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[HELP ON] Please help me!

SavedSaved Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong on these forums?

I made a few posts and threads in D&D and everyone got angry at me for no reason at all.

And then I made a thread in Social Entrophy and I don't even know what I did wrong but the people there are angry or totally gay. EVERYONE there was making fun of me but one or two people who are pretty cool but none of them will own up or even say *why* they hate me aside from the fact that they hate my religion. Right now the thread is like 30 pages long and I want to lock it but even the mods won't do their job and stop it. I was literally crying last night after some of the stuff that was said to me but I don't think those people give a damn about anything, least of all about my feelings.

I came to Penny Arcade because I wanted to chat with people about things like the comic. I like video games and cars and movies and I thought liking that stuff would be cool here too. I'm a pretty smart guy so D&D seemed like a better idea than Social Entrophy but honestly I don't understand why everyone here is so mean. There should be a board here like the off-topic boards where everyone just talks about what they like and everyone gets along.

Anyway, is there anything anyone can do here to help me?

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I dunno, but I think we should rename SE++ to "Social Entrophy."

    Also, my sig is a good example of what you are doing wrong.

    See also: http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/search.php?search_author=theSAVED

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  • ThandorThandor __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2007
    Three simple rules to get people to not hate you

    Rule 1: Read the rules before posting.

    Rule 2: Don't be an asshat

    Rule 3: See Rule 2.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    You are fake. It was funny for a minute. Stop posting now.

    Butters on
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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    No one hates your religion. I am also more or less a Christian. The difference is that I respect and value other religions and don't try to force my values on other people. Don't worry about what a bunch of people on the internet think of you. I think its obvious to everyone that its only possible to relate a certain facet of your personality and such on the internet, its just that the part of your peronality you've shown us so far is abrasive and inflamatory.

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Yes yes, your time here has been very traumatic.

    Log out.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Seriously everybody stop posting in this thread. He's an alt, just let it die. The dancing dong is what made his SE thread funny. Not him.

    Butters on
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  • redimpulseredimpulse Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Well if you're going to survive at all in SE++, you're gonna have to get rid of that sig. I don't mean to be harsh, but being blunt here is necessary: No one there is going to give half a shit about your uncle buying you a VW, and now that I look more at your sig every piece of info you've written down will be attacked upon greatly.

    So change that sig, and don't be such an asshat (see Thandor's post).

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  • SavedSaved Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Seriously everybody stop posting in this thread. He's an alt, just let it die. The dancing dong is what made his SE thread funny. Not him.

    Look, how am I supposed to prove anything about who I am over the internet?

    This is just me saying I'm sorry and trying NOT to draw any more attention to myself.

    I just want to be treated like everybody else here - I'll apologize for my bad behaviour even though I wasn't the only one at fault but I'm not going to let you bully me off this site.

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Just go post in G&T

    Fuck.

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    If you don't want to draw attention to yourself, making three threads, acting like a self-righteous idiot, and attacking people is not the way to go about it. :P

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  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    I am actually a well respected forum Big Brother. If you would like to receive advice, feel free to address me off to the side via PMs or whatever so that you won't be subject to open ridicule.

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  • WembleyWembley Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Ok. There has been some conjecture on this, so I'm just going to have to ask. You're 16 so how do you "always vote republican"?

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Seriously everybody stop posting in this thread. He's an alt, just let it die. The dancing dong is what made his SE thread funny. Not him.

    Look, how am I supposed to prove anything about who I am over the internet?

    This is just me saying I'm sorry and trying NOT to draw any more attention to myself.

    I just want to be treated like everybody else here - I'll apologize for my bad behaviour even though I wasn't the only one at fault but I'm not going to let you bully me off this site.

    wil' j^m

    Also, yes, please tell us how you vote Republican at 16.

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  • RoundBoyRoundBoy Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Threads like this, and the sig posted in the 2nd post are what make me love the internet.

    if you are crying yourself to sleep over an interweb forum, you have bigger issues then SE++.

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  • SavedSaved Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Wembley wrote:
    Ok. There has been some conjecture on this, so I'm just going to have to ask. You're 16 so how do you "always vote republican"?

    Everyone in my family has voted republican, my grandfather, my father, both of my uncles, my aunt, mom and older brother, and I'm going to too.

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  • WembleyWembley Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Wembley wrote:
    Ok. There has been some conjecture on this, so I'm just going to have to ask. You're 16 so how do you "always vote republican"?

    Everyone in my family has voted republican, my grandfather, my father, both of my uncles, my aunt, mom and older brother, and I'm going to too.

    Ok. So what you really meant is that you're going to vote republican. That aside, let me point out that blind party voting is one of the biggest problems with politics in this country. Just my two cents.

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  • drinkinstoutdrinkinstout Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    wait, did you call people on here... 'retarts' ? :shock:

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  • YarYar Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Claiming that babies commit sins in the womb and are punished via birth defects, while perhaps common in some circles, is considered beyond the acceptable extreme around here.

    Telling us your big brother is going to hack us makes us doubt you're even serious.

    Coming in here now and saying all you wanted to do was chat about the comic and video games makes you a pathetic liar. And lies make baby Jesus cry.

    I think you're the anti-rambozo, actually. Prove to me that you aren't.

    Yar on
  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Wembley wrote:
    Ok. There has been some conjecture on this, so I'm just going to have to ask. You're 16 so how do you "always vote republican"?

    Everyone in my family has voted republican, my grandfather, my father, both of my uncles, my aunt, mom and older brother, and I'm going to too.
    Now that's what I'm talkin' about when I talk about America!

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  • JinniganJinnigan Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Do you also believe in Young Earth Theory?

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Wembley wrote:
    Ok. There has been some conjecture on this, so I'm just going to have to ask. You're 16 so how do you "always vote republican"?

    Everyone in my family has voted republican, my grandfather, my father, both of my uncles, my aunt, mom and older brother, and I'm going to too.
    So what you're telling us is that you really do have a problem thinking for yourself?

    Also, what Yar said. Specifically that first sentence. That was forum-suicide really.

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  • Red*PandaRed*Panda Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Wembley wrote:
    Ok. There has been some conjecture on this, so I'm just going to have to ask. You're 16 so how do you "always vote republican"?

    Everyone in my family has voted republican, my grandfather, my father, both of my uncles, my aunt, mom and older brother, and I'm going to too.

    thats fine, but dont you think that you should research first? make your own decisions. Alot of older people blindly vote for a party based on facts from 20-30 years ago (Ie. Reagans party, so it must be good) both party's have good people and bad people.

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  • SavedSaved Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I don't know what to think about the age of the earth.

    On the one hand my pastor says that the earth is a lot younger than a lot of people believe it is now.

    But I think it's kind of strange that the earth is somehow younger than the dinosaurs.

    Really though no one was alive back then so there's no way to know for sure.

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  • YarYar Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Really though no one was alive back then so there's no way to know for sure.
    How would someone being alive back then allow us to know for sure, and how does their absensce make it impossible?

    Forget it, nevermind, this is H/A. Here is your A: calm down, relax, and accept that the extreme nature of your stance will naturally draw some extremely strong responses. If you really are saved and have faith then it should not bother you one bit what people on the Internet are typing about you.

    And do not threaten us.

    Yar on
  • Red*PandaRed*Panda Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    I don't know what to think about the age of the earth.

    On the one hand my pastor says that the earth is a lot younger than a lot of people believe it is now.

    But I think it's kind of strange that the earth is somehow younger than the dinosaurs.

    Really though no one was alive back then so there's no way to know for sure.

    huh? :shock:

    sounds as crazy as hallow earth!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth

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  • ToadTheMushroomToadTheMushroom Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Guys.

    This guy is not serious.

    He is trolling to get you to bite and it is working.

    Ignore him.

    He is definetly not that stupid because he is posting in an internet forum. That requires more intelligence then believing just because people weren't around back then that it cannot be verified. That's about s ridiculous as closing your eyes turns off all light on earth.

    Fucking idiot needs to be taught a lesson, and the only thing we can do is to let his threads die a slow death and not get any responses.

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  • SavedSaved Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Red*Panda wrote:
    theSAVED wrote:
    I don't know what to think about the age of the earth.

    On the one hand my pastor says that the earth is a lot younger than a lot of people believe it is now.

    But I think it's kind of strange that the earth is somehow younger than the dinosaurs.

    Really though no one was alive back then so there's no way to know for sure.

    huh? :shock:

    i was responding to the guy who asked about the young earth theory

    Like some people believe the earth is less than 5000 years old because that's how it's "counted out" by the generations from the bible.

    But then we know that dinosaurs are millions if not billions of years old.

    So it doesn't make sense that those bones from the dinosaurs could be there before God made the Earth, right?

    And even then there weren't any humans alive back at that time, and no books or written words. Everyone was still a caveman so there aren't any records to say for sure how it all happened.

    However I *DO* think there is a Garden of Eden, but it's probably hidden in a place where humans can't get to.

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  • FunkyWaltDoggFunkyWaltDogg Columbia, SCRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    He is definetly not that stupid because he is posting in an internet forum.
    :?:

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Wembley wrote:
    Ok. There has been some conjecture on this, so I'm just going to have to ask. You're 16 so how do you "always vote republican"?
    Everyone in my family has voted republican, my grandfather, my father, both of my uncles, my aunt, mom and older brother, and I'm going to too.
    Umm... where are you posting from?

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I'm considering swapping out my sig for this little gem:
    theSAVED wrote:
    However I *DO* think there is a Garden of Eden, but it's probably hidden in a place where humans can't get to.

    Eden? Or The Matrix?

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  • FunkyWaltDoggFunkyWaltDogg Columbia, SCRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Drez wrote:
    I'm considering swapping out my sig for this little gem:
    theSAVED wrote:
    However I *DO* think there is a Garden of Eden, but it's probably hidden in a place where humans can't get to.

    Eden? Or The Matrix?
    This thread is a gold mine of sigs.

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  • SavedSaved Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Guys.

    This guy is not serious.

    He is trolling to get you to bite and it is working.

    Ignore him.

    He is definetly not that stupid because he is posting in an internet forum. That requires more intelligence then believing just because people weren't around back then that it cannot be verified. That's about s ridiculous as closing your eyes turns off all light on earth.

    Fucking idiot needs to be taught a lesson, and the only thing we can do is to let his threads die a slow death and not get any responses.

    Okay I AM an alt, okay? Happy now?

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  • WembleyWembley Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Guys.

    This guy is not serious.

    He is trolling to get you to bite and it is working.

    Ignore him.

    He is definetly not that stupid because he is posting in an internet forum. That requires more intelligence then believing just because people weren't around back then that it cannot be verified. That's about s ridiculous as closing your eyes turns off all light on earth.

    Fucking idiot needs to be taught a lesson, and the only thing we can do is to let his threads die a slow death and not get any responses.

    Okay I AM an alt, okay? Happy now?

    I've never been happy :(

    Wembley on
  • FunkyWaltDoggFunkyWaltDogg Columbia, SCRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Guys.

    This guy is not serious.

    He is trolling to get you to bite and it is working.

    Ignore him.

    He is definetly not that stupid because he is posting in an internet forum. That requires more intelligence then believing just because people weren't around back then that it cannot be verified. That's about s ridiculous as closing your eyes turns off all light on earth.

    Fucking idiot needs to be taught a lesson, and the only thing we can do is to let his threads die a slow death and not get any responses.

    Okay I AM an alt, okay? Happy now?
    But the mods said you probably weren't!

    FunkyWaltDogg on
  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    theSAVED wrote:
    Guys.

    This guy is not serious.

    He is trolling to get you to bite and it is working.

    Ignore him.

    He is definetly not that stupid because he is posting in an internet forum. That requires more intelligence then believing just because people weren't around back then that it cannot be verified. That's about s ridiculous as closing your eyes turns off all light on earth.

    Fucking idiot needs to be taught a lesson, and the only thing we can do is to let his threads die a slow death and not get any responses.

    Okay I AM an alt, okay? Happy now?
    No. You are a source of perpetual disappointment.

    Druhim on
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  • FunkyWaltDoggFunkyWaltDogg Columbia, SCRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Druhim wrote:
    theSAVED wrote:
    Guys.

    This guy is not serious.

    He is trolling to get you to bite and it is working.

    Ignore him.

    He is definetly not that stupid because he is posting in an internet forum. That requires more intelligence then believing just because people weren't around back then that it cannot be verified. That's about s ridiculous as closing your eyes turns off all light on earth.

    Fucking idiot needs to be taught a lesson, and the only thing we can do is to let his threads die a slow death and not get any responses.

    Okay I AM an alt, okay? Happy now?
    Yes. You are a source of perpetual entertainment.
    EDIT: To try and things back on topic, what's wrong is the content, and the tone, of your posts. Drez's initial response is a good example; your D&D religion thread is another. You claimed that everyone hates your religion, when that's simply not true. I'm a Christian and I'm pretty sure that there are other D&D regulars who are as well. Most of the other posters are sympathetic to Christians who don't exhibit signs of super-crazy fundamentalism. When you make claims like this you're going to draw fire.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Druhim wrote:
    theSAVED wrote:
    Guys.

    This guy is not serious.

    He is trolling to get you to bite and it is working.

    Ignore him.

    He is definetly not that stupid because he is posting in an internet forum. That requires more intelligence then believing just because people weren't around back then that it cannot be verified. That's about s ridiculous as closing your eyes turns off all light on earth.

    Fucking idiot needs to be taught a lesson, and the only thing we can do is to let his threads die a slow death and not get any responses.

    Okay I AM an alt, okay? Happy now?
    Yes. You are a source of perpetual entertainment.

    Its the kind of entertainment that makes you want to go club baby seals, but you keep coming back for me.

    Veevee on
  • Andrew_JayAndrew_Jay Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I want to try and offer you some acutal help here.

    First of all, do not discuss religion.

    There is a very good reason why D&D tightly restricts threads on religion - it is a sensitive subject, most people already have their established positions and these discussions go nowhere. Now, the thread you recently posted in was not a religion thread, but you came in with some very heavy-handed religious arguments and more or less tried to make it one.

    You don't want people to attack your beliefs, and that is understandable, but keep in mind the fact that bringing up religion can also be seen as attacking the beliefs of others. It's a two-way street.
    theSAVED wrote:
    I came to Penny Arcade because I wanted to chat with people about things like the comic. I like video games and cars and movies and I thought liking that stuff would be cool here too.
    Then by all means do that. Stick to these things, take some time to get used to the board and the people here before bringing up personal or controversial issues.

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  • SavedSaved Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Andrew_Jay wrote:
    I want to try and offer you some acutal help here.

    First of all, do not discuss religion.

    There is a very good reason why D&D tightly restricts threads on religion - it is a sensitive subject, most people already have their established positions and these discussions go nowhere. Now, the thread you recently posted in was not a religion thread, but you came in with some very heavy-handed religious arguments and more or less tried to make it one.

    You don't want people to attack your beliefs, and that is understandable, but keep in mind the fact that bringing up religion can also be seen as attacking the beliefs of others. It's a two-way street.
    theSAVED wrote:
    I came to Penny Arcade because I wanted to chat with people about things like the comic. I like video games and cars and movies and I thought liking that stuff would be cool here too.
    Then by all means do that. Stick to these things, take some time to get used to the board and the people here before bringing up personal or controversial issues.

    yeah... I'm supposed to be spreading the faith along with other members of my church's youth group, but honestly even though they say to try and get people on AIM and the internet to talk about god it seems to cause more harm than good.

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Hey guys, this is supposed to be a forum for help and/or advice. Calling SAVED an alt and insulting him is neither. If you don't think he's real, shut up about it. If you post in here, make it helpful and advisory.

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