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I dunno, I'd say your gumball thread was pretty fucking stupid. But that's besides the point.
People, people, people, you aren't hearing what I'm saying...I'm not condoning the random flaming of newbies - quote me please where I ever said newbies. You made the assumption that by idiots I meant newbies, which tells me that you yourself believe newbies to be idiots.
I'm talking about idiots who do stupid things - not nice new members who talk coherantly and make a good contribution. Sometimes a newbie makes a mistake, and I think that we should help them out. But there are also stupid people who make the mistake of pissing us off, and often they get their asses saved by moderators who close their threads before anyone can really say what they feel and properly tell them off for it. Why do we reward these people for their idiocy? They get to cause all this trouble and get barely anything back except mirth in the knowledge that they're probably causing blood pressure to rise. Either that or they are so clueless that they don't even know what they are doing and need waking up to reality.
To be honest I see their stupidity as an attack on us - they've already cast the first stone, fired the first bullet, shed the first blood. These people are just going to carry on being stupid and having their threads closed unless people show them that they are stupid.
Look at stingbee for example - he should've been banned for his stupidity, but because of our forumwide dissapproval of him he took a hint and left. This kind of stuff DOES work, and we all know it does. It's not undeserved or unfair, it's just life. If you smack someone in the mouth you get a punch back, and that's how you learn not to do it again. Dig?
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Bah, you drama queen. Who gets their blood pressure up over something from a forum (unless it's a heated, serious debate)? Let the moderators do their jobs, get your panties out of a bunch, and calm the f
uck down.
On a related note, telling someone he or she made a stupid mistake is one thing. The person will usually be aplogetic and learn from that mistake. On the other hand, making someone believe he or she
is stupid will do nothing but create a self-fulfilling prophecy. One who believes he or she is stupid will often continue doing stupid things because that is expected.
EDIT: Kimon, there is no rule against chatspeak.