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Post by rayge on May 17, 2019 13:47:25 GMT
I understand, and indeed heartily endorse, the idea that voting in the cups is about stylish vituperation and kvetching as it is being positive about the picks, but I would rather we kept the slagging to the tracks chosen, rather than referring to the pickers as 'cunts', a 'disgrace', and so on.
Not a stricture, just a wish.
And actually the same could be said about threads in other places, except of course where there is a mutually agreed level of acceptable ad hominen stuff among 'friends'.
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Post by bungo the mungo on May 17, 2019 13:59:22 GMT
i seem to be offending a lot of posters this week. please don't take it personally. it's just BANTER!  |
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Post by Crunchy Col on May 17, 2019 14:08:47 GMT
We don't know who the 'man' is! Outside of the Cup, yeah, directed abuse is a bit much sometimes. But general expressions of frustration/disappointment/annoyance here, however harsh, shouldn't really land too hard. Just my opinion.  |
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Post by rayge on May 17, 2019 14:10:34 GMT
i seem to be offending a lot of posters this week. please don't take it personally. it's just BANTER! It isn't only you skope, not by a long chalk, and my point is that, when you don't actually know who you are talking to/about, it can come across as a personal insult whether you seriously meant it or not. We're not all pachyderms, tha' knows |
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Post by bungo the mungo on May 17, 2019 14:16:10 GMT
i seem to be offending a lot of posters this week. please don't take it personally. it's just BANTER! It isn't only you skope, not by a long chalk, and my point is that, when you don't actually know who you are talking to/about, it can come across as a personal insult whether you seriously meant it or not. We're not all pachyderms, tha' knows fair enough. i'm sorry. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 14:18:51 GMT
I've not noticed all that much abuse, although the horrendous reception my picks are continuing to get is of course a Preludin scandal.  Personally I would rather read and indeed receive a harsh comment than read simply 'A' or 'B'. Being purposefully boring or bland on a message forum is the worst crime of all. |
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Post by rayge on May 17, 2019 14:27:03 GMT
I've not noticed all that much abuse, although the horrendous reception my picks are continuing to get is of course a Preludin scandal. Personally I would rather read and indeed receive a harsh comment than read simply 'A' or 'B'. Being purposefully boring or bland on a message forum is the worst crime of all. wilful misunderstanding again, G ? it isn't the harshness of the comment - lord knows I rip most everything to shreds myself – but couching it in terms that suggest the picker chose it as an insult, a joke, or as sure proof that they are idiots, wankers, cunts, taste vacuums, unimaginative toe-rags, etc. When the board decided to make it an unrestricted cup, there were bound to be wild variations in perceived quality and genre clashes, but apart from those (few, I'm guessing, from what has been chosen) who actually sat and carried out what they thought was a vote-winning strategy, most people just put in stuff that they like, and the differences between us and the lack of taste consensus is what makes this place more alluring for most of us than over there. That, and the lack of twisted, rude, paranoid and most of all DEADLY DULL fuckpigs. |
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Post by rayge on May 17, 2019 14:28:57 GMT
And I manage to be neither bland nor boring, in fact being quite spectacularly dismissive and rude, without suggesting the picker needs new ears
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 14:33:42 GMT
I've not noticed all that much abuse, although the horrendous reception my picks are continuing to get is of course a Preludin scandal. Personally I would rather read and indeed receive a harsh comment than read simply 'A' or 'B'. Being purposefully boring or bland on a message forum is the worst crime of all. wilful misunderstanding again, G ? it isn't the harshness of the comment - lord knows I rip most everything to shreds myself – but couching it in terms that suggest the picker chose it as an insult, a joke, or as sure proof that they are idiots, wankers, cunts, taste vacuums, unimaginative toe-rags, etc. When the board decided to make it an unrestricted cup, there were bound to be wild variations in perceived quality and genre clashes, but apart from those (few, I'm guessing, from what has been chosen) who actually sat and carried out what they thought was a vote-winning strategy, most people just put in stuff that they like, and the differences between us and the lack of taste consensus is what makes this place more alluring for most of us than over there. That, and the lack of twisted, rude, paranoid and most of all DEADLY DULL fuckpigs.  Yeah fair enough Ray, I agree with your post. Personal abuse achieves nothing other than potentially upsetting someone. It's not needed. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 14:34:38 GMT
I've not noticed all that much abuse, although the horrendous reception my picks are continuing to get is of course a Preludin scandal. Personally I would rather read and indeed receive a harsh comment than read simply 'A' or 'B'. Being purposefully boring or bland on a message forum is the worst crime of all. wilful misunderstanding again, G ? it isn't the harshness of the comment - lord knows I rip most everything to shreds myself – but couching it in terms that suggest the picker chose it as an insult, a joke, or as sure proof that they are idiots, wankers, cunts, taste vacuums, unimaginative toe-rags, etc. When the board decided to make it an unrestricted cup, there were bound to be wild variations in perceived quality and genre clashes, but apart from those (few, I'm guessing, from what has been chosen) who actually sat and carried out what they thought was a vote-winning strategy, most people just put in stuff that they like, and the differences between us and the lack of taste consensus is what makes this place more alluring for most of us than over there. That, and the lack of twisted, rude, paranoid and most of all DEADLY DULL fuckpigs. No need to go ad porcum. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 14:37:35 GMT
Yeah fair enough Ray, I agree with your post. Personal abuse achieves nothing other than potentially upsetting someone. It's not needed. *cough* when it's between people who know each other can take it, it's one thing. When it's clearly out of order (not talking about anyone here) or it's to new people or people who don't post very much, it may possibly be taken as aggression to that individual and be a deterrent - particularly if we want more posters an that. *cough, moving on* |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 17:12:33 GMT
Hate the game, not the player, in other words.
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Post by Crunchy Col on May 17, 2019 17:22:46 GMT
All this on a day where left and right came together to talk about philosophy, too!
We're all in harmony here. Long live PRELUDIN
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 17:47:05 GMT
Hate the game, not the player, in other words. We prefer to use football metaphors here. You must try and fit in. |
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Post by lokie on May 17, 2019 19:53:20 GMT
You're kinda tying my hands here, Rayman.
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