ORIGINAL: mjk428
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
[:)]I'm glad to hear it. But the question was rhetorical. I'm not really paranoid. But I am curious why people bait other people on this site. And no one answers me. I've offered to talk to people one on one ,via e-mail , hell , I'll give them my phone number or meet them over a beer. No one answers. And that included the folks at the steakhouse. Doggie kindly invited me to join , but that still doesn't answer WHY? Surely there are more and easire ways to succeed at this. And if you want a good old fashion pissing contest , you guys at the steak house are both good at it and relish a good fight. You'd be better at it , with less restraints. So what is it that makes baiting the people on this forum such an attraction? That's the kind of question that makes consider chucking history as a career and taking up psychology. What's the real scoop Mac? You swim in both ponds--e-mail me the answer , would you?
All you have to do is look at Mike Scholl's post for the answer.
For some strange reason some folks here think they're better than the folks at the Steakhouse. They seem ignorant of the fact that "the Steakhouse guys" were virtually all "Matrix guys" before there ever was a Steakhouse - and they're still Matrix guys for the most part. Steakhouse dwellers do tend to relish a good war of words. That's why nobody should be surprised when they respond in kind when they get called out. Don't want a fight with the Steakhouse then stop referring to the Steakhouse negatively.
We've all got the same right to be here at Matrix and virtually everyone is welcome at the Steakhouse. The whole squabble is ridiculous. Disparaging the Steakhouse is the equivalent of disparaging any subforum here at Matrix. How about we start calling "The Thread" participants idiots?
I stopped frequenting the Steakhouse awhile back but some of the crap I see here at Matrix really makes me want to sport one of those "Proud Steakhouse Moron" sigs.
[:)] Well , I for one am certainly willing to forgo calling MCS folks "morons". But you will have to forgive me for assuming that's the way they wanted to be identified. They call themselves that , they post themselfs that , and they have the I'm a Steakhouse M----- link. Surely I can be forgiven for thinking that this was a badge of honor and preference , like an infantryman calling himself a "grunt" , a submariner being a "bubblehead" or in my community , avation folks being called "airdales". Obviously I'm mistaken and apologies. But have any MCS folks ever objected , or told us their preferences? I've only subscribed to this forum since May of this year , and I don't recall see anything like that.
And I don't honestly think the people on this forum think that they are better than MCS, just different. At MCS , the discourse gets rough , course and and pretty wild. And from everything I've read over there , that's just the way they like it. Some of us , and I definatley mean me , don't care for that rough and tumble. So what? I know Doggie has a few veiws of that (he's expressed his opion pretty clearly at MCS) and that's his right. It's his rules , and when over there , you play by them. That's more than fair. And the folks here want something a little more structured and less wild. That's also fair.
So it strikes me , that the real problem is that MCS and the Matrix forumites don't talk , except to slag each other. That won't do. And any little &*()#$$% who wants to stir up trouble here or there has only to troll in the forum of one or the other to create a thread war. The way I see it , the only people who can do anything about it , are the "dual citizens" like yourselves who talk to and understand each side. Your comments here are a great start! I encourage you to jump in when someone crosses the line. In fact , I encourage everyone to jump in , on both sides , fairly. [:(]
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