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My post count is most likely permanently fixed and unlikely to go up!

by joseph7384
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I was replying to an OP in the social media thread and some yahoo posted to the op not to listen to me and that I was negative and didn't know what I was talking about, so I responded accordingly.

I revisited the thread today and found that my reply was removed and the thread was locked, so now I look like an idiot from this member and I can't defend myself because the thread was locked.

Two can play that game is my answer to leaving me gagged from replying in my defense, from now on the OT forum will be the home of my posts, I will not go and help others in the main forum or the other sub forums, I'm not going to report spam anymore as I used to every time I would see it and there's no rule that says that I'm obligated to.

This really put a bad taste in my mouth and it was a dumb ass move by whoever the mod was to make the other person into the hero and me looking like a dog with his tail between his legs.
  • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
    Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

    I was replying to an OP in the social media thread and some yahoo posted to the op not to listen to me and that I was negative and didn't know what I was talking about, so I responded accordingly.

    I revisited the thread today and found that my reply was removed and the thread was locked, so now I look like an idiot from this member and I can't defend myself because the thread was locked.

    Ouch!

    Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

    Two can play that game is my answer to leaving me gagged from replying in my defense, from now on the OT forum will be the home of my posts, I will not go and help others in the main forum or the other sub forums, I'm not going to report spam anymore as I used to every time I would see it and there's no rule that says that I'm obligated to.

    This really put a bad taste in my mouth and it was a dumb ass move by whoever the mod was to make the other person into the hero and me looking like a dog with his tail between his legs.
    And ouch!

    Games, hmmmm....

    Wouldn't it be more productive to not think of it as a game to be won with a move to be countered, but rather just one of those things like a "Life is not fair" incident that we all encounter in the game of life?

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  • Profile picture of the author David Braybrooke
    Now we're curious to know what you said in your reply? Must have been a good one to have been removed. You go Joseph!
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    Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

    I was replying to an OP in the social media thread and some yahoo posted to the op not to listen to me and that I was negative and didn't know what I was talking about, so I responded accordingly.

    I revisited the thread today and found that my reply was removed and the thread was locked, so now I look like an idiot from this member and I can't defend myself because the thread was locked.

    Two can play that game is my answer to leaving me gagged from replying in my defense, from now on the OT forum will be the home of my posts, I will not go and help others in the main forum or the other sub forums, I'm not going to report spam anymore as I used to every time I would see it and there's no rule that says that I'm obligated to.

    This really put a bad taste in my mouth and it was a dumb ass move by whoever the mod was to make the other person into the hero and me looking like a dog with his tail between his legs.
    Joe as one OT'er to another, get over it
    That yahoo is getting under your skin which is what they where trying to do.
    If you really want to piss them off, don't let it bother you.
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    • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
      Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

      Joe as one OT'er to another, get over it
      That yahoo is getting under your skin which is what they where trying to do.
      If you really want to piss them off, don't let it bother you.
      It's not the yahoo that got under my skin, I'm sure I can handle most discussions and debates, it's the mod that deleted my post then locked the thread that got under my skin.

      The irony of this is that my reply to the OP was that you have no control over a site that doesn't belong to you, so I was replying in a sensible manner when someone said that basically I'm full of SH$#@T and my post being deleted is a perfect example of what I was conveying to the OP.
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      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

        It's not the yahoo that got under my skin, I'm sure I can handle most discussions and debates, it's the mod that deleted my post then locked the thread that got under my skin.

        The irony of this is that my reply to the OP was that you have no control over a site that doesn't belong to you, so I was replying in a sensible manner when someone said that basically I'm full of SH$#@T and my post being deleted is a perfect example of what I was conveying to the OP.
        That use to bother me also. After it happens enough times you get use to it
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    Joe
    I know it's not easy but try and let it go.
    There aren't enough of us up there as it is...
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    • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
      Originally Posted by salegurus View Post

      Joe
      I know it's not easy but try and let it go.
      There aren't enough of us up there as it is...
      That was short lived, I'm over it already. The thing that really bothered me was both posts should have been removed, not just mine.

      I wonder how long before some yahoo posts that asking why your post was deleted is against the rules, then I would have to tell them to either re-read my op or put a sock in it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
        dumb ass move by whoever the mod was
        Corporal Dumbass, reporting for duty, SIR!
        to make the other person into the hero and me looking like a dog with his tail between his legs.
        Do you think that having a thread closed looks that way? I tend to think it looks, at least in an instance such as this, like a moderator decided the thread was off the rails, deleted the posts after that happened, and closed it to stop the bickering.

        I think I did you a favor by deleting that one, along with the others which were removed. The hostility would have continued and it would have degenerated into the sort of thread that gets people banned for a few days as a cooling off period.

        What is the appropriate response, Joseph? When a thread goes off the rails that badly, do we allow it to escalate, just so we don't have one person feeling bad because they didn't get to have the last 4-letter word?

        Or do we delete the entire thread, regardless of any possible useful info in it, thus setting up a scenario in which anyone can get any thread removed just by being nasty?

        Or do we pick a threshold point where things really start over the cliff, delete everything from there onward, and close the thread to stop the argument?

        Something else? What would you suggest as a standard way of handling such situations?


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          Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

          Corporal Dumbass, reporting for duty, SIR!

          Paul
          Corporal? Pffft. I thought you were a General. I'm so disillusioned.
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            Corporal? Pffft. I thought you were a General. I'm so disillusioned.
            I'm not a general, but I indirectly report to one. General Mayhem, via Major Confusion.
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            • Profile picture of the author HeySal
              Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

              I'm not a general, but I indirectly report to one. General Mayhem, via Major Confusion.
              Well Major Hassel said that Corporal Punishment might have some really kick butt ideas about how to solve your problem.
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              • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
                Well Major Hassel said that Corporal Punishment might have some really kick butt ideas about how to solve your problem.
                Major Chaos calls Corporal Punishment my "evil twin," and has suggested that he and Private Matter frag Confusion. I think he just wants to be the only one in line for the promotion to "flipping the bird" Colonel.
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        • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
          Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

          Corporal Dumbass, reporting for duty,

          If I knew it was you I wouldn't have said that, not sucking up I just always liked your style of moderating.



          Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

          SIR!Do you think that having a thread closed looks that way? I tend to think it looks, at least in an instance such as this, like a moderator decided the thread was off the rails, deleted the posts after that happened, and closed it to stop the bickering.

          I think I did you a favor by deleting that one, along with the others which were removed. The hostility would have continued and it would have degenerated into the sort of thread that gets people banned for a few days as a cooling off period.


          I never seen any nasty posts after my reply to the trouble maker, I was away from my computer for a while and missed the all that, so for that I apologize for rushing the gun.


          Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

          What is the appropriate response, Joseph? When a thread goes off the rails that badly, do we allow it to escalate, just so we don't have one person feeling bad because they didn't get to have the last 4-letter word?

          I don't expect to have the last word but the post that I was replying to should have also been deleted, it was uncalled for and you know as well as I do that not all but a lot of people think that the internet is the bible, "I read it on the internet so it must be true"

          With that being said, when a newbie happens across that post and reads "Don't listen to joseph7384" they will must likely think that I'm full of SH%#@T and it derails any help that I try to give.




          Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

          Something else? What would you suggest as a standard way of handling such situations?


          Paul

          Nothing else! You did what you considered appropriate, but do you a least agree with the message that I was conveying? The OP was pissed that Facebook cut his visibility and I replied that It's their site and they set the rules but I was polite about it.
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          • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
            Joseph,
            If I knew it was you I wouldn't have said that, not sucking up I just always liked your style of moderating.
            Piffle. I am every bit as capable of dumbass maneuvers as anyone else.
            I was polite about it.
            I just looked at it again, and it turns out I didn't delete that one. I just agreed with the person who did. (It gets confusing after enough threads in one day...)

            I would not necessarily consider this comment to be "polite" : And as far as you calling me a know it all, you know where you can stick that, up ..... ...?

            Quoted exactly as originally posted.


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            • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
              Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post


              I would not necessarily consider this comment to be "polite" : And as far as you calling me a know it all, you know where you can stick that, up ..... ...?

              Quoted exactly as originally posted.


              Paul

              No, no, no Mr. Rockefeller, I was polite in my reply to the OP not to the member who said I didn't know SH$#@T.
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              • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
                No, no, no Mr. Rockefeller, I was polite in my reply to the OP not to the member who said I didn't know SH$#@T.
                Ah. Yes, you were quite polite to him. But your response to him isn't what got deleted.
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                • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
                  Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

                  Ah. Yes, you were quite polite to him. But your response to him isn't what got deleted.

                  My point was that I was polite in my other responses to the op and others, so that reply to me was uncalled for.

                  One person said that Facebook ppc was black hat and even though I said to myself "this guy is a bonehead" I was polite by saying that his thinking was extremely flawed, I didn't call him a pea brain or tell people not to listen to him.

                  I'm always civil about things until the wrong button gets pushed.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
                    Maybe I'm reading this wrong but are you agreeing with the post, I'm a know it all who knows nothing at all.
                    You are reading it wrong. I am agreeing with the mod who decided that the "stick it up .... ..." comment made that specific post worthy of deleting.

                    Nothing more.
                    My point was that I was polite in my other responses to the op and others, so that reply to me was uncalled for.
                    Maybe so, but it wasn't over the top in terms of how it was phrased.
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                    • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
                      Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

                      You are reading it wrong. I am agreeing with the mod who decided that the "stick it up .... ..." comment made that specific post worthy of deleting.

                      Nothing more.Maybe so, but it wasn't over the top in terms of how it was phrased.

                      Well then I have one last thing to say to you Paul.
                      I'll consider myself warned!
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            • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
              Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

              I just looked at it again, and it turns out I didn't delete that one. I just agreed with the person who did.

              Paul
              Maybe I'm reading this wrong but are you agreeing with the post, I'm a know it all who knows nothing at all.
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    Um..........Is General Error hitting the Skydive or Scubba thread or is General Principles just disliking the word "poo"? Half the conversation in there has disappeared.
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      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Um..........Is General Error hitting the Skydive or Scuba thread or is General Principles just disliking the word "poo"? Half the conversation in there has disappeared.
      No clue on the poo. That's the latrine detail.

      And I don't get involved in fights between Seals and Rangers.
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

        No clue on the poo. That's the latrine detail.

        And I don't get involved in fights between Seals and Rangers.
        Seriously - half the conversation has just vanished. It was very benign stuff, too - absolutely not controversial in anyway - stuff about fair rides, and crapping oneself if scared enough.

        Just an FYI - looks like you have a glitch going on.
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    No clue. Seriously. I hadn't read either of those threads, so I couldn't comment.
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