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The thread about Batman and Robin was not aggressive, barring Dead Megatron's attempts to rot it, nor did it lower the quality of Barbelith, because it was of significantly higher quality than the discussion about the Dark Knight and indeed the discussion going on elsewhere in Film, TV and Theatre.
Oh. My. God! Are you serious? Ok, let's dismember that statement.
The thread about Batman and Robin was not aggressive
Yes, it was. It was a thread that had no purpose whatsoever other than to mock other posters and their nerdiness about the Batman movie. It was not directly agressive, I'll grant you that. You didn't turn to a particular poster and started calling hir names or anything, but the whole attitute behind that was aggressive.
barring Dead Megatron's attempts to rot it
I didn't attempt to rot anything. I only amicably proposed the thread should be abandoned because honestly I could not see anything good coming out from it, other than some angry exchange of post between Haus and [insert random name]. I also said the thread was a bad idea (the reason for that is above) and the joke was not funny. Mind you, I did not say the joke was aggressive, self-righteous, arrogant, inappropriate, offensive, racist, or [insert greek word]phobic in any way, only that it was not funny, in the sense that Haus has made better jokes in the past. But, it seems his sarcasm-based sense of humor is very important for Haus' sense of identity as the Grand Poo-bah of Barbelith, because after which he proceeded to quote out of context every single mistake I've ever committed here - some of which were many years old and have been already apologized for by me - like I had just called him all sorts of names. After which, realizing nothing was to be gained with engaging Haus, since it seemed to me at the time that that was exactly what he wanted to do with that thread - to troll-bait me (or anyone else) into saying something stupid while attempting to be rational and polite, and then claim that he was the victim and was unwilling dragged into a discussion he never wanted to be in in the first place (classical Haus approach, I might add), I took the high road and did not return to the thread. How does that constitute and attempt to rot the thread, may I know? Can you even point as to where, exaclty, I aggresively tried to rot your joke-thread? (and the "yeah, yeah, yeah" post doesn't count, for that was not aggressive, it was dismissive, and rightly so at the time)
Plus, rotting what, exactly? Was there anything not already rotten in it to begin with? Any important debate on the historical importance of the Batman and Robin TV-series as a textbook display of camp that had a lasting multi-media negative impact on the way people saw the character? An informed discussion on future Nolan films, in comparison to Italian neo-realism or the French avant-garde, or Brazil's cinema novo? Anything at all?
nor did it lower the quality of Barbelith, because it was of significantly higher quality than the discussion about the Dark Knight and indeed the discussion going on elsewhere in Film, TV and Theatre.
Yes, it did lower the quality, for it was not of "significantly higher quality" than anything. At the very best, and this is a major compromise I'm making, it was of the same level of said discussion. Though, IMHO, it was much, much lower. And, apparently, intentionally ill-intended to boot, which is an accusation that cannot be made on the nerdgasm of other threads, at least.
Haus, my opinion is that you should voluntarily scramble you password and move to another board - or create your own* - since this place is clearly beneath you now and is clearly making you suffer. But it need to be a voluntary thing, for there is no reasonable motive to ban anyone. Go ahead, man! You'll feel a lot better after.
Now, seriously, Haus, you need to stop accusing other people of doing what you, and you alone, are actually doing, namely in this case, being aggressive, thread-rooting, a troll, and frustrated at not getting the feedback you think it would be the proper one. That, above all else, is what is ruining Barbelith.
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