I can offer advice. Whether you take it not is up to you.
When I first started posting on forums in the 90s, I couldn't believe how much shit people were happy to talk. The internet was pretty new and traditionally shit talking (IRL) resulted in a kicking. This obviously isn't an option with anonymous people on the internet.
A major thing that helped me was to develop a near-god like level of arrogance. I truly do not give a toss what people say about me. Do you get angry if a dog doesn't like you? Do you argue with it? No, it's a fucking dog. And that's how I view people who run their mouths on the internet.
If you remember, you said some obnoxious things to me on the U.G. I don't even remember what it was, I just put you on ignore and you never got a response from me. I had over 100 people on ignore there; their input was irrelevant and would only make my life less fun if I took time to read and consider their dross.
If you want to respond to people who are trying to get a rise, don't use rational logic. They are like broken machines and you can't reason with them. Completely ignore any sentiment to their posts and just make fun of them. NEVER get angry or you lose. If you start to get angry, go back to ignoring them like the maggots they are.
I didn't like CMNH when he first came here. He was cunty to me, too. I just sniped at him with condescending jibberish and ignored his responses to the point he whinged about it and left me alone.
Might not be the conventional approach to dealing with shit talkers but it works for me.
I sincerely apologize. Please don't beat me up.Playing devil's advocate..... And I will preference this by stating that contrary to popular opinion, I am not a Mod or Admin for this site, just the grappling forum which everyone there acts with respect (since we all train).... @Splinty @Wild @Leigh and @BirdWatcher give everyone enough rope to hang themselves with, and allows us to pretty much police ourselves. They can have their own opinions about the situations even though they're "in charge" of the place.... Hell, if a lot of us think that people are acting like assholes, they can too.
I applaud them, because I see them add levity into the tense situations that arise here to inject humor into it, rather than parent a bunch of grown folks (some who may be older than them). In honesty, it's pretty fair here, and they're allowed to be annoyed too.
He'll do nuttin!I sincerely apologize. Please don't beat me up.
You are right.Playing devil's advocate..... And I will preference this by stating that contrary to popular opinion, I am not a Mod or Admin for this site, just the grappling forum which everyone there acts with respect (since we all train).... @Splinty @Wild @Leigh and @BirdWatcher give everyone enough rope to hang themselves with, and allows us to pretty much police ourselves. They can have their own opinions about the situations even though they're "in charge" of the place.... Hell, if a lot of us think that people are acting like assholes, they can too.
I applaud them, because I see them add levity into the tense situations that arise here to inject humor into it, rather than parent a bunch of grown folks (some who may be older than them). In honesty, it's pretty fair here, and they're allowed to be annoyed too.
Even stooping to setting traps to publically rip on members?
Just like I'm responding to you now, I respond often to us being called out that we are playing favorites, etc.The boss can't be in the game.
Someone is feeling pretty brave today behind his keyboard.... Where does one like you muster the courage to talk the shit you do from a safe distance, when you're obviously a weak and pathetic man in real life?He'll do nuttin!
All fart and no shit that guy
Whatever. It's not like you have anything else to do but police this shit.No trap.
I'm not on here all the time. It is true that @conor mcgregor nut hugger was unnecessarily following @Fraud Baby it has been asked to stop and has been banned from threads and has been pinked for it before. it's also against the rules to constantly go after somebody and it's also true that we lower the bar for repeat offenders.
I simply took the time to highlight that the rules were rapidly enforced this time and the claims of bias never end. Never end.
What have we done in the past? Pinked the argument starter. Tried pausing both. Tried talking down @Fraud Baby . It's not really against the rules to call someone fake and @Fraud Baby always goes overboard in response to any slight. Locked both from threads. Pinked both. Locked a thread to disrupt it. Let it play out (it turned into @Fraud Baby up doing searches to bring the argument into every other thread he could just totally overboard).
@Fraud Baby has an easy piece in his own behavior he complains about. But for this time, I was ready go after the guy who started shit off one post because of the history and previous ask to stop.
The result?? Still whining about us being against him over and over constantly trying to recruit and reinforce that narrative with others.
Just like I'm responding to you now, I respond often to us being called out that we are playing favorites, etc.
@Fraud Baby keeps invoking us and me, I'm going to point out that he got what he wants and just keeps complaining about it. He simply never stops and has spent years doing it, despite now highlighting direct evidence to the contrary.
Agree. This is @Splinty's site and he should be able to run it however the fuck he wants. The whinny ass complainers can either straighten up or find someplace else to shitpost. I appreciate how equitable the admin and mods have been, not sure I could do it.Whatever. It's not like you have anything else to do but police this shit.
You're a more patient man than I am. I would just tell everyone to fuck off, hit the mega-ban button and end up talking to myself about baseball in here.
If we could find a user consensus that resulted in something other than racism or telling outsides to fuck off (tried and true outcomes of no modding on other sites), I would never want my opinion involved in the ongoing day to day operations of this site. I would be completely content to never weigh and just defer to the democracy. Even where I disagree.This is @Splinty's site and he should be able to run it however the fuck he wants.
You are doing far and beyond what any reasonable person could expect Ima. You're doing the Lord's work.If we could find a user consensus that resulted in something other than racism or telling outsides to fuck off (tried and true outcomes of no modding on other sites), I would never want my opinion involved in the ongoing day to day operations of this site. I would be completely content to never weigh and just defer to the democracy. Even where I disagree.
We tried that with moderators and the users burnt our moderators out. So now we are a bit in limbo figuring out how to back up more but not have the loudest (which aren't always the best or most noble) take over the conversation.
@Wild is a great guy but lets not elevate him that muchYou're doing the Lord's work.
Thanks Professor, much appreciated..
Murder the whole site? Nah son, there are way too many people here that I actually respect and appreciate...
Respectfully disagreeLike I said, if you're looking to fight me, I'm easy to find
I'd totally do some modding on here but that would mean that an idiot like @Thuglife13 would be banned in my first 20 minutes and @KWingJitsu would be pinked on and off every few hours, both to control and to irritate the hell out of him.If we could find a user consensus that resulted in something other than racism or telling outsides to fuck off (tried and true outcomes of no modding on other sites), I would never want my opinion involved in the ongoing day to day operations of this site. I would be completely content to never weigh and just defer to the democracy. Even where I disagree.
We tried that with moderators and the users burnt our moderators out. So now we are a bit in limbo figuring out how to back up more but not have the loudest (which aren't always the best or most noble) take over the conversation.
I'd totally do some modding on here but that would mean that an idiot like @Thuglife13 would be banned in my first 20 minutes and @KWingJitsu would be pinked on and off every few hours, both to control and to irritate the hell out of him.
Do you hate me, too?I can offer advice. Whether you take it not is up to you.
When I first started posting on forums in the 90s, I couldn't believe how much shit people were happy to talk. The internet was pretty new and traditionally shit talking (IRL) resulted in a kicking. This obviously isn't an option with anonymous people on the internet.
A major thing that helped me was to develop a near-god like level of arrogance. I truly do not give a toss what people say about me. Do you get angry if a dog doesn't like you? Do you argue with it? No, it's a fucking dog. And that's how I view people who run their mouths on the internet.
If you remember, you said some obnoxious things to me on the U.G. I don't even remember what it was, I just put you on ignore and you never got a response from me. I had over 100 people on ignore there; their input was irrelevant and would only make my life less fun if I took time to read and consider their dross.
If you want to respond to people who are trying to get a rise, don't use rational logic. They are like broken machines and you can't reason with them. Completely ignore any sentiment to their posts and just make fun of them. NEVER get angry or you lose. If you start to get angry, go back to ignoring them like the maggots they are.
I didn't like CMNH when he first came here. He was cunty to me, too. I just sniped at him with condescending jibberish and ignored his responses to the point he whinged about it and left me alone.
Might not be the conventional approach to dealing with shit talkers but it works for me.
The way you say weak is really off putting
I still like uThe way you say weak is really off putting
You're a cunt. A good cunt, a cunt nonetheless!I still like u