How would you feel if someone used your name in the subject line of a thread that not only had nothing to do with you, but expressed a sentiment you may not even agree with?
I'm not trying to pick a fight (honest), I'm just curious, because it seems to happen to me a lot on this Bored (not that I mind, really, but still, it's a bit annoying...), and I was just wondering what your reaction to some other person here doing that would be given what you generally chastise me for.
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Re: Hey ghost!
I don't know about Ghost, but something like that would really tick me off.littlebeast13 wrote:How would you feel if someone used your name in the subject line of a thread that not only had nothing to do with you, but expressed a sentiment you may not even agree with?
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I don't like mean, snarky remarks being made about me in threads in which I have not participated. I don't like 'em in threads in which I have participated, either, but I can expect them there sometimes, from some sources. So if I participate, I should expect to get "whatever". When its snuck in to a thread about baseball statistics or football picks or something else I'd never read unless I was bored enough, let alone post to, it really ticks me off. As you know, lb; that's why you do it.
This question is about a topic different from what you do to me.
You have publicized that you work at Walmart. People have brought up the recent shooting of his Mom by a 2-year-old at a Walmart in Idaho. Not your Walmart, which is nowhere near Idaho. I dunno if you're really in favor of people giving their 2-year-olds access to guns, as your comments seem to suggest, without saying, you could be, or if you're just upset that someone started a thread rhetorically wondering if you care about it because it happenned in a sibling Walmart store. Which is definitely what you say you're upset about. You've definitely been in political discussions before, so I don't feel you're warranted being upset at being dragged into a discussion just because its political. What we're discussing here is the actual topic, & you being dragged in on what to you may be the wrong side.
In a circuitous way (could I do it in any other; yeah, but I don't have the time & computer access to boil it down now, & with the impending yucky weather might not for a couple more days) this puts you in a position I can sympathize with. I can't sympathize with people who think the right to bear arms means the right to leave their gun-toting pocketbook unattended while their 2-year-old rummages through it (its really the 2-year-old who shouldn't be left unattended for even a second near anything dangerous, as they'll get into anything & go anywhere). But bringing you into it just because it happenned in a Walmart is not, I think, warranted. (As far as you've told us, you're not on the board that makes decisions about what Walmart allows.)
Now, if you had posted a lot of stuff about racks of guns being sold in your Walmart, or about your love of the supposed right to bear arms in public places, I could see someone justified in commenting on you, even in a header, in a thread you weren't in (yet). I could see someone doing that to anyone who holds those positions. And then the person mentioned would jump in & defend (&, doubtless, clarify) their positions. But I'm not aware that you've participated in the gun-control threads, at least not recently. The poster of the post with your name in the header implies, by the very post, that you have participated. So I guess I have to go back & check them for that?
If someone posted "they're expecting messy snow/rain in Boston tonight; I'll bet that ruins ghost's plans" & even put that in the header I wouldn't mind. But if they put me on a side I wasn't on in a political discussion, or just tried to pull me in because the juxtaposition of me & the topic was suitably sarcastic to them, I would mind. And find it not justified.
But not as much as I mind mean, nasty personal attacks. They go way beyond sarcasm.
Like I said, I am well aware I could boil this answer down, but I honestly am running short of computer-time access right now.
This question is about a topic different from what you do to me.
You have publicized that you work at Walmart. People have brought up the recent shooting of his Mom by a 2-year-old at a Walmart in Idaho. Not your Walmart, which is nowhere near Idaho. I dunno if you're really in favor of people giving their 2-year-olds access to guns, as your comments seem to suggest, without saying, you could be, or if you're just upset that someone started a thread rhetorically wondering if you care about it because it happenned in a sibling Walmart store. Which is definitely what you say you're upset about. You've definitely been in political discussions before, so I don't feel you're warranted being upset at being dragged into a discussion just because its political. What we're discussing here is the actual topic, & you being dragged in on what to you may be the wrong side.
In a circuitous way (could I do it in any other; yeah, but I don't have the time & computer access to boil it down now, & with the impending yucky weather might not for a couple more days) this puts you in a position I can sympathize with. I can't sympathize with people who think the right to bear arms means the right to leave their gun-toting pocketbook unattended while their 2-year-old rummages through it (its really the 2-year-old who shouldn't be left unattended for even a second near anything dangerous, as they'll get into anything & go anywhere). But bringing you into it just because it happenned in a Walmart is not, I think, warranted. (As far as you've told us, you're not on the board that makes decisions about what Walmart allows.)
Now, if you had posted a lot of stuff about racks of guns being sold in your Walmart, or about your love of the supposed right to bear arms in public places, I could see someone justified in commenting on you, even in a header, in a thread you weren't in (yet). I could see someone doing that to anyone who holds those positions. And then the person mentioned would jump in & defend (&, doubtless, clarify) their positions. But I'm not aware that you've participated in the gun-control threads, at least not recently. The poster of the post with your name in the header implies, by the very post, that you have participated. So I guess I have to go back & check them for that?
If someone posted "they're expecting messy snow/rain in Boston tonight; I'll bet that ruins ghost's plans" & even put that in the header I wouldn't mind. But if they put me on a side I wasn't on in a political discussion, or just tried to pull me in because the juxtaposition of me & the topic was suitably sarcastic to them, I would mind. And find it not justified.
But not as much as I mind mean, nasty personal attacks. They go way beyond sarcasm.
Like I said, I am well aware I could boil this answer down, but I honestly am running short of computer-time access right now.