ROBUST discussion

I'm Mathew, I write.

Specifically I currently write an Urban Fantasy Police Procedural series called Dire Crimes. I put out new work every two weeks, so it keeps me busy.

I've seen Andre around various places and decided that ROBUST was probably a decent fit for me considering I don't overly like people telling me how I have to respond to any given statement.

Looking forward to poking around and being myself.

Hi Mathew. Welcome to the group.

Actually, I had this dream of blood on the carpet daily. It turns outthat, despite the fears of the people running other groups that in the absence of rules the savages will triumph, what actually happens when there are no rules is that everyone is excruciatingly polite and considerate. If called the group Charm Zentral and collected all the most agreeable people I could, I couldn't done worse, er, I mean better.

I can tell you to go do something anatomically impossible to yourself if you'd like? :)

I think that in the absence of rules there is a lessening of trying to curry favor with the authority, resulting in less "ooooh someone is being bad" going on . . .

The less time we spend shaming each other into acting like we're "supposed" to the more time we have to just talk like the human beings we are.

Or something.

Ego plays into it too I think. People on other forums where there are 11tybillion rules have them to make themselves appear important. Here, most everyone has already been published and bought. All the egos involved have nothing left to prove except to themselves.

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LOL! Learn to flip your burgers Andre!

So cruel to link there while I'm on a time out Andre. ;) Now I have to imagine what those posts say.

It's worse if your on a diet. Click the pic.

I didn't even know that people can get banned for a week. In fact, I didn't even know there was a ban on arguing; that would put the initiative in the hands of the nasty snarkers who hang around the boards instead of writing.

Actually, I like the moderators rushing in to save me from these brutes trying to beat up a harmless little old bespectacled intellectual.

But, jokes aside, some ignorant clowns do quite a bit of damage to the prospects and wallets of innocent newbies. Here's an example with an amazing lack of respect for the meaning of words: http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php...

And here's an "artiste", whose bio claims "I'm funny", who thinks her thin skin excuses wretched (or as we used to say Down Under, "ratshit") manners, venting on me when I tried to help her: http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php...

Some of us are terrifying, apparently.

Also, I was debating in 10 places at once.

But I have learned my lesson. I will behave and say nothing of any import.

Mathew wrote: "But I have learned my lesson. I will behave and say nothing of any import."

Stumm!

It takes a special kind of person to get banned for a week.

Basically tell the mods that they're wrong when they say you're making personal attacks.

That gets them irritated.

Then argue in as many places simultaneously as possible.

Doesn't matter if you have a point. Doesn't matter if other people trash you.

Eventually you will get put into time out because the sheer volume of your contrary opinions will become too tiresome.

It's all about how prolific you are.

I was very prolific.

Kench!

Where were you banned?

"I've been thrown out of better clubs this this." -- Groucho Marx

Kindle Boards.

My suspension is due up sometime this week.

Welcome Mathew,

At the beginning there was a bit of blood spilled here, but lately we have been pretty banal.

But there's always hope. Try starting a convo on DDT or blaming the recent meteor strike over Russia and the close call with an asteroid the next day on Global Warming...

Andre Jute wrote: "Actually, I had this dream of blood on the carpet daily. It turns outthat, despite the fears of the people running other groups that in the absence of rules the savages will triumph, what actually happens when there are no rules is that everyone is excruciatingly polite and considerate. If called the group Charm Zentral and collected all the most agreeable people I could, I couldn't done worse, er, I mean better."

Kench Andre. Well, every clever man needs a straight man...

The only sites I have ever been banned from were parenting sites. They take their rules and regulations far too seriously. Parenting is fun. I suppose when your avatar is of a cartoon kid running around naked saying your inner child is a little muthafrakker could be offensive? *shrugs*

I've come to realise that Kindleboards are an obscenity never to be spoken of. People with their little egos presiding over their little kingdoms. Pretty much like the stoopid trolls on Amazon who take offence if you don't like their reviews and tell them ever so politely to actually read the book before commenting.

Sharon, my son thinks the asteroid was super cool and a great pity that it didn't wipe us off the face of the earth. He was quite disappointed that nothing of any significance happened on the 21st of December too. He was looking forward to trying to survive ala the movie 2012.

Claudine wrote: "I suppose when your avatar is of a cartoon kid running around naked saying your inner child is a little muthafrakker could be offensive? *shrugs*..."

My inner child is a juvenile delquent who wears a black leather jacket and smokes questionable substances. Not a bit socially acceptable. So when people say 'Let your inner child come out to play." I reply: "I can't afford the jail time."

Saddly the 'inner child' people always take offense.

My inner child and your inner child must be related.

No doubt! ;)