@badradger saidThat's because you are the personification of the mentality I mentioned.
I couldnt agree less.
@woofwoof saidThanks for the respect, but nobody is forced to post here or read the forums at all, I get bored with it sometimes or too busy and bail out for a while. My point once again is that posting a red thumb isn't taking part in a conversation, it's like taking a cattle - prod to a board meeting and poking anyone you disagree with, whilst adding nothing to the discussion. (Except in my rather dubious analogy it's clear who is wielding the cattle - prod. )
I respectfully disagree Phil.
Thumbs are indeed feedback: Especially for those whom fear being abused in retribution.
People are not equally strong. Some may even suffer an inability to write confidently. Such do not deserve to be excised from conversations which find them offended or in disagreement.
Saying that all thumbs are personal attacks or born of cowardly ...[text shortened]... s blue.
It ignores the reality of the spectrum: A spectrum which includes "50 shades of grey".
🙂
I didn't say that all red thumbs are personal attacks, you are taking my words out of the context of the whole sentence.
@fmf: With this thread, I have established a reality distortion field.
Use it accordingly.
<TDs: audience gasps, tension mounts, this is the set-up, waiting for the punch line...>
Take it to Spirituality, Spanky.
<Audience laughs, tension released, punch line delivered. TUs.>
@fmf: Posts of the angertainment kind, please.
<TDs: the audience gasps, tension mounts, this is another set-up, waiting for the punch line...>
Plays into the joke:
THIS IS THE STUPIDEST IDEA FOR A THREAD I’VE SEEN ALL WEEK ...
<Punchline delivered. Audience laughs, tension released. TUs.>
It's George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Morcombe and Wise .... That's the role you chose, the straight man in a comedy duo (not always with the same partner of course).
To mix a metaphor, you made the bed, own it.
@moonbus saidWhat "bed"?
@fmf: With this thread, I have established a reality distortion field.
Use it accordingly.
<TDs: audience gasps, tension mounts, this is the set-up, waiting for the punch line...>
Take it to Spirituality, Spanky.
<Audience laughs, tension released, punch line delivered. TUs.>
@fmf: Posts of the angertainment kind, please.
<TDs: the audience gasps, ten ...[text shortened]... (not always with the same partner of course).
To mix a metaphor, you made the bed, own it.
@badradger saidIf you find them "boring", I suggest you take a break from listening to the show.
says the man with his bag of boring onions
@moonbus saidMy posting doesn't need to be changed. It's got plenty of "quality". Are you, an adult, actually telling me, another adult, to change the content and style of his posts because some anonymous people are giving them red thumbs? Surely not.
If I may venture to propose a sure-fire method of radically reducing the proliferation of red thumbs: quality posting. Problem fixed, and no need to code any changes.
@fmf saidGad, do I have to spell it out? I guess I do.
The "bed" you refer to is rendered meaningless by anonymity.
The ‘bed’ is role you have carved out for yourself in the forums. You made it, you sleep in it, stop complaining about it. Unless you like being the prima donna complainer of RHP, in which case, expect more TDs.
The thumbs you reap are what other people think about your online persona here.
You keep claiming that the opinions of the people who give you TDs don’t matter to you, but your repeatedly bringing up the subject and your lobbying to get the feature removed belies your claim not to care about it.
No one here believes your claim that your primary interest in getting the anonymous feedback feature removed is the improvement of this web site.
@badradger saidYour continual infantile ad hominem attacks do not address my point.
says the biggest infant of them all.