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[Agrajag]

Epaminondas said:

I guess Arralen is really the resident forum jack ***, and I am not the only new poster who has been greeted with a rude message.

Epaminondas, you are the one that completely twisted Arralen's words.
Arralen said "CHEATER !!!" as a joke, and promptly explaing exactly how to "cheat". (and you can tell its a joke because of the explaining directly after it )
I think you are the one being a jack ***, trying to make Arralen look bad.

[Epaminondas]

Agrajag said:

Epaminondas, you are the one that completely twisted Arralen's words.
Arralen said "CHEATER !!!" as a joke, and promptly explaing exactly how to "cheat". (and you can tell its a joke because of the explaining directly after it )
I think you are the one being a jack ***, trying to make Arralen look bad.

What, are you his sidekick or something?

Arralen edited his original post. More important, the response of the original thread starter, proceeding immediately after Arralen's original post, clearly indicates that he too thought Arralen was being a jack ***.

[Agrajag]

Epaminondas said:
What, are you his sidekick or something?

Arralen edited his original post. More important, the response of the original thread starter, proceeding immediately after Arralen's original post, clearly indicates that he too thought Arralen was being a jack ***.

What are you? A Journalist? Constantly twisting people's words to your way of things...

Let me quote a nice little snippet from Arralen's post now, I'll even bold it:

edit: additonal text .. sry, hit the wrong button...

[Epaminondas]

LOL, a pretty funny and uncanny stab in the dark!

Yes, I am a journalist--at least part-time, given that I've published numerous op-eds for newspapers and short pieces for magazines.

Of course, you can accuse me of being a liar too, and we'd then have an impasse, because there's no way I am going to try to muster the effort to "prove myself" in an online forum--esp. in an online forum where not all participants are oh so "mature."

[Agrajag]

Epaminondas said:
LOL, a pretty funny and uncanny stab in the dark!

Yes, I am a journalist--at least part-time, given that I've published numerous op-eds for newspapers and short pieces for magazines.

Of course, you can accuse me of being a liar too, and we'd then have an impasse, because there's no way I am going to try to muster the effort to "prove myself" in an online forum--esp. in an online forum where not all participants are oh so "mature."

*sigh*
If you would've gone a few posts below you would have also seen solops's post, quoting Arralen's post with the added text, showing it was added at that time and not right now to cover his tracks, as you seem to be implying.
Personally, I also doubt the sincerity of your mistake. After all, you did pull a post from 6 pages (and more than a month) ago, just to make a point against Arralen.
If you are going to accuse me of immaturity you might as well leave now, unless you want me to use my super-powers as Arralen's sidekick against you
Finally, if you really think this forum is so hostile, why are you even here?

[Endoperez]

Agrajag said:
Finally, if you really think this forum is so hostile, why are you even here?

Err...

Sorry, I seem to have missed something, but when arguing someone, I'd suggest not proving his points. You are giving him a reason to think this forum is hostile.

I think your comment here is a bit too harsh. I also think Arralen's comment was too harsh. And I also think the way Epaminondas has been handling this issue is too harsh.

That said...

1) Remember the pot and the kettle.
2) Turn the other cheek.
3) Wait a week. If you still are angry, request that the "Forum etiquette" post is updated. A neutral, polite PM to a moderator makes them consider it, and if needed, do something about it. I suspect few regulars would like to have it mention something about proper punctuation and grammar as well.

[Epaminondas]

Agrajag said:

Personally, I also doubt the sincerity of your mistake. After all, you did pull a post from 6 pages (and more than a month) ago, just to make a point against Arralen.
If you are going to accuse me of immaturity you might as well leave now, unless you want me to use my super-powers as Arralen's sidekick against you
Finally, if you really think this forum is so hostile, why are you even here?

The thread was a "current" thread, not from "more than a month ago." Someone had replied to it 13 minutes before I replied to it.

As for why I am here, because I was an avid fan of Dom II, and I would like to learn more about Dom III--in particular because I don't have a copy of Dom III yet? And it appears that there are some posters here who are indeed courteous and have not accused me of being a Dom III "pirate" recklessly.

[Agrajag]

Epaminondas said:

The thread was a "current" thread, not from "more than a month ago." Someone had replied to it 13 minutes before I replied to it.

Now look in my post at what I put in italic - "Post" not "thread". The post you quoted is over a month old, and is from six pages ago, no two ways about it.

As for why I am here, because I was an avid fan of Dom II, and I would like to learn more about Dom III--in particular because I don't have a copy of Dom III yet?

Obviously I meant "why are you here despite so much percieved hostility?".
I'm assuming you just mean that such hostility as you seem to complain about is negligible compared to how you value the information you hope to obtain by hanging around the forum.

And it appears that there are some posters here who are indeed courteous and have not accused me of being a Dom III "pirate" recklessly.

Again, no one accused you of anything, despite what you may think.
Furthermore, having spent quite some time hanging around this forum I can tell you most of the regular members in here are courteous, and all of them will treat you well (as long as you don't try to upset them.)

Endoperez said:

Err...

Sorry, I seem to have missed something, but when arguing someone, I'd suggest not proving his points. You are giving him a reason to think this forum is hostile.

I think your comment here is a bit too harsh.

I'm just interested, not really trying to pass any criticism (though I can see why it can be understood that way).
I've seen countless of posts on different forums from people who think that everyone is against them, yet they keep "coming back" for some more "abuse". If you feel the place is that bad - just leave, there is no point in starting an arguement about how everyone else is just a jack ***, especially since that just tends to make people more of an *** than they usually are.
Apparently, Epaminondas answer is (if you will allow me to paraphrase a bit) "Its more important to me to get the information I want about dom3 than the bad treatment troubles me" - a good enough answer. Even though I don't think he is being treated badly in any way.