Akwat Kbrana said:
I have a life, which is why I don't typically post massive walls of text arguing with people on the internet. Look, I have nothing against you personally. In fact, I usually agree with your opinions vis-a-vis the PT, and I gave you the benefit of the doubt for a very long time. When you posted your face comparison thread, I found it a little odd, but rather than jumping on the "Huh?" bandwagon, I decided instead to just steer clear. Why bother attacking someone on an internet message board? But that being said, I do find it a little irritating when I'm trying to follow and thread, and suddenly - BAM! - half my browser window is submerged in some stupid argument about something terribly pedantic that becomes impossible to even follow after the third or fourth post. Add the constant "misunderstandings" and hurt feelings, and it gets a little more than annoying.
So if you think I'm following you around sniping at you, then maybe you have misunderstood someone else for a shocking and unforeseeable change. Like I said, I have nothing against you personally. I just click "first unread post" on whichever threads I'm currently following whenever I visit the board. If I have something to contribute, I do so. If not, oh well. But when I see the entire thread derailed in this fashion, I feel compelled to add a sarcastic remark expressing my frustration over said derailment. If it seems like I'm sniping at you, it's probably because every time I visit this thread, you've pointlessly derailed it and bogged it down with argumentative nonsense.
You may see message boards such as this one as a place to flex your digital muscles and have a good quarrel with the idiots who don't see eye to eye with you, but some of us see it as a place for light, entertaining, and civil discussion about the series we all love. And when far more heat is generated than light, it's just annoying and obnoxious. Again, nothing against you personally; just frustration with thread derailment that is both uninteresting and ponderous.
Ok, let me see if I've got this right. You don't like long posts and you don't like it when people are serious about things and you don't like it when people criticise misogyny and you don't want to admit that you've deveoped a habit of going around after me sniping at me, never mind that's that's what you've been doing. And of course I'm wrong to see any hostile intent behind somebody targeting me for a lot of hostile sniping -because I guess that's friendly behavior or something.
As for the accusation of derailing the thread, the misogyny issue was a serious issue that needed addressing. Nor did I go about it all by myself. Certain posters persisted in debating with me about it for an extended period. Had they let it go, I would have been happy to drop it too. As for the Wrath of Khan discussion, that was not started by me. I merely joined in discussing what was being discussed here. Suddenly I had two people debating with me. If that discussion was a derailment of the thread, then surely they must bear some of the responsibility, seeing as they kept the dicsussion going as much as I did and posted long posts themselves. But of course, you just see as me solely responisible, because you (of course) have absolutely no hostile attitude toward me.
You may see message boards such as this one as a place to flex your digital muscles and have a good quarrel with the idiots who don't see eye to eye with you, but some of us see it as a place for light, entertaining, and civil discussion about the series we all love.
This warped view of me is further evidence of a hostile attitude on your part towards me. I do not see message boards as a place to quarrel. I see message boards as a place to express my views and have civil discussion. That is not say I amn't well familiar with the tendency of message board discussions to often degenerate into uncivilized rows due to some people being incapable of not stepping over the line in behavior. But I do wish that didn't happen and every time I get into a new internet discussion I hope it won't get nasty, but sometimes they do.