Re: The Socialist Response
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:41 pm
Don't know how I managed to lose the post I just spent like 30 minutes crafting - but let me try and boil it down in 30 seconds:
Elvis is worth keeping around, IMO. We've had some decent interactions.
I don't want to argue FOR using the ignore function, but I have no personal reason to defend anyone else in this context, and I can understand the inclination to block people whose only purpose at this board seems to be to specifically insult you, AD. I have had and my own problems with some of your posts and I often find your responses to criticism to be vague and frustrating. But at least they aren't usually focused on insulting your detractors (sometimes you do insinuate a bit, though).
Regardless, I think it's important to note that there is another discussion board started by a disgruntled former RI poster, which exists almost exclusively to talk shit about RI, and particularly about AD, SLAD, and Jerky. It has two threads on RI, including one about "covert ops" its members are doing here at RI. It's possible that the "covert ops" thread is half satire, or even all satire, based on its tone, but the only thread on this other site that goes over 4 pages is the one focused on shit-talking RI, so that does seem to be the focus of most of the energy there. I don't know if that plays into anything currently happening at RI, but it's something to be aware of.
Elvis is worth keeping around, IMO. We've had some decent interactions.
I don't want to argue FOR using the ignore function, but I have no personal reason to defend anyone else in this context, and I can understand the inclination to block people whose only purpose at this board seems to be to specifically insult you, AD. I have had and my own problems with some of your posts and I often find your responses to criticism to be vague and frustrating. But at least they aren't usually focused on insulting your detractors (sometimes you do insinuate a bit, though).
Regardless, I think it's important to note that there is another discussion board started by a disgruntled former RI poster, which exists almost exclusively to talk shit about RI, and particularly about AD, SLAD, and Jerky. It has two threads on RI, including one about "covert ops" its members are doing here at RI. It's possible that the "covert ops" thread is half satire, or even all satire, based on its tone, but the only thread on this other site that goes over 4 pages is the one focused on shit-talking RI, so that does seem to be the focus of most of the energy there. I don't know if that plays into anything currently happening at RI, but it's something to be aware of.