Ok lets talk

vociferous

hear is a graphical representation of the law.

For christsake someone pretend to agree with him before he posts thread #4189 titled : In case you missed it - I'm still bankrupt, disabled, and pissed about ratings..


For crap sake I got the picture the last 4188 threads - so abide by your own argument - our views won't change either, even after you've flogged this horses skeletal remains to dust...

All you gonna do is further alienate yourself - agree to disagree and get over it.

Actually all this has changed my opinion somewhat - In that I no longer give a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut over how bad you got it in SL or RL..

Siggy.

Get a fucking clue people. If you don't like the thread, don't read it. Need your mommies to change the channel for you?

He asked what he was doing wrong, and how he could improve. While some posters understood, the rest of you just took another oportunity to show your immaturity and insecurity and lash out. You could have just explained in a calm, decent manner, why his threads were causing you to post attacks.

I don't particularly enjoy all of his threads either, but I'm sure as hell not going to attack him for it. I will just choose not to read them if they bother me.

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I'll take a real, kind, caring person that is a bit socially awkward, over a smart, arrogant, witty asshole for a friend any day.

Mags. Don't feel bad dude. Some folks just constantly need to try and prove to themselves and others how cool and smart they are. It's sort of a handicap in and of itself. So just try and roll with the punches.

Dear Sir,

Your post would have geatly benefited from the judicious application of the words fuckstick and asshat.

Thank you,
A.E. Mifflin

Get a fucking clue people. If you don't like the thread, don't read it. Need your mommies to change the channel for you?

He asked what he was doing wrong, and how he could improve. While some posters understood, the rest of you just took another oportunity to show your immaturity and insecurity and lash out. You could have just explained in a calm, decent manner, why his threads were causing you to post attacks.

I don't particularly enjoy all of his threads either, but I'm sure as hell not going to attack him for it. I will just choose not to read them if they bother me.

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I'll take a real, kind, caring person that is a bit socially awkward, over a smart, arrogant, witty asshole for a friend any day.

Mags. Don't feel bad dude. Some folks just constantly need to try and prove to themselves and others how cool and smart they are. It's sort of a handicap in and of itself. So just try and roll with the punches.

If he'd bothered to read the replies on all his previous threads he might of had a clue as to what he was doing wrong, or how he was going about it in the wrong way. Instead, nope, he just moves on and starts another thread, ignoring the responses from before as if the thread never existed. Quite what this has to do with immaturity and insecurity of anybody other than Magnum I don't know. If you'd care to check I've been asking him questions, trying to work out exactly what he's getting at, on several of his threads that he starts and then forgets about - it kinda pisses me off that he then starts more threads about it to be honest as it gets the conversation no further forward, just give him the space to reiterate the same false logic all the time. After a while, if he's just going to ignore the points whilst still issuing his own diatribe then people get narky. Now, with this thread, he's pulling the sympathy card, trying to make out that people are attacking him because they don't like him - I can't remember anybody actually saying that. They may not have liked his ideas, or the way he ignored responses, or the way he just starts thread after thread on the same thing and have a go at him for that, but that's a million miles away from not liking him personally.

But I don't believe that anybody is trying to impress anybody else here, as you put it, I think they're just sick of the same things being said by Magnum in thread after thread after thread when he's ignoring what people say anyway. Maybe you don't understand that? It's not like he keeps it to one thread, or his own threads, he's been posting the same stuff on many threads as well. He must like piquing people's interests and then ignoring their responses, I don't know.

Personally I'd take somebody who actually answered questions posed by others when they start rolling with an issue over somebody who just walks away and starts a fresh clean thread about the same thing the next day when it's not going their way or they don't want to reply to other people's questions. Sounds like you're misreading that as socially awkwardm but it just seems rude and ignorant to me.

Oh and David, (edited) , seeing as you were so liberal with them in your post.

Moopf,

So you are saying you couldn't either just ignore his thread, or actually respond to this thread in a constructive, non-asshole way? He asked what he was doing wrong to piss people off and what he could do better. Was it too tough for you to just calmly and kindly point out what you felt the problem was? Or if he irritates you with his posts, you can't just not read them? He didn't attack you. He didn't call you names or attack your stance. He has overstated his opinion, and perhaps hasn't listened to the other saide of the argument, but at least he wasn't condecending and cruel about it, unlike you and others. You might wanna work on your self-control issues.

As far as me being a sanctimonoius prat. If that's what compassionate folks are called these days, I'll happily accept the title.

P.S. Dave, the reason “asshat” is so over used is that there are so many of them. If you keep hearing it over and over, stop and look around at who might be standing nearby

I've avoided replying to any of your posts up to this point, Magnum, but since you've asked what it is people react to in your posts, I'll try to answer as to what it is that tweaks me about them.

As others have stated previously, you bring up points or questions, and then ignore any counter-points or answers you don't agree with, or that don't fit your scenerio. This is a common enough argument style and isn't by any means limited to you. This usually just means you wanted to state something, and don't really have any desire to discuss it. It doesn't go over well in forums that are centered around discussion, but it's still very popular.

The place where you seem to veer off from the others who do this, and the point at which I begin to get highly annoyed with your posts, is that I rarely if ever see you post anything where you don't cast yourself in the role of helpless victim, and seem to relish it. When advice or help is offered, you ignore it, or worsen your claim of victimization to the point where it's ridiculous to even offer you advice at all. (Example: Bankruptcy? In SL?) Your posts don't come across to me as someone wanting to debate anything, or even just to express their opinions on something publically; they come across to me as someone who is desperately soliciting pity, and will do anything neccessary to get it.

I'm not a terribly sympathetic person, and I don't coddle perpetual victims who refuse to help themselves. I usually choose not to respond to your posts for this reason. It's my opinion that you aren't looking for genuine responses, only expressions of sympathy because the raindrops falling on your head are so much colder and wetter than the drops falling on the rest of the world.

Ouch..I think..

But if that was a veiled poke at me, I happily embrace it coming from someone who's brain is so very sexy!

And actually, my initial post was over the top. I just have this automatic bully/arrogance defense system that goes off without warning. I'm usually a much more mild-mannered and soft spoken individual, and try never to let forum crap get to me one way or the other.

That would make a VERY interesting ethical discussion someday. Am I responsible for the fears and paranoia of others? How about if I don’t go out of my way to avoid them? What if I actually leave a few loose threads for them to tangle in?

Thanks for the advice. I do like the word fuckstick, but asshat is way over used.

One has to branch out on the asshat usage ... pehaps by referring to a specific type of hat.

ass sombrero
ass beret
ass helmet
ass beanie
ass fedora

etc.

Magnum, I suspect part of the problem is the way you express yourself. Oftentimes your posts come across more as whining than constructive dialouge (to me anyway), and that tends to grate on people's nerves. I think what upsets folks is not WHAT you say, but HOW you say it.