Hand wringing about Jill leaving.

[Griff]

Me, now that I'm bored with the pointless parody. Flint is fine with political threads never enlightening anyone, but I'm not.

[DanaC]

me!

[Flint]

Dana, I'm glad you care. Caring is the #1 ingredient that, if missing, is irreplacable. My personal take on whathever the "situation" is that we are fretting over is that I don't know what it is and I don't care what it is. I don't trouble myself over that kind of thing.

What I do know is that I randomly responded to a random post in a random thread, not knowing or caring what forum it was in or what the perceived problems were in that forum, and the next thing I know I've got a freaking strikeforce of enraged vigilantes coming at me with torches and pitchforks.

Let me say again: I do not give a shit about your petty squabbles and complaints about whatever forum you feel has whatever problem. I don't know about it, and I don't care about it.

But if you decide to target your righteous anger against ME, then I guarantee that you can FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Flint

What I do know is that I randomly responded to a random post in a random thread, not knowing or caring what forum it was in or what the perceived problems were in that forum, and the next thing I know I've got a freaking strikeforce of enraged vigalantes coming at me with torches and pitchforks.

You were a casualty of what we are talking about.

[DanaC]

Fair point about your random response.

But fuck you on 'my' petty squabbles

*smiles*

[Flint]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Fair point about your random response.

But fuck you on 'my' petty squabbles

*smiles*

Well, you're one of the chief complainers, right? Either you are or you aren't--which is it?

[Griff]

Flint: Were you not just complaining? Why so sensitive?

[footfootfoot]

I clearly need to work on my sarcasm. I'm shocked to discover sincerity in this thread.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I clearly need to work on my sarcasm. I'm shocked to discover sincerity in this thread.

*laughs*

Start another. Third time lucky?

[Flint]

Why so sensitive? I am responding to direct personal attacks and accusations issued by name against me.

[Griff]

Much like the so-called debate in politics, which you deride others for getting upset about.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Griff

Much like the so-called debate in politics, which you deride others for getting upset about.

Whether "the so-called debate in politics" has the qualities you say it has is neither known about nor cared about by me; therefore I can form no such analogues as you propose. I'll take your word for it, but to my knowledge it has nothing to do with me.

[Griff]

The attack on you would not have happened if the political debate had been fact-based rather than personal. That is what we're trying to address.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Flint

Whether "the so-called debate in politics" has the qualities you say it has is neither known about nor cared about by me; therefore I can form no such analogues as you propose. I'll take your word for it, but to my knowledge it has nothing to do with me.

So. You are, by your own admission relatively ignorant of what occurs in the politics forum and therefore much of the context of the problem we're discussing. Yet, you feel perfectly well-qualified to tell those of us who are familiar with that context and have concerns, that said concerns are petty and groundless.

You are upset/annoyed by my 'attack' on you, which is primarily about your post and not you as a person, yet you think people who've been subjected to highly personal attacks in the politics forum should just grow up and be less sensitive.

If those two quotes above are enough to upset you, then it is probably a very good thing that you don't follow the politics forum more closely.


[eta] For the record, as soon as you said you'd unwittingly wandered into that discussion and made a random comment to a random poster, I accepted that. And throughout I have been clear that yours was not the post that caused the problems but rather the 'straw that broke the camel's back'. In other words a relatively innocuous and light example of something bigger that came just after the real problem.

[jasonR]

lol...every forum seems to have it's little drama