What happened to me?

[Amarok]

I must say i'm very sad at this shift . Of course you far from the first person to fall this way nor will be the last . At least i'll still have the fond memory of the Red Dwarf Theme

[Aegon]

There is an irony in complaining about the OP not reading responses.

I didn't read your whole post, Rob. No offense, but I'm not all that interested in this "deprogramming" stuff you're going on about. It's odd, it's vague, and it's certainly overdramatic. I'm sorry you've been hurting though, hope you get better. Since I know you must be reading these despite what you said.

[LastPoet]

Definately rob is facing trouble. And since he said he wouldn't be reading replies, his father was a hamster and her mother smelt like dingleberries.

[Succubus]

So . . . I don't understand why you should be here if you aren't reading responses. This isn't an echo chamber. Shitting and running isn't exactly encouraged.

Ayup.  Like the people who rage quit followed by sustained lurking.  He's doing it as I type this.

What a pussy.

Boru

If a forum member has set his profile to hide his online presence then I consider it rather bad form and a breach of etiquette for moderators to announce his login activity.

Rob has been a member for five years, has made 29,000 posts and has received 155 reps. And yet you are so eager to shit on him because he posted something you either didn't understand or you disagreed with.

Shame on both of you.

[Losty]

Um...what did Shell do?
She’s right, this is a discussion forum. If someone is just going to make threads and never read or respond to the comments, they don’t really belong here.

[vulcanlogician]

@robvalue

PLZ continue being a nonconformist weirdo. I'm a nonconformist weirdo, too, and I do not wish to be anything else. Don't ever stop being strange (unless it turns out that your strangeness is interpersonally destructive... which it doesn't appear to be).

In my observations, I've always found that "normalcy" is a FAR more interpersonally destructive a force than strangeness ever was.

The Nazis could not have commited half the atrocities they did without the consent of many, many conformists.

PS: I'm not saying that all conformists are Nazis or anything. (That's untrue.) All I'm saying is: the Nazis couldn't have "pulled off" the holocaust were it not for the support of numerous conformists who were fed a line of dogma about the Jews and accepted it without question.

This isn't to say that Rob's views are accurate. (Maybe they are. Maybe they aren't.) The key point here is: views that challenge the status quo, whether right or wrong, are infinitely more valuable than views that confirm social biases.



PS: Come debate ethics with me again!

[Cod]

I think you should come back and pretend like nothing happened. Post some memes and shit.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ayup.  Like the people who rage quit followed by sustained lurking.  He's doing it as I type this.

What a pussy.

Boru

If a forum member has set his profile to hide his online presence then I consider it rather bad form and a breach of etiquette for moderators to announce his login activity.

Rob has been a member for five years, has made 29,000 posts and has received 155 reps. And yet you are so eager to shit on him because he posted something you either didn't understand or you disagreed with.

Shame on both of you.

*weeping uncontrollably*  *beating breast and crying mea maxima culpa* *downloading how-to videos on self-flagellation* *searching Ebay for good deals on hair shirts*

Boru

[Shell B]

Ayup.  Like the people who rage quit followed by sustained lurking.  He's doing it as I type this.

What a pussy.

Boru

If a forum member has set his profile to hide his online presence then I consider it rather bad form and a breach of etiquette for moderators to announce his login activity.

Rob has been a member for five years, has made 29,000 posts and has received 155 reps. And yet you are so eager to shit on him because he posted something you either didn't understand or you disagreed with.

Shame on both of you.

Huh? I didn’t shit on him or out his login activity. I just pointed out that I am not cool with posters who post and then don’t engage. In fact, I’m pretty sure it violates our rules. We’ve definitely actioned that before. This isn’t anyone’s blog.

[Little lunch]

You post that fucking wall of text attempting to explain why you've gone completely doolally and tell us you aren't going to read any replies?

You're right - you really ARE a pussy.

Boru

Ah Boru, love your sense of humour but I'm not so fond of that black heart.