« Reply #889 on: September 30, 2016, 08:13:27 PM »
Since the Nets thread got locked, I'll just post this here and tap out. I'm not telling anyone how to run this place but while a bunch of us can be argumentative little jerks, like me, there is one guy who is consistently in the middle of most of the nonsense around here. He's now taken up flat out lying about stuff he posted in the past which, even if he's just trying to be funny, is plain and simple trolling behavior. I'm not saying the rest of us are angels, but there shouldn't be one guy everybody else has to tiptoe around, no matter how long he's been posting here.
Mike
See, the thing that I've noticed is that there's a certain group of posters who insist on derailing every thread in which that guy posts into a contentious and obviously futile exercise in trying to get him to admit to every mistaken thing he's ever predicted or opined upon. The post becomes a referendum on a particular poster and his proclamations about Joel Embiid rather than whatever the original topic was.
To me, that's more of a problem than one guy on this forum who likes to post tongue in cheek and try to get attention by stating things that are in-context-controversial. If you don't engage and don't take it so seriously, then the thread keeps moving along. People just need to accept that some people are the way they are and do what they're gonna do, you're not going to get them to break down and admit they were wrong all along. And moreover, it's not fun to be here if that's gonna be the goal of so many discussions -- to force people to own their mistakes and be held accountable for them.
This becomes a negative environment if there's a frequent pattern of people refusing to take what other posters say in a given thread at face value because of the need to bring up the context of other posts in other threads. The worst times I can think of to be on this forum have been when people insist on creating factions and using labels for posters who they perceive to be on the opposite side of whatever divide they want to create, whether it's Tankers vs Anti-Tankers, or whatever. They disagree reflexively because the person making a post is somebody they identify as a "tanker," or whatever, and so fail to actually read what was said in that thread.
Pho,
You have gotten into it a few times with said poster yourself and have also complained numerous times about the poster constantly making threads about themselves so this comment seems really disingenuous
I thought the bolded part was in reference to me, but I hope not. While I tend to make snarky posts, they aren't intended to be harmful or insulting. And relative to the conversation, I've tried to encourage others to refrain from feeding into the behavior in question without choosing a side. It has fallen on deaf ears enough that I stopped, though.
Deaf ears is correct. If CB had an ignore button I would have used it long ago. The guy who shall not be named has an inability to change. As I have written before, responding only feeds a sad ego and problematic personality. Simply ignore him and Both life and this place improve.
Re: the bolded
(1) Click on Profile.
(2) Under "Modify Profile," click on Buddies/Ignore List.
(3) Click Edit Ignore List
(4) Type in username next to "Member:" and click Add.
I plan on using it if/when needed. HTH
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Lb33 is now banished from my CB life. A tp for you sir.
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