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This is my favourite topic
Posted April 13, 2011
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reaver894: We all do thing when were irritate, see my edit up a few.

What i dont get is why people cant just ignore GRs topics if theyre so opposed to them, i do it with txts and emails every day.
As I said above this reply, i'd get the whole "only regular people not liking your threads legitimately are downrepping you for good reason" theory if the downrepping en masse and so fast started after thread two or so.....but it started midway into a very polite SINGULAR thread one. Which means it wasn't me spamming the boards that made people start low repping every post in thread 1, but something else in part.
Posted April 13, 2011
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GhostQlyph: This is the thing though: nobody is going out of their way to sabotage your rep. No one. You are irrationally assuming the number of users opposed to your threads is far lower than it actually is, and furthermore taking the most vocal opponents of those threads and singling them out as people obviously out to get you.

The truth is far more people are upset with the threads than you realize, and few are forthright about it.
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GameRager: Again, I get the spam threads(the last two)...but being mad about off color joke threads, even two of them, is bullshit. I get where they were coming from & would follow the only normal people are downrepping idea if the downrepping started blanketing every post AFTER the third thread started, or even the second. That's not what happened. It started a bit into thread ONE.

To say people were normally downrepping for spam threads even when there was only ONE thread around is kinda sketchy imo.
Just so you're aware?

I downvoted the first thread the moment I saw it. Yeah. But I don't have an agenda, I just hate spam.

Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, you ARE wrong?
Posted April 13, 2011
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reaver894: We all do thing when were irritate, see my edit up a few.

What i dont get is why people cant just ignore GRs topics if theyre so opposed to them, i do it with txts and emails every day.
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cogadh: It would be easy to ignore if it were just a few here and there, but that is not the case here. Its not even just his own threads, he seems to disrupt nearly every thread he posts in.
1. I posted 4 threads today, and maybe 1 in the past two weeks....if that.

2. I disrupt threads? I guess you'd care yo provide examples of actual disruption worthy to get upset over?
Posted April 13, 2011
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GameRager: And i'm trying to compromise....but again offcolor humor is not a biggie on stricter sites so why do people get so upset about it here?
This comment right here actually strikes at a pretty core issue.

Yes, you often apologize for things that you do that piss people off. The problem is, I think you apologize because you feel like you're supposed to or just to shut everyone up, without really knowing what you're apologizing for or why. You also tend to apologize without actually accepting blame or responsibility; you blame your OCD, or you blame the other party for not having a sense of humor, or you say "that's just the way I am," or you just play the martyr. That doesn't make for much of a convincing apology. Then you do the same thing a few days later, everyone gets up in arms again and we're back where we started.

I don't hate you, and like I said before, I don't like attack threads. It just frustrates me that you always seem to miss the point when people criticize your posts. Stop being so defensive all the time; you don't get raked over the coals so often because you just randomly lost the popularity powerball. Some people are just spitting acid, but some are worth listening to.
Post edited April 13, 2011 by Mentalepsy
Posted April 13, 2011
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GameRager: Again, I get the spam threads(the last two)...but being mad about off color joke threads, even two of them, is bullshit. I get where they were coming from & would follow the only normal people are downrepping idea if the downrepping started blanketing every post AFTER the third thread started, or even the second. That's not what happened. It started a bit into thread ONE.

To say people were normally downrepping for spam threads even when there was only ONE thread around is kinda sketchy imo.
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GhostQlyph: Just so you're aware?

I downvoted the first thread the moment I saw it. Yeah. But I don't have an agenda, I just hate spam.

Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, you ARE wrong?
I didn't say you were doing it or who was doing it, so my words could still fit......call it an attack if you want to, but IMO one can have his theories regardless if they upset people a small bit.
Posted April 13, 2011
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reaver894: Look im getting a bit peeved at this and it looks like it gonna go on for a while but let me ask you folks this

Do we want newcomers to see an odd play on words or dirty joke (i say odd due to GR saying he will lower the amount) or do we want newcomers to see this crap with a forum taking chunks out of itself and feeling the need to air its dirty laundry for the whole flippin web to see?

Im tempted to start a "what a racket" with an image of a tennis racket just to add fuel to the fire but i decided against it (mainly cause id have to get out of bed and turn the pc on)

Every action has a reaction thats life, but if we think through our actions then understanding reactions is simple /fortune cookie speech


Edit: took swear word out.
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cogadh: To be fair, the "dirty laundry" was already available for the whole flippin web to see, all Damuna did was summarize it in a single post.

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GhostQlyph: The truth is far more people are upset with the threads than you realize, and few are forthright about it.
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cogadh: QFT
Its true it was around but these latest topics would have died after a few hours heck theyd probly be halfway down the page by now whereas i get the impression thisll still be going when i wake up.
Posted April 13, 2011
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Rohan15: This reminds me of my first threads...
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Darling_Jimmy: Oh, I remember that.
My oh my I was a dick.
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Darling_Jimmy: Oh, I remember that.
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Kaidane: Remember when Rohan actually took a hint early on? Yeah.
I tried. :)
Post edited April 13, 2011 by Rohan15
Posted April 13, 2011
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GameRager: And i'm trying to compromise....but again offcolor humor is not a biggie on stricter sites so why do people get so upset about it here?
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Mentalepsy: This comment right here actually strikes at a pretty core issue.

Yes, you often apologize for things that you do that piss people off. The problem is, I think you apologize because you feel like you're supposed to or just to shut everyone up, without really knowing what you're apologizing for or why. You also tend to apologize without actually accepting blame or responsibility; you blame your OCD, or you blame the other party for not having a sense of humor, or you say "that's just the way I am," or you just play the martyr. That doesn't make for much of a convincing apology. Then you do the same thing a few days later, everyone gets up in arms again and we're back where we started.

I don't hate you, and like I said before, I don't like attack threads. It just frustrates me that you always seem to miss the point when people criticize your posts. Stop being so defensive all the time; you don't get raked over the coals so often because you just randomly lost the popularity powerball. Some people are just spitting acid, but some are worth listening to.
1. But often it is because of my ocd.....but I'M GUESSING that explaining WHY I sometimes do this is bad or passing the buck, just because I tack an explnation onto it? I'm not trying for sympathy, if that's what you're getting at. Or trying to downplay my truly dickish moments. I'm just stating facts, which again my ocd causes me to do....long text etc.

As for doing the same thing again.....OCD. I guess if someone with Turrets kept saying swears all day he'd be considered a dick even if people explained it was because of his turrets?

I agree some are worth listening to, and im trying to do that.....I just hate it when a rare slipup makes me target number one all over again regardless of any good things i've done.
Posted April 13, 2011
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Rohan15: This reminds me of my first threads...
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Vagabond: You're awesome now.
...Thanks?
Posted April 13, 2011
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cogadh: It would be easy to ignore if it were just a few here and there, but that is not the case here. Its not even just his own threads, he seems to disrupt nearly every thread he posts in.
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GameRager: 1. I posted 4 threads today, and maybe 1 in the past two weeks....if that.

2. I disrupt threads? I guess you'd care yo provide examples of actual disruption worthy to get upset over?
1. That's complete bullshit and you know it.

2. Search any threads that you have participated in and I guarantee that at the absolute minimum half of them involve you derailing a thread, pissing someone off or just posting random crap.
Posted April 13, 2011
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GhostQlyph: Just so you're aware?

I downvoted the first thread the moment I saw it. Yeah. But I don't have an agenda, I just hate spam.

Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, you ARE wrong?
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GameRager: I didn't say you were doing it or who was doing it, so my words could still fit......call it an attack if you want to, but IMO one can have his theories regardless if they upset people a small bit.
I'm saying I don't have an agenda, I was a normal user downrepping your posts normally before there was more than one thread throwing your whole theory completely out the window.

You know what? I don't think I was the only one.

Useless threads based around a one-trick pony of a pun are not anything to enjoy in a community. They're not productive, they're not particularly funny after the initial glance over what the hell is going on, they're just spam. Spam with a gimmick, and that's it.

There is no conspiracy, there is no one out to get you. People don't like a useless post that is going to be continuously bumped to the top of the forums for no good reason. They downrep it, it dies an early death, they no longer have to look at it.

It is a very simple concept. And Occam's razor says that it is the most likely one by far.
Posted April 13, 2011
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Rohan15: This reminds me of my first threads...
I remember some of those. Wow you went into the negative rep so quickly it wasn't even funny. :p
Posted April 13, 2011
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GameRager: 1. I posted 4 threads today, and maybe 1 in the past two weeks....if that.

2. I disrupt threads? I guess you'd care yo provide examples of actual disruption worthy to get upset over?
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cogadh: 1. That's complete bullshit and you know it.

2. Search any threads that you have participated in and I guarantee that at the absolute minimum half of them involve you derailing a thread, pissing someone off or just posting random crap.
1. Then tell me how many i've started. I don't think it's as many as you think.

2. Derailing as in going offtopic? Everyone here does that, so don't try making it look like i'm bad for doing that. As for pissing someone off, as I said before I tell it like it is....some of it is me being truly dickish but not all Don't tell me to compromise my values and act the hypocrite though because your vision of the perfect board isn't working out so you need a scapegoat.
Posted April 13, 2011
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Rohan15: This reminds me of my first threads...
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Sielle: I remember some of those. Wow you went into the negative rep so quickly it wasn't even funny. :p
lol I was a fool. :)
Posted April 13, 2011
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Rohan15: My oh my I was a dick.
It's water under the bridge. Vagabond said it best:


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Vagabond: You're awesome now.
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