Most Underappreciated AZB member of all-time?

sfleinen said:
Boy Tim, you really had to reach hard for that one, eh? ("Gotta get Sean back for all the times he'd called me to the carpet for being TheContrarian. Gotta, gotta, gotta.") That part of my post was just an FYI; you conveniently snipped the rest of my post, which had the real point.



Tim, there is a difference between contributing discussion to a forum, and contributing strife to a forum. Big difference between the two. One encourages thoughtful discourse and exchange of ideas; the other is selfish gratification (e.g. "see see see? Look, see what I did? I caused people to get their hackles up!"). PocketPoint was a good example of the latter -- the stuff he posted was intentionally to light the fuse of topics HE KNOWS will cause strife. Pet examples are aiming and APA (league). Also, his STYLE was very obnoxious as well. He would start new threads with one-liner random musings as if the AZB forums were his personal Twitter account. Again, there's the difference between someone CONTRIBUTING to the forum, and someone DUMPING into the forum.

And you can see by his multiple attempts at "getting back onto AZB" that he's fixated on his task. Trolls tend to be that way. Ordinary people who actually have something to contribute will just say, "fine, they don't want me? That's their loss!" and move on. That would be the adult thing to do, by the way. Trolls tend to have some nature about them still stuck in childhood.

Dullards, by the way, although non-contributory, at least don't intentionally cause strife on the forums. And, that's a very subjective and relative term, too. I'd love to know what your definition of dullard might be. Perhaps more than half of the well-behaved folks on here who CONTRIBUTE, but because they don't push buttons or go after probing sensitive areas, they are considered "dullards" by you? (I'll bet I'm public enemy number one on your list, then!)

-Sean
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Well, now you mention it...

Actually, I had in mind the type that just agrees with everyone, and seeks to form alliances and friendships.

Is this www.match.com?

As for PP and trolls (:rolleyes:), don't you think banning people just puts their back up, even "adults"?
 
TheThaiger said:
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So, *that* is what you're hear for then -- repartee? The verbal version of pulling the leather glove off and slapping each other across the face with it?

You're not here to learn or share information about pool?
 
TheThaiger said:
Well, now you mention it...

Actually, I had in mind the type that just agrees with everyone, and seeks to form alliances and friendships.

Is this www.match.com?

As for PP and trolls (:rolleyes:), don't you think banning people just puts their back up, even "adults"?
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Oh really? So the fact that someone is innately friendly, and is here to learn or share information in a good-natured way, that -- to you -- is match.com-ish?

Obviously you haven't been here long, Tim. If you knew anything about this forum's history, you'd *KNOW* I would not be on your "pretty pansy" list. Ask around here. I can really light people up if I want to. I don't make it a habit, though, because it accomplishes nothing. Or at least nothing I'd want to be remembered for.

And as for trolls, yes, it may put their back up. But sometimes you have to take action against poor behavior, rather than letting it be, hoping it will "go away." Real adults are able to take messages about poor behavior -- even if it does put their back up -- and adapt accordingly. Continuing to forge ahead with the poor behavior is, well, indicative of a child.

-Sean
 
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sfleinen said:
So, *that* is what you're hear for then -- repartee? The verbal version of pulling the leather glove off and slapping each other across the face with it?

You're not here to learn or share information about pool?
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24/7? It would be a tedious (and empty) place were every post to be restricted solely to the pure mechanics of playing pool. Lot of communists about!

There's only so much you can learn and only so much information you can share.
 
TheThaiger said:
24/7? It would be a tedious (and empty) place were every post to be restricted solely to the pure mechanics of playing pool. Lot of communists about!

There's only so much you can learn and only so much information you can share.
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Pssst!! I'm not sure if anyone's told you this, but there are many more facets to playing pool than "pure mechanics." I know, I know, snooker stance this, and proper cueing that. But I think that hints at the limits in your knowledge of the game, rather than for the rest of us.

Hint: try going into the 14.1 forum some time. Or <gasp!> going to another site -- onepocket.org. In these places, it's assumed you're past fundamentals, and can actually talk and offer those things BEYOND the mechanics of the game.

I can understand why you'd consider it fun to have repartee on your "breaks" in between fundamentals advocacy. But we're just asking you to extend yourself a little. Just a little.

I know, I know, your head is probably hurting at the notion that game play extends beyond mere fundamentals. But we'll give you time to catch up.

-Sean
 
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