| AXJules |
09-05-2003 12:17 AM |
Re: I left the house this morning and I return to a large new thread!
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Originally posted by decadence
Unfortunately when I or others feel attacked or jumped upon for no reason at all - that I/they can see - especially more than once, it is darn difficult to 'be the be same people are involved. Re the instigator comment, it can certainly occur that some people do pick holes in posts where perhaps there weren?t any. REAL flame posts subtle or not can be seen a mile off, harmless on topic posts should not be treated with the same contempt.
_ Some members can be ignored (via a setting), some cannot. And they know this.
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I think this is what some people are talking about...what you perceive as being jumped upon is the smart ass personality the majority of people have on this site. You might not understand it yet b/c you're relatively new.....not trying to be bitchy, just trying to come up with an explanation. Yeah its not ok to be a smart ass all the time, but its what most of us accept as the Chit Chat environment of GC. IMHO, I think it's ok, considering we're all adults. There was a time when we knew where the line was between being sarcastic and ATTACKING someone, but now I think we greatly disagree, probably due to the huge new population on the board.
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I have seen situations, where someone either falls "out of favor" with the mods or who comes back (perhaps after banning) - that person might either be "pushed" with inflammatory comments by mods until s/he retaliates and that retaliation is held up as evidence of how terrible that member is. Personally I have noticed of late my threads and others, being jumped upon by certain members, regardless of which forum.
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I was just about to agree with you there. I totally think that sometimes people who we know USED to be trouble are treated like animals in cages....we taunt them and pull their tails until we know they'll bite back, then we call them rabid....However, when you threw in the thing about you being jumped upon, you lost me. Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but I'm not going to lie. In some ways I have kind of paid attention to your situation b/c your confrontation has to do with a good friend of mine, Damasa...and in some instances he was a dick to you, and in some I think you were being oversensitive (I know you're like where the hell does she get off??? but I'm going somewhere with this...) The face that you just threw your 'getting picked on' with banned people getting taunted kind of discredits your statement because they are two totally different things.
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I know one of the times pike was banned, after it was a mass buildup, he said "fat rice eating mouth" to a girl that was asian [unquote]. Now that sort of remark is not called for. That is without question bannable. However, the subsequent screen-name of this person sverige **in and of itself ** did not say anything similar (rest assured if he had I would have had said something on principle :p ). Yet this screenname was banned for posts that were they made by other members might not have resulted in a banning?
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Oy I SO don't want this to be a Sverige thread b/c I actually think we might be able to go somewhere with the rest of this....but...He came back, and while we were all yelling that it was him, people were like, give him a chance, he hasn't done anything yet. Maybe you had to be around before, but his random "trick and ho" stories gave him away in a second. He said the rice comment, and was out of here. I think that would have happened to any of us that behaved that way.
Anyway, for the record, I did read your whole post and I am not trying to be offensive or bitchy. I'm just wanting to keep the decent discussion going. |
