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The Thread Police Are Twatwaffles.

dshannahdshannah member
edited January 2016 in May 2016 Moms
Decided to start a separate thread for those of us who think the folks who impose their own time limits and topic limits on threads are jack*sses.

How not to be a tool:
1. If the post doesn't interest you, scroll on by.
2. If you think a discussion is redundant or finished, scroll on by.
3. If you're tempted to throw a gif party on a thread not designated for gifs, scroll on by.

In short, scroll the f*ck on.

What is so damn hard about that?  Are these twatwaffles so egotistical that they cannot fathom a thread in which their opinion is not needed?

It's one thing if there are multiple simultaneous same-topic threads confusing folks, but if it's been a week or more, I'm sorry, but starting a new thread is No Big Deal.

How many times has it happened that some new Bumper posts and immediately gets jumped on for asking an old question?  And how many times have people gotten mocked for resurrecting a zombie thread? I know my first post was policed because it replicated a question on the appointment thread (I asked whether it was odd to have a first ultrasound at 18 weeks) and I felt shamed and uncool and I apologized profusely. Is this the community we want to be? F*ck that sh*t.

And who decides when a post is "done"?  The UO threads are dated so folks can keep them straight, so there's no confusion, and many threads (problematic in-laws, anyone? Baby Names ftw?) have no expiration date. No harm no foul, except for these smug self-righteous post-police who are somehow personally offended if people are having a conversation that doesn't include them.

And if anyone wants to complain about having to scroll, do not even speak to me until you've emailed the Bump Admins about taking down those absurd pinned posts. 





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  • dshannahdshannah member
    Kicking this off with an old post from the "Board Organization Post" by @kp90 : 
    kp90 said:
    "Just wanted to share my thoughts after using the search function in the past myself... When you see a post with 2-4 pages of comments and responses it can be slightly overwhelming. I for one do not want to sit and reach each and every single one especially when they vere off topic. I think that's some of the reason why people may continue to post a question that may have already been answered. With that being said I can also see where some of you ladies get sick of the same old question over and over again but if you've answered it for others too many times then simply ignore it and let someone else answer. No one said you have to comment on every single post with answers. No one is ever going to be consistent or follow the rules all of the time. Some of us are new moms and just overly excited, paranoid, scared, etc. with lots of questions.. it's life! I just try to see if from all angles. We are all mommy to be's. We should support each other!"
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  • dshannahdshannah member
    edited January 2016
    Fixed it.  

    And OMG do you people not know how to *not* comment on something that doesn't concern you?

    You shut down the UO post (talking about board policing) with a gif party, and I bring the discussion here and you still can't stay away?  You're like dogs to vomit. 

    tl;dr See the OP. Scroll the f*ck on.
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  • JessicaB0627JessicaB0627 member
    sarawifenow said:

    And this is super mature. Reporting this. You can't just call people a**holes.

    ETA
    Enjoy your warning.

    You may have changed the title of your post, but you're still calling people jack*sses. And you've been quoted. Reported.
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  • sarawifenowsarawifenow member
    dshannah said:

    Fixed it.  

    And OMG do you people not know how to *not* comment on something that doesn't concern you?

    You shut down the UO post (talking about board policing) with a gif party, and I bring the discussion here and you still can't stay away?  You're like dogs to vomit. 

    tl;dr See the OP. Scroll the f*ck on.

    It obviously does concern me as I am one of those "jacka**es". This clearly isn't the place for you. Go eat a sickers.
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  • JessicaB0627JessicaB0627 member
    doozer1345 said:

    Irony at it's best. Maybe we could get the full definition of that word?? Or at least a half a page lecture on several examples and meanings. Thanks.

    Maybe just go for the whole 1,000 word essay!
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  • dshannahdshannah member
    Dudes, anyone who reads this thread can see who the real twatwaffles are.

    Also, I'm pretty sure we can call people a-holes so long as it's not directed at a specific person.  Y'all just outed yourselves.

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  • dshannahdshannah member
    @Bluejay3030

    What is so obnoxious about asking people to scroll past threads they don't care about?

    And when have I ever corrected anyone's spelling? 
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  • sarawifenowsarawifenow member
    I'm just wondering what you were hoping to accomplish by this post? You wanted to have a field day talking about how mean people are by calling them names? Hypocrisy at its finest.
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  • yogahhyogahh member
    sarawifenow said:
    Fixed it.  

    And OMG do you people not know how to *not* comment on something that doesn't concern you?

    You shut down the UO post (talking about board policing) with a gif party, and I bring the discussion here and you still can't stay away?  You're like dogs to vomit. 

    tl;dr See the OP. Scroll the f*ck on.
    It obviously does concern me as I am one of those "jacka**es". This clearly isn't the place for you. Go eat a sickers.
    You are not a jacka$$. You're a sexy mo-fo ;)

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  • dshannahdshannah member
    sarawifenow said:
    I'm just wondering what you were hoping to accomplish by this post? You wanted to have a field day talking about how mean people are by calling them names? Hypocrisy at its finest.
    The UO 1/7 thread was in the middle of discussing Thread Policing when the Thread Police (you all) showed up to have a gif party.

    I wanted to move the discussion to a place where you couldn't object to it's being outdated, and where, if you had any sense or tact, you'd stay out of a discussion that clearly doesn't interest you.
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  • Bluejay3030Bluejay3030 member
    dshannah said:

    @Bluejay3030

    What is so obnoxious about asking people to scroll past threads they don't care about?

    And when have I ever corrected anyone's spelling? 

    You're telling people to play by YOUR rules on an Internet forum, in a very superior tone...

    I didn't say you had, but is that your way of saying you don't care about spelling?
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  • dshannahdshannah member

    yogahh said:
    BUT TODAY IS NOT TWATWAFFLE TUESDAY!!!!! YOU CANNOT POST TWATWAFFLES UNTIL TUESDAY!!!  IT'S THE RULES!

    Geesh, lighten up.
    In case you haven't noticed, we like a good gif. It lightens the mood, and kinda makes the day go by.

    In the words of a very wise man (this is sarcasm)
    Mashable donald trump whatever who cares wave off
    Couldn't wait. Sorry. And I'm too busy tomorrow to contribute Twatwaffle Tuesday, and heaven forbid I post on Wednesday.

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  • yogahhyogahh member
    dshannah said:
    sarawifenow said:
    I'm just wondering what you were hoping to accomplish by this post? You wanted to have a field day talking about how mean people are by calling them names? Hypocrisy at its finest.
    The UO 1/7 thread was in the middle of discussing Thread Policing when the Thread Police (you all) showed up to have a gif party.

    I wanted to move the discussion to a place where you couldn't object to it's being outdated, and where, if you had any sense or tact, you'd stay out of a discussion that clearly doesn't interest you.
    No one said it didn't interest us. Jessica and I initiated in the original discussion. Your issue is that you took a light-hearted "is this still being talked about"( which I posted at like 4:00 am so you can figure out how lucid I was at that point) and twisted it into something MUCH larger than life. I apologize a trillion times over if that offended you this much. But never have I called ANYONE on this board as jackass or a twatwaffle. So who is being the rude one now? 

    You should join in on a gif party someday if you havent already. They are fun! 
    eating panda popcorn



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  • sarawifenowsarawifenow member
    Seriously, you start a new post. That is so special snowflake I can't even begin to describe it. Seems to me that the only person out of line is you.
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  • dshannahdshannah member
    sarawifenow said:
    Dudes, anyone who reads this thread can see who the real twatwaffles are.

    Also, I'm pretty sure we can call people a-holes so long as it's not directed at a specific person.  Y'all just outed yourselves.

    Judging by the number of people supporting you, I'd say there is most definitely one clear person here...
    Because popularity determines whether someone is being mean or not. #cliquelogic
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  • JessicaB0627JessicaB0627 member
    yogahh said:


    dshannah said:


    sarawifenow said:

    I'm just wondering what you were hoping to accomplish by this post? You wanted to have a field day talking about how mean people are by calling them names? Hypocrisy at its finest.

    The UO 1/7 thread was in the middle of discussing Thread Policing when the Thread Police (you all) showed up to have a gif party.

    I wanted to move the discussion to a place where you couldn't object to it's being outdated, and where, if you had any sense or tact, you'd stay out of a discussion that clearly doesn't interest you.

    No one said it didn't interest us. Jessica and I initiated in the original discussion. Your issue is that you took a light-hearted "is this still being talked about"( which I posted at like 4:00 am so you can figure out how lucid I was at that point) and twisted it into something MUCH larger than life. I apologize a trillion times over if that offended you this much. But never have I called ANYONE on this board as jackass or a twatwaffle. So who is being the rude one now? 

    You should join in on a gif party someday if you havent already. They are fun! 
    eating panda popcorn





    Maybe she's so upset because she doesn't know how to gif ;)
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  • sosweet487sosweet487 member
    AmmyBelle said:
    @dshannah  - Thanks for sticking up for what you believe in! I agree that some people on this board seem to epitomize the "Mean Girl" thing (with no irony, since apparently that's the buzzword for today). 

    I joined The Bump to have allies in this very exciting and confusing (and sometimes scary) time. I had hoped that a community of women going through much the same things could support one another without becoming ... whatever it is you become when you dismiss other people with gifs because you lack emotional capacity or maturity to deal with people on the level. Or people who welcome people to the board by basically making them feel shitty right away - I don't think that's what this community is supposed to be about, and it makes me angry and sad that it seems to be what it's turned into. 

    Not sure what this thread is going to do but indicate which people to avoid,but *shrugs, I am slowly coming to terms with that as just life if you want in on this community .... 
    This.

    I think all of us (definitely me included) are having raging hormones today and need to take a break from the boards :) 
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  • dshannahdshannah member
    missnc77 said:
    I don't see any problems with the UO thread continuing if people are still interested, but the scroll on by works both ways doesn't it? If yogahh post did not sit well, then it would have been best to scroll. Instead, the responses is what derailed the conversation when her post could have easily been ignored, keeping the conversation rolling. It would have been that easy.

    More importantly, it's just a message board. If it's stressing you out, then it's not worth the trouble, you know?
    Hi!  As I mentioned in my initial post re: @yogahh's comment, I wanted to signal to other folks who were enjoying the UO discussion that her comment did not need to signal the end of the discussion, and that it was not ok to be dismissive of discussions that other people still care about. I explicitly did not PM her because I wanted other people to see someone standing up to the policing.

    Too often this group of 20 or so frequent posters shut down discussion because it's past a certain time limit or because they don't have anything to contribute or, explicitly, because they want to derail a conversation (see all the "Guess the Gender!" and "Ramzi Me" threads turned gif parties).

    But the rest of us, the silent majority, I'd dare say, don't care whether a discussion goes on unless we're invested in it, in which case we do want to discuss it on the timeline and to the length that we see fit.

    This is a lovely, supportive place, and I'm sure that even having called out all the thread police as topic-nazis, were I to need support no one would hesitate to offer it.

    I just wanted to point out (and I do tend to swear rather a lot) that there is a lot of censorship happening here.



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  • sarawifenowsarawifenow member
    AmmyBelle said:

    Also, for those who care:
    Irony is those belittling a poster after bitching that that poster belittled them. 

    See also: hypocrite. 

    That's what OP did by starting this post...
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  • dshannahdshannah member
    edited January 2016
    Bluejay3030 said:
    @Bluejay3030

    What is so obnoxious about asking people to scroll past threads they don't care about?

    And when have I ever corrected anyone's spelling? 
    You're telling people to play by YOUR rules on an Internet forum, in a very superior tone... I didn't say you had, but is that your way of saying you don't care about spelling?
    See, here's the thing:

    I care deeply about spelling.  I care deeply about grammar. But, unless asked, I have never taken it upon myself to correct someone else's spelling or grammar on this board.

    Because it's not relevant, it's not helpful, and I'm not an a-hole. So I scroll on by.

    I may be more swear-y than the average Bumper, but I did create this thread to discuss an actual problem that many other Bumpers have registered and were in the process of dissecting when a gif party derailed their discussion.

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  • AmmyBelleAmmyBelle member
    @sarawifenow Um ... no. Not so much. I implore you to actually read what you post. she was saying: Hey guys, maybe stop with the derailing/infantalizing/etc of other people's convos with this. Then suddenly, was basically belittled by people who were so very concerned that they themselves were being belittled (by being called names or whatever) See the difference? If not, am happy to explain further, but it's about context and message. 
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