The threads on this forum

cobra cat wrote:Why do you care about 'why' someone posted a question? Answer it or don't. The 'why' only matters if the question happens to be unusual, in which case asking why would make sense.

Some things that appear innocent are not what they seem like.

Long posts bore me and I usually skim them.

In general long texts are bad unless it's a story, novel or something like that. I often dump books after page 100 because a lot of stuff can be compressed to much less text.

Jadeite wrote:Here comes the 'us' again. Remember that this is a forum for loners.

Also you are talking about bygone days. Perhaps what you said would have been true in the days of Usenet and newsgroups. 'Other places on the net' now is a hideous consideration; here at least is the foundational principle of intelligence; when someone is met with a torrent of irrational emotion, he can be self-satisfied and fully defensible in the knowledge that he is where he belongs, despite what may try to corrupt it.

I'm not trying to use "us" as some sort of kumbaya communal sort of concept. I just mean, quite literally, "us," this specific group of people posting on this particular forum.

Are you saying that you feel a sense of belonging here? Wouldn't that imply some sense of community?

i wonder why nobody is defending lowercase letters, contractions, and colloquialisms. shall i soon be defending the oxford comma? no, probably not, because my post will be ignored. that's cool. s'all good.

Obumbrata wrote:i wonder why nobody is defending lowercase letters, contractions, and colloquialisms. shall i soon be defending the oxford comma? no, probably not, because my post will be ignored. that's cool. s'all good.

If someone is unwilling to respond to a reasonable post based only on the fact that the poster uses lower case letters in their username, you have to question whether they are even truly capable of an intelligent discussion. The obvious exception is if they have OCD.

Obumbrata wrote:i wonder why nobody is defending lowercase letters, contractions, and colloquialisms. shall i soon be defending the oxford comma? no, probably not, because my post will be ignored. that's cool. s'all good.

*Actually bothers to hit the shift key just for Jadeite*

I̶'̶m̶ I am confused about this whole contraction thing, too. Contractions have been a part of standard, proper English for centuries. What's the big problem with using them? And do you avoid contractions that are almost always used and sound odd when not used? For example, would you say "let us" instead of "let's", or say "Are you not bored with our forum?" instead of "Aren't you bored with our forum?" Do you talk like that - without using contractions - in real life?

And I still don't see why you have such a problem with all lowercase letters of colloquialisms. Isn't the most important thing about a post its content and main idea, and not whether they bothered to use proper grammar, slang, or that kind of thing?

Lone Wolf, name-calling? Seriously? There was one user doing that. He had enough common sense to erase his post after one day.

I think the last passage of Jadeites initial post contains an important question. If a country preaches peace but is constantly involved in warfare, not uncommonly in the position of the aggressor, it should anticipate critical questions.
If the country reacts aggressive again (for example: “you don´t have to live here.”, “These are retarded questions.”, ”Why are you still here?”) one of two possibilities arise:

1. The country really thinks it´s peaceful which would be self-deceit at it´s best.
2. The country is well aware of it´s actions and nothing but warfare was intended in the first place.

Someone poses a critical question and it´s almost instantaneously distorted to “why do you think you´re smarter than us?”; which by the way only can be posed if there are groupings.

Why isn’t diversity welcome here? If you were stupid, wouldn´t you want to know?

I totally get why diversity isn´t welcome in a clique; and most of you insist you´re not part of one. How this construct can withhold 15 seconds of thinking baffles description.

Dalloway wrote:Why isn’t diversity welcome here? If you were stupid, wouldn´t you want to know?

Arrogance. You two act like you are smarter and better than the rest of us. It isn't about diversity, it is about respect. I don't respect your opinions because you don't respect ours. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this.

Dalloway wrote:Lone Wolf, name-calling? Seriously? There was one user doing that. He had enough common sense to erase his post after one day.

1. That post was rude but can't be described as name-calling. The intention was to give a description of the impression a lot of people get of someone that choses to interpret everything according to text-book definitions. The use of the s-word was also wrong and in part due to my lack of linguistic skill. The correct English term seems to be "prig".
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prig
2. It was erased after 5 hours, not "one day".
3. If you want accuracy, keep things accurate.
   

Dalloway wrote:I think the last passage of Jadeites initial post contains an important question.

What was it? I already asked twice and got no straight answer.

Dalloway wrote:Lone Wolf, name-calling? Seriously? There was one user doing that. He had enough common sense to erase his post after one day.

I think the last passage of Jadeites initial post contains an important question. If a country preaches peace but is constantly involved in warfare, not uncommonly in the position of the aggressor, it should anticipate critical questions.
If the country reacts aggressive again (for example: “you don´t have to live here.”, “These are retarded questions.”, ”Why are you still here?”) one of two possibilities arise:

1. The country really thinks it´s peaceful which would be self-deceit at it´s best.
2. The country is well aware of it´s actions and nothing but warfare was intended in the first place.

Someone poses a critical question and it´s almost instantaneously distorted to “why do you think you´re smarter than us?”; which by the way only can be posed if there are groupings.

Why isn’t diversity welcome here? If you were stupid, wouldn´t you want to know?

I totally get why diversity isn´t welcome in a clique; and most of you insist you´re not part of one. How this construct can withhold 15 seconds of thinking baffles description.

When has our country preached peace? You cannot hold a person to claims that he never made.

Jadeite presumably entered this forum with the presumption that the users within it are all Vulcans. This has led him to pursue a line of questioning (e.g., "Why are you all so polite?" "Why are you all so unintelligent?") loaded with assumptions about his audience.

As far as I can tell, there is no sticky attached to this board which makes claims of schizoids being particularly intelligence, impolite, or misanthropic. In fact, there are many threads wherein these very claims have been discussed and, if not outright refuted, then at least debated.

The fact of the matter is that people with personality disorders are still human. To expect anything more is to set oneself up for disappointment.