Sig said:
LOL! :biggrin: Funniest line in the thread so far.
I felt we needed an escape from the "Holy Roller" mentality. I wanted to present my thoughts about the OP's actions in a way that could be appreciated rather than restating a bunch of obvious points as so many before me had done. Some even going so far as to admit as much with a whole "justification for kicking a man when he is down" diatribe...
That kind of "Dog Pile" post is just useless IMO.
Everyone is a saint when criticizing someone else's mistake, yet there probably isn't even one of us who hasn't done something that was potentially destructive to others. Maybe it wasn't a DUI, or wreckless speed, but at some point we have all been that redneck screaming from the roof of the trailer "HEY YALL! WATCH THIS!" It's pointless to deny it.
I know that when people yell at me, or criticize me in the way Smoore is being criticized, it gets about as far as the third "you're stupid" before I start seeing red, and go into defensive mode. At that point I am no longer paying attention to the message about my mistake. I am spending all my thought process on
1. What a dick you are
2. whether or not I can take you down in a fight
3. All the ways I can justify stomping your self-righteous guts out.
I am NOT thinking about how what I did was wrong until I am cleaning said guts off my boots...
The overall theme of my message wasn't only to be funny, but to let the OP know that even though no one was hurt in this incident he should learn from his mistakes. I just prefer to present my message as a function of something positive rather than jumping on the bandwagon of self-righteousness.
Maybe he will pay more attention.
IMO this is the difference between effective, and ineffective message design. Isn't the whole point of posting a message for it to be effective?
Sometimes I wonder if all the self-righteousness you find on the boards isn't really just about a bunch of fragile ego's trying to make themselves look good rather than introduce an effective resolution.
I pose a question: If the sentiment is lost in the composition of a post because it is corrupted by the narcissism of it's author, and that post is rendered totally worthless because the recipient of the criticizm won't take away any corrective value, doesn't that post then become a sort of HTML Diarrhea of the mouth?
The point?
Good job to those kicking this man while he is down. Hopefully in this critique of
your behavior you will find direction, and ultimately correct
your actions. I'm not naming names, you know who you are if this post refers to you.
Enough is enough.
and now... The Lovely Cameron Diaz...