What's your view on Rory
telling a registered disabled and blind in one eye poster that she's a lazy sponger who is lying and should get a job?

Just anonymous banter too?
(username failed moderation, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 9:58, 5 replies)

Well put.

(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:02, closed)

yup

(alright alright, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:04, closed)

I think you have to recognise B3ta for what it is
it's not some up and coming site encouraging new members in a supportive atmosphere, that's rob's other more important project now.
Instead it's a once great site in slow but inevitable decline, and myself and others enjoy a bit of well-directed abuse for the lively theatre it is.
Now, as to your example, if I was actually some real-life spastic or mouth-breather, I'd like the fact that I can get abused in a spirit of equality
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:34, closed)

It is an equal opportunities hater.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:35, closed)

It never used to be
/talk used to be where all the shitflinging went on.

It used to be that QOTW was something of a refuge, but the halfwits who crapped up /talk noticed there was more going on here and brought their shitflinging with them. There's pretty much no difference now.

It's not lively theatre when 90% of the posts are someone slagging someone else off. Not for me, anyway.
(username failed moderation, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:40, closed)

b3ta.com/questions/goneoff/post2058513

(alright alright, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:42, closed)

You're right, of course, and I remember when the main board moved so fast only the best stuff got noticed
but now it's different, and no amount of whining is going to change it. Each week I write an anecdote for QOTW if I've got one, because like a mad old uncle, I like to tell stories. I don't let the occasional shit that comes my way bother me or cause me to write accusatory rants instead of me stories. If you did the same, the site would be more like you want it to be
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:57, closed)

I do.
I still do post proper answers, but they get lost in the static. What is the point of that?

Anyway, I can't disagree with you. Most of what I post now is just done to irritate the puppies. The fact there are still posters here who disagree with them gets right under their skin.
(username failed moderation, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 11:03, closed)

a) your stories are probably ignored because they're dull
b) the 'noise' in which they are lost is made up almost entirely of self-obsessed pity threads like this one that you are currently defending

you muppet
(alright alright, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 12:08, closed)

My ex was a nurse in a terminal respite ward
She used to say things like "Get up you lazy bugger, you're not dead yet".

They loved her for it. They appreciated her honest attitude, rather than the usual patronising, faux-sympathy they got from everyone else.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:43, closed)

That's not the same at all.
Did she ever go in and say 'Ha ha, you're going to be dead before Christmas, you fucking dick'?

Maybe she told them to stop lying around in bed all day sponging off taxpayers, and go get a job?

No. Probably not.
(username failed moderation, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 11:05, closed)

Even one of the founders of b3ta describes /talk users collectively as wankers
It amazes me how it is still there
( Harpago ¯\(°_o)/¯, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 11:40, closed)

yup

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:34, closed)

I do reckon that people give out way too much information on here. QOTW is particularly bad because people who do it wrong ie not realising they're supposed to make up outrageous lies
end up telling the whole internet about themselves and their families. This may be out of a genuine desire to entertain others but often it's because they want to brag about how big their saltwater pool is or have lots of sympathy from everyone because their life is so terrible and this really is the wrong forum for that as they soon discover.
(AWESOMEB0T meddling prick, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 10:44, closed)