Originally Posted By DlandJB TDG and JB = Mutt and Jeff LOL Now let's see if TDG knows the reference!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I also find drive by linking annoying and counterproductive. << That's the frustration here, and the original poster knows it. It's a pretty good schtick -- do a quick Google search, slap up a link and a provocative thread title, and wind up with a thread a couple hundred posts long.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Now let's see if TDG knows the reference!<< He's scanning his Muppet Guide as we speak.
Originally Posted By DAR I don't care what he links. Just as I wouldn't care if say Gaadzuux posted just links supporting his point of view. But it would be nice if there was some brief commentary as to what's posted. I know it's been tried in the past but there needs to be some more consistency.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>I find rather a lot of topics here annoying. I do not, however, feel it necessary to tell everyone how annoying I find them, how annoying the person who created them is, and assure others that everyone else finds them annoying as well. I simply ignore them.<< I'm really not trying to pick on you, Doug. Honest. But you don't always "simply ignore them." You called SPPs thread "dishonest" and argued that it "strained credulity". First, that's pretty personal. Second, you must've found it mighty annoying to go that far. So while I don't quite share SPPs level of frustration with DB (though my own is definitely up there pretty high), I don't see the point in insisting he not do it because you never do it. Do you do it to the level that he does, or I do? Not by a long shot. But you've had your moments, just like the rest of us. So it certainly doesn't seem fair to lecture SPP on "whining" about the thread. Just my two cents (and my absolute last two cents) on this thread.
Originally Posted By DAR Then again there's always the option of letting the topic die out by not responding.
Originally Posted By jonvn If the guy wants to post like that, then that's how he posts. I am not sure it is right to attack the person for his posting style, which I agree is not very good at all.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka <<Then again there's always the option of letting the topic die out by not responding.>> We're not so good about letting topics die or ignoring trolls.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>You called SPPs thread "dishonest" and argued that it "strained credulity". First, that's pretty personal. Second, you must've found it mighty annoying to go that far.<< This has been addressed before. It was the general tenor of the thread and the responses I found dishonest, and credulity straining. Further, when called on it, I offered supporting statements to explain my response. That others did not agree is a given. What I refer specifically to is responses that do not address the issue at hand, but rather the poster themself. At no time have I ever said I found a particular poster dishonest, or that they themself strain credulity.
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> ... or that they themself strain credulity. << You may remember when I indelicately compared "some" evangelicals to carrie's mother. I recall you taking some exception to that.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>And not too mny people bought that.<< Actually, it was the same two people who are busily scolding me here who didn't "buy that." But then, I wasn't selling anything. I explained my point of view, you explained yours, and as far as I was concerned, that was the end of it. What I did not do, and would like to see end, is post responses based entirely on personality. This thread has been completely highjacked. If that was the intention, then the job has been accomplished.
Originally Posted By onlyme <-----eating buttered popcorn. Dang, this is a good show. Thanks guys. I had a rather long, boring day. This is just what the Dr. ordered.
Originally Posted By onlyme Oh, and, at least, my friend, gadzuux, will post comments when he links to a story. Many of us link to 'one-sided' stories, but it's the lack of comment, and the obvious fact that he hasn't come back to respond, that tends to irritate people.
Originally Posted By friendofdd So he deliberately posts a topic with a link and a title that will probably offend some. Then leaves it without comment. Meantime posters who do not appreciate his posts and/or posting style get thier shorts in a bunch and make many, many posts all the while getting more irritable. Makes you wonder who is pushing whoms buttons, doesn't it?
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Clearly I've been hanging around Tall Disney Guy too long.> Hey! You say that like it's a bad thing. ;-) <TDG and JB = Mutt and Jeff LOL Now let's see if TDG knows the reference!> <He's scanning his Muppet Guide as we speak.> LOL! I thought of Matt Groening at first, lol. Apparently I (Mutt) am a tall, rangy racetrack character, and JB (Jeff) is my half-pint inmate of an insane asylum. LOL! I didn't know they were but I Googled them and found out, but I'm not gonna post that cause it'll make me seem all young and green and naive and stuff...hey wait a minute...
Originally Posted By DlandJB I think you're terrific -- even if I do have to strain my neck to look at you! But then, I have to strain my neck to look at just about everyone.
Originally Posted By onlyme Man, 75 posts, and I decide to make a couple of itty-bitty remarks. Well, guess who gets the lecture....me, of course.
