The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Cadence]

So, if you had the power to remove the <some number under 12> people who most annoy you on an RPG messageboard, would others fill the void? Would they do so by actually becoming more annoying? Would you just notice them more? Or would you just be mentally recalibrating to still have <some number under 12> of really annoying people around?

 

[darjr]

You’re WRONG!

Or are you?

 

[Cadence]

You’re WRONG!

Or are you?

I was trying to think of a song or remark with "bad faith" in it. Now I have parts of "Bad Medicine" from Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" album playing in my head.

 

[Bolares]

You’re WRONG!

Or are you?

Clearly I am. One could say I had a nuanced opinion that can't be sumarized in "they are scamming us" or "they did everything they could to make this situation as clear as possible", but then, that person would be wrong too!

 

[Deset Gled]

So, if you had the power to remove the <some number under 12> people who most annoy you on an RPG messageboard, would others fill the void? Would they do so by actually becoming more annoying? Would you just notice them more? Or would you just be mentally recalibrating to still have <some number under 12> of really annoying people around?

There are different types of annoying. They rotate. Sometimes similar types cluster together, other times they eat their siblings like hamsters. The net total of annoying-ness (measured in units of karens) remains generally the same, but your personal tolerance for different types will affect your overall experience.

 

[CleverNickName]

So, if you had the power to remove the <some number under 12> people who most annoy you on an RPG messageboard, would others fill the void? Would they do so by actually becoming more annoying? Would you just notice them more? Or would you just be mentally recalibrating to still have <some number under 12> of really annoying people around?

The way I see it? If I'm cantankerous enough to crave the power to "remove" people who "annoy me," I'm not going to stop at a dozen.

It's not that more people will "fill the void," it's just that my tolerance for annoyance has already eroded significantly by the time I even get to that point, and it would only diminish further if I didn't have a reason to develop it. Soon, everyone and everything would annoy me.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

So, if you had the power to remove the <some number under 12> people who most annoy you on an RPG messageboard, would others fill the void? Would they do so by actually becoming more annoying? Would you just notice them more? Or would you just be mentally recalibrating to still have <some number under 12> of really annoying people around?

1. Contempt is the soul of annoyance.

2. Nothing breeds contempt like familiarity.

3. I am most familiar with myself.

4. Therefore, the person who most annoys me on this messageboard is ... me.

5. So if I had the power to remove myself, would I then come back ... but even more annoying?


Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to engage in the same conversations over and over again until they realize they have taken the opposite position from the one they had last year.

 

[Bolares]

So if I had the power to remove myself, would I then come back ... but even more annoying?

Yes you would

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I was trying to think of a song or remark with "bad faith" in it. Now I have parts of "Bad Medicine" from Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" album playing in my head.

My posts are like bad faith comments
Bad faith comments are my favorite screed
Oh, oh, oh, trolling the board with my bad faith comments
There ain't no moderator warning that I will ever heed

I ain't got a good point, but I'm still hitting these keys
Even the people that agree with me are the enemy
I got lots of good thoughts, but that isn't what I need
Because I gotta use the internet to get this bile out of me
And I'm usin' all the fallacies, count 'em one, two, three

First you hominem (That's when you take it to the man)
Then you haculum (You give a little fear and it's never enough)
And then you're ready to condemn
(That's what they get for calling you out)
Now I'm addicted 'cause someone replied to my comment

Oh, oh, oh, my posts are like bad faith comments
Bad faith comments are my favorite screed
Oh, oh, oh, trolling the board with my bad faith comments
There ain't no moderator warning that I will ever heed
Bad, bad faith comments.



You're welcome!

 

[Gradine]

I live on, and have barely ever left, the West Coast of the U.S, so I have no cultural pride horse in the race. But I've had multiple iterations of what are purported to be both Chicago style pizza and New York style pizza, and of the two one is the clearly superior meal experience and the other is a massive, unwieldy piece of incredibly thin cardboard that appears to be ashamed of having to have a crust at all.