Kill the Messenger - this time the LA Times

[tw]

Originally Posted by glatt

tw, he's trying to back off. Why don't you drop it too?

Let see. I treated him logically for about one year of his abuse. So maybe in another year, I will back off. Fair is fair. And being more of a hardass conservative then him, he should expect such treatment.

BTW, if he was trying to backoff, then why is he posting same acidic remarks in If Moore's Law hits a sinkhole... ? Why more acidic posts even in a discussion he admits he knows nothing about? You call that backing off? Hardly.

classicman is but one example of the new posting style openly condoned in the Cellar. Once a published author named Barak hardly said anything, but inflamed others. So he was banned. Once a teenager named April was banned for simply posting as a teenager probably begging for help. Now posts from classicman and Urbane Guerrilla are condoned? When I simply do unto classicman as he does onto others, you would complain?

glatt - your very first post should have questioned why Urbane Guerrilla is routinely condoned. Why the double standard?

Meanwhile, classicman demonstrates no interest in apologizing for posting in the tradition of Rush Limbaugh. Suddenly he does not like it only when one mirrors his posting style. Maybe in about a year, I will change. But as I warned many months ago, this is the new posting standards now acceptable in the Cellar. Get used to it - or start with where these new standards are routinely encouraged - Urbane Guerrilla. I have no problem using classicman as the poster boy for our new posting standards. I don't recall you standing up months ago when this new Cellar standard was criticized by me? Or do you really like it when classicman belittles others?

[glatt]

If you look at the time stamps of the posts, you will see that you guys have been throwing mud at each other all over the Cellar in multiple threads, but classic stopped this morning. You are just now reading those other posts where he threw mud last night, so you think the mud is still flying.

I'm hoping you both stop, because I'm sick of it, but you both have free will, so it's up to you.

To answer your question about Urbane, I give his political posts exactly zero value, so I don't even read them. Maybe newcomers will give his posts weight, and that does disturb me a little, but I don't think any Dwellars who have been around for more than a few months give his posts any weight. He's like a tree falling in the forest with nobody around to witness.

You build your own reputation here with each post.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by tw

Let see. I treated him logically for about one year of his abuse. So maybe in another year, I will back off. Fair is fair. And being more of a hardass conservative then him, he should expect such treatment.

Classicman joined on 11/26/2007.

Your first post referencing him was 12/5/2007. Your first post insulting him was 12/9/2007, based on a misreading of his quote and a request by him for clarification. He responded by leaving the thread.

Your next post insulting him was 2/6/2008. He responded with graciousness.

Your next post insulting him was 4/4/2008, in a thread where you claimed that hair dryers have only one heat setting, and he called you on it. Before he responded, others called you deliberately provocative in the thread.

The post where you say "Replies are now in a tone that you understand - personal attack" occurred on 6/15/2008, a little more than three months ago, after he demanded that you offer proof of your claim that Merc lied about his service record.

A review of all these posts, and the threads that led to them, show fairly clearly that c-man generally demands that you unemotionally back up your claims or offer further explanation, or respond to the original question, and you generally respond by questioning his and others' intelligence.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by glatt

tw, he's trying to back off. Why don't you drop it too?

Bravo!!!

Seconded!!

[Griff]

third. motion carried

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by tw

If you do finally decide to address the Cellar's number one problem, then you will be the first Cellar dweller I have observed doing so.

You must have DanaC on ignore. She's taken UG to task on countless occasions. And let's not forget that time I made fun of him for being a pyramid scheme knife salesman when he mocked the idea of being a professional engineer.