(04-16-2019 12:12 PM)debeguiled Wrote: (04-15-2019 11:07 PM)TigerMandingo Wrote: I’m glad you said the word “rambling”, because I have no idea what that wall of text above is about. You jump from one thing to the next without any coherent meaning. I’m guessing you are treating this forum as your personal diary.
I may disagree with guys like Sp5 or Irenicus, but at least when I read their stuff I know exactly what they’re saying. Your posts are like the musings of a cluttered and confused mind. It’s like reading Franz Kafka or something lol.
He's just Eleanor's other half.
A madman, but our madman.
Ha ha yeah. That was funny. I really did laugh out loud. And I'm still laughing inside.
That's how you do it TM. That is how it's done. It's not what you say but how you say it. debeguiled just came right out with it, while you just skirted around the issue and stopped short of saying what you really meant (that I'm mad, so my arguments should not be taken seriously). Fallacious on your part. And quite the passive-aggressive.
I'll give you one thing though TM: you are a Master Baiter!
The thing is, I know I've offended you somehow, but like a woman you won't come out and say what it is. I'm not calling you a woman. I say this respectfully. I don't want to sow disharmony here or derail the thread. But I think you might have got the wrong end of the stick with the point I was trying to make.
So you sniped and you snarked. Genuinely, honestly, I ask you: what is it that so offended you about my post? Was it just the fact that you didn't get the humour?
Forums are a dying medium. You can look it up, but basically, they've been around a while now and are outmoded. All the people in the world that ever wanted to join a forum, joined one, then they either moved on or they kept posting, but in lesser and lesser amounts. The law of mediocrity then takes over along with the tragedy of the commons, and some don't want to play this game anymore.
But in my time of being involved in a few forums, I've come to notice a pattern. We are after all pattern-matching machines working via a massively parallel neural network.
On one end of the spectrum of forum archetypes, you have what I call the Grandiloquent Master. He sometimes drops in from time to time and deems to share his great wisdom with the plebs. But he's usually someone that has significantly contributed to what a forum means. They have value. They have arrogance in spades, but they also have a reason to hold that arrogance. And they probably are just tired of all the shitposting by noobs too. That is one extreme.
Then on the other end, we have the Snipers. Sometimes known as 'Drive-By Posters'. Otherwise known as 'trolls'. But I never use that word. It's meaningless now. Like the word 'fascist'.
You, TM tend to fall more in to the Sniper or Drive-By Poster end of the spectrum. You don't outright insult, so can't get banned. You will somewhat skirt around an issue so can't be accused of going off topic. You won't re-engage when someone takes the time to engage with you. You are somewhat disruptive, which makes you good fun, to an extent, but not so disruptive you get banned.
You post consistently. And are never far away to impart your words of wisdom on all matters. Even outside your field of expertise (which is what? exactly?).
Like the Sniper, you take the shot, get in, get out. Infiltrate, exfiltrate.
And you watch from a distance as your bullets sow confusion and chaos below. It's not just fishing and baiting, it's raining anarchy down from above. It does end up having a somewhat disruptive effect on the forum though, but the debate you generate, when people engage with you (such as I) with good will, is an overall plus. So all good there. No harm no foul.
You are still a Master Baiter, though!
I'll admit you got me good. But even though I knew I was being baited, I was in a good mood and happy to play along.
The thing is, I'm not sure what you stand for either. You say you are half-jewish, but you are constantly banging on about da jews! That is one thing that has pinged my radar about you.
We have some kind of communication breakdown here (which I am happy to clear up if you like), even though I've put you in the taxonomy of Forum Sniper.
Let me draw a parallel with another poster: Foo1sgold. He's got a lot of posts, gives out very contrary opinions, someone said he had a lot of neutral reps. I've seen him take some serious flak here on this board. But I like him. I've repped him. Because I believe he posts in good faith.
Now I'm not saying you don't. But you are contrary, oftentimes on appearances just for the sake of it.
Foo1sgold doesn't write very long posts, he often rubs people up the wrong way - he could be seen as a Forum Sniper. But he's not. He acts in good faith. He's just a 'rugged individual'. And the corner stone of America and this forum is built on that rugged individuality. He doesn't do snark. He doesn't do passive-aggressive. He says what he wants and if people don't like it, he'll just take a back seat and bow out of the argument, as the bigger man.
He also generates debate, and that is a good thing. He is respectful, for the most part, though he can get a bit 'heated' sometimes. It's not out of bounds.
If anything, he is the archetype of the Forum Joker/Fool. (clue)
Speaking truth to power. It's quite an art. It's one of the rarest of the Forum Archetypes. A fine line. Very few can straddle it for very long. Not interested in winning friends and influencing people, he does win a few people over along the way. It's quality not quantity with this archetype.
But enough rambling. I've already gone way off-piste.
That was a cheap shot against me TM. I've probably over-shared a bit too much, I know, and let all you
strangers on the internet (not just the people in this forum) in to my world a bit too much.
But does a difference of opinion justify:
Striking from the shadows.
Skulking back in to the night.
Cheap, easy, shots.
I ain't even mad bro'!
I know I'm a bit of an oddball, but I'm not trying to teach anyone anthing. I'm not trying to tell anyone how to think. I'm just posting some opinions and doing a bit of shitposting, while I can. Respectfully.
Your attempt to 'mental health' shame me backfired somewhat on your part. I would hate it if you discouraged others from opening up a bit, letting us all in to their world. It is through the experience of others that we become richer, when it is given from the heart. Right or wrong.
This isn't beef, it's just food for thought.
But you've given me inspiration to write a bit more on this subject. Get some more things off my chest...
So I guess the forum should thank you for exciting debate!
But you knew that already. You've got it down to a fine art.
You can ask questions. You can even call me a mad motherfucker. I won't report you, won't think less of you. But don't snipe and snide and snark me.
Say what you mean. I'll answer in good faith.
I'm only shitposting most the time anyway, so don't understand why others don't get that. When I got beef with you, or I want to be direct, you will know.
Phew, I feel half a stone lighter now!
And I'm still laughing.
A madman, but our madman.
Cheeky bugger!