This Comment - wtf

#3
Synful in the seat belt thread. I know she was probably getting irritated by people expressing their disagreement with her opinion but that attack on the females seemed a bit unwarranted.
 

Emma

Well-Known Member
#4
wtf .. bit harsh seeing as most of us actually don't reply to threads like that.
Thought we're meant to stick together?
 
#6
Yeah it was kinda harsh but like you said, she was prolly just frustrated cause everyone in the thread was on her ass about the seatbelt thing. I don't think she really meant to attack the other females here, she was just lashing out at everyone for riding her so hard about her comments in the thread....or maybe she was talking about someone in particular....I dunno but I'm sure she didn't mean any harm to all of us, least I hope not newayz. Syn is cool, I don't think she meant anything by it.
And yes we're supposed to stick together which is why I made that very comment in that thread. Ima defend any female on here for the simple fact that there ain't too many of us here so we gotta stick together to keep "the boys" from running over us.;)
 
#8
well maybe syn was reading too much of my posts then cause thats me...i just nod my head nowadays since whenever i disagreed the mods would look up my IP address and announce to public my personal information...
 
#9
^ An IP doesnt give personal information. At most it can indicate a general location, like that you're from New York, which you have said yourself. What mods anyway?

I think we all know who it was directed at.
 
#10
Amara said:
^ An IP doesnt give personal information. At most it can indicate a general location, like that you're from New York, which you have said yourself. What mods anyway?

I think we all know who it was directed at.
its sumting i dont really like to talk about and its kinda digressing from main point of thread but with that paticular situation my IP addy names what school i go to and the moderator made that information public which i didnt want every1 else knowing...oh well whats done is done and we have to move on...
 

Synful*Luv

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Staff member
#12
The fact of the matter is that it annoys me that in most threads that deal with anything that isn't a joke, it always goes as follows;

There's a slight discussion. Then someone with some "power" usually the same people come along and make a statement either in favor of the topic or against it.

After that, 95% of everyone in the thread always mindlessly goes along with what that person says.

That comment wasn't meant as a shot at any particular female on the board, it was directed towards a certain person (who is male) who told me that I should agree with what they were saying so that they would drop it. That I should just go along with what everyone was saying like most females on the board do.

Yeah, it could've been interpreted wrong, however, if I was referring to anyone in particular, I would have mentioned a name. I was making the comment in regards to what he said to me, had nothing to do with any of you.
 

ArtsyGirl

Well-Known Member
#13
I know what you mean by other members being influenced somehow half way through the first page, atleast thats how it seems. I guess some people are too scared to let their opinions come out first in fear of back-lash or something.
Anyway I think in that thread, atleast it seemed to me, some people just wanted you to change your mind so that you would wear a seatbelt since they feel your in danger if you dont. I didnt see it as an attack at you really. Atleast you were honest even though its not the answer most people would have liked to hear.
 

_carmi

me, myself & us
#14
Synful*Luv said:
The fact of the matter is that it annoys me that in most threads that deal with anything that isn't a joke, it always goes as follows;

There's a slight discussion. Then someone with some "power" usually the same people come along and make a statement either in favor of the topic or against it.

After that, 95% of everyone in the thread always mindlessly goes along with what that person says.

That comment wasn't meant as a shot at any particular female on the board, it was directed towards a certain person (who is male) who told me that I should agree with what they were saying so that they would drop it. That I should just go along with what everyone was saying like most females on the board do.

Yeah, it could've been interpreted wrong, however, if I was referring to anyone in particular, I would have mentioned a name. I was making the comment in regards to what he said to me, had nothing to do with any of you.
now i would believe you didnt mean it to be harsh, BUT seriously how could we have interpreted wrong this? you specifically mentionned FEMALES.
I guess I should go to typing "lol" or "I agree" or "" like most females here to make everyone happy.
if you would have wanted to make it general you would have said MEMBERS and not FEMALES. eh.. dont take us for retards. maybe the argument had nothing to do with us, but your comment does mention us. i guess thanks for being soooooo supportive with the FF. nice to see what you really think of us.

anyways whatever. and btw people werent attacking you, they were speaking the truth about danger and caring bout you. now if you do react all the time like this when someone cares about you, then no wonder why you dont have a bf.
 
#15
Synful*Luv said:
The fact of the matter is that it annoys me that in most threads that deal with anything that isn't a joke, it always goes as follows;

There's a slight discussion. Then someone with some "power" usually the same people come along and make a statement either in favor of the topic or against it.

After that, 95% of everyone in the thread always mindlessly goes along with what that person says.

That comment wasn't meant as a shot at any particular female on the board, it was directed towards a certain person (who is male) who told me that I should agree with what they were saying so that they would drop it. That I should just go along with what everyone was saying like most females on the board do.

Yeah, it could've been interpreted wrong, however, if I was referring to anyone in particular, I would have mentioned a name. I was making the comment in regards to what he said to me, had nothing to do with any of you.
It wasnt interpreted wrong. In fact since you just said it again it shows that you meant exactly what you said.

Just because majority of people agree on one widely held belief doesnt mean they are bandwagoning or mindlessly agreeing... considering the subject matter its exactly the kind of thing that everyone can make up their own mind about, just in this case there tended to be a consensus.

People didnt like your opinion, so what, take it in your stride... dont undermine this group (again).
 

Synful*Luv

Well-Known Member
Staff member
#16
_carmi said:
now i would believe you didnt mean it to be harsh, BUT seriously how could we have interpreted wrong this? you specifically mentionned FEMALES.

if you would have wanted to make it general you would have said MEMBERS and not FEMALES. eh.. dont take us for retards. maybe the argument had nothing to do with us, but your comment does mention us. i guess thanks for being soooooo supportive with the FF. nice to see what you really think of us.

anyways whatever. and btw people werent attacking you, they were speaking the truth about danger and caring bout you. now if you do react all the time like this when someone cares about you, then no wonder why you dont have a bf.

Once again, it's being taken the wrong way. And I guess this is one of those things that's hard to express via typing.

While in the thread someon IM'd me and said "You should just said "lol" or "I agree" or ":)" like the rest of the females on the board so that they'll drop it.

My response was a sarcastic one in retaliation to that person. The person that I made the comment to got it. Of course no one else would because no one else knew what was going on but me and him.

The thing is there's really no way to portray sarcasm online and at that point I was so thoroughly irritated that I didn't feel like using smilies or the "[sarcasm] [/sarcasm]"


I won't even address the other points you made because I am no longer discussing that topic and I don't respond to the use of personal information in the form of a general attack.
 

Synful*Luv

Well-Known Member
Staff member
#17
Amara said:
It wasnt interpreted wrong. In fact since you just said it again it shows that you meant exactly what you said.

Just because majority of people agree on one widely held belief doesnt mean they are bandwagoning or mindlessly agreeing... considering the subject matter its exactly the kind of thing that everyone can make up their own mind about, just in this case there tended to be a consensus.

People didnt like your opinion, so what, take it in your stride... dont undermine this group (again).
*sigh*

Okay, like I said, it wasn't an attack on the group, it wasn't even made with the intention of having anything to do with the group. That particular comment had NOTHING to do with that thread really, other than the fact that the person who messaged me originally brought up the issue. It was sarcasm and again sarcasm can't be portrayed online. If I thought that none of the females on the board had a mind of their own, I wouldn't conversate with any of you, and I think I've talked to or still do talk to the majority of you all. Not just on streethop but off here on my personal time as well. I wouldn't talk to people on my own personal time who I had a negative opinion of.

And like I said to _carmi, i'm not discussing the other topic anymore, when I stopped posting in that thread, that was it.
 
#18
With specific use of the term females there was intent to embarrass females whether you, in after thought, call it sarcastic or not. You just you just tried to justify the comment about females by saying people mindlessly agree, expressed so specifically toward females. Then say oh no i dont think females mindlessly agree. As if thats not the most flawed argument, both those statements cant be true. It's so illogical. Thats like saying females agree because all people, including females, agree but females dont just agree.

All X are Y
All Y do Z
All X do not do Z

It doesnt work.

And you're right, that comment didnt have anything to do with that thread. That is the point. You used a cheap shot at females to detract from what you were pissed off/annoyed/embarrassed about or whatever.
 

Emma

Well-Known Member
#19
^^ Exactly, even if it was just sarcasm that's not how we're gonna take it. You're basically agreeing with the person who made that comment in the first place.

If you knew no one else would get it then why say it?
 
#20
Emma said:
^^ Exactly, even if it was just sarcasm that's not how we're gonna take it. You're basically agreeing with the person who made that comment in the first place.

If you knew no one else would get it then why say it?

i was wondering that too
 

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