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Jesse Jackson is a Clown and Needs to Stop Already

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Well, Eric, after Vinny accused you of trollin, this thread kinda gotz sidetracked. But I trust you to be honest, at least, and you used to be a mod, so lemme ax ya your opinion, eh?

Assumin you've read this thread, with Kicky noting that I made "five posts in a row," and all, is that what the rules mean by "trollin" the way you read them?

"Deliberate attempts to disrupt the usability of the boards will be considered trolling."

Ya think makin 5 posts in a row, as such, constitutes a "deliberate attempt to disrupt the usuability of the boards?"
 
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Let me try to give a little insight into the multiquote thing, as I just figured it out a few days ago.

You must click the multiquote button not only on the most recent post that has a quote and a response, but must go to the original post that was quoted and click the multiquote butten there as well.

That will put two seperate quotes in your reply.

To combine the quotes the way SKA did you are going to have to delete the /quote (it's in brackets at the end of the first quote) from the first quote and place it after the /quote of the second quote.

I'm sure your average 12yo is going to be on top of this more than your average 35+yo, for what it's worth.
 
Thanks, Game, that was actually helpful, as opposed to just bein disdainfully smug.

Some of the moderators round these here parts could probably learn a bit about how to be "moderate" from you, eh?
 
Thanks, Game, that was actually helpful, as opposed to just bein disdainfully smug.

Some of the moderators round these here parts could probably learn a bit about how to be "moderate" from you, eh?

Oh come now, son. Mebbe the problem here was you, eh?
 
Well this thread sure did get sidetracked.

Back to the (original) topic...

Jesse Jackson - clearly - has carved out a niche for himself in our society. His main goals are (ideally) to defend African Americans against injustices that he or other members of the African American community could interpret as being "racist" or, more generically, against African Americans.

Regarding the Lebron/Gilbert saga, I personally believe Jesse has misinterpreted and subsequently overreacted to Gilbert's comments. I am admittedly reading into Gilbert's mindset via his rant, but I really doubt he thought of Lebron as any sort of property. At best I'd say he was saddened by Lebron's lack of team loyalty which was morphed into anger by Lebron's fairly feculent "Decision" show. That being the case, I'm going to agree with what David Stern (the actual commissioner, not the poster on this site) said which was something to the effect of "Jesse was wrong in his assertion." Again, I think it's because Jesse views himself as a champion for the perpetually trodden-on African American that he felt he needed to swoop in and save Lebron from Gilbert's comments.

In a nutshell, Gilbert overreacted with his statement and put a bit too much vitriol into it, and Jesse ran with Gilbert's rage and flipped it into a race issue (when none was intended by Gilbert).

Just my 2 cents people.
 
in my opinion (and I was, at one time a gazillion years ago, a fan of ole Jesse) - the Rev. Jackson is kinda guilty of the same stuff everyone's accusing James of being guilty of, playing the role of the "attention whore"

and I pretty much agree with chemdude's post

and not to sidetrack the discussion even further, but my husband and I were having a bit of an argument about how the folks in Cleveland are/were reacting to LeBron's decision - he was calling them pathetic for being so wrapped up in the situation, and pretending as though it had any real importance in their lives, and I was arguing that it was pretty similar to the way folks in Chicago reacted the two times Michael Jordan announced his "retirement" - particularly after the second time when he went on to play for the Wizards. Of course, he thinks I'm wrong - but of course, I know I'm right!

;-)
 
So yes, you have. And you can't bluff me on this issue.


Kicky, I see this as a deliberate and disingenuous attempt, by you, to cast unwarranted aspersion on my veracity, and I have decided not to let it go without comment.

Although you can easily "bluff" uninformed readers, you forget one thing: You can't "bluff" me either, because I too have access to all "warnings" I have been given.

The short version of the relevant exchange is this:

You've been told in the past numerous times.

No, I have not.

So yes, you have. And you can't bluff me on this issue.

I'll come back to the "so" part of this post in a minute, but, for now, do you realize that, on the face of it, this is inconsistent with your own prior statements on the topic?:

You've been told to stop, once privately and now once publicly. I'll let you imagine what the next step is.

Of course, the "and now once publicly" part refers to the very post you are making. So, tell me, how does the "once privately" portion amount to being told "numerous times" in the past, which is what I denied?

You apparently see this conflict, and go on to attempt to buttress your attempt to portray me as a liar with allusions to "two PM's on this board" and "multiple [warnings, presumably]" occurences on the previous board:

I am personally aware of two PMs you have received on this board and multiple that you received on the previous incarnation of the board. Furthermore, I have access to copies of those private messages that have been sent to you by the moderating staff since the board was reset.

I will unequivocally state, for the record, that in all my years on the previous board I NEVER received any warnings or explanations against/about consecutive posts from any moderator or admin. I would be amazed if Colton, Jason, or anybody else told you otherwise.

As for your suggestive reference to "two" PM's on this board, we both know that the second PM addressed only my attempts to rectify the "bizarre formatting" that has been (unintentionally) built into this program, i.e., the glitch that often causes first posts in a new thread to appear in lines that are only 10-12 characters long. This often results in such "difficult to read clutter" as single words being chopped up and, without even the benefit of a hyphen, properly placed or not, "continued" to the following line (the continuity is hard to discern, in many cases).

I do recall an exchange between you and me personally, years ago, at a time when your were NOT a moderator. In that exchange, you expressed your preference that I post in a form that you preferred. We went on to discuss the reasons why you preferred one form and I preferred another. As I recall, the discussion ended with me saying something like this: "Tell ya what, Kicky, how about you post the way you prefer, and I'll post the way I prefer. Fair enough?"

Apparently you have NEVER forgotten that I wouldn't do your bidding at that time, and greatly resent it. You have since been given moderator "powers" and now seem bent on imposing your caprious will on all who haved dared to "defy" you on past occasions.

I agreed to follow the published rules here, and I will try to do so. That said, I still fail to see how me making responses to multiple posts by multiple posters can possibly be construed as "trolling," i. e., a "deliberate attempts to disrupt the usability of the boards" as the rules define it. Of course you have already made it eminently clear that what I understand from reading the rules is totally irrelevant to you. Your stance seems to be that the "rules" are to do whatever you tell me to do, however lacking in rational justification your demands may be.
 
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