Many of my posts are intended as mildly humorous and / or sarcastic.
This one is not. This one is straight down the line…
Stephen, if someone’s opinion does not matter to you, why do you argue with them so much?
If someone’s opinion does not matter to you, ignore them, agree to disagree, etc. Doing this kills arguments very quickly and easily. As does calling them a Twat in a ‘I just don’t care’ kind of way.
But this is not a strength of yours. You prefer to keep going, and going, picking at the scab, forcing responses… and in doing so you actually increase the shit that’s aired publicly!
My honest opinion here is that if you look back through this thread, you will see that most negativity is actually created in unpleasant discussions that revolve around you, and that’s even after I’ve deleted most of mine !
Your style is to show zero sympathy or empathy for anyone else’s point of view, or issues. This then forces people to explain to you, in detail, why they are so pissed off and this explaining then (in an ironically understandable way) gets called ‘being negative’ !
You also ask questions, and when people answer they know they’ve got to go into detail to get through to you, and 9 times out of 10 you ignore their main points and cherry pick to find something to reject or argue with, which once again makes them come back with more detail, which is labelled as ‘being negative’.
Your quest to be overly positive, your lack of empathy and your incessant arguing style actually elicit more negativity than anything else.
Voodooos last post is a classic case in point. He did not want or need to write any of that again, most of us know his story already. He posted it purely because you forced that response out of him through sheer frustration that you simply aren’t taking any of his opinions on board. And now HE is the one that will be labelled as being negative (and he is a guy who’s given Norton tens of thousands of dollars and would happily have continued to do so).
Then when you run out of argument you pull the ‘negativity’ card, or ultimately the ‘miss characterisation’ card.
I am not talking about one offs. I’m talking about long term repeatable behavioural trends over numerous threads and forums.
I would never normally do this and I apologise to others for getting so personal and direct in public, but I just can’t bite my tongue any longer on this.
Very nicely worded from the (intentional) high ground there FE - but deeply skewed from reality.
We have had a few tustles you and I - here and elsewhere. We have differing views and that’s OK. You have (
at the very least) equal input to them, whilst responsibility for escalating the vast majority from discussion to argument (and most certainly for harbouring a grudge) - if that had not already been done by Voodoo. Let’s not start showing examples - there are too many. You have no place up there on the hill though mate.
I’m at the centre of these discussions because I make my opinions known about the ridiculously negative content in these thread types. In my opinion someone has to for reasons discussed. Others have tried and got shut down.
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Someone’s opinion’ of me does not matter. What that (negatively skewed) dialogue leads to - in what remains essentially a start-up period for Norton - does!
Of course I end up the focus (often) - you guys have placed me there; I might as well
be Norton. That great political trick of simply repeating an untruth or exaggeration so often that it is accepted as fact is very effective. Trying to add balance and perspective to a discussion where the content is so heavily skewed to one side, results in that person becoming the guilty fringe participant by default. Remarkable really.
Your derision and ridicule disguised as humour or sarcasm (as you call it) doesn’t stack up either mate. It is clear to all what #178 is; you do yourself a disservice by trying to disguise it otherwise.
You boys don’t need me to get you to repeat the negative commentary - it is all pervasive and omnipresent. We’ve all heard Voodoo’s rants many many times - the vast majority were not ‘incited’’ by me.
In challenging the narrative I do sometimes become the enabler though, leading to amplification and repetition. But please don’t try and shift responsibility for this content to me though FE. The months and months of grindingly repetitive negative dialogue shows otherwise.
You are not ‘the new Voodoo’, as you were accused of a few weeks back. I know being identified as part of a negative clique isn’t
fully justified and you dislike it intensely - hence your full attack mode here. Take a step back and look at your content more recently though FE. I strongly suspect that your dislike of my challenging the tenet of these threads has skewed your involvement. If so, then I am at the very least guilty by association.
