Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[payn]

Well, I think the key is that if you just write so much, people will always find things to both agree with and disagree with!

...um, saying that for a friend.

I've run into this recently.

"Here are two concepts; what do they mean to you?"
"I dont know what they mean to me until I know what they mean for everybody!"

 

[overgeeked]

(Not related to anything above) Well, that's a really thoughtful post, but there are so many problems with your priors that I can't agree with you.

Alternately, heap as much praise as reasonable on that post in an effort to coax better behavior from posters. Positive reinforcement and all that.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Alternately, heaps as much praise as reasonable on that post in an effort to coax better behavior from posters. Positive reinforcement and all that.

...I've tried that. I will just say that, at best, it has mixed results. Still, better to engage positively and hope for the best!

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Mad_Jack]

Positive reinforcement and all that.

"Wow, you only suck 98% of the time!"

 

[prabe]

"Wow, you only suck 98% of the time!"

That's better than most Vegas odds ...

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"Wow, you only suck 98% of the time!"

That is a full 2% better than a Bard!

True fact- all Bards have learned the Kenny G "circular breathing" technique, which allows them to both suck and blow at the same time.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Broken clock is right twice a day?

Sometimes you get someone who is pretty much okay outside of The Topic, its just they spend so much time on The Topic that's most of what you see from them.

 

[Ryujin]

That's one of those things, like a floppy disk icon for saving things, that people will eventually start going, "WUT?" when you say.

"My broken clock is never right. I mean, when my iPhone is broke, it's just blank."

Then might I suggest...

... the Apocalypse-ready solution.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Sometimes you get someone who is pretty much okay outside of The Topic, its just they spend so much time on The Topic that's most of what you see from them.

Oh, I feel ya. The Topic? It sucks. And yet, They keep bringing up The Topic! It's like whatever you post, They read what you write, and then turn it into what they want to talk about, which is always The Topic!

I guess when all you have is a hammer, every comment looks like The Topic.

On the plus side, I did once write a post with the titled The DM Is Not a Player, and Hot Topic is Not Punk Rock, so I guess I deserve all The Topic calumny that comes my way. How was I to know the The Topic includes Hot Topic????