OT of OT: Rating Fyron -- no longer possible

[Fyron]

Originally posted by primitive:
Fyron:
Since this thread won't die here is my comments:

Your mods and your helpfullnes when someone asks questions clearly deserve a fiver.

I personally don't like your political views, but I would never rate anyone because of a difference in opinions.

I have rated you low because you have a tendency to flame every idea not your own. I think this is very counterproductive to the SEIV society and also SEV development. Several posters have dropped completely out of the forum after one of your very rude responses.

To end this post, I am gonna quote you:
“Please don't be so arrogant to assume that you hold absolute truth and anyone that disagrees with you is naive. The only one being naive there is the person that believes they hold absolute truth.”

See... now we are making some headway. Much more useful post than most made in this thread.

It is always nice to see quotes taken wildly out of context. There is a significant difference between arguing against something someone posted and refusing to accept any criticism of things you have posted. That was posted after someone repeatedly refused to accept that some evidence he/she was using was wrong, and continued using it. It does not apply to myself because when I am wrong, I admit it and amend my views appropriately. I just happened to be right in the debate that was quoted from.

If someone was offended by something posted in an OT thread, then that person should not be reading OT threads. They nearly always get somewhat heated, and it is very easy to be offended when people post things that contradict your own world view. If I offended these people enough to make them leave the entire forum, then I am sorry. It was never my intention to drive anyone away. But, they should lighten up and not take things so seriously.

Also, I do not "flame every idea not [my] own". There is a world of difference between flaming someone for their ideas and holding more or less civil debates. When someone Posts something I do not agree with, I am well within my rights to post something arguing against it (as they can argue against anything I have posted). I do not flame these ideas, I just argue against them. Flaming them would consist of posting something like, "you're a moron, with stupid beliefs." I have never posted that.

... that was a bit long-winded. Oh well.

Edit: Upon reading Fyron's profile i'm finally happy to find another person who has their birthday on september 11th, you have no idea how immature school kids can be "OMG Your Osama Bin Laden!" *sigh* and i thought 16 year olds were beginning to mature! So maybe you can send a couple of vorlon ships to incinerate my school, or do you have connections with the borg? I've always suspected my teacher as one...

Nah, 16 year olds are still children. Most people don't start to mentally mature until around 18-20, if not later. Females usually mature at a younger age than males, but rarely by 16.

I will not incinerate your school. That would be a violation of policy.

[ March 01, 2003, 20:43: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[ZeroAdunn]

I welcome you to join us in the 21st century if you would like to. Its up to you, really.

Flame Tacular....

[Fyron]

Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:

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I welcome you to join us in the 21st century if you would like to. Its up to you, really.

Flame Tacular....

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Not that this is any sort of defense, but.... posting anything in an OT thread like that is asking for trouble. If you don't want the possibility of such a response, you probably should not be posting in OT threads.

That was a minor indiscretion and poor word choice, not quite a flame. The thing is, all human emotions have been proven to be results of the chemical balance in our brains. What causes the particular chemical balance is our previous emotions, our current thoughts, stress levels (which are also maintained by the chemical balance), even the food we eat, and many other factors that I don't remember at present. Evil and good thoughts/feelings are not a result of little good guys and bad guys floating around trying to influence us. That is the sort of thing that people believed in the Dark Ages when they had no idea how the world around them worked. I should probably have said this, and not what I said in the thread. I apologize to Greybeard for this.

[Gryphin]

Folks,
Life is short.
Can we accept a few things and put this all behind us?
1) Body language and Tone inflection do not come across in text.
2) There really is no reason to believe that anyone here meant to offend / upset / insult / piss off etc.. anyone.
3) What has been posted in text if delivered over a table with friends would have come across completely differently and no one would have taken offence..
4) We all have different personalties and when all is said and done it just does not matter how the post is delivered.

Can we accept the above and go forward with an unmitigated understanding:
If you think someone meant to offend then you probably misunderstood.

To define "Meant" - The person actually intended to offend / upset / insult / piss you off

[tesco samoa]

Good thing you are all getting this out of your system...

Gryphin Words of Wisdom my friend

[primitive]

Fyron:
You asked why you was rated low. I answered.
Feel free to take my words as constructive criticism, or dismiss them as ravings from a mad man.

Either way this discussion is over from my side.

[Raging Deadstar]

Ahh finally a good forum with decent music taste (and i ain't talking about Europe - The final countdown either) Anathema rocks, Slayer is the greatest band ever (Reign In Blood kicks ***, though God Hates Us All is growing on me) and some of the original death metal bands are quite good (Emperor etc)

As for fyron i forgot to rate you, I'll be honest Fyron, you do seem to have a kind of "I'm better than!" you attitude at times. But then again since you are now ruler of the world and you did create the FQM i believe that i can forgive you for that minor fault, maybe it's a Vorlon Trait! anyway some of your put downs on other members are classic! Please go and sort out those Ruathalites in the thread that never dies, i believe they be getting too big headed since you left (JK, If my rating goes down i know i should have kept quiet! ) So you get another 5 Star rating from me!

Edit: Upon reading Fyron's profile i'm finally happy to find another person who has their birthday on september 11th, you have no idea how immature school kids can be "OMG Your Osama Bin Laden!" *sigh* and i thought 16 year olds were beginning to mature! So maybe you can send a couple of vorlon ships to incinerate my school, or do you have connections with the borg? I've always suspected my teacher as one...

[ March 01, 2003, 12:16: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[mango68]

I just came back to SEIV and the forum after a long time away. I had fogotten all about the rating issue. I just rated you a 5 because I have found your Posts, your replies to my Posts and your website to be extremely helpful and informative. Thanks.

[raynor]

One quick question: If the "big one" came and everything on the seaward side of the San Andreas fault fell into the ocean, would:

Alta Loma/Riverside, CA, USA

still be on land or in the ocean?

This is purely a geography-type questions.

[Gryphin]

raynor, it depends on what music was playing at the time.