The answer is probably not, but i would like to think so, or would have until an occurrence yesterday prompted me to write this thread. This is an incident that occurred online, so i thought i would keep the grievances online and complaints online.
So yesterday i was officially kicked off of Sevenstring.org - the enitre site - PERMANENTLY. This can be remedied, and i will not go into the details of the remedy otherwise they may observe and thwart my shifty plan :twisted:.
In anycase here is what happend. There was some thread that was a year old, and somehow it was on the first page. I proceeded to look at the thread, about this guy's custom guitar, and then commented. I made some stupid sarcastic comment about the fretboard inlays and byzantine christianity (the two were related). I came back a day later (yesterday) -and checked on the thread and the mass of the community there had assailed my post. I thought it was all very funny that they should get so riled up by such a stupid, and obviously misinterpreted, comment. However, one post caught my eye, it was refuting the basic fundamental truth of my statement that Celtic Crosses are derived from Byzantine art. I then proceeded to hold my ground and prove my point, as i have been taught to do all my life: defend your position if you know it is right.
Now, rightly so, this was completely off topic at this point, the discussion was supposed to be about guitars. However, i thought it necessary not to leave this poor soul in ignorance and, in turn, vindicate my point with evidence. I did so in a rather lengthy post. I suppose i should have suspected the outcome, but i was surprised and quite amused (i was laughing my ass off at this point) to find i was yet again assailed by vitriolic comments. Within minutes i was kicked off of the site. It is all rather pathetic that they got so incredibly offended at such a stupid thing, and futhermore that they took my genera mentality to be troublemaking. However, nonetheless i proceeded to laugh my silly face off at the results of my unexpected masterful accomplishment. I had managed to offend an entire online community with two stupid posts that were not directed at anybody until i decided to DEFEND my point. I suppose one finds genius in the strangest of places, i find it amusing, and i realize all you may not.
In anycase i thought that forum of all forums would be a lot more relaxed about such things, however, i am yet again disappointed. I was in good spirits all of yesterday because of how ridiculous the whole thing was, how $%&#in stupid the general population is over there, and how ridiculous the whole site is rigged up: an intricate network of in-profile posting abilities, in-profile negative and positive point additions, and several other ridiculous things such as a 'thanking' system. I was not particularly enamoured to the site, however, something doesn't sit quite right with me about it, so i thought i would write this post as a therapeutic kind of deal.
NOW, on a kind of similar note, i came to wonder about my behavior on this forum. I have become quite attached to the online community here, as much as someone can be attached to an online entity that is. So it got me wondering, am i comparatively tame on this site, or has this site, by way of the good natured community mellowed me out? I would say in a sense, yes. And clearly not in some cases, such as this incident with Sevenstring.org as my hotheaded self got the better of me.
I am sure some (or many) of you have experienced a couple my rants on here, few that they are compared to some other online communities, TRUST ME. My temper gets the better of me on many occasions, and there have been several more notable ones on here, some of which my rhetoric was VERY poorly executed and thus my points where wholly abortive - it happens sometimes in a fit of irritation or the need to prove a point (without thinking it through fully). And as it stands, i appreciate that you have all put up with my slight stupidities every once and again, especially those occasions where i make a total ass out of myself due to shaky wording, or off topic rants etc. I am further glad that i haven't gotten kicked off for this activity yet, though compared to some other places it is rather subdued. I rather like you blokes and it would be ashame to ruin this well of information about guitars and furthermore the sarcastic and joking miens of you all to boot.
So i really don't expect anybody to comment at this, but feel free to say anything you like. Again, this was more of a pensive, therapeutic post. Don't really need any sympathy as this is easily remedied with a little tinkering, and i still find the whole ordeal quite amusing, but if you really wish to pay your respects, as it were, feel free.
- The "O"
