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Post by Occam's Spork on Feb 27, 2017 23:32:33 GMT 10
Fine. As long as those who are uninvolved don't need to deal with the aftermath of your 'strategy'.
If this is just between you and pim, you don't need to involve the entire board.
That's the line. Cross it at your peril.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Feb 27, 2017 23:56:23 GMT 10
I'm quite calm. I will close the computer soon, but only because it is past the witching hour here in Melbourne. I'll just make one final point ... If someone insists that the "sneer" component of their post must remain ... or even goes back to highlight the sneer themselves (which did happen on one occasion) aren't they "hanging themselves" by doing that? You know ... flagrant breach of the rules and all that - but more importantly - flagrant contempt for the people on this board. Surely you can see that? So the reaction is to punish the person posting material free from sneers, rather than advise the person posting the sneers that they are out of order and need to stop? Don't you find that rather strange? I think if you looked at it objectively that you would see the validity of my point. Bye for now ... (unless I'm banned for taking a stance ... in which case ... bye for a longer time.) If I were to punish anyone who posted sneers, I'd have to ban everyone. Myself included. Pim's post may not be your fault; but how you choose to respond is still your responsibility. You chose poorly. The mods reprimanded you for it. Own it.
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Post by pim on Feb 28, 2017 9:19:04 GMT 10
And that, gentle reader, is the real agenda here.
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Post by pim on Feb 28, 2017 9:47:51 GMT 10
What's this? A coup against Jody and Occam? You're delusional mate. You really ought to cut down on whatever it is you're smoking. You really are becoming the Tony Abbott of the board: "Make me mod or I'll trash the joint!" What a wrecker!
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Post by jody on Feb 28, 2017 11:37:10 GMT 10
Phil you have as much chance of being a mod here as Buzz does.
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Post by pim on Feb 28, 2017 11:46:24 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Feb 28, 2017 11:50:41 GMT 10
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Post by Occam's Spork on Feb 28, 2017 11:57:49 GMT 10
Retired just means you have more time to obsess about stupid shit.
Get a new hobby, instead.
We're done here.
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Post by KTJ on Feb 28, 2017 11:58:09 GMT 10
Some nice Norwegian fjord & mountain scenery to chill out to....
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Post by Occam's Spork on Feb 28, 2017 12:05:05 GMT 10
What's this? A coup against Jody and Occam? You're delusional mate. You really ought to cut down on whatever it is you're smoking. You really are becoming the Tony Abbott of the board: "Make me mod or I'll trash the joint!" What a wrecker! Not a coup! I'm thinking of additional mods (we are both retired now) ... I was expecting you to take it as a joke actually ... you know ... two wands at fifty paces ... deleting each others sneers till the cows come home ... Oh well ... it goes to show how far we have fallen out that you don't get my jokes anymore. p.s. it would be an interesting combination though eh? Just think ... 4 mods ... One Agnostic, one Atheist, one Christian Biblical litralist, one Spiritual believer. P.S.: I am no Bible literalist. I can grasp the use of semetic metaphor.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Feb 28, 2017 12:08:27 GMT 10
Retired just means you have more time to obsess about stupid shit. Get a new hobby instead. We're done here. Time for a new mindset ... my ideas could really work. If you really think about it, no one ever considers their own notions as ridiculous. :rolleyes:
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Post by pim on Feb 28, 2017 12:09:38 GMT 10
I would make an excellent mod. I have ideas to contribute to the other mods on how things could be improved in handling disputes.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 3, 2017 2:35:13 GMT 10
No Occam's, my new and improved strategy is to re-post his sneer laced contributions with ones devoid of sneers. Positive reinforcement and educational too. Very effective, because it got him to react as no other strategy had so far. p.s. It's important to include the following lines: You would be rewarding a person who flagrantly posts against the rules in utter contempt of everyone on this board (and you) and instead be banning the person trying to stand up to him. I'd be very disappointed. I'm not raising the white flag and will continue to stand up against the sneering taking place on a daily basis. So, if you have to ban me ... that's one way to stop me. The other way is for Pim to cease his campaign of contempt. In my opinion, I'm on the right side of decency in this battle.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 3, 2017 2:46:05 GMT 10
No Occam's, my new and improved strategy is to re-post his sneer laced contributions with ones devoid of sneers. Positive reinforcement and educational too. Very effective, because it got him to react as no other strategy had so far. In my opinion, I'm on the right side of decency in this battle. As I recall, you responded with moral outrage when I responded to slartibartfast's sneers against me by deleting his posts. In spirit, what you are doing is no different. ...Am I now seeing a complete 180 degree turn on your position?
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Post by slartibartfast on Mar 3, 2017 19:15:09 GMT 10
No Occam's, my new and improved strategy is to re-post his sneer laced contributions with ones devoid of sneers. Positive reinforcement and educational too. Very effective, because it got him to react as no other strategy had so far. In my opinion, I'm on the right side of decency in this battle. As I recall, you responded with moral outrage when I responded to slartibartfast's sneers against me by deleting his posts. In spirit, what you are doing is no different. ...Am I now seeing a complete 180 degree turn on your position? Sneers against you? A retaliation at authoritarian wanking is not a sneer.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 4, 2017 1:37:14 GMT 10
As I recall, you responded with moral outrage when I responded to slartibartfast's sneers against me by deleting his posts. In spirit, what you are doing is no different. ...Am I now seeing a complete 180 degree turn on your position? We have covered this elsewhere ... but you know I am against wholesale deletion of threads if they are not in breach of the rules. . Which you've implied they are, if they contain sneers... How would you like your crow served today?
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 4, 2017 1:38:30 GMT 10
As I recall, you responded with moral outrage when I responded to slartibartfast's sneers against me by deleting his posts. In spirit, what you are doing is no different. ...Am I now seeing a complete 180 degree turn on your position? Sneers against you? A retaliation at authoritarian wanking is not a sneer. Lol a denial of sneering, containing sneers. Comedy gold.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 4, 2017 1:52:27 GMT 10
As I recall, you responded with moral outrage when I responded to slartibartfast's sneers against me by deleting his posts. In spirit, what you are doing is no different. ...Am I now seeing a complete 180 degree turn on your position? Sneers against you? A retaliation at authoritarian wanking is not a sneer. This is clearly a sneer against a moderator, and his judgment, madmonk. (Unless you are taking his post in the literal sense; in which case is more concerning, as it implies that he fancies watching the act.) Time to choose a side on this issue: Are you going to correct your 'buddy', or are we entitled to laugh off your complaint? Thank you Slarti, for making this easy..
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Post by slartibartfast on Mar 4, 2017 7:23:44 GMT 10
Whenever I may have "sneered" at you, it was only in retaliation to something that you have said to me
So I am really sorry for treating you the same way you treated me.
Stop trying to reinvent history, you should leave that to the Bible.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 4, 2017 7:28:28 GMT 10
Whenever I may have "sneered" at you, it was only in retaliation to something that you have said to me So I am really sorry for treating you the same way you treated me. Stop trying to reinvent history, you should leave that to the Bible. Really? So that unprovoked thread you opened (and I erased) with the sole purpose of harassing me about some incidentally embellished 'giant squid' article I posted from Facebook, was not a mean spirited attack intended to ridicule me? ..Do tell.
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Post by slartibartfast on Mar 4, 2017 8:09:13 GMT 10
LOL
Why would I ever need to ridicule you when you do such a wonderful job of it yourself.
I am do sorry that you feel ridiculed by you posting a ridiculous story and being unable to tell fact from fiction.
But hey, I guess that's what comes with your territory.
And the giant squid wasn't the only thing you deleted.
Try some honesty for a change.
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Post by slartibartfast on Mar 4, 2017 8:22:35 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Mar 4, 2017 8:34:26 GMT 10
Hostility, anger, targeting ... that's all you bring to the Religion Board. Slarti you don't have to post on the Religion Board you know. I mean, you have the right to post wherever you want and I guess if the Attorney-General in the Turnbull Government argues that people have the right to be bigots then I guess you have the right to come here to be angry.
Kinda sad, though ...
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Post by slartibartfast on Mar 4, 2017 9:51:22 GMT 10
Excuse me?
I merely responded to Captain Sporky using me in an argument against Phil.
I do wish you would open your eyes and see who starts these 'arguments'.
Hint - it wasn't me!
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 4, 2017 11:37:00 GMT 10
And you expected NOT to get ridiculed for this? ...So you believe that people do things to earn being sneered at?
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