i will not apologize for my remark, nor explain it.
i respect this board enough to assume that most of you can figure out my tone & intended meaning for yourselves if you read the thread with that intent. if not, perhaps sam, or someone else familiar with goemaw and it's posters, will explain it; i don't believe that i should have to. i actually thought (still think) that it was a relatively clever comment, in it's brevity if nothing else.
as far as banning me, i've enjoyed this board very much, and would like to continue to have the opportunity to comment on ou, kstate and the big 12 in general at this site. but if having to censor myself on kstate boards is a condition of participating here, then i would obviously choose the kstate boards over ouhoops.
It's a message board, people. No need to get upset over anything.
That said, people who make comments like that usually live a very miserable existence.
i will not apologize for my remark, nor explain it.
i respect this board enough to assume that most of you can figure out my tone & intended meaning for yourselves if you read the thread with that intent. if not, perhaps sam, or someone else familiar with goemaw and it's posters, will explain it; i don't believe that i should have to. i actually thought (still think) that it was a relatively clever comment, in it's brevity if nothing else.
Maybe there wasn't anything good on Nick Zeppelin's 10 member blog?what OU fan would waste time reading a kansas aggy board to begin with?
what OU fan would waste time reading a kansas aggy board to begin with?
i will not apologize for my remark, nor explain it.
i respect this board enough to assume that most of you can figure out my tone & intended meaning for yourselves if you read the thread with that intent. if not, perhaps sam, or someone else familiar with goemaw and it's posters, will explain it; i don't believe that i should have to. i actually thought (still think) that it was a relatively clever comment, in it's brevity if nothing else.
as far as banning me, i've enjoyed this board very much, and would like to continue to have the opportunity to comment on ou, kstate and the big 12 in general at this site. but if having to censor myself on kstate boards is a condition of participating here, then i would obviously choose the kstate boards over ouhoops.
Originally Posted by sys
i will not apologize for my remark, nor explain it.
i respect this board enough to assume that most of you can figure out my tone & intended meaning for yourselves if you read the thread with that intent. if not, perhaps sam, or someone else familiar with goemaw and it's posters, will explain it; i don't believe that i should have to. i actually thought (still think) that it was a relatively clever comment, in it's brevity if nothing else.
as far as banning me, i've enjoyed this board very much, and would like to continue to have the opportunity to comment on ou, kstate and the big 12 in general at this site. but if having to censor myself on kstate boards is a condition of participating here, then i would obviously choose the kstate boards over ouhoops.
Do you make quips about the departed at funerals and refuse to apologize for or explain them? Do you expect the mourners within earshot to figure out your tone and intended meaning?
The posters on that poor excuse for a board you were hanging out on were trashing Austin Box mere days after his death. You either took part in speaking ill of the dead or made a glib comment on what the others were saying. If the former, you deserve whatever you're getting here. If the latter, you display a special brand of arrogance in characterizing your remark as "clever" and refusing to either explain or apologize for the post.
If you haven't learned by now that tone and attitude in text-based electronic communications -- whether on web boards, in emails or via texts and IMs -- is very often misunderstood, then you must be brand new to the online world. Sarcasm online is a tricky thing, indeed, and when it is used in a comment that -- on its surface, at least -- celebrates the death of a 22-year-old young man who was much beloved by so many, then it exhibits sheer stubbornness and even gall to pretend that clarifications, if not apologies, are not in order.
It seems clear now that you're claiming -- if only indirectly -- that you were commenting on the other posters' sentiments. I feel safe in assuming, given the intelligence exhibited in their posts, that the vast majority of them didn't grasp your meaning, that your oh-so-clever dig at them sailed right over their heads.
So nice job all the way around. You've offended many here, and your intended barb at those in the other community was so artfully subtle that they had no idea they'd been insulted.
Seems you missed the target in just about every way possible.
Good post, skyvue. The shots this guy is taking are all well deserved; you just have a way of conveying your thoughts better than most of the rest of us.
As for as the part I "bolded" above, I believe you – and others – are letting sys off a little too easy. I read all the posts on the first page of that despicable thread, and I find nothing that makes me believe sys was commenting on the ugliness and stupidity displayed by his fellow posters. To me, it was simply a case of a bunch of morally bankrupt individuals lining up and taking turns to see who could make the most distasteful comment about this poor kid's untimely death. For sys to even vaguely imply that his post was intended to shame those other posters is both laughable and sad.
Not that I spend much time alone in the dark dull over what some guy I wouldn't know from Adam said on a message board, what would seem more egregious than joking about someone's death is lumping Austin in with Osama bin Laden.
sys is a good poster on here. If he says anything like that on this message board then by all means ban him.
The goemaw board is based on the shock factor. What you read on that thread (including sys' retort) goes on every day on there. They think its funny. I don't (except when it pertains to Kansas U or the state of Kansas which is a worthless state). But I don't think we should be in the buisness of banning people based on what they say on other MBs.
Just my two cents.
Do you make quips about the departed at funerals and refuse to apologize for or explain them? Do you expect the mourners within earshot to figure out your tone and intended meaning?