claim that deleting your old posts isn't "covering your tracks," because "Shira isn't important enough" to warrant covering your tracks. But EVERYONE here - including you - knows that people cover their tracks when they don't want to leave evidence of their misdeeds; it's irrelevant who or "how important" the object of the misdeeds was.

If you engage in personal attacks on ANYONE - important, unimportant, or anywhere in between - the mods are going to come after you. So you'd damn well better get rid of those posts - "cover your tracks - before the mods find out. But Cybrsage informs us that the IMPORTANCE of the poster is the deciding factor in deciding whether or not to cover tracks. Yeah, right.

But let's pretend that no one saw that disgusting lie of yours. And what better way to accomplish THAT than to throw up a smokescreen.

It must be painful to be you.

 

[cybrsage]

No, you...

You post reached its stupid level when you started telling me I do not know why I do what I do, but you are the one who actually know why I do what I do.

Hubris, thy name is shira.

 

[Bowfinger]

You post reached its stupid level when you started telling me I do not know why I do what I do, but you are the one who actually know why I do what I do.

Hubris, thy name is shira.

Umm, you should work on your reading comprehension. He wasn't saying you don't know why you do what you do. He was saying you're lying about it. A lack of honesty, intellectual and otherwise, has been a reoccurring theme in your posts, IMO.

 

[Idontcare]

C'mon guys, this is kinda pointless isn't it? Not a one of you stands any chance of convincing the other that they are wrong. So what's the point?

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Well there should be a minimum skill level in the use of the Internets to post on the P&N forum. Not so much OT but certainly P&N.

You should be pretty good at reading comprehension and at least be able to put keywords in a search engine.

There is a huge lack of skill on the part of many posters in here and it causes problems.

You should be careful of what you wish for when it comes to standards, you seem to have problems with all the above on a regular basis, and you could very well be the one not allowed to post in here again.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

C'mon guys, this is kinda pointless isn't it? Not a one of you stands any chance of convincing the other that they are wrong. So what's the point?

Even 2 to 3 on 1 they can't win.

 

[cybrsage]

Out of curiosity, is it an actionable offense for someone to claim the universe does not exist? Don't we all agree that is an obvious lie?

 

[cybrsage]

c'mon guys, this is kinda pointless isn't it? Not a one of you stands any chance of convincing the other that they are wrong. So what's the point?

PREACH it brother!

 

[Pens1566]

The banhammer victims should be obvious. In fact, there's one right in this thread.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Nevermind.

 

[shira]

You post reached its stupid level when you started telling me I do not know why I do what I do, but you are the one who actually know why I do what I do.

Hubris, thy name is shira.

Oh look, another lie. Another evasion.

Quote a post of mine where I stated that you don't know why you do what you do. If you're telling the truth, this should be easy for you.

What I did is inform you that what you CLAIM are your motives are in fact NOT your motives. That doesn't mean you don't understand you're own motives. It means you're a liar.

You lied about covering your tracks. You lied about why you don't read through and then respond to entire posts. And now you've lied about what I posted.

You're a shameless, pathological liar. That's not "name calling." That's a fact. And anyone who reads through this thread will recognize that fact.

Edit: And if you quote this post of mine, quote it in it's entirely. I forbid you to quote-crap. And if you do, I'm filing a complaint with the mods.

 

[shira]

Umm, you should work on your reading comprehension. He wasn't saying you don't know why you do what you do. He was saying you're lying about it. A lack of honesty, intellectual and otherwise, has been a reoccurring theme in your posts, IMO.

Yes, exactly.

 

[JSt0rm]

 

[Karl Agathon]

^^^^LOL!!!!

 

[cybrsage]

Oh look, another lie. Another evasion.

Nope.

 

[cybrsage]

Umm, you should work on your reading comprehension. He wasn't saying you don't know why you do what you do. He was saying you're lying about it. A lack of honesty, intellectual and otherwise, has been a reoccurring theme in your posts, IMO.

I am saying I am not lying. Since this is true, he obviously is either lying about my lying (which I doubt) or he is saying he knows more about me than I do.

Since we have never met, it is impossible for him to know more about me than I do, but he seems to think he does anyway.

 

[cybrsage]

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