How to Engage in Proper Discourse

Communication and the way people relay information evolves. In the last 20 years ive seen it evolve radically with the rise of PCs, texting, and things such as twitter. Its simply easier to respond with a gif, meme, or video that says what you are thinking rather than typing up a long drab paragraph. Some call it lazy. I call it efficient. Besides forums are usually made up of words but at times i feel i can better express myself by using a picture or something more than words. And sometimes i just like to change it up and throw in a picture. Really as long as you understand what someone is trying to say and they arent breaking any rules of the forum what is the issue?

 

Bingo.

Also,

 

He's just ranting because I said I disliked his Batman reboot concept and said no to his Mary Jane suggestion, despite me not being the only one not liking them.

 

The internet has just given us carte blanche to become more smug than normal, that's all. I'm guilty of it, as we all are. But we'd never dare be this smug in real life unless we were sure we could beat the ass of the person we were being smug to.

 

I'm more concerned with people's inability to differentiate between the use of "your" and "you're".

 

Add to that people mistaking "weary" for "wary" and their tendency to say "have/had went" instead of "have/had gone".

 

I think Marvolo called it. If your response to a subject/poster can be a achieved in a one picture -- if it has everything you desire to say -- why not just use it?

So, in essence:

 

Those grocery store signs that read, "10 items or less" instead of "10 items or fewer" get to you, don't they?

 

Didn't read my post yet has to respond to it.

If we're gonna call a spade a spade, fine here goes.
Batman Reboot thread

(this is apparently condescension)

Mary Jane Watson casting thread

(this is apparently condescension)

I'd say A-M was pretty condescending, wouldn't you?
Which makes this thread pretty hypocritical don't ya think?

 

Smartass behavior doesnt bother me online because rarely does a smiley or emoticon indicate what a person is actually doing. I mean do people really ROFL or LMAO? No 99% of the time they are just setting there straightfaced or just chuckle. Its the same with the rolley eye emoticons and smartass emoticons. Its just an emoticon. Not worth my agravation.

 

I honestly don't understand why anyone would ever even WANT to use the ignore list. If someone is annoying me that much, you bet your damn ass I want to know what they're saying about me. #vanity

 

My ignore list is pretty much just full of homophobes and posters who like to attack me for no reason.

Other than that, I don't really use the ignore list.

 

Lol im too paranoid to put someone on the ignore list. What if they post some amazing news or something crazy and i miss it.

 

Dude, you're absolutely right. I've been thinking the same thing but I have to tell you...

 

Heh, I didn't even know that was grammatically incorrect. Guess I need to turn in my grammar nazi card.

I've put one person on ignore, and that's only because he posted about a million times a day saying basically the same thing over and over. I just couldn't take it anymore.

 

Sometimes Picard needs a break... sometimes you need a little:

 

Not to play the Devil's Advocate for Asteroid-Man, but you didn't exactly provide any constructive criticism regarding his suggestion on the matter either. You just posted a one-sentence reply to his post and left it at that, which kind of gives the impression of knowing better than him (which is pretty much what being condescending is). So, it did kind of seem like you were acting condescending toward his comment.

It also doesn't help that you occasionally posting negative comments in threads you don't even really like that much to begin with (i.e.-- the "lolpics" thread) makes you kind of come across as somewhat of a curmudgeon.

Not judging you, I'm just saying.

Not to say that A-M's response to the current situation is any better.

 

I honestly don't see how. Only time I see this attitude from posters is when I disagree with them. If I posted the same kind of one-sentence response in a positive manner to their suggestions, they could care less; he's not the only one these past couple of days, he's just the one today.

It's only if I say no or disagree with a suggestion of theirs they go into a tantrum that I supposedly hate everyone else's suggestions(which if you checked a couple of posts prior to the ones quotes in the MJ thread, I even gave 5 examples.

Spoiler

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=24183879&postcount=128

No more of a curmudgeon than the countless MLP-haters. Besides, I haven't said anything negative in the lolpics at all.

Not gonna lie, sounding kinda judgmental.

Not to say that A-M's response to the current situation is any better.[/QUOTE]

 

You take off a glove slowly, finger by finger, and then slap them with it.

 

Yeah, I personally don't see the point in the ignore list, because it doesn't truly work. The thing that I hate is when you have someone on that ignore, you don't see their initial post, but if someone quotes said person, then you still see the post. Granted I don't have to read the quoted post, but it's kind of hard not to sometimes.

 

If you watch the Big Bang Theory...you don't deserve proper discourse.

 

I think it's just because people tend to think you come across as negative a lot of the time, which tends to color their opinions of you and your attitude toward certain things. I'm not saying that's how you are, just that it's how people seem to think you act. It's all about perception.

I didn't see that post. I apologize.

I'm talking about the few times you've ventured into that thread posting about how pretty much the majority that thread isn't funny, and then leaving the thread, which comes across as kind of rude. I don't think you were intentionally trying to be; it just reads that way.

Apologies, I didn't mean to pass judgment. It's just kind of hard to offer constructive criticism over the web without the other poster being able to know what tone I'm delivering it in. Tone can make a big difference in how the other person interprets your post.

Anyways, I'd say this was a very great lesson in how to engage in proper discourse. t: