So what is the deal with people posting getting a lot of response and then deleting their posts? Do these people have a permanant case of foot in mouth? I don’t get it. I’ve posted some things on here that nearly had a hit squad burning my house down, but i left the post there. If your not tough enoughto stick with your posts, then hey, maybe you shouldn’t post them.
PS - This post my generate some hate and discontent, in which case I will promptly delete it so no one else can see what a prick i am
Hi, my name is Joe, and I’m a post-deleter. “Hi, Joe.” I have these voices in my head that sometimes make there way to my fingers such that they might be heard by the ST community. Quite often that voice will leave once it’s been cyber-heard, to be replaced by a new voice that heartily disagrees with the old voice, and is even embarrassed to have inhabited the same mind as the previous offending voice. In such a case, my fingers once again act as a conduit for “the voice”, and suddenly the thoughts of an old voice are deleted.
I agree with you. I generally hold myself accountable for what I post on this forum and on my blog, and if I put something really stupid out there, I live with it.
The thing about deleting posts once several people have replied is that it’s pretty easy to figure out what the deleted post contained, so you’re really not reducing the damage that has been done. It does seem like there has been more of that lately, but I haven’t really been around much.
Often, so that you can’t escape, people will do this:
You said:
"So what is the deal with people posting getting a lot of response and then deleting their posts? Do these people have a permanant case of foot in mouth? I don’t get it. I’ve posted some things on here that nearly had a hit squad burning my house down, but i left the post there. If your not tough enoughto stick with your posts, then hey, maybe you shouldn’t post them.
PS - This post my generate some hate and discontent, in which case I will promptly delete it so no one else can see what a prick i am
-Erik in CT "
I think you’re an ass! Go ahead and delete your post. But now your post is part of my post and you can’t delete my post! Only Dan can delete my post, and he wouldn’t doi that unless I was really offensi- er, nevermind.
I’ve gotten bitten myself for that one, where I said one thing, but thought that I said something else, and the person I was arguing with would go through the trouble of actually reading my posts to refute my point with my own words. That is really obnoxious. You’re not supposed to read anything other than the top 25 threads, and the last 5 posts on each thread.
You dimmwit, now we get to burn down your house.
(insert evil laugh here, though… my mouth is kinda full of protien bar so it’s more of a half evil, half eeeuuuww close your mouth kinda laugh. Ya know? I gotta blow my nose, let me go find a kleenex.)
That’s okay. This lady down the street recently burned down her own house after putting a fireplace log on the back porch(don’t ask), and they built her a whole new, better house where the house she burnt down was. So she went from having a 30 year old house in need of repair to having one of the nicest houses in the neighborhood.
Plus, she never has to worry about spring cleaning again!
Just let me get the cats and bikes out before you start.
And more to the point, what’s up with the folks who complain about the people who complain about other things? Can’t a bunch of people have their own pity-party about something without other people complaining about what a bunch of little whiners they are?
The other day, I was on this thread where people were complaining about the swimsuit issue, then some other people complained about people who complained about the swimsuit issue, and how people who have opinions are exclusionist idiots who should shut up and die, then there’s someone else who wants to know why we can’t all get along, and then there’s this crybaby going on about how people’s opinions are important and that we have to discuss things like this(pussy!) and then nobody posted on the thread anymore.
Later that day, some people show up at the door with pitchforks and torches. My wife looks out the window and says, “I think it’s for you.”
Heresy! We’ll burn your house next!
(Now I’m on the side of the road thumbing for a ride. Hey here come a couple cute girls. Hey! Can you get me a ride to SF, hey wait up, where are you going…well they just gave me the finger.)
In my experience, if a thread on this forum is not about God, guns, or girls, it is usually off the original topic within 20 posts. If it’s still active by then.
I was actually eating a “pure protien” protien bar. Mid-morning snack.
Now though, were just going to have to burn down your house too.
Grab the pitch forks people, we’re having a cookout.
YYYYEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAWWW!
