Well, I said it, so I'll DU it

[GURUving]

I alerted the moderators to someone that I felt was making personal attacks in another thread, and said if that individual wasn't "name deleted" due to my belief that the posts were not only inflammatory, but threatening, I would leave. I don't believe it is right for someone to threaten others, and won't stay here if that is allowed.

I know I don't have many posts, but that doesn't make me ignorant.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Hang out.

Give the mods time. It takes a few.

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. Once you alert on em

the mods will watch em...I know...I was a mod once.

Jeez...me a mod...I know it sounds incredible.

[Kamika]

3. you need some skin here

I been personally attacked alot, dont think i ever reported it. Threatening to leave is pretty lame

[GURUving]

7. I wasn't threatened

my point is that someone else was, and nothing was done.

[Kamika]

9. well

Do you know if the one that got threatened reported it?

[Paragon]

11. Enlighten me, GURU

I "threatened" someone? When?

[GURUving]

12. A small sample

Maybe it IS a choice to be an asshole sometimes. Where you've obviously gone wrong (ah, perhaps "somewhere in your youth") is to respond to assholes by being an asshole yourself.

just a start.

[Paragon]

16. That was a response to this from SOteric:

"It most certainly is a person's choice to be an asshole. And you need to take a long look at that, too."

Guess you missed that part, huh? You also quoted me out of context. Nice job, rookie.

[GURUving]

17. I don't miss anything

I'm an alpha male who gets genuinely pissed with small minded people saying hurtful things to others when they need a helping hand.

Do you know what an alpha male is?

[Paragon]

20. Oh, Lord...

Thanks for the laugh, Alpha. :D

[Kamika]

25. yeah

Do you know what a alpha male is?? well do you? huh?? huh?? do you? huh??

[GURUving]

18. Rookie?

How slow some peoples minds work. And in such sludge they must wallow?

I digress.

No response necessary. You have shown yourself for what and who you are. Not a Paragon of anything positive or hopeful? What is the paragon?

[Kamika]

23. this thread is so locked

I managed to start a mini flame though , go me

:grr:

[Terran]

28. Looks to me like you're both guilty of a PA

(personal attack). Of course, context is all-important, and we don't have that here.

But responding to an attack with another attack is just as much a rules violation as the original attack. Many people here don't seem to get that.

Dirk (former moderator)

[GURUving]

29. I haven't attacked.

maybe you missed that part?

[Paragon]

31. Again, selective memory

"I am way beyond you, mentally, chronologically, and especially emotionally.

Write as many posts as you want. It doesn't mean you have a functioning brain."

[Terran]

40. Uh, yeah

if that's a quote, that is certainly a PA.

You all should reall stop arguing about it and let the mods handle this. Some will get to it soon enough trust me.

Dirk

[Kamika]

32. I think you have

No offence but you have attacked him indirectly. Don't feel bad though, so has he.

[GURUving]

36. I don't believe my responses are on the same level, but

I shouldn't have gotten emotional and responded at all. It only caused a word storm.

Paragon - you're not ever going to be my friend, but I am willing to close my eyes and listen. You have a viewpoint I vehemently disagree with, but that's the way it goes.

Peace?

[Paragon]

41. Sure.

My argument was never with you, anyway.

[GURUving]

42. That's a good thing

Let's all take a deep breath and say "Shubu to the hubu, quantana."

Better now

[Terran]

34. Sorry, I didn't mean you

I meant SOTeric and Paragon (just based on what I'm seeing here).

I was returning to edit that for clarity but you beat me to it.

Dirk

[GURUving]

14. Sound familiar?

"Now you're attacking me, I see. I hope *I* don't die tomorrow -- we'd all have to read another eulogy that's really about you."

With the attack mode in process, how would one take that?

[Paragon]

19. *sigh*

My point being, her post about the suicide of an acquaintance wasn't about the guy who died, but rather selfishly about her and how her work life was SO hard. :eyes:

That's a criticism on her narcissism, not a "threat". Are you in need of reading glasses? Dyslexic?

[Don_G]

4. You're Absolutely Right

But please give the Mods time to reply. They're volunteers and do what they can when they can.

[WilliamPitt]

5. Easy does it

It's Sunday evening and the mods are unpaid volunteers. They'll get there.

[Loyal]

6. It's Sunday evening,

and the Cubs/Sox game is one day away, too. :P

[WilliamPitt]

8. One day away?

The Sox have another game against Oakland, and if they win that, they have to take four from the Yankees. We gots a ways to go before Chicago.

106 miles...dark...wearing sunglasses...hit it. :)

[HEyHEY]

10. um

Isn't there a half a pack of smokes in that qoute too?

[Loyal]

13. Man, Will,

I am so tired I don't even know what the hell I am typing. My bad. I keep posting these asinine replies to baseball threads and I'm constantly saying A's instead of Cubs and Cubs instead of A's, and Sox instead of A's. :P See my twins vs yankees thread in Lounge for clarification about EVERYTHING. :D

[VelmaD]

24. Hee...

don't forget though...full tank of gas...half a pack of cigarettes (and you call yourself a nicotine addict...for shame) ;-)

Love that flick. :-)

[greatauntoftriplets]

43. Prepare yourselves!

Cubs leading Braves 4 - 0 in the 6th.

[SOteric]

15. Please don't.

This place needs all the compassionate, reasonable people it can get and hold onto.

[caledesi]

21. Listen to So. Hang in there.

[SiobhanClancy]

22. I wish people would stop saying they're leaving

It's making me depressed!

:cry:

[GURUving]

27. I'm only leaving if what I personally feel, based on the rules of this

board, are not followed.

I have great respect for many, if not most of the posters on this board. I can't believe how others impart the same importance to events that i do.

This is not a sorry, I don't belong here any more response. I just feel that if the rules are followed, I and others shouldn't have to put up with the shit that was happening earlier.

[rasputin1952]

35. There are times...

when many of us feel like a load has been dumped on us, so don't feel alone.

Generally, a thick skin is necessary, and sometimes, unless the flame is overtly threatening, most of us generally accept that some are more vociferous than others.

In any case....rolling a situation from one thread into another, is not really a good idea. Read the rules.

And occasionally, just ignore the thread if you find it offending.

[Swede]

26. Stick around please.

There are jerks here yeah. But most DUers are pretty cool.

[Skittles]

30. WAS IT ME GUR???

I PROBABLY DESERVE IT. :(

[Paragon]

33. It was me.

Don't defend dead people on DU - it'll get you in trouble. :silly:

[GURUving]

37. GUR!!!!

uh huh

uh

[SOteric]

38. Whatever you have to tell yourself, dude.

You were 'defending' a complete stranger, whom, for all you know was the world's biggest jerk, against a complete stranger, whom you trashed without bothering to learn the least detail about as a preamble.

I don't see the virtue in that.

[Paragon]

39. Forgive me...

What was the "virtue" in your post?

It's fine if you want to complain about a boorish or incompetent or stupid co-worker. We've all done that.

But to use the guy's suicide as the exclamation point...I don't see the virtue in that. At all.

[Stupdworld]

44. hard skin

man you have to have hard skin to post on here. i lurked for some time before i signed up, and even on what i thought were innocuous threads i saw people insulted to no end. its a raucous bunch here indeed, and you need to be a little hardened. but threatening posts i agree are not cool at all.

[Rowdyboy]

45. Damn

Glad I missed this one...Sounds like it was hot and nasty