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Draven
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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Some more advice:
Irrverent posting is common on these types of boards. It's a fine line between irreverence and an attack and you need to differentiate the two. Just look at Blind Willie's post in this thread. I don't think he was attacking JennyJJ, but that's how she perceived it - as a personal attack. If you look closely at his post, it seems to me he was offering valid advice. This board gives you the opportunity to hone those critical reading skills your professors were talking about back in university.
Second, take a few minutes to learn the BBCode of the board. It's quite easy to use and enhances the readability of your posts if they're formatted properly - especially when quoting others, but also when submitting url's and pictures. |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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One more (this isn't just for newbies): use short paragraphs. If I see long blocks of indigestable text, I usually skip over the post.
Posts with short paragraphs will be read by more people, and there's a better chance you'll get the response you wanted. |
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Blind Willie
Joined: 05 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| JennyJJ wrote: |
| I thought most of the criticism fair - sorry you couldn't handle it. |
I'm used to dealing with the most psychotic of psychotic expats online. It'd take more than some moaning about not getting a fair shake around here to phase me.
Try to consider what I gave you as some tough love.
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| I don't tend to use other's threads as my personal "chat line" as so many of the dominators of the board do. |
Then you have no right to complain when others do. It's not as if you're being barred from it.
As well, a lot of people here have formed friendships, or at least have met each other in person, and thus it can seem like a "Chat line" but if you go to some of the parties, and dont seem so hauty, then you'll realize that it's just people being people.
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Maybe more civilized behavior would be welcome?
The rudeness of many of the regulars on the board, the nasty attacks - and the frequent hijackings are a highlight of this board that keeps many of us away - and discourages new blood and new thinking. That too is okay - if you don't mind its limitations. |
See, the only person stopping you is you. No one here is saying "Bugger off " and if they are, you should be willing to step up and say, "Listen, you are so far undernieth me that I wont even bother responding"
Like politics, if you honestly want to see things change around here for what you feel to be the better, you have to roll up your sleeves and participate. Sniping from the sidelines is all good and well, but if you want actual change, you have to make it happen.
If you don't want to see change, then don't bother. Your choice.
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| There are no secret handshakes or anything, if you want to be part of the clique, then you participate. |
Exactly.
Except for the "clique" part. That's just some nonsense used by the sort of person who believes that everyone will hate them anyway. And they do what they can to make sure it's a self-fullfilling prophesy by attacking it and the people they believe to be part of it. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Some more advice for newbies:
Don't ask, "Why are you so rude to Wombat/Harin/Khalifa/sock of the week" if you haven't been around long enough to keep track of the board sociopaths. |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| it's just people being people. |
I love it when that happens ...  |
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FUBAR
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: The Y.C.
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
Some more advice for newbies:
Don't ask, "Why are you so rude to Wombat/Harin/Khalifa/sock of the week" if you haven't been around long enough to keep track of the board sociopaths. |
Don't hold petty grudges. Don't get angry at people b/c they haven't followed the board closely enough to understand the petty grudges on this board. |
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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| What Fubar said. |
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jaebea
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: SYD
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 7:34 am Post subject: |
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Try not to start any "Koreabash / Western women vs Korean women / My hagwon is filled with litte gremlins who like to poke me in the bum" threads.
These will cycle through, as regular as the tides, and you can vent with much gusto and heart whenever they surface.
Don't worry, your time will come. Or I'll eat my socks.
jae. |
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Tiger Ninestein
Joined: 01 May 2004
Location: Gumi (for now)
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| Blind Willie wrote: |
| JennyJJ wrote: |
| I thought most of the criticism fair - sorry you couldn't handle it. |
I'm used to dealing with the most psychotic of psychotic expats online. It'd take more than some moaning about not getting a fair shake around here to phase me.
Try to consider what I gave you as some tough love. |
If this is your idea of "tough love" http://www.thepersonunderthestairs.com/users/billomite/korea/ethnickorea.html , then I think you are part of the problem, not the solution. Isn't this the poster that wished all of us teaching here got nuked? As a newbie, I may not know much about Korea, but I can smell trouble a mile away, and I suspect that would be you. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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I'm getting a kick out of how everyone's using this thread as a "don't do this!" discussion.
"Don't use the board in a way that annoys me, because it annoys me!"
Feel the angst. Grr. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| SweetBear wrote: |
It suggested that maybe it would be healthier for some of us to get away from the computer and go out to actually
explore this place. I assume that it was directed at some of those posters with hundreds if not thousands of posts. Good advice. |
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| Most probably these posters with thousands of posts have been around the block and are giving their advice. |
While I do agree with the sentiment that people should get out more and stop trying to experience Korea from their computer, why do people tend to assume that people with lots of posts are losers? |
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Blind Willie
Joined: 05 May 2004
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Yeah, that was a pretty vicious lampooning of the typical ethnocentric expat on my part. I was on fire the week I wrote that.
And, if I were a person like that, I'd be furious at it.
Thankfully, you're not a person like that... right?
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| Isn't this the poster that wished all of us teaching here got nuked? |
Indeed I did. It was very mean of me to say that.
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| As a newbie, I may not know much about Korea, but I can smell trouble a mile away, and I suspect that would be you. |
As a newbie, how did you know about what you just posted about me, and be interested enough in me to go through the effort to link it to this conversation?
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| The Lemon wrote: |
One more (this isn't just for newbies): use short paragraphs. If I see long blocks of indigestable text, I usually skip over the post.
Posts with short paragraphs will be read by more people, and there's a better chance you'll get the response you wanted. |
And please use reasonably-sized avatars, so as not to screw up the page formatting. |
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Blind Willie
Joined: 05 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| The Lemon wrote: |
One more (this isn't just for newbies): use short paragraphs. If I see long blocks of indigestable text, I usually skip over the post.
Posts with short paragraphs will be read by more people, and there's a better chance you'll get the response you wanted. |
And please use reasonably-sized avatars, so as not to screw up the page formatting. |
I second this. |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Haha - Irony, BW - your banner - snazzy as it is - is also too wide for the board if you're using an 800x600 or smaller screen (which I'm forced to in my office). How about resizing it?
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