Quite pissed off

Take Groucho's path: "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

Here's the thing: Unless you are the owner, forums are always someone else's private property. 

Here's the other thing: communication is hard enough when it's face-to-face. Take the face away and go to voice only (like a phone call), and you lose a whole lot of visual cues that we depend on. Take the voice away and go to written word only, like forums or text messaging, and you lose tone of voice and other context. Now it's even harder to interpret each other's true meanings and intentions.

Don't let this be a big deal. You're, what, fifteen? You are going to spend the next several decades learning how to day exactly what you want to say in a manner that works for other people. More importantly, you're going to spend that time learning how to listen to other people and figure out exactly what they are trying to say.

I'm 48 and have been with my wife for twenty years, and we still misunderstand each other. It happens. Time had given us the advantage of patience and diplomacy. Both take time to develop, and both will serve you well.

You're very young. If you're going to get kicked off a forum, now is the time. Wash your hands of it, move on, and enjoy the rest of your life!

I missed the original post--what happened?

One day people on GRM will learn the ways of the posterity quote.

Delete this thread please or at least lock it

Tom Suddard said:

I missed the original post--what happened?

I did, as well. But that's ok... Dark M covered thinks quite well. I imagine there would not be much to ad, even if we know the rest

D. M. : very well said!

ProDarwin said:

One day people on GRM will learn the ways of the posterity quote.

I sincerely hope not!

SpeedwayFan evidently got the boot from Opposite-lock for some sort of spat with another user and is frustrated that they're not letting him back after apologizing. 

Tom, I'm sure you have seen a few instances where people got a little out of hand and had to be forcibly removed. I'd assume that it gets resolved none times out of ten, given the maturity of this group, but it happens. It is the nature of the internet. 

I've acted as moderator on a few forums and had to show people the door when it became obvious that their real interest was in stirring the poop rather than being a member of the community.  No big deal - they went away, and we kept on going.

In reply to DarkMonohue :

Get this one of the mods on there made a fake image to lie about him responding to my emails and I sent him a screenshot of my inbox just to prove he was lying

ProDarwin said:

One day people on GRM will learn the ways of the posterity quote.

Normally I do, but this time I failed. Must be getting careless in my old age!

In reply to DarkMonohue :

Naturally the mod stopped responding after I proved he was lying

In reply to SpeedwayFan :

Hard truth: You're not important enough for anyone here to expend the energy for anyone here to try to frame you for anything.

In reply to Beer Baron :

It's not here it's on a forum called opposite-lock 

Even funnier they said there's no trackers on there website 

Man this thread title got me going, the content let me unsatisfied. 

SpeedwayFan said:

In reply to Beer Baron :

It's not here it's on a forum called opposite-lock 

Even funnier they said there's no trackers on there website 

Are you surprised? Do you also think turning off the GPS on your smart phone means it isn't tracking you? Or that the mic isn't constantly listening regardless of what you tell each particular app?

SpeedwayFan said:

Get this one of the mods on there made a fake image to lie about him responding to my emails and I sent him a screenshot of my inbox just to prove he was lying

Then that's a forum you don't need to be a part of.

Story time. Several years ago I lost my job and returned to school. They made me take a class on business communication, which I thought was a huge waste of time, as I was in my forties and had plenty of experience relative to the teens and twentysomething that the class was aimed at. But the class was required, so I took it, and I learned two things:

1) Leave the "to" address fields blank when compiling an email. This ensures that you don't fire off a message before you know you are saying what you want to say, how you want to say it. Only then is it ready to send. The same philosophy can be applied to forums and almost any other method of communication. Be polite, be respectful, speak deliberately.

2) Emotional maturity is one of the last types of maturity we develop, and one of the most difficult to practice. It is the difference between ignoring an insult you don't deserve and throwing a tantrum when you can't have ice cream. I embarrassed myself mightily by protesting against having to take the class and, in doing so, displayed a considerable lack of emotional maturity. Lesson learned.

Measure twice, cut once.

I also know of a forum member here who has been thrown out of multiple forums for being an insufferable, irredeemable shiny happy person. I'm assuming he has changed his ways enough to stick around here.

My point is that, even if you get kicked off a forum, you can still learn from your experience and have a good time somewhere else. 

Que es "Posterity quote"?

914Driver said:

Que es "Posterity quote"?

Now even if you delete or edit what you said, it is quoted for posterity!

914Driver said:

Que es "Posterity quote"?

It's this. Saving the previous poster's contribution as a reference so as to retain context and continuity.

In for the butt hurt and before the lock.

We are playing in someone else's yard. Get over yourself.

What a garbage thread. Quite atypical of this site.

Geez I regret posting this I wish it would get locked already

Complaining about an ex to a current rarely goes well...