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24 May 2005

Is this what Metachat is going to become? Is Metachat a place to just air pathetic partisan hatred merely because someone has different politics? Or should it be a lighthearted place to chit-chat? I submit that it should be the latter. At Metafilter, we can see how pathetically invested people can be with their politics to the point they can only hate The Other, but maybe we should keep that kind of black-hearted poisoning out of this light-hearted place.

post by: dios at: 12:32 | 37 comments

Just to make one thing clear: his reaction is not based on the post. Optimus Chyme is a person who is overwhelmingly invested in his politics, that he has an actual hatred for me because I disagree. He has sent numerous emails to my cursing me out and threatening me because I don't share his political views.

My question here is whether we want that stuff here, or whether we should keep this a happy DMZ area that is full of light-hearted discussions about MeFi downtime, weird rabbit things and Pea Coil.

posted by dios 24 May | 12:38

When someone posts nasty, retarded, ebaumsworld-quality shit, I'm going to call them on it. You've pretty much spammed metachat with a ton of useless topics, and acted like a big baby when someone critiques them.

If all we can look forward to from you is more mean-spirited Fark crap, then don't expect open arms.

As for my alleged "threats," here is my correspondence with dios:

1) "Heaven forfend you say something substantive instead of shitting up a thread and running away like a fucking coward. Well done"

2) "words"

If you posted a thread for everyone who thinks that you're a nasty, immature little troll, we might as well call this place dios-chat. Ugh.

posted by Optimus Chyme 24 May | 12:44

Bring forth my banhammer

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!!!!!

No, seriously though, just knock it off the pair of you - mummy's busy.

posted by dodgygeezer 24 May | 12:47

Optimus Chyme, You are being, as you always have been, a complete asshole, and it is obviously politically motivated regarding me. There is no reason for the vitriol you are spewing here. You need to leave that shit to Metafilter if political issues are that important to you. But don't come here and be a prick.... if you are even capable of being anything else.

posted by dios 24 May | 12:49

As for the content I have posted, it is funny stuff that is no different than the other stuff posted here so far. Why then the extreme vitriol towards me? The answer is obvious.

How the hell do you go through life having so venom because someone disagrees with you?

Could you at least make an effort to avoid tarnishing this place with it?

posted by dios 24 May | 12:52

Yeah, it was a juvenile post, but OC, you really come across like you're just dying for the chance to be a self-righteous jerk. Ease up. (And dios, you're starting to really overreact, too.)

posted by LairBob 24 May | 12:52

Maybe there could be a personal thread for you guys in which to get vitriolic and the rest of us could just buzz through from time to time to check for hoarseness and signs of life.

posted by peacay 24 May | 12:58

peacay, I don't want the vitriol either. That's my point.

posted by dios 24 May | 13:02

Dios, can you just cool off and save the unfunny amputee and faces-of-death posts for another place? No vitriol, just asking nicely.

posted by AlexReynolds 24 May | 13:16

*frowns, sky clouds over, distant thunder rumbles ominously*

posted by quonsar 24 May | 13:28

Could you both just take this somewhere else? You're both being really annoying. Dios, that post was awful, and your complaint here sounds really juvenile. Chyme, you're being an asshole. I wish you'd both be more like AlexReynolds. (I never thought I'd type that sentence) He has controversial opinions on mefi, but he has the good taste to not bring them here, instead using this site as the fun place it's intended to be. I wish you'd both do the same.

posted by unreason 24 May | 13:39

the one here isn't the real alex reynolds.

posted by quonsar 24 May | 13:40

the one here isn't the real alex reynolds

Oh. I take it back, then. Still, y'all know what I mean.

posted by unreason 24 May | 13:41

Get a room already.

posted by trondant 24 May | 13:47

the one here isn't the real alex reynolds.

It's all very confusing, but I can show you my superfluous third nipple if it helps, quonsar.

posted by AlexReynolds 24 May | 13:54

just how did third nipples get the superfluous rap, anyway?

posted by quonsar 24 May | 14:11

I've only got two and I'd say they're pretty damn superfluous

posted by dodgygeezer 24 May | 14:23

I cannot use the third nipple to feed my superintelligent breed of delicious piglets.

posted by AlexReynolds 24 May | 14:23

*MY* third nipple is essential to my existence. Calling it superfluous is damaging to the beleagered appendage's self-esteem.

posted by raedyn 24 May | 14:28

maybe piercing are in order. one ring to bind them, one ring to--
are your nipples too sensitive or insensitive?
*wonders at the larger ramifications of insensitive nipples*

posted by ethylene 24 May | 14:43

I think Optimus Chyme and dios are both oversensitive nipples, not to mention AlexReynolds (ooops, I promised I wouldn't mention AlexReynolds)

posted by wendell 24 May | 18:22

You'd all be happier if you cut off a hand or three. It eassses the tensssssionnnnnnn...

posted by Son_Of_Minya's_Wigglin'_Fingers 24 May | 19:04

I think Optimus Chyme and dios are both oversensitive nipples, not to mention AlexReynolds

Lamest. Troll. Evar.

posted by AlexReynolds 24 May | 19:21

chill out, cuddies

/1981

posted by amberglow 24 May | 19:31

Is this what Metachat is going to become? Is Metachat a place to just air pathetic partisan hatred merely because someone has different politics?

No, it's not going to become that. Trust me on this.

posted by dg 24 May | 21:02

What IS truth?

posted by Alex Reynolds 24 May | 21:49

Knifebutt, the guardian spirit of Metachat, will protect it.

posted by Alex Reynolds 24 May | 21:51

Optimus Chyme, go sodomize yourself up the nose with a dead, gangrenous penguin.

posted by Peak Oil 24 May | 21:56

Dios: So, starting a whiny thread is the appropriate response to an obviously juvenile and lame comment? Have you ever just tried ignoring the asshats of the world? Have you ever condidered that it's not your politics that make people dislike you?

or whether we should keep this a happy DMZ area that is full of light-hearted discussions

Thanks for doing your part, Poindexter.

posted by loquacious 25 May | 00:16

Awww, shit, come on, let's not.

posted by puddinghead 25 May | 00:26

there's no way I'm reading all this someone summarize plz tia

posted by buttes 25 May | 00:33

Poo?

posted by loquacious 25 May | 01:15

there's no way I'm reading all this someone summarize plz tia

Summary:

Dios: Makes crappy thread.
Chyme: Your thread sucks, and so do you! Nya, nya nya!
Dios(in new thread): Chyme's picking on me! Wahhh!
Chyme: You still suck!
Dios: No, you suck!
Chyme: No, you suck!
AlexReynolds: have I discussed my third nipple yet?

posted by unreason 25 May | 08:38

there's no way I'm reading all this someone summarize plz tia
posted by buttes

buttes

lmao

posted by Optimus Chyme 25 May | 13:16

peacay, I don't want the vitriol either. That's my point.

And yet it seems to follow you to every community you join. Yeah, must be everyone else.

posted by terrapin 26 May | 13:19

Ok, mr. terrapin. If you want to say its my fault, please show me anywhere on this site I was rude, confrontational, inflammatory, etc. to Optimus or anyone else?

I have been extremely civil here, so far.

So how the fuck do you come up with the idea that it is my fault for the vitriol?

posted by dios 26 May | 14:22

Here's another shit post by dios, if he's wondering where the vitriol comes from.

posted by Optimus Chyme 31 May | 12:59

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