17 Oct 2010, 9:31 am
17 Oct 2010, 12:43 pm
Dox47 wrote:
Is it just me, or did the maturity level in here just drop sharply? Oh, I should have known when I saw the OP byline, high schools are out for the week...
See, I'm using the techniques of am internet troll, but it's OK, I'm not trolling because I'm doing it for a higher purpose, and he did it first...
Now if I really wanted to capture the true je ne sais quoi of a Master P original, I would have had to come up with some "clever" new terms to stigmatize my ideological opposites and sprinkle some unqualified opinions in there, but I think I've made my point.
See, I'm using the techniques of am internet troll, but it's OK, I'm not trolling because I'm doing it for a higher purpose, and he did it first...
Now if I really wanted to capture the true je ne sais quoi of a Master P original, I would have had to come up with some "clever" new terms to stigmatize my ideological opposites and sprinkle some unqualified opinions in there, but I think I've made my point.
I'm quoting myself here because seldom have I had a post so completely misunderstood. You seem to be of the opinion that it's ok to fight dirty because "conservatives" do it; I demonstrated the fallacy of that reasoning by using dirty trolling tactics and then claiming that it was OK for me to do that because I was doing it for a higher purpose (as determined by me) and because you (the liberals) started it. I'd have thought the rolling eyes would have been a giveaway; though it is interesting that you essentially debunked your own rationale for playing dirty when you responded to my post at face value.
17 Oct 2010, 12:53 pm
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17 Oct 2010, 1:15 pm
Master_Pedant wrote:
Or maybe it was when people started posting gleefully when all the racism drove a poster off the site. Who knowns? 
It's beginning to look a lot like bullcrap.
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17 Oct 2010, 1:18 pm
17 Oct 2010, 1:47 pm
Master_Pedant wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
Is it just me, or did the maturity level in here just drop sharply?'
Probably when posters started using terms like "Aboreal Africans" or "NAACP = Nigerians Against All Caucasian People".
IMHO, when you decided not to take these comments to the mods, but rather rebut them yourself, you relenquished any right to complain about them.
If you successfully debunked the arguments, then congratulations, you won that particular argument.
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Or maybe it was when people started posting gleefully when all the racism drove a poster off the site. Who knowns?
I read that thread from the post you linked to the end and saw nothing like what you describe.
Anyone who wants to take a break from WP and/or PPR is allowed to. I took a rather longish one myself once.
17 Oct 2010, 1:57 pm
17 Oct 2010, 2:07 pm
Ancalagon wrote:
IMHO, when you decided not to take these comments to the mods, but rather rebut them yourself, you relenquished any right to complain about them.
If you successfully debunked the arguments, then congratulations, you won that particular argument.
If you successfully debunked the arguments, then congratulations, you won that particular argument.
That doesn't make any sense at all. "You can only criticize something if you want it outlawed" may make sense some authoritarian, but it doesn't make sense to me. There's a lot of crap in this world that people criticize without desiring outlawed and I think hate speech should be on that list (albeit, I do think exceptions for places like public schools makes sense).
Ancalagon wrote:
Or maybe it was when people started posting gleefully when all the racism drove a poster off the site. Who knowns?
I read that thread from the post you linked to the end and saw nothing like what you describe.
Anyone who wants to take a break from WP and/or PPR is allowed to. I took a rather longish one myself once.[/quote]
I think it's a pretty straightforward abductive inference. He swore and said he wouldn't mind his count being deleted, which indicates that he's taking a PRETTY BLOODY LONG VACATION. Racist screeds have got under his skin quite a few times. And Dox47 seems to be quite gleeful over this situation.
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17 Oct 2010, 2:16 pm
Master_Pedant wrote:
Ancalagon wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
Or maybe it was when people started posting gleefully when all the racism drove a poster off the site. Who knowns?
I read that thread from the post you linked to the end and saw nothing like what you describe.
Anyone who wants to take a break from WP and/or PPR is allowed to. I took a rather longish one myself once.
I think it's a pretty straightforward abductive inference. He swore and said he wouldn't mind his count being deleted, which indicates that he's taking a PRETTY BLOODY LONG VACATION. Racist screeds have got under his skin quite a few times. And Dox47 seems to be quite gleeful over this situation.
Really Dox47 is gleeful? No, I'd say he's not gleeful but rather slightly suspicious of a political stunt in action. Here are his actual words from the link that you attached to your post. Where in Dox47's words do you see "gleefulness"?
Dox47 wrote:
Crimsonfield wrote:
Racist, socialist and terrorist are overused words because they're politically useful and instigate fear or shame, just like words like heretic and witch were during the inquisitions in the middle ages. "Obama's a socialist! Very socialist. You wanna vote for him? You shouldn't vote for him! You don't want Hitler to come back do you? He's also a terrorist..."
This is pretty close to how I would have put it, but as BigK seems to have taken his bat and ball and gone home, I haven't felt the need to further clarify. Personally, I'm a bit suspicious of this particular rage-quit, he was unhappy that the discussions regarding the running of PPR were not going his way, and making a big dramatic exit like that would on the surface seem to support his assertion that our "offensive discussions" discourage minorities from posting. Hopefully his motives are equally transparent to the mod team. We'll have to see if he stays gone, my bet is two weeks.
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