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Ted: A Warning

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Ted, this may sound strange coming from me, but you've got to learn to be more sensitive. Some of your behaviour lately has crossed the line. I don't want to get into details, I'm sure everyone who knows what I'm talking will need no furher explanation.

A lot of people are very unhappy with you, and it's not as if they were predisposed against you; it was your recent conduct that has people up in arms, not any prior poisoning of the well.

If there's something going on in your personal life that's making you act like this, let us know. But right now, it looks like you're just being mean to people who don't deserve it.
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Post by Ted »

I fully realise that people are unhappy, hell some probably hate me now.

I really dont care though, opinions of people who are just lines of text on a screen have no actual effect on me.

Fine I'm a cold hearted bastard, I know that, and I know I started the Biggest Flame War ever on SD.net.

Partly the problem for me is that I had tried to be sensitive, but that really isn't me. The facade was basically crumbling, and political nonsense and propoganda destroyed it completely.

I've apologized to Zaia, hours ago.

Maybe those people dont deserve my being mean to them, but then again, maybe they do.

As far as I know, nothing lately has effected me enough, except maybe the bull shit spewed by W. B.

Then again, it could just be depression acting up again.

I am an insensitive bastard, that doesn't affect me in any way. I had tried to be sensitive before, but a facade will only last for so long, I guess it finally fell.

Do what you want with me, I don't really care.
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You sound like you need professional help, Ted. Seriously. If you can't manage sensitivity to other human beings except as a "facade", that is deeply troubling.
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Darth Wong wrote:You sound like you need professional help, Ted. Seriously. If you can't manage sensitivity to other human beings except as a "facade", that is deeply troubling.
Oh, I do have professional help.

If I were to be brutally honest with my opinion, I would not last a few posts here before being banned, so I hve to use a facade to survive, in a sense.
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Ted wrote: If I were to be brutally honest with my opinion, I would not last a few posts here before being banned, so I hve to use a facade to survive, in a sense.
Want me to be brutally honest?
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Post by David »

Ted whenever you have problems with be sensitive just remember, when in doubt, just shut up. No one is forcing you to post. Whether you feel it or not I'm sure you can tell when it will affect someone else.
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Post by jaeger115 »

Want me to be brutally honest?
*braces for the inevitable anti-gay tirade*

Uh-oh.

And I notice you've returned that Anti-Ein Brigade to your sig. I thought Wong removed it.

EDIT: Wait, it's gone?
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MKSheppard wrote:
Ted wrote: If I were to be brutally honest with my opinion, I would not last a few posts here before being banned, so I hve to use a facade to survive, in a sense.
Want me to be brutally honest?
Oh, you HAVE been brutally honest. That's why flames tend to wash over SD.net.
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No more brutal honesty for Christ's sake and this should realy be a dialogue with Mike and Ted. This extra shit is exactly what got the other wars started.
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jaeger115 wrote: And I notice you've returned that Anti-Ein Brigade to your sig. I thought Wong removed it.

EDIT: Wait, it's gone?
I have it loaded into notepad. I am tired of that fucktard Einhander's
bullshit. I am tired of him going off and accusing everyone of being
a troll..
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And Ted had the audacity to call me insensitive... ROFLOL!!!


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Enough Hyperion, your an inch away from being in the same shit. This isn't about Einhander so enough about him.
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Post by Hyperion »

Just havin' a bit of fun is all, had a real good day.

Though I must ask, I make one post and I'm told I'm an inch away from being in the same stewpot as the idiots who, from what I have heard, pretty much covered the board with a firefight earlier.
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I think everyone's just a little jittery, because we don't want a repeat performance of that fiasco.
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Ted wrote:I've apologized to Zaia, hours ago.
You did? Funny thing is, I haven't been around since this whole thing happened, so although you may have apologized to me secretly somehow, I have received nothing from you which shows any sort of remorse for what you said and the hurt you purposefully tried to inflict.
Maybe those people dont deserve my being mean to them, but then again, maybe they do.
WTF does that mean? What the hell have I done to you to warrant this, Ted? What? What have I done that can make your hurtful comments justified?
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Personally, I had it up to my neck back when pezcollector and Pounder's sister took it upon themselves to be racists assholes towards the French. What with my wife being a tad unsetled because there are anonymous people out there who suggest that it would be good to have her killed for being French. Sensitivity, not to mention human decency, is falling into short supply around here of late.

Zaia, I'm sorry you have an unrepentant little jackass braying in your direction. I think it's a damn good thing I'm not a Mod; my patience with the deliberately disrespectful is at zero.
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So what do we do?

On the one hand, with have the ability of free speech at stake which otherwise differentiates us from other webboards. And on the other we have the fact that some people, no matter how much it hurts people and how many times they are warned, will voice their opinions even if they are derogatory and even racist or homophobic etc.

Do we moderate with extreme prejudice and outlaw such comments or do we ban or take action against the persons who cause such a ruckus?
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Zaia wrote:
Ted wrote:I've apologized to Zaia, hours ago.
You did? Funny thing is, I haven't been around since this whole thing happened, so although you may have apologized to me secretly somehow, I have received nothing from you which shows any sort of remorse for what you said and the hurt you purposefully tried to inflict.
Maybe Ewo forgot to tell you.

Just before you got there for the party, I got Ewo to tell you that I was really sorry for what I said in that post.
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Lagmonster wrote:Personally, I had it up to my neck back when pezcollector and Pounder's sister took it upon themselves to be racists assholes towards the French. What with my wife being a tad unsetled because there are anonymous people out there who suggest that it would be good to have her killed for being French. Sensitivity, not to mention human decency, is falling into short supply around here of late.
WTF did I miss while I was gone??? As a Brit it's my national duty to make fun of the French, but threats against them as a nation or people :?: For fucks sake, did people start popping stupidity pills since thursday? :roll:
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Is this about Teds's hijack of Zaia's thread?
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ArmorPierce wrote:Is this about Teds's hijack of Zaia's thread?
My conduct last night, and leading up to it.
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Ted wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:You sound like you need professional help, Ted. Seriously. If you can't manage sensitivity to other human beings except as a "facade", that is deeply troubling.
Oh, I do have professional help.
Good, keep taking it.
Ted wrote: If I were to be brutally honest with my opinion, I would not last a few posts here before being banned, so I hve to use a facade to survive, in a sense.
There is a difference between moderating your own behavior and putting on a facade. I heavily moderate my posts on the net (here and on ASVS) simply because I know my acerbic nature and low tolerance for idiots would upset a lot of people and that achieves nothing. It is not however a facade, I still tell people what's on my mind, I just tone it down and make the effort to understand that other people have feelings and trampling them does nothing constructive.
Posting flamebait and making deliberately hurtful remarks isn't "dropping a facade" it's a failure to moderate your behavior when dealing with others.

A facade on the other hand would be a lie and a deception. That's something completely different, that would be to say and act one way, whilst being and thinking something else. A facade would be a fascist posting as a liberal, a bigot posting as an understanding person, a man posting as a woman, a gay person posting as a straight person, a young creationist posting as a scientist.

Posting something to hurt others with no real reason is being an arsehole and that's all. If you're really an arsehole (which I doubt from our PM's) who's been pretending to be a reasonable person. Then you've dropped a fascade.

If however you have a problem and posted something you later regret (hence the apology) then it was a failure to moderate yourself, and is something you need to work on with whomever is giving you professional help. If in doubt in the future, think hard before you post something, as you are not helping yourself by hurting others.
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Ted wrote:
Zaia wrote:
Ted wrote:I've apologized to Zaia, hours ago.
You did? Funny thing is, I haven't been around since this whole thing happened, so although you may have apologized to me secretly somehow, I have received nothing from you which shows any sort of remorse for what you said and the hurt you purposefully tried to inflict.
Maybe Ewo forgot to tell you.

Just before you got there for the party, I got Ewo to tell you that I was really sorry for what I said in that post.
That makes no sense to me. Before I got to the party, you got her to tell me (me, who wasn't there yet) that you were sorry? I don't get that.

I also don't get how you think it's ok to have Ewo just 'pass it on.' You couldn't be bothered to say anything to me personally?! You told Ewo to tell me? What, are you in middle school still? Would it have been too hard to send me a PM? You didn't seem to have a hard time sending those out when you were begging for my picture, Ted. Why is it so hard to do now?

One more thing: why did you ignore the other half of my post? Do you have some secret reason why you think I deserve to be treated in this manner, or did you realize that I don't deserve this and that you have no justification for what you said?
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I have to agree with Rob, Ted. You seem to purposely phrase thing to achieve the maxinum amoung to pain, suffering, and flamebait. There is a difference in calling someone (for an example) a fuckhead and and fuckhead, asshole, jerk that does not need to be populating this Earth with me and my obviously superior friends.

You go too far, and sometime I believe, you go to far on purpose. It amazes me that various people were concered for your dumb ass when we thought you might be dead or dying but can you return such compassion? No, you just want to take potshots at people who you see you can take potshots at. When Hyperion started getting on you and your rat, you ran too your friends and compatriots on the board and they jumped on Hyperion for fucking with you. What in the hell made you think that this would not happen to you when you started to fuck with Zaia.

To my knowledge Zaia has not done anything to you, and you shamlessly attacked her just to get a cheap thrill. Then you reach down and grab you little balls and say you already appologized to her. Asking someone to appologize for you is a slimey thing to do you little cheese dick. Quit acting like the little kid you are and reach down and grab what little you have left, and actually apologize to Zaia.
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Ted: You did that to simply to hurt Zaia and that's totally unacceptable. You deliberatly set out to hurt a woman that has done nothing to do it and you did it in the cruelest way possible. Your malicious attempt is absolutely contemptible.

And your gutless apology, which I doubt even exists, is simply another low and miserable action. You owe Zaia an apology. A real and direct apology not bullshit and excuses.
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