What gets your Goat on the forums?

[wilomn]

I always find myself PMing those newbies who received very rude comments as soon as they joined and telling them this is a great site and I have no idea why so and so found it necessary to make such and such comment. *sigh*

Interesting.

Rather hubric of you and somewhat unappreciated by me.

Heh.

By the way it's hubris or hubristic in that case

And it's not so much self pride as it is pride for this website. Like I said there is no need for self proclaimed experts to be rude to newbies because they don't have time to answer such a petty question. This site was created for newbies and if you scroll to the top of every page it says, and I quote "the friendliest online community for all your herping needs". If we're rude to someone right off the bat we're going to lose members. This site has a lot to offer and I'd hate for someone to leave when they need advice just because someone took the time to be rude.

I often make up words that suit my needs.

I must have missed the election that put you in your position of Politeness Enforcer.

I will kindly ask that should you think I have been rude to someone, you keep you butt out of my business. I almost always have reasons for what I do and I have no intention of explaining them to those, like yourself, who do not approve of them.

When one of the Red or Green names has an opinion, I will do my best to acquiesce, but short of that, I do take offense at people going behind my back to alter what I have written/said.

Do it in public if you want to disagree with me, or anyone for that matter.

Sneaky people are not to be trusted.

People who pm other people about yet other people, but don't let the people they're pm'ing about know, are sneaky.

There is a great difference between bashing a newb for asking a question and giving a dingleberry a ration for being stupid.

I suspect that most try pretty hard to distinguish the newbs from the berries.

It is good that I am not the rod to measure by. On occasion I fall far short of what I expect from myself.

I've been pondering this the last couple of days.

I made an ASS umption, thereby making an ass of myself even though I still ASS ume I was correct. This aside, it's no business of mine what anyone does in PMs. I may not like it. Life is tough.

Sorry Isis, I didn't mean to ram a battleship up your butt. Especially for something you may not have even done and, dopey me, had you, was none of my business anyway.

I don't like sneaky people but you just try to make nice for folks. That's a nice thing, a good thing, a thing that makes this site as good as it is. Keep it up.

However, I honestly do almost always have a reason for my posts, should any of them have ever been the initiator of your PMs. Just so you know, I'm not just mean to be mean nor rude to be rude. Usually. And, when I am, there is usually a goal I am looking for.

Heck, in all honesty, some of the posts I make are so people WILL talk, not about me, but about whatever I posted on, while not online. That, however, is neither here nor there.

I was unnecessarily rude and wanted to make it right.

Sorry Isis.

Carry on as you see fit.