The Problem With PD is This (serious thread, not stupid attempt at sarcasm):

[Dimocritus]

Yeah, stay. For some reason, (not sure why, really) I sort of look at you as like the "board mom."

uh...



Never mind.

I don't mind. Go ahead.

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah, stay. For some reason, (not sure why, really) I sort of look at you as like the "board mom." Let's not make this house a broken home.

Nigel has a very disfunctional family, ITT.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to write on the walls and build sandcastles in the kitty litter box.

[Dimocritus]

Yeah, stay. For some reason, (not sure why, really) I sort of look at you as like the "board mom." Let's not make this house a broken home.

Nigel has a very disfunctional family, ITT.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to write on the walls and build sandcastles in the kitty litter box.

Oh, have I faux pas'd?

[LMNO]

Yeah, stay. For some reason, (not sure why, really) I sort of look at you as like the "board mom."

uh...



Never mind.

I don't mind. Go ahead.

It's just that the term "board mom" has never had positive connotations for me.  

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah, stay. For some reason, (not sure why, really) I sort of look at you as like the "board mom." Let's not make this house a broken home.

Nigel has a very disfunctional family, ITT.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to write on the walls and build sandcastles in the kitty litter box.

Oh, have I faux pas'd?

Eldora called herself the board mommy.

We burned her out like a bad infection.

[Cain]

Like Danu, when she tried her board mommy act on a few of us on EB&G.  Hilarity ensued

[East Coast Hustle]

I'm to the point of not fighting any of it anymore.  I said earlier and I hold to it.  People will just stop posting.  Who has already left and we've been bickering and pissing too much to notice?

Some of us aren't missed when we walk away for a few days, weeks, months.  

If you don't like the fluff, as Dok said. DON'T CLICK ON IT!!!  If there is a real problem with someone specific, then direct the issue with them and let's be done with it.

I just don't want other people to walk away and not come back.  Because I'll really miss Hoops!!!

Too late for that one. And he's not the only one who's said "fuck it" recently.

In fact, it was Hoops leaving that got me irritated enough at what's been going on here to finally find a more eloquent and less "snobby and elitist" way to try to get my point across. I had a long conversation with him about this, and came to the conclusion that

A) accusations of being snobby and elitist, when directed at me, are right on the money.

B) because in this case, being "snobby and elitist" means holding this site and the people on it to a higher standard than what is generally expected of a mob of primates, and if anyone doesn't fucking get why that is or the importance of it, they should probably fuck off and find another digital hangout.

[Faust]

I almost hate to say it, but I think that a lot of people's problem with me is that I am a girl and I post a bunch of girl emotional crap, but I am also like a guy and I post a lot of guy aggressive crap. Where it would be funny coming from a guy, it is not funny coming from a girl, and then a lot of guys feel comfortable labeling me slutty/desperate/whatever, simply because they are not comfortable accepting the combination of sentimental/dicktastic coming from a female.

At this point though I am kind of ready to ditch this place because I feel like I have IRL connections to most of the people I care about and could jettison the ones I don't, and enough people here seem not willing to put up with me I'm not seeing much reason to stick around.

I don't think its fair of you tar and feather girls when the problem people have with you is your neuroses, but playing the persecuted tough girl seems to give you your jollies so keep thinking that's the case, even if its not. I consider you an avatar and some text, unless I meet you IRL you don't take on any gender in my mind, I don't treat you differently because of that. I don't care if you leave or not, but I do care about the way you have been treating people on the site.

Anyway, and more importantly
Despite any of the bitching of the last few weeks I don't think any of that stuff is "The problem with PD".
As others have said, it is an overall lack of focus and sense of involvement (trolling forums, some of the dumb games we used to play in apple talk and the like) that seems to have dampened over the last year. Its no one specific thing that has caused this but as roger said, the fun seems to have gone with it.

[Doktor Howl]

Like Danu, when she tried her board mommy act on a few of us on EB&G.  Hilarity ensued

I remember that.

Nigel is ineligble for the board mommy job.  

1.  She's not fat.  Hot women cannot be board mommies.  Only land whales with Dunning/Kruger syndrome can have the job.

2.  She's not stirring shit up via PM.  All of her fights are public.

3.  She's too busy being a whiskey & hate fueled maniac to bother trying to mommy adults.

[Dimocritus]

  My apologies, Nigel. I didn't realize...

[Doktor Howl]

I almost hate to say it, but I think that a lot of people's problem with me is that I am a girl and I post a bunch of girl emotional crap, but I am also like a guy and I post a lot of guy aggressive crap. Where it would be funny coming from a guy, it is not funny coming from a girl, and then a lot of guys feel comfortable labeling me slutty/desperate/whatever, simply because they are not comfortable accepting the combination of sentimental/dicktastic coming from a female.

At this point though I am kind of ready to ditch this place because I feel like I have IRL connections to most of the people I care about and could jettison the ones I don't, and enough people here seem not willing to put up with me I'm not seeing much reason to stick around.

I don't think its fair of you tar and feather girls when the problem people have with you is your neuroses, but playing the persecuted tough girl seems to give you your jollies so keep thinking that's the case, even if its not. I consider you an avatar and some text, unless I meet you IRL you don't take on any gender in my mind, I don't treat you differently because of that. I don't care if you leave or not, but I do care about the way you have been treating people on the site.

Anyway, and more importantly
Despite any of the bitching of the last few weeks I don't think any of that stuff is "The problem with PD".
As others have said, it is an overall lack of focus and sense of involvement (trolling forums, some of the dumb games we used to play in apple talk and the like) that seems to have dampened over the last year. Its no one specific thing that has caused this but as roger said, the fun seems to have gone with it.

I think eventually one side or the other is going to have to just walk away from this argument.

I mean, when everyone has had their fill of hate, bad feelings, and saying things they can never take back.

[East Coast Hustle]

Anyway, and more importantly
Despite any of the bitching of the last few weeks I don't think any of that stuff is "The problem with PD".
As others have said, it is an overall lack of focus and sense of involvement (trolling forums, some of the dumb games we used to play in apple talk and the like) that seems to have dampened over the last year. Its no one specific thing that has caused this but as roger said, the fun seems to have gone with it.

I disagree strongly. I really think that the recent (in the last year or so) tendency for people to post from a self-centered standpoint rather than tying their personal experiences into a broader picture is a BIG problem. This is not the place for ego-based posturing, and we're all guilty to some degree but there's a split between the people that have recently fallen into that mode because it's become the dominant framework for communication here and the people that never progressed beyond it in the first place.

[Doktor Howl]

Anyway, and more importantly
Despite any of the bitching of the last few weeks I don't think any of that stuff is "The problem with PD".
As others have said, it is an overall lack of focus and sense of involvement (trolling forums, some of the dumb games we used to play in apple talk and the like) that seems to have dampened over the last year. Its no one specific thing that has caused this but as roger said, the fun seems to have gone with it.

I disagree strongly. I really think that the recent (in the last year or so) tendency for people to post from a self-centered standpoint rather than tying their personal experiences into a broader picture is a BIG problem. This is not the place for ego-based posturing, and we're all guilty to some degree but there's a split between the people that have recently fallen into that mode because it's become the dominant framework for communication here and the people that never progressed beyond it in the first place.

Yeah, there's been some serious backsliding since October or so.  And THAT, my friends, is the road to perdition. 

[Dimocritus]

Anyway, and more importantly
Despite any of the bitching of the last few weeks I don't think any of that stuff is "The problem with PD".
As others have said, it is an overall lack of focus and sense of involvement (trolling forums, some of the dumb games we used to play in apple talk and the like) that seems to have dampened over the last year. Its no one specific thing that has caused this but as roger said, the fun seems to have gone with it.

I LIKE INVOLVEMENT. BUT I IS NOOB. I IS WANTING ACTIVITIES. I IS NO TROLL. I IS IRL. I NO KNOW HOW TO BE MAKING ACTIVITIES BECAUSE I AM NOOB. I TRY, BUT I NO KNOW HOW YET. SOMEONE PLEASE TO BE MAKING OF THE ACTIVITIES FOR THE IRL TYPE. NEED ACTIVITIES. WHEN NOT NOOB, I MAKE ACTIVITIES.

[East Coast Hustle]

As an aside, Nigel is my friend IRL as well as on PD, and she's a pretty fucking awesome person. If someone has a problem with her (or anyone else) that doesn't have anything to fucking do with the thread or topic at hand, it's extremely disrespectful to make that problem public and try to get uninvolved posters to take sides. The next person that jacks my thread to talk totally unrelated shit about Nigel is gonna get smacked in the fucking mouth if I ever see them IRL.

Grow the fuck up.

ETA: that's not just directed at you, Faust, although it disappoints me more coming from you than anyone else. but I've seen it a couple of other times in the last couple days from a couple other people.