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I get it. My comment was ambiguous and didn't offer serious discussion. I gave Khross a hard shot, for what I felt was his thumbing his nose, lecture at that post. Perhaps it was too mean a response, and for that I apologize. But don't act like you guys didn't come in and start piling on. Your first comment wasn't that bad, but it was snarky. I asked why you would even bother, given the likely outcome.
Because that's what we do here. That's the outcome of a great many threads over the years here; why would this one be different?
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Then came Elmo, who did fire an insult at me. I gave him one back. He gave me two more. I posted his picture. He gave me another. I made a snarky remark back.
All Elmo did was point out (albeit rudely, but again that's basically what goes on in this forum) that
you failed to inform yourself in regard to the actual facts of the decisions. While insulting in tone, it was still relevant to the matter at hand. People's penis sizes or their cosplay habits aren't even remotely relevant; failure to inform oneself and using poor reasoning skills is.
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And in this recent post, you have most definitely taken shots at me with the hint that I am worse than the worst posters of this site's history. Then comparing me to a high school adolescent. Telling me to improve my thinking skills to be comparable with my age. I mean, those are definitely meant as insults, right? Even though I haven't insulted you personally in this thread, have I?
Obviously they're rude, but they aren't just pointless insults. I'm pointing out that you are going off-topic into pointless screaming of the type that I expect to hear from adolescents. If that's insulting then.. start acquainting yourself with the facts, and stop posting ridiculous one-liners that are obviously a product of nothing other than your own cynicism. There's no privilege here to have your comments left alone.
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Hey, it's no problem. I personally have tried to leave you fellows alone, as it really doesn't do much other than create these type of situations. But if you respond to me, insult me, talk down to me......then yeah, I'll be nasty back. Again, if that's the likely outcome of you corresponding with me, then why not just leave it be? Is me posting a short, vague comment like that really worth the lecture and insults?
I don't "leave it be"
because the whole point in coming to this forum is to engage the other participants in discussion. In your case, the use of the term "discussion" is pretty generous. I don't know how anyone could have responded to you in a way that wouldn't be condescending, since it's necessary to point out that you don't have a clue about the facts of the case before ANY discussion is possible. Is that just too much **** trouble for you? Then maybe you shouldn't form an opinion on the matter at all.
As for leaving it be, if I wanted to leave it be, I would have. This is a leisure activity for me. Obviously it's worth it, or I just wouldn't do it. When it's no longer worth it, because it's taking too much time from EVE or TESO or something, I'll let it go.
In fact, I find it kind of amusing, since your responses are not unlike an EVE player that pokes their nose into null security space, then wonders why they got blown up because they were "only flying a frigate".
Because that's what null security space is there for, and because I want to blow up internet spaceships. This forum is essentially the Glade's nullsec. I'd love for it to return to a moderated status, but I doubt that's going to happen so I use the forum in the state it exists.