I has a similar experience with modding. I did not handle it well. But that was on me. Mods have a tough job. Most times, the best path is to turn the other cheek. Easier said then done, I know.
I wrote my post, not because you grate against me. You do, but that is better handled by not engaging. I chimed in because I think presented differently, you'd be a tremendous poster. Its not just me you grate against.. You often have issues with posters on here. From stories you have told, you've had issues offline as well, being bullied as a child. Bullying is wrong regardless, but the reason isn't that you are exceptional. It's that you won't stop trying to tell people.
I think you could be a genuine asset to the board. You are obviously intelligent. You don't have to tell us that for us to know it. But I also think you are insecure . I relate to the later. So I wanted to offer my unsolicited advice. Telling someone how great you are has the opposite of the intended effect. Show them instead. Take it for what it's worth, which is probably not much.
I wish you the best of luck.
We live in a world where on this board everyone is seemingly entitled to sound off on their assessment of my personality. I find this to be an ongoing, enragingly abusive situation. So, "who I am" is sanctioned here on this subforum as an Open Question.
If I am forced for this to be a question against my will, the reality that things I have done could not have been done by someone without integrity and intellectual honesty
, is a completely fair rebuttal to the Open Question.
So your problem is supposedly the
presentation of that rebuttal, and your problem is apparently important enough to post publicly. I am telling you it's a choice between 'don't brag' and take this abuse. "Bragging" was my sixth option, but I felt cornered into it, to give concrete examples that bigfoot things to a degree. And "it ain't bragging if you've done it" tips the scales even further on something that isn't a close call.
Recently you yourself started talking here about your brain and how it is so different, remember? Notice I had not entitled myself to attack you for that. And that non self entitlement was not random, it was purposeful. You do not offer me the same courtesy, you must speak on my personhood too. And the unmitigated gall of your substance is "ways P9 could be better."
It's against the rules but it is sanctioned, and I know it is sanctioned because I am constantly dealing with it and the same people do it and they will continue to do it. Yappi is an example, I asked him man to man three years ago to not do it but he couldn't, so I put him on ignore to prove which one of us was doing it to the other and he insulted away and nothing happened, it was sanctioned. Somehow though I am the bad guy in that, he is convinced. It's totally degenerate. You're on his side and joining in. It's all of a piece.
But since you are offering advice, I feel obligated to let you know there's some missing piece to your story. Look at my join date. The vast majority of those posts were way back before the likes system. I used to post like Brian. There are definitely posters who remember. It used to be totally in that style and with statistics and argument that anticipates all the counterarguments and answers them preemptively and so forth. There was a time when I was putting out an incredible volume of content like that.
So what happened. May I now remind you of when I returned to the board about three years ago and my main argument was that the Petro decision was a collapse decision and Krug was absolutely not part of any solution in any way. Who immediately got into it with me with full intensity about how this was wrong and I wasn't giving Krug enough credit? Brian. And then you did a third man in with poison, you were not even in the conversation. Both of you have come around on the substance since. Great, good for you thanks for catching up is how I feel about it.
So let me ask you, what kind of effect do you think it has on a person, over decades, when they come to give their sincere Blues opinion and be willing to hold out in a crucible situation when the entire community is against you, such as when nearly all of you wanted Ryan Miller that year, and some of you hated me so much for opposing it that you literally researched my photo and put it up as your avatar? I left the board before the Miller trade and later that summer I tried to kill myself but didn't. I was personally stuck for other reasons, but my disappointment in other people was and remains near total. People don't try. We deserve Extinction 6, bring it. But again, you have a suggestion for how I could be better.
So yeah, I could choose as you say to present crystalline opinions written eloquently but are you sitting here asking me to believe the collective You would treat me differently. But it's a lie. You would not. You your own self personally did not. So me not being that writer on Blues topics when I could be that writer is satisfying to me personally in the withholding. My best deserves to be withheld here. Instead I am writing a film noir book, it is about human corruption and inevitable doom.
