Silly, picture thread

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by masser

Luckily for the noobs on here, mersenneforum.org is never like this:

ROFLMAO...

Could be argued this is a bit like the Scientific Method.

Or a game of rugby. Or a game of Go...

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...

[storm5510]

Originally Posted by masser

Luckily for the noobs on here, mersenneforum.org is never like this:

Never? I disagree. This is not the place for it though.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by storm5510

Never? I disagree. This is not the place for it though.

I respectfully disagree.

This is exactly the kind of thing many people find themselves facing. Every single day. In many different frames of reference.

Many of the forumites here have gone through this so many times, they have callus which filters this out such that they don't even notice.

At the end of the day, we all stand alone.

IMHO, some are more prepared for that moment than others...

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by masser

Luckily for the noobs on here, mersenneforum.org is never like this:

Originally Posted by storm5510

Never? I disagree. This is not the place for it though.

[masser]

Uncwilly, I'm here to

[Batalov]

This little discussion above is precious.

Once again, it illustrates some people's perception that criticizing their ideas is equal to hurting them personally.

And mildly insulting to mods. Mods (and a huge amount of users) actually do stop ad hominems and plain abuse and ten other kinds of violations. Users who cannot understand that the "you should not have divided by zero in this line" is not an "ad hominem" should first read some vocabulary before, "stretching their mouth to let the big words come right out", to quote Peter Gabriel.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Batalov

This little discussion is precious. Once again, it illustrates some people's perception that criticizing their ideas is equal to hurting them personally.

Yup. Snowflakes melt. When in the human manifestation, not without a great deal of noise...

Originally Posted by Batalov

...to quote Peter Gabriel.

If I may please share with what I've been listening to when having to translate my Atoms into high-risk spaces to do my job...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70gpLzS4O0

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Batalov

This little discussion above is precious.
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Once again, it illustrates some people's perception that criticizing their ideas is equal to hurting them personally.

And mildly insulting to mods. Mods (and a huge amount of users) actually do stop ad hominems and plain abuse and ten other kinds of violations. Users who cannot understand that the "you should not have divided by zero in this line" is not an "ad hominem" should first read some vocabulary before, "stretching their mouth to let the big words come right out", to quote Peter Gabriel.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by Batalov

This little discussion above is precious. <snip> And mildly insulting to mods.

Yup. Unfortunately normal users don't know the efforts the mods are doing to keep the forum "clean", the discussions in reasonable terms, etc., and they don't see the spammers, dorks, insane people, that mods have to confront periodic.
But the picture is fun, non the less.

[storm5510]

R.D. Silverman. Does this name chime a little bell with anybody?

[LaurV]

Sure. He was that "bad guy" who had the "un-welcomed" habit of sending cranks, trolls, idiots, morons and dorks back to the books. He (rightfully) did it to me few times too. In some circles here, he is eagerly missed... (but that may be only my personal opinion, take it with a grain of salt). He also did few mistakes, one of them was trying to teach me algorithms . But the fact is that in topics where he wanted to contribute positively, like deep sh!t related to number theory and math, his contribution was quite valuable, and we learned a lot of things from it. Which I could not say about many people here...