forum problems

henapple

I'm tired and going to sleep but before I do....

3 words...first world problems. If you're going to get this torqued up over an Internet food forum it might be time to look around at people with real problems. It's a freaking forum.
If you're going to change your life over some douche on the internet...good luck. You'll be changing forums a lot.
If you're gonna leave, leave. Don't go on and on and on. ...everyone wants you here obviously, you've contributed much but please stay or go if you can't handle being offended by an interweb troll.
Smfh...my eyes rolled so far back I saw my brain. 

DMW

First World Problems are the best problems to have.

I've spent some time in third world countries and I'll gladly take my FWP any day.

Ozzie_Isaac

Btw f*cker never said I was leaving!  Just trying to get the mods attention.  I'm gonna be on twice as much.

I already submitted a request for a throw away name  

loveTheEgg

Hear Hear!!!!

loveTheEgg

henapple said:

I'm tired and going to sleep but before I do....

3 words...first world problems. If you're going to get this torqued up over an Internet food forum it might be time to look around at people with real problems. It's a freaking forum.
If you're going to change your life over some douche on the internet...good luck. You'll be changing forums a lot.
If you're gonna leave, leave. Don't go on and on and on. ...everyone wants you here obviously, you've contributed much but please stay or go if you can't handle being offended by an interweb troll.
Smfh...my eyes rolled so far back I saw my brain. 

Best post I've read all night! 

DMW

When I think I have it tough, I just remember Tibetan kids that had white tape on their faces to protect them from windburn.

But they had huge smiles on their faces. Oh, and the Tibetan yak butter tea was amazing.

theyolksonyou

I think these dudes are Tibetan monks. 


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4q6eaLn2mY

apinion

To get worked up over internet trolls is......devastating.

Ya, I said.

SMITTYtheSMOKER

Always a healthy choice to simply take a break from the forum ever so often, after 12 years on this forum I have seen quite a bit.  Every once in a while I to get too wrapped up in things around here, by stepping away many of times... it really does help.  But, to each their own.  I'm gonna go cook something. 

SGH

SMITTYtheSMOKER said:

I'm gonna go cook something. 

I like how you think brother smoker^^^^^^^^^^^

nolaegghead

If anything, getting an occasional troll is beneficial to all members as we get the personality test run on everyone and learn where peoples' limits are.  To make an analogy, it's like simulating a natural disaster, accident, attack or any extreme incident where you're going to see and learn where boundaries lay with individual people.  Of course, it's not that serious, but people also react in training like they would in reality.

When I was doing PADI training, an instructor would sneak up behind you and rip off your mask.  Some people freaked the f*ck out and zoomed to the surface (where they were grabbed to keep them from surfacing and hurting themselves).  Most people were just annoyed but tried to put their mask back on and clear out the water.  

So you learn from this, who is around you and where their limits are, and that's good, right? 

I understand we're not here to see waving **** gifs (outside the context of one's own or in some elective video), so that's unacceptable, and the troll should go when it gets, or better, before, that point. 

Mickey

Good night guys

TnJed

Trolls are fun.

I'm on a bunch of car forums, and this place is pretty tame.

That said, I have no idea what transpired here. Sounds heavy.

SkinnyV

Well said.... Especially the just leave part.

NPHuskerFL

Tony. Well put.  I have nothing to add.  If anything it showed us as members have some standards even if they're below Badwater Basin's level.  FWIW members here tend to be more self governing in moderation than the actual moderators. Don't believe me?...try to sell a t-shirt  

Skiddymarker

or Mangrates....

johnkitchens

NPHuskerFL said:

FWIW members here tend to be more self governing in moderation than the actual moderators. Don't believe me?...try to sell a t-shirt  

Skiddymarker said:

or Mangrates....

BYS1981

NPHuskerFL said:

Tony. Well put.  I have nothing to add.  If anything it showed us as members have some standards even if they're below Badwater Basin's level.  FWIW members here tend to be more self governing in moderation than the actual moderators. Don't believe me?...try to sell a t-shirt  

Personally, I don't care if someone pushs a product, but when there main intent is to sell products here, it gets old.  

For instance, Guys like BGC post an occasional cook, but he's only here to push his name down the forum' collective throat. However, the member, forget his name, who wanted beta testers for his temp controller was much better received. 

TN_Egger

I spent time yesterday delivering aid to villages hit by Nepal's earthquake.  

Internet trolls?

Thatgrimguy

SMITTYtheSMOKER said:

Always a healthy choice to simply take a break from the forum ever so often, after 12 years on this forum I have seen quite a bit.  Every once in a while I to get too wrapped up in things around here, by stepping away many of times... it really does help.  But, to each their own.  I'm gonna go cook something. 

Recently did the same. Just needed to get away and be happy with my own cooks rather than spending more time trying to create a meal for a forum rather than for my family who is actually eating it.

Sardonicus

BYS1981 said:

Personally, I don't care if someone pushs a product, . . .

  . . . Guys like BGC post an occasional cook, but he's only here to push his name down the forum' collective throat.

Somehow, those two sentiments seem vaguely contradictory, but I don't care enough to make the point.

Anyway . . .

BGCraig's offering of T-shirts was straight up goofy and his follow-up venture involving Fire Wires indicated a basic misunderstanding of the room he was playing to.

Nonetheless, that was a long time ago.  He's taken his shots - deservedly - and still occasionally shares his food porn with us.

I'm okay with that.  He seems to be an outstanding cook and a good photog - what's not to like?

Unless . . . people just need to kick a dog now and then 

to make themselves feel better.

That's a hobby too, I guess.

Phatchris

If your going to troll at least be funny and/or original...

jonnymack

I love it when the internets gets all serious because then I get to post pics like this: