1. Me buying those cans of soup was a joke and I don't have any expectations that Dan will actually pay me any money when I win that bet. It was amusing and didn't actually cost me any money. This is obviously different to volunteering to send somebody 10 free bags.Matt Cross wrote:Care to suggest an alternative course of action that
a: hasn't been tried
b: would bring success at the task of reducing / eliminating the nuisance posts that Kyle makes
c: is less petty and childish and with a grander perspective?
He bothers me, and I want him gone. I've read your last post and I don't see where you're coming from.
I suppose anyone could play the "petty, childish, and small-perspective'd" card on anyone getting into an argument or series of arguments with someone who argues and conflicts in an unreasonable way on a hacky sack forum, but, in response I would have to play a 10-foot-tall "pot blatantly calling the kettle black" card.
You are the king of conflicts with unreasonable people (and maybe even king of the unreasonable people himself) and I don't see how you can overlook your own track record of conflict with certain members of this forum for long enough to criticize mine. You have argued way more fervently with many more reasonable and unreasonable people on this forum than I.
I want to send out some hacky sacks to rid myself of a forum member that I don't like. You went out and bought greater than your own height in canned soup in response to a forum argument. How do you have time to even worry about what I write while you're eating all that soup?
Do you think this is my first attempt at trying to reconcile this situation? Do you not see my offer as a less-than-desirable, late-in-the-game, tried-everything-else resort?
ug... I can't get over that pot-calling-the-kettle-black part of this... You calling me (or anyone) out for having less-than-ideal conflict resolution skills, or for engaging in less-than-ideal arguments, is laughable.
petty and childish? this from the "start an online account and write to me in the form of a letter to the editor of a newspaper of my choice, or I'll ignore you and disinclude you from my world record list" guy.
Any other useful and astute comments you'd like to make, you wonderful genius you? I don't know what we'd do around here without you to keep us in line and remind us of how flawed and less than jeremy-like we all are.
I'm upping my offer to 10 bags for you to never post here again, Jeremy. Kyle, you still only get 5.
I heard that Kester's got arguing with you down to a science - he calls you a c*nt until you submit. I'm gonna have to try that next time.
2. I'll accept your offer, once I've received 10 bags from you I'll never post on modified again.
3. As for an "alternative course of action" - hit the "ignore" button on one of Kyle's posts and don't click on topics that Kyle has started. I have 3 or 4 people on "ignore" and I don't even notice that they post.
4. You've misquoted my comment about sending letters to the newspaper. What I said was that if you had a criticism of the list and hadn't made any kind of contribution to the list (ie. posting records, offering to help etc.) then I'd only respond if you sent it as a letter to the editor of my newspaper. Again, like the soups, this was a joke, and I later made that clear.
While I agree that in both cases these could be seen as childish jokes, I still find the soups one amusing and it created much enjoyment at the time, and neither of them cost me any serious amount of time or effort. On the other hand while your offer is funny, it's funny because you're prepared to go to such an enormous effort. It's funny because you care so much about somebody like Kyle Hewitt, who would be best described as "irrelevant." It's funny that you're apparently prepared to spend 30 hours stitching (or however long it takes you to make a bag) so that I don't post any more (although I strongly doubt you'll follow through).
The reason I say you have a small perspective on life is because you're prepared to go to such a ridiculous amount of effort to get people you don't like to leave this forum. While I can only really speak for myself, I'm fairly sure Kyle doesn't put in any effort into this forum, and I barely do either.
Perhaps this is the reason I find your actions so difficult to understand - because I don't feel like I have anything invested here, while apparently it's very important to you. I post to have a break from studying or previously when I was procrastinating at work.
So I look forward to receiving my 10 free footbags in the mail. Obviously I expect them all to be an acceptable quality, rather than rushed or less than 32 panels. If I don't get them, I'll be able to laugh at your inability to keep your word, and if I do get them, I'll be able to laugh at how much you care about trivial issues, as well as the fact that I got 10 free footbags as a reward for annoying somebody on an internet forum.