[i]Us, and them
And after all were only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end it’s only round and round.
Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There’s room for you inside.
I mean, they’re not gunna kill ya, so if you give em a quick short,
Sharp, shock, they wont do it again. dig it? I mean he get off
Lightly, cos I wouldve given him a thrashing - I only hit him once!
It was only a difference of opinion, but really…i mean good manners
Don’t cost nothing do they, eh?
Down and out
It can’t be helped but there’s a lot of it about.
With, without.
And who’ll deny it’s what the fightings all about?
Out of the way, it’s a busy day
Ive got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.[/i]
Yes, only one of us wants the rules to be reasonable.
Tyjenks
4283
Seriously. How do we get from here to there and who decides what is considered reasonable?
My theory is that it was a combination of the uncalled-for shot he took at jpinard in the talking-to-a-bot thread and the uncalled-for snarky .gif he posted in the “I hurt my foot” thread. Maybe Tom got tired of his dickishness (again).
Kalle
4285
Taking a shot at jpinard when he starts an idiotic thread is neither uncalled for nor did adree bring in stuff from other threads to do it.
Never mind me. I am just parading around the standard quality of Qt3 posters.
Not uncalled for?
Then why can most of us look at a thread like that and say to ourselves, “that’s not something I’m really interested in”? Why the need for hostility? To prove you’re better than someone?
Not only that, but in the hurt foot thread, Adree went to the trouble of digging up an animated gif that did nothing more than state that he didn’t read the OP. Where most people would be content to just skip the thread, Adree went the extra mile. He’s the hardest-working hooting dickhole on Qt3.
Cubit
4291
You guys really know how to dance on a grave.
He’ll be back. He always comes back.
Pffff Adree has earned every ban he’s ever gotten. I’m sorry we don’t all treat every deserved tempban like it’s the end of our tiny world.
I don’t post much here or anywhere else on the internet for that matter so like other lurkers I thought I’d throw my two cents in.
Lately after many years of too many forum wars I’ve tried to post keeping a certain rule in mind. Let’s say you are out with your friends or family at a crowded restaurant having a nice meal when you overhear a snippet of conversation from the next table that includes a horribly racist remark. Do you:
A)
Stand up in the middle of place and proclaim loudly that this racist douchebag is a retard and should just get the fuck out of the restaurant?
or B)
Turn to the people at your table and whisper, “What’s with this racist douchebag over here?”
Probably 99% of the population is gonna choose B because in polite society we are conditioned to not make scenes. So my general rule of posting is simply to act online like I would in real life.
If you don’t have the fucking balls to stand up in a crowded restaurant and call someone out, don’t do it online.
The problem is you can’t really choose who you interact with online like you can offline. Half the people who post here you might never be friends with in real life but you have to put up with their shit online so buttons get pushed and some people just can’t let things slide. And that’s bad for everybody because it’s usually the quality posters that get banned.
There is a report post button for a reason, use it. Tom is the only moderator and he cannot be online 24/7 to instantly nuke stuff. So if things aren’t getting fixed quick enough for your tastes it doesn’t mean Tom is ignoring it, it just means he’s a busy guy. Then good posters don’t get banned and everyone’s (moderately) happy! Yay for internet civility!
I think you have that reversed. You can’t always choose whom you interact with OFFline, but you can almost always choose online.
Edit: Damnit, I wasn’t going to post in this thread anymore. Anyway, just wanted to correct that one slip.
To use the restaurant analogy a little more I meant that you can choose who is setting at your table and who you have conversations with offline, just anybody can jump in to your talk online. And you have to deal with them.
No, you can… not read their posts. Or read their posts and not respond. Duh!
Talk about the pot and the fucking kettle.
