[Lorric]

I'm reading this on a coffee break at work and your post just put me at serious risk of being stared at for riotous laughter emanating from my cubicle.  Given that our paperwork does not typically invoke riotous laughter, my colleagues would immediately flock over and wonder what I found that was so hilarious.

Please don't encourage people to talk about me that way.

[Luis Dias]

Encourage humour, oh the horror! Seriously Lorric wth.

[The E]

Please don't try to put restrictions on what other people may post. You are not a moderator.
If you think someone has broken the rules in some way, use the report function. Otherwise, please remember that everyone has the same freedoms you do, including posting what they want to post.

[Lorric]

Please don't try to put restrictions on what other people may post. You are not a moderator.
If you think someone has broken the rules in some way, use the report function. Otherwise, please remember that everyone has the same freedoms you do, including posting what they want to post.

I am not offended. It was a polite request, not a demand.

[Lorric]

Encourage humour, oh the horror! Seriously Lorric wth.

It's not so funny when you're the joke, and the joke is not in good spirit.

[Luis Dias]

Take things a little bit lighter Lorric and you'll do wonderfully better. To have so little tolerance regarding what other people say while being utterly clueless to the effects of your own derailings and off-topic shenanigans to all of the rest of us is not really the best attitude you can think of. Just saying.

[Lorric]

Take things a little bit lighter Lorric and you'll do wonderfully better. To have so little tolerance regarding what other people say while being utterly clueless to the effects of your own derailings and off-topic shenanigans to all of the rest of us is not really the best attitude you can think of. Just saying.

It's not just a joke though.

[Luis Dias]

No Lorric "it's not just a joke". The thing is, the criticism embebbed in it rings really true Lorric. So it's funny and sad at the same time. Take it as it is and cope with it, just like everyone else.

[Lorric]

No Lorric "it's not just a joke". The thing is, the criticism embebbed in it rings really true Lorric. So it's funny and sad at the same time. Take it as it is and cope with it, just like everyone else.

He's saying I'm not worth bothering with. This is not true. He can give up on me if he wants, but I don't want others encouraged to do the same, as that will harm me.

[Luis Dias]

There's a difference between a risk and a fact, Lorric. As I can see it, the risk is quite evident and even probable. Again, take the criticism light-heartedly.

[Lorric]

There's a difference between a risk and a fact, Lorric. As I can see it, the risk is quite evident and even probable. Again, take the criticism light-heartedly.

It wasn't constructive criticism though, it was malicious.

As far as the risk goes, a lot of the problems come from people not being nice to me and thinking the worst of me.

[NGTM-1R]

It wasn't constructive criticism though, it was malicious.

Then report it. And if nothing happens it's likely nobody agrees with you or they judge the humorous content outweighs the offensive.

As far as the risk goes, a lot of the problems come from people not being nice to me and thinking the worst of me.

You've worked hard to get people to assume the worst. From your very first postings causing Spoon to NOPE right on out of the Ask A Character Thread's very concepts, you've fought hard to get people to view you as Lorric the Clueless, the Conversation-Killer, the Creepy. Until you understand that you've gotten to that state because of what you've done, you'll never overcome it.

If you refuse to understand that, then this conversation, and any future one, are mere steps on your inevitable road to monkeydom and banning.

[MP-Ryan]

Having never meandered into the Wings of Dawn forum before, I was intrigued by the above comment.  So I stopped in.

Imagine my surprise to discover that Lorric has been up to the same shenanigans there as he's become notorious for in General Discussion.  Lorric, for the love of Pete, it is time for a little self-reflection on your posting style and content.  To address one statement in particular:

As far as the risk goes, a lot of the problems come from people not being nice to me and thinking the worst of me.

No.

A lot of the problems with people being unkind to you are a direct result of your posting habits:  stream-of-consciousness ramblings on every topic under the sun about which you intentionally appear to do no or little personal research, then expect the rest of us to teach you about under the guise of 'debate.'

The problem is not that we don't agree with you.  I don't agree with a lot of HLPs members a fair amount of the time.  I rarely agree with Luis, to choose one example I know won't mind being named in this context, but we still manage to have genuinely respectful and usually somewhat productive debates.  That isn't true with you - I inevitably end up teaching instead of debating.  Some teaching isn't a bad thing - dispelling myths, enhancing understanding, correcting fallacies - but with you it's like starting from something worse than a clean slate - it's an empty slate upon which an opinion is thrown, and then countered inevitably with nothing other than statements that can be summed up in one word:  "why?"

This is why I personally am no longer going down the discussion-with-Lorric rabbithole beyond a post or two to convey my point and clear up any misunderstanding of what I've said.  It's infuriating, unproductive, tautological, and making what little of the hair in my temples that is not yet grey lean in that spectral direction.

People think the worst of you because of your empirically-observed behaviour, and they therefore act unkindly toward you as a direct result.  Change your behaviour and you will notice a marked difference in how people respond to you.  You are being treated like a petulant child because you post that way.  Stop it.