@MadaraUchiha
I’m in a good mood, let’s dig in a little shall we? As always, feel free to read, ignore or flag it, like the man said. I never handle my own flags, so no conflict of interest there.
You mention it is possible to change stacks without changing goals. How about changing goals without changing stacks? Is it within reason to deduce Saint assumed that a logical result of changing goals was to also change stacks and as such sticking to goals would result in less changing of stacks? If so, perhaps he jumped ahead and addressed the changing of stacks instead.
Or maybe he misinterpreted. He wasn’t the only one then, since you had to clarify your point to AjUK a few posts later as well.
Thirdly, Saint gets tagged a lot, he may have speed-read over your post and his mind filled in the blanks, replacing “goals” with “stacks”. It happens, sigh and roll your eyes if you feel like it, then let it go.
Alternatively to the above, what were you actually asking? You talked about frequent goal-switching, gave advice to JCast, then asked the moderators what they thought about your post. Does that mean you wanted a comment on the advice you gave? The way you delivered said advice? What were you expecting we would comment on exactly?
Finally, “literally NOTHING”? That’s quite definitive. Maybe you’re not giving your imagination enough credit, since I can think of many things which have SOMETHING to connect your post and Saint’s post. Be careful with such definitive statements, they close you off from a world of wonderful possibilities.
I think this was likely the cherry on top of a post with lots of capitalized words. This is probably what irked RVC (funny word, irked).
It’s never nice to be the recipient of statements like these. I’ve received (and sent) enough of them to know. And combined with the definitive from above it reads as very antagonistic. Maybe that’s your intent, maybe not. Either way, by now I really wish you’d realize the effect you’re having when you make such statements. People are stating that we’re overly forgiving of your frequently agitating posts, and maybe they are correct. Your posts often are too in-your-face confrontational enough that whatever you’re trying to say is lost to the reader.
Honestly, I’m at a loss on how to help you adapt to the forum. It’s like you get onto a busy highway and instead of changing your speed to match traffic, you intentionally slow down enough that everybody starts honking their horn and gets road-rage. But hey, it’s everybody else that’s speeding, right? You’re following the rules to the letter.
Which brings me to your replies to RVC’s post.
He won’t tell you what you were doing wrong because we’ve been telling you. Again and again. Your posts are, as stated above, often confrontational and “loud” (as in, it’s difficult to skip over them and makes people feel they need to be on the defensive even if the post isn’t even about them) which results in lots of frustrations with all parties involved. What you call a personal problem with you is him telling you how you were affecting the forum over and over. I guess he’s given up and now shortens the post to simply ask you to stop (and think).
He’s not trying to set you up so he can ban you. He doesn’t need to, by now there are enough complaints, flags and ignores against you that even the forum software has sent us an automatic email stating we should look into you because you’re a disruptive influence.
Are you in obvious violation of the rules? I don’t think so, but you’re causing a disturbance in the Force. A 1001 forum users behave according to a certain etiquette, adapting to the collective attitude, but 1 user comes in and behaves radically different. At first, people accept it, patiently waiting for that user to find their place in the flow of things. Then, they start getting annoyed. Finally, they start a picket line, protesting the user’s presence. They’re voting the odd man out off the island.
To the forum, you’re the guy on the train talking very loudly on his cell phone in the quiet section. Nobody says anything until finally somebody loses their cool.
And referring to RVC as “this guy” isn’t gonna win any sympathy with Saint and Fire either.
I trust @Monarch understands what I’m trying to say. Humans are able to live in large societies because we adapt to the collective. It’s how we have survived from the day the first human fell out of a tree in Africa. Upset the collective and they were kicked out to survive on their own in a very unforgiving world. In the old days, that was a death sentence.
As much as we’d like to think of ourselves as being better than that, our society is still one large collective and the same unspoken rules still apply. Getting kicked out is no longer a death sentence, but that person would be forced to make a living on the fringes of society. Maybe that’s how they like it. If so, then why do they try so hard to stay part of the collective?
The user community here tends to be very open and I’ve seen discussions about political and religious views which didn’t explode and even heartfelt talks about sexuality. But although they allow a lot, they do expect people to at least communicate in a certain way. In that, the forum is self-moderating. If everybody wrote their posts like Madara it would have been me and RVC getting kicked out for being too soft. We’d have to change our communication or leave.
As far as RVC asking people to stop talking about JCast, you can take that one literally. People were actually talking about JCast as if he wasn’t even here. Talking about JCast in the third person in the thread JCast himself created. Let’s have a lengthy debate about all of JCast’s issues, shall we? Just ignore the fact he’s in the room, the grown ups are talking now.
You have advice for JCast, talk to him, not the guy next to you.
Some parts of this thread reminded me of my childhood and my biological mother telling me over and over just how worthless I was until I started believing it. That’s not helping.
Now how did we all manage to completely derail this thread?
kind of laughable honestly.