Some of ya'll have a lot of time/patience

[salin]

to go back through pages and pages of threads to find all of those posted by a certain person and kick them (and kick everything else off the frontpage). It was annoying the other day, and act two (retaliation?) is just as annoying today.

Okay - so I am a wee bit grouchy today. Just offering a space for anyone else feeling a little grumpy/grouchy to be able to vent.

[Fleshdancer]

1. my guess is that they just bookmark the thread

at least this is what I hope they do because searching for it every time would be a pain in the butt. :shrug:

Why the grouchy feeling today? It's my b-day today so I can't be grouchy. :party:

[salin]

2. Happy Birthday, Gloria!

:party: Hope you are doing something fun to celebrate!

That would be a whole lot of bookmarks (when I logged on there were something like fifteen or more recently kicked up old threads...) sure would try my patience to dig for threads with such diligence, so perhaps you are right.

[Fleshdancer]

3. Thank you!

I'm trying really hard to not be grouchy. My husband is in Amsterdam on business (and I'm not!), my daughter has pink eye and my name was left off the "Happy Birthday Wishes to" lounge thread. :cry:

Friends are taking me out to dinner tonight though so that will be fun!

As for the kicked threads, we're in agreement. They drive me nuts. ;)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. NY compiles those threads from people

giving her their birthday info...so if she didn't know or if you didn't give it, I am sure the omission was unintentional...at any rate, have a great dinner tonight...sorry about the pink eye and the hubby....go celebrate your existance :D

[Fleshdancer]

9. I wondered how that worked

I certainly don't think it was intentional and I think it's extremely generous of NY to do what she does for DUers every day. I will definitely ho out and celebrate me tonight! lol :D

On the bright side, weekend birthdays are great when your bday is on April 15th...it's the only time your bday isn't also tax day. ;)

edit: spell check is my friend.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. LOL..so while people born on xmas get "this is your xmas and

bday gift" do you get "I'da got you something but I had to pay taxes?"

[Fleshdancer]

12. HA!

When I was little, my parents use to tell me that it was ok to have my birthday on tax day because I was tax deductible. It took me a while to figure out why my teachers would always laugh at my answer when the kids were asked about bdays. I always gave the disclaimer: "My birthday is on April 15th but that's ok because I'm tax deductible!" I was just so damn proud...had no idea that ALL kids were tax deductible. :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. that's a very cute story

[Call Me Wesley]

6. Happy Birthday!

:toast: I hope you're having a wonderful time with your friends! :hi:

[Fleshdancer]

10. Thank you so much

I'm blessed with wonderful friends so tonight will be fun. :hi:

[crispini]

4. You can sort by Author and find all of somebody's threads pretty easily.

Yeah, I find it annoying too.

[Droopy]

7. Every once in a great while

I will kick one of my old threads, but it won't be more than about 12 hours old. I do that to respond to people who have posted in one of my threads when I wasn't there.

I don't do that for my frivolous posts- just my "Stories from the Road" or other serious posts. Most of the time if I see someone who has posted in one of my threads when I wasn't there and think that they'd like a response I will just PM them.

[billyskank]

8. Yes I wish everybody would stop doing it

Everybody. :hi:

[Zomby Woof]

14. As usual

You are correct, and your grumpiness is not misplaced.

The junior high mentality took hold long ago and it seems irreversible.

[Sugar Smack]

15. No shit. I feel bad for billyskank.

I think someone owes him an apology instead of slapping up a narcissistic poll.

[Name removed]

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[LaurenG]

17. What? Tell me you are kidding?

I don't believe you said that. I thought you were a nice person?

[Zomby Woof]

24. Since when does not liking a popular DUer...

Means one is not nice? I can be nice and not like someone everyone else does. I did acknowledge I have a minority opinion. So all the righteous outrage at me is rather amusing.

[LaurenG]

27. Well I just thought you and I sort of thought on the same lines

I probably shouldn't have said that but... I do LOVE billyskank. I was just surprised at that comment.

[Zomby Woof]

30. I respect everyone's right to love whomever they want

I sure as hell don't go around thinking everyone should think or feel as I do. Love others, don't love others, it's a free forum. :-)

[Capn Sunshine]

68. Rock on, ZW, rock on.

:headbang:
I have observed the junior-highization of the lounge from afar , with a combination of annoyance and resignation.

Take a look at the posting numbers of DU some time.
Then there's that whole de-intellectualization taking place via the "GD" disdain.

It's inevitable, there are lots of people with lots of time on their hands. Quality is not a concept they understand.

Or Yaks, either.

[Name removed]

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[ghostsofgiants]

25. I guess not paying attention to what's actually going on is easier...

Than being nice. :shrug:

[GirlinContempt]

31. Oh, he's just speaking an unpopular opinion

thats why people are annoyed, not because saying things like that about another person in a public place is rude, inconsiderate and unnecessary. We're just following billys cult of personality. He's a rebel.

[salin]

59. funny how things morph

I started this just to talk about an annoyance with a new 'trend' of picking someone's threads to kick back to the front of the lounge until those threads are about all that is read. Didn't have anything to do with the personality of those whose posts were kicked - it was just an early after waking up, not having enough coffee, grumpy post.

Who knew how it might morph.

Then that is one of the interesting facets of the lounge :D

[GirlinContempt]

65. I didn't think you were making any kind of comment

about anyones personality. :)

[salin]

69. thanks - I was just being generally grumpy

:D

The only two times in the last week I had enough time to 'hang' in the lounge - were two times when these little kickups were going on. I wanted to catch up on what was going on with loungies, or answer silly polls... not being able to (due to the plethora of kicked up threads of a single poster - being kicked by folks other than the poster) just made me cranky :D

Wasn't about particular personalities. Just hoping the practice (kicking up gazilliios of another poster's threads) doesn't become a lounge fad. :D

[Zomby Woof]

33. I am nice

And I am honest. Those are not mutually exclusive, although you would think so judging by the hilarious replies I am getting. ;-)

[ghostsofgiants]

41. There's a difference between being honest and calling someone a spammer...

When you have a few threads yourself that could be considered spam. You don't like Billy's "Goodnight" threads? Fine. I wonder how many people couldn't put you on their ignore list fast enough with some of your useless threads. Just what makes a ZombyCoffee thread worth not ignoring you for, anyway?

[Zomby Woof]

47. Truth be told

I KNOW much of my Lounge shit IS useless. Including the coffee threads. I am quite healthy in that I do not tie in my self-image with how people respond to my threads at DU. If people want to think my Lounge threads are spam, I would hope they would tell me to my face as you just did. :-)

And in turn, there are MANY people here I WISH would put me on ignore. As fast as possible.

The sad irony is that too many of the people who should put me on ignore do not. There is nothing I can do about that, and I will live. :-)

[ghostsofgiants]

52. Well if you consider your lounge threads to be essentially spam...

Why are you moaning about Billy posting similar style threads?

[Zomby Woof]

53. I am not moaning

I stated it matter-of-factly... and I don't think posting spam is a high crime or misdemeanor. ;-)

Did you post that teapot because of the tempest this thread has created? :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

54. By moaning I meant complaining.

And the picture was a subtle way to call you a hypocrite for complaining about something you do yourself.

[Zomby Woof]

56. Oh I know why you posted it

And why. Subtle it was not.

But I thought I would mock it. ;-)

I was obliging salin by being grumpy. I do that for my friends.

[salin]

62. *heh* its ironic, in a way

the time I am away from the computer... I am not ignored ;-) *smooches*!!

[salin]

60. can you include

the free association threads in this vein? ;-) Just do those when there is time to kill and wanting some quick mental stimulation (ala thinking/responding mentally to other words). Don't mean to aggravate - and certainly don't dominate/crowd out the lounge in doing so... :D

[supernova]

18. He didn't do that Zomby

somebody else kicked up those threads just to be a pain in the butt.

[Zomby Woof]

26. I know he didn't kick them

But I thought I would add that to what salin said, because I never cared much for the original product either.

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. Well, it would be as if somebody kicked up all of your Zombycoffee

threads. billy is the unfortunate target of a thread kicker. He doesn't much ever post his own threads, except for "goodnight" and then a great thread of vacation pics.

Could you imagine if somebody (and if they do, I will keep them on ignore into infinity) kicked up all of Clintmax's good morning threads?

Hey, how are you and the lady you live with...what's her name again??? ;) :rofl: :hug:

[Zomby Woof]

42. If someone kicked all my coffee threads

I wouldn't care what anyone said about the kicker.

And I wouldn't care what anyone said about me either. It's just an internet forum, the last I checked. People take it WAY too seriously.

I don't see the Good Morning threads you refer to either, but I don't want to hijack this thread any further. ;-)

We're good! She is laughing at all of this along with me. It's a strange place, this Lounge. :-)

[salin]

61. heh.

Strange place indeed. I posted this in the am. HOURS later left the computer and there were maybe two posts on the thread. About to drop off the page - I assumed it died.

Come back eight hours later - suddenly a flame fest. Strange place this lounge, indeed.

For the record - I would find it annoying in someone kicked up old salin threads to fill the lounge - same principle - new messages/threads ought to have a chance to be aired. But maybe that is just me...

[Sugar Smack]

19. It wasn't him, though. He'd done a Goodnight thread every 4

days for a couple of weeks, and the same person (not him) kicked his threads. And kept kicking them til he got sick of it and asked them to quit it. And they didn't.

Hey, how's life anyway?:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

28. See my reply to supernova

I know he didn't kick his own threads.

But if the threads weren't created in the first place, there would be little for the kicker to do.

Besides, the spamming I am referring to isn't confined to the good night threads, it's ALL of them, day after day.

Anyone who has known me on DU for the years I have been on here knows I am not shy about sharing an unpopular view once in awhile.

Life is great, by the way. Nini and I have it good. :D :hi:

[salin]

63. that was annoying to watch

I am not here much - but in this past week happened to have a little time in the lounge on those two days... was commenting on the annoying effect of the little 'game' .... to where most new threads got kicked off the front page quickly because someone was playing a game on another poster - per the kick back old threads.

Didn't mean to start a fire storm.... It was in the morning before I had my coffee - and I was a tad bit grumpy to start with ;-)

[GirlinContempt]

21. If what billyskank does is spamming

then you need a can.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

29. He didn't spam...someone kicked his old threads

he's actually a very nice guy. We'd all look like we were spamming if people went several days back to kick all of our old threads. I like you, pal...but when you aren't correct, you aren't correct.

[Zomby Woof]

32. As I said to supernova and SugarSmack

I did not accuse him of kicking hs own threads.

I will repeat this in case a fourth or fifth poster weighs in...

I did not accuse him of kicking his own threads.

But he posts a lot of things every day that added up to clogging up the first few pages to the point where I couldn't look at it anymore, lol. This sentiment predates the recent episode salin alludes to by months.

I don't doubt he is the nicest guy in the world. But not everyone is for everyone's taste.

I just wanted t add my two cents on top of salin's. I sahred her view, and added mine. But I did not accuse him of kicking his own threads.

So I am not incorrect here... although it may not be proper to be amused by the shitstorm my opinion can engender.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

34. ok...we just disagree

I see the guy as participating thoughtfully and being as kind as a person can be..he has a right to start threads as we all do

[Zomby Woof]

35. I agree with you for the most part

I think everyone has the right to start threads of any kind, and as many times as they want.

I also think nice people can annoy the shit out of me, at least on here. I may feel differently if I knew him in real life, where we could get along famously for all I know. But as you know, I have always been a pain in the ass about these things. ;-)

But I would rather be honest and say it up front, rather than snipe behind one's back like a hypocrite. I can look at myself in the mirror each morning and be happy with who I am. :-)

[GirlinContempt]

37. Like those PMs you sent me trashing my friend and lying about him?

Behind his back?

[Zomby Woof]

40. Actually...

I said those same things to his face right here on the boards, and welcomed the hell I caught for it. I stand behind what I said too, then and now, publicly and privately. ;-)

It's not hypocritical when you do both, just when you omit the public part.

What really cracks me up is that you can't put me on ignore. Don't you owe yourself the peace of mind? :D

[GirlinContempt]

43. I have plenty of peace of mind with you right here

I'm one of those 'rather know than not' people.

And, here's what I'll do. I'll go back and convince myself one way or another, against the pm, if what you said to me is what you said to him. And then I'm wrestle with the idea that you even bothered to PM me if you were upfront and open about the things you thought. And then I'll tackle the idea that you think it's somehow okay to do this, publicly and/or privately, and then go off the handle about others behaviour, and call yourself a nice guy.

I'll be in touch.

[Zomby Woof]

44. I thought I was trying to warn you

I was being naive. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have bothered with the PM. I can see that you were not as enlightened as I originally believed. That was long ago anyway, which means you hold one helluva grudge! LOL.

I wouldn't call anything I have said in this thread as being "off the handle". I am rather mellow, and have been laughing at the whole mess.

But what I said was all upfront, in public. And it does not make me "not nice" just because I call a misogynist out.

I am not so careless with my PM's these days. I think people should either figure shit out on their own, or not.

[GirlinContempt]

50. Well, since it was 'long ago' and I still haven't

experienced anything resembling misogyny from this friend, your 'warning' was off the mark. I may be in the dark about many things, but you've certainly enlightened me on some subjects. Don't worry.

Nothing you've said in this thread is off the handle, but you've gone off previously. Hey, do it all you want, but don't be surprised when someone calls you on doing the exact same thing in the past.

Right now, I'm being upfront, and telling you in public, that you aren't nice. You are hypocritical, and you can't keep hiding behind this "I'm just being honest" crap. My friend isn't a misogynist, and billy doesn't deserve public condemnation from someone like you.

Maybe you should let other people figure things out for themselves instead of slandering people in PM's to users you hardly know. If you've stopped, I'm glad to hear it.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

90. You are fucking unbelievable.

I just don't get it.

[salin]

64. For example, I know you appreciate me, and think I am a nice person

and I have come to realize that my free association threads (that in my defense, I don't start that often) irritate you :D Doesn't change our friendship, though :D

[GirlinContempt]

20. Agreed.

[Sugar Smack]

22. Are you EstimatedProphet now?

:rofl:

[GirlinContempt]

23. In my fondest dreams

;)

[XemaSab]

57. I did apologize

But I didn't do it in public. :shrug:

[salin]

58. I used that same reference - elsewhere today

per jr high - it now occurs to me that perhaps we are selling some jr high schoolers short ;-)

[Zomby Woof]

36. By the way salin

Was I grumpy/groucny enough for this thread? :evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. Hey! You paid me no royalties...You have no copyright for the use

of Grumpy. ;)

[Zomby Woof]

45. I DID pay you

But the account is set up in L.A. and you have to collect in person. :P

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. I think I can do that!!

Now, you're sure you set it up? And it wasn't nini? And she didn't actually do that in Chicago!!!

BTW, tell her I'm not getting any this weekend. :rofl:

[Zomby Woof]

48. That is so SAD!

I am sorry. x(

If I had the sofa ready, would that help? :hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

49. A little perhaps...

:)

:hug: As long as I can keep the kitty cats with me. :loveya:

[salin]

66. absolutely captures the crumpy coffeeless state in which the thread

was started :evilgrin:

[Zomby Woof]

51. A good friend of mine...

...has requested that I reconsider my points.

She has a good case, and I respect her opinion to the extent that I disavow the disagreeable opinions I posted.

I formally apologize to billyskank, whom I have no grudge or disagreement with. :toast:

[Sugar Smack]

55. .

:loveya: plus infinity!

:toast:

[salin]

67. So, should I post this to my journal?

all of the posts on the thread might make my journal kick up into a well read journal range?

*just thinking that snarky was a good way to end a thread that was snarky to begin with*

[Capn Sunshine]

70. I think you jumped the snark

gracias, amigo.

[salin]

72. guess I am in an usual mood today

given that I am not generally prone to jumping the shark. Here's to unusual moods :toast:

[merh]

71. Oh my --

you post the OP to your journal and I will post this post to mine and folks that go to your journal will find it and folks that go to mine will find it and then, we will have come full circle :freak:

What a glorious idea :think:

:woohoo: :woohoo:


:pals: :hug: :loveya:

[salin]

73. lol - only problem is

that then I would have a snarky thread in my journal - which I try to make thoughtful... have to weigh the costs and benefits out ;-) But I will let you know if I take the plunge (so that we can do the cross posting thing ;-) )

Btw - :hi: !!

[merh]

74. Okay, so you make a valid point.

x( You have to go and do that after I had that darned fine brain storm. :freak:

I'll follow your lead.

BTW, are our journals supposed to be beautiful? :shrug:

If so, I have some cleaning to do. :crazy:

;) :hi: backatch sweetie! :hug:

[Sugar Smack]

75. Hay, baybee!

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

Have a good rest!

[merh]

76. I have been having a very nice rest!

Thanks for asking, sweetie. :hug:

How have you been? It appears that I have missed some drama.

Boy, am I disappointed (NOT). :rofl:

I just love your journal, I have to tell you that! :loveya:

And I am crazy about you. :pals: :hug: :loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

81. OMG!!

You are so kind!! *eeeeep*:D :blush:

I love you! With all my heart!

[merh]

89. ...

:hug:

[salin]

77. they don't have to be beautiful...

just have tried to have a wee bit of decorum on mine (which I attempt in general in my posts... but fail from time to time into snarkiness.)

[merh]

79. Like I said

I have some cleaning to do ;)

:rofl:












I've read your journal and it is wonderful!

My snarkiness detector never registered, not once! :hug:

[mdmc]

78. i missed it all

[salin]

80. Easy to do...

short recap. Several days ago one poster decided it would be funny to kick up (pre archive) a ton of threads, posted over a period of time, from another poster - to the point where the front page of the lounge was dominated by these threads. Several days later - the suspect behind the kicking episode becomes the focus of a kick-up of old threads campaign.

I come in - as a grouchy morning person who hadn't yet had coffee - expressing annoyance at the trend going on towards kicking up a person's old posts... mainly because I really, really hope this doesn't become a regular game in the lounge. Kicking tons of posts off the front page of the lounge - is irratating/annoying for many.

[mdmc]

82. I sometimes kick up page 20 threads that i don't wanna see go

but never like that...

[gardenista]

83. Is that what was going on?

I don't understand the passive/aggressive stuff that goes on here sometimes...

[XemaSab]

84. Don't believe everything you read on the 'net.

:eyes:

[gardenista]

86. Don't know what I did to deserve the "roll eye", but that's cool.

Done worry, I don't believ hardly none of it.

Peace

[XemaSab]

87. Good deal!

And I wasn't rolling my eyes at you! :toast:

[gardenista]

88. Yay!

:toast:

[Call Me Wesley]

91. Locking.

This thread has run its course.

Call Me Wesley
DU Moderator