Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>The primary difference is that the self-anointed "purists" seem to feel their opinion is not only better, but intellectually and morally superior to those they deem pixie-dusted. That just ain't so.<<< Sorry you feel that way, but the post that was modded out felt to be the exact same that you abhor.. it was offensive and it was rude and "superior" I'm no prude, but terms like that have a connotation and a time and place. This wasn't it.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I saw and removed the post. No one alerted me to it.>> Which one? #52 deserved it. #42 did not. No idea what #56 was all about - must not have been mine.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<RT, that wasn't classy.>> Which one? One I would agree, not so the other. Can't even tell any more when they are all gone. Besides... maybe I'm tired of being classy. All being classy around here gets you is ridicule.
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Originally Posted By RoadTrip Bye. Done. Don't have the guts to continue and get banned like Mr. X did. Hope he is doing OK. I'll still be around, but I'll never take insults from the purists again without saying something.
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Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<RT.....put your big boy panties on..>> Sorry. The only panties around here belong to Ann. As much as I might like to wear them, she'd be pissed if I did. NOT a good solution.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip P.S. What do big boy panties look like? They might be interesting... ;-) LOL
Originally Posted By RoadTrip By the way... VERY unfair to distract me with panties. How can a guy get his anger on when he is thinking about panties?
Originally Posted By ChiMike >> In the end, opinions are like belly-buttons. We've all got one, but yours isn't any better than mine, and vice-versa.<< I would strongly disagree with this sentiment. Opinions are really ideas. And there are good ideas and bad ideas. What makes a good idea is a level of understanding, perspective, and experience. Everybody is entitled to an opinion and everybody should share their opinion. I would argue that not all opinions are equal. Especially in discussing what at the end of the day is art and/or business.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>You important guys hate to be challenged! << Again, I will only speak for me, but I have never reported a topic -ever- and I am always willing to discuss issues indepth. What I will ignore and walk away from are anger fueled personal tirades. I don't think that is what you are engaging in specifically with that comment, RT, but my lack of a response shouldn't be misconstruted as some sort of shying away from a, "How do you like it now!" It's not.
Originally Posted By KCCHIEF that is what I was trying to do......panties versus being angry...yep...I vote for you thinking about panties....
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Could be, but don't know that I care any more. I think my experience (having been to WDW over 25 times in the past 27 years) gives me a certain amount of knowledge and experience also. Our opinions may be different, but is my knowledge base any less valid? How do you feel about panties?
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>Could be, but don't know that I care any more. I think my experience (having been to WDW over 25 times in the past 27 years) gives me a certain amount of knowledge and experience also. Our opinions may be different, but is my knowledge base any less valid? << No. I didn't say that. I might say an opinion or yours is wrong .. and here's why. But I don't think I have ever targeted you specifically and said "you aren't worthy". The issue with these crazy tirades from the 'defenders' is they take a blanket statement or generic observation and they personalize it as an attack. Going from 0 to 100mph. At least in discussions with me, I don't see what is so hard about rattling off a few points to help substantiate one's opinion. I can't speak for any other 'doom and gloomer' on here, but I admit I'm wrong, apologize for incorrect assumptions, change my mind, all the time. It's not hard. I would really like to get back to posting about issues and subjects rather than posting about posting. It's quite juvenile, but in the interest of keeping many members on here, active and happy I am spending time out of my day to try to reason. It's quite disheartening.
Originally Posted By ChiMike And you to KC. My comments were directed at RT, not specifically to you.
Originally Posted By Christi22222 I don't have anything to add here. Most of what I would say is being said well by others. However, it had been pointed out somewhere else that threads often become a conversation between only two or three posters. Many of the rest of us are reading, though, and chime in when we have something meaningful to add. Just because we aren't involved in the volley doesn't mean we aren't interested in or somehow dislike the discussion. So I'm throwing it in here that this discussion is highly relevant, and may well determine how much I care to visit the site in the coming weeks and months. I would venture to guess that there are many other lurkers following this as well. Actually, I do have one point. I don't think it is at all productive how many folks will make a broad generalization about posting styles or opinions or what have you. Then someone else who thinks that generalization might apply to them jumps in to defend that style or point of view. Immediately the original generalizer says, oh, I didn't mean you, just other folks. Well, who? It's like everyone wants to make accusations, but never take any real responsibility for them. If you have a problem with a post, say so, and why. Don't blow it up to generalizing about a group of posters. That is often unfair and uses far too broad a paintbrush. And just because you call out a bad/mean/poorly communicated post doesn't have to mean you are attacking the poster. We all have bad days, or days when our buttons get pushed and we react badly. So give folks a nudge, rather than going away and stewing, and then hurling a planned attack, where then a number of other similar posters pile on, and we have a good old school yard ruckus. Quite silly, really. And yeah, I mean YOU! lol
