How many consecutive posts will Blind Mellow Jelly make in this thread?

[tar503]

Just what the title says. Post your guesses. I'm thinking 8 at the most, before someone posts to break him up.

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

I am embarrassed I know I do this, but is it just congi uation.. Guilty as charged. Probably really annoying, but I have symmetry.

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

That's it. Take heed.

[running coach]

2 so far.

[Zeener Diode]

The night is young.

[tar503]

Common BMJ. Don't go easy on us.

[Zeener Diode]

You have to create an environment that feeds his need to screed.

For example: Does pink salmon make for a better tuna casserole than white albacore?

[Jaglavak]

Forget such minor side issues, I think its time to step back and look at the big picture. Guacamole should only ever be made with tree ripe Haas avocados, chopped onions, diced jalapenos, salt & pepper, and a twist of lime. Nothing more, and nothing less. The only conceivable debate is what kind of chips to scoop it with.

[Rat Diva]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Forget such minor side issues, I think its time to step back and look at the big picture. Guacamole should only ever be made with tree ripe Haas avocados, chopped onions, diced jalapenos, salt & pepper, and a twist of lime. Nothing more, and nothing less. The only conceivable debate is what kind of chips to scoop it with.

I like to go multicultural and use pita chips. Tortilla chips are too wimpy.

As to the OP: (rolls 1d20) Hmmmm... 12.

[tar503]

Jaglavak, you forgot to include that it must be mashed in a mortar and pestle, and it MUST be lumpy when you are done.

[BJMoose]

I think he's gonna stand by his gums guns and leave it at two.

[tar503]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

I think he's gonna stand by his gums guns and leave it at two.

Sadly, I bet you're right. What the fuck is congiuation anyway?

[Dire Wolf]

BMJ, can you tell us all the reasons that you do this? Just trying to help.

[Glazer]

I can tell you with a high degree of certainly how many he'll post that make any since.

[Dire Wolf]

Originally Posted by Glazer

I can tell you with a high degree of certainly how many he'll post that make any since.

There's nothing special about your offered prediction. We are asking you to pick a number for the pool. I pick four. Four consecutive posts.

[tar503]

Seems he's like the Anti-Betelgeuse. If you mention his name, he will avoid you almost entirely. But whenever you don't use his name in a thread, he is guaranteed to post at least a dozen sequential posts (of which precisely none will make any sense).

Just out of curiosity, what's the back story for BMJ? Why is he even here? Is he a mental patient? How long was it until he was boxed? Is he somebody's sock that is an otherwise fine poster, but for some reason get their kicks socking it up as a mentally ill nit-wit who spams every thread in the box with content-less, manic ravings?

[Roo]

Originally Posted by drewtwo99

Just out of curiosity, what's the back story for BMJ? Why is he even here? Is he a mental patient? How long was it until he was boxed? Is he somebody's sock that is an otherwise fine poster, but for some reason get their kicks socking it up as a mentally ill nit-wit who spams every thread in the box with content-less, manic ravings?

Did you consider asking these questions before you started a thread attempting to humiliate someone who hasn't done anything to you? Or did you just think you'd win brownie points for insulting someone in the Box?

I've lost count of the number of times people who have come into the Box to slam on me when they know nothing about me.

Their actions show a lot more about their character than about mine.

[tar503]

Originally Posted by Roo

Did you consider asking these questions before you started a thread attempting to humiliate someone who hasn't done anything to you? Or did you just think you'd win brownie points for insulting someone in the Box?

I've lost count of the number of times people who have come into the Box to slam on me when they know nothing about me.

Their actions show a lot more about their character than about mine.

Hi Roo! Nice to see you too. Appears you have some beef about this thread. Have I touched a nerve? I have no quarrel with you or BMJ.

This thread was not an attempt to humiliate anyone. It was simply to gather people's opinions about a particular poster's posting habits.

Now my most recent post, is obviously insulting to BMJ, I won't deny that. But if BMJ didn't post like a lunatic, I wouldn't have made such an insulting post. I think you know me well enough to know that I don't go around harassing people and throwing insults around willy-nilly. BMJ is an enigma to me, and I was hazarding a guess to explain his/her bizarre posting patterns.

But in all seriousness, I do want to know the backstory, if any is known, about BMJ in earnest. And if BMJ is a perfectly competent poster, then I'm sure he/she can handle my insults themselves, and can probably throw some back at me. And don't worry about defending me if he does, because I can handle an insult too.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by drewtwo99

This thread was not an attempt to humiliate anyone. It was simply to gather people's opinions about a particular poster's posting habits.

If that were true, you wouldn't have posted a sarcastic game about it. You would have asked the questions you just did about him, or better yet, asked him directly as Dire Wolf did.

You might have also noticed that his first words in the thread are. . . "I am embarrassed. . . " and you would have stopped there, but you didn't.

Be honest. Would you have posted a thread like this about someone who was more apparently popular that you were curious about?

You're right. This touches a nerve with me. People picking on other people because the other person appears to have a lower status than they do (even if it's just imaginary) really frustrates me.

[tar503]

I'm not picking on BMJ because I feel he/she has a lower status than I do. I'm picking on BMJ because he/she posts in a manner which can at best be characterized as quirky. I'm not very imaginative so I don't know what the worst way to characterize BMJ's posts is, but I'm sure it's a lot worse than I did when I called them insane, manic, lunatic, etc.

BMJ doesn't need you to stand up for them anyway, I'm not attacking you, and I'm not picking on BMJ for "having a lower status" than me. If BMJ wanted to argue with me, he could. But instead he reinforced my point by making 2 consecutive posts, and also confirms my later point that he's mad as a hatter by saying "but I have symmetry." (whatever the hell that means) My comments/observations about his/her posts are genuine, and not meant to insult or pick on BMJ, but as an actual guess as to explain such bizarre posts and posting behaviors.

Do you disagree that BMJ posts like a crazy, manic, raving lunatic? If you do, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

And as always, it's been a pleasure debating/discussing with you!

Also, the fact that you think Dire Wolf's post was sincere is adorable. It was no less sarcastic than my "game."

[Roo]

Originally Posted by drewtwo99

BMJ doesn't need you to stand up for them anyway, I'm not attacking you, and I'm not picking on BMJ for "having a lower status" than me.

Be clear about this. I'm not defending BMJ.

I'm talking to you directly about the game I think you're playing. You can add the thread you started in GS about PSXer to this as well.

[tar503]

Ok! I'll add it. I couldn't be sorrier for what I've said and done here. I hope we can still be friends.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by drewtwo99

I hope we can still be friends.

I don't know if you're still being sarcastic here, but as far as I'm concerned, we're good. That was never in question.

[tar503]

Originally Posted by Roo

I don't know if you're still being sarcastic here, but as far as I'm concerned, we're good. That was never in question.

Yay! (not sarcasm)

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

Not really much mystery to my multi posting. I write something, and then within ten minutes I either think of something they I wished I would have said or i have something to add or something to make it a little more rounded out or complete in expression. Trying t finish my thoughts...editing symmetry or my compulsive editing. Also not much different to IM, might be a stylistic question between message boarding and IM'ing.

[tar503]

Originally Posted by Blind Mellow Jelly

Not really much mystery to my multi posting. I write something, and then within ten minutes I either think of something they I wished I would have said or i have something to add or something to make it a little more rounded out or complete in expression. Trying t finish my thoughts...editing symmetry or my compulsive editing. Also not much different to IM, might be a stylistic question between message boarding and IM'ing.

At the risk of becoming even more confused, can you explain the bolded parts of this post? Because to me, your posts are nonsensical.

[Dire Wolf]

Originally Posted by Blind Mellow Jelly

Not really much mystery to my multi posting. I write something, and then within ten minutes I either think of something they I wished I would have said or i have something to add or something to make it a little more rounded out or complete in expression. Trying t finish my thoughts...editing symmetry or my compulsive editing. Also not much different to IM, might be a stylistic question between message boarding and IM'ing.

This is the box. The fuckin' box. If you can't just be you here, then where can it be. We love you BMJ. Let your freak flag fly. In multi-posts if those are its colors.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by Blind Mellow Jelly

Not really much mystery to my multi posting.

BMJ, I really wish you wouldn't do this.

I'm asking you this as politely as I can. Please stop multi-posting, particularly in the threads that I start.

IMO, it has killed off more threads that I've started than I can count, or at least it has made them less fun for me to post in, and maybe for other people as well. I've also seen other posters comment on it and stop posting in the Box. It's not harmless or innocuous.

Please understand how frustrating it can be to make an effort to start a thread and then watch it flooded with your multi-posts and see the topic get lost. That has made me consider leaving the board on several occasions. I'm hoping that's not your intention in doing this.

As much as I will stand up for other people mocking others (teasing is different), that doesn't mean that I'm defending the behavior.

I haven't brought it up very much with you before because from what I've seen, you're not trying to be malicious about it. I may be wrong about that. I hope I'm not. My take is that you get interested in a thread and then want to keep posting about it, but the Box moves slowly so you don't want to wait for others to engage the topic again.

I'm suggesting an alternative. I'll start a thread called BMJ responds to Roo threads where you can post anything you've forgotten to add in the original. You can tab from one thread to the other and if you add the thread title you're referencing, other people can follow along with you. This is not a punishment. It's hopefully a way that this can work out for everyone.

[BJMoose]

:: staves off failed prediction with well-timed post ::

[tar503]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

:: staves off failed prediction with well-timed post ::

Why you...

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

Auto complete, on "they". And I don't think I could elucidate any better if you don't understand what the definition of symmetry is?

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

Thanks.

[BJMoose]

You're welcome.






hee-hee-hee

[Rat Diva]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

You're welcome.






hee-hee-hee

Goshdangit, Moose, quit breaking the streak!

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

I also have the rather naieve habit of remaining eternally receptive and blind and earnest in opennesw to people who could give a shit, or would rather play mind games and poke me with a sharp stick.

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

Being a dick doesn't make you smart, it just makes you a dick.

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

The solution to all of this would be an an open win-notepad open on my android platform at all times, problem is I can't load any new apps.

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

I admit it is sort of a personal shorthand.

[Blind Mellow Jelly]

Fuck your propaganda.

[Borborygmi]

Man, The Box has a lot of rules nowadays. The forum description and guidelines sticky thread are outdated at best and misleading at worst. Are the current rules compiled anywhere?

[Roo]

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

Man, The Box has a lot of rules nowadays. The forum description and guidelines sticky thread are outdated at best and misleading at worst. Are the current rules compiled anywhere?

Impossible to know really. According to you, I don't know the difference between rules and guidelines, and you're the only person who does.

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

Srsly? Roo, I know you get a lot of heat for being at odds with the rest of the board population regarding rule enforcement and the administration; I generally stay out of it. But, wow: not feeling there's a difference between rules and guidelines... that's crazy talk. If you're treating every written and unwritten guideline as a hard rule, I think it'll be impossible for you and your critics to ever get on the same page.

As my constant critic, now you're saying that there are rules? What are they?

Are they "hard rules" (whatever that means)?

[Borborygmi]

Originally Posted by Roo

Impossible to know really. According to you, I don't know the difference between rules and guidelines, and you're the only person who does.

As my constant critic, now you're saying that there are rules? What are they?

Are they "hard rules" (whatever that means)?

Ah, yes: now I remember that 5-1/2 years ago I told you that you didn't know the difference between rules and guidelines, and that I'm the only person who does. Truly you have hoisted me by my own petard here; well done.

No, wait. You were the one who said that rules vs. guidelines was a "distinction without a difference", so it was actually kind of you who said you didn't know. Also I never said I was the only person who knew the difference; I'm not sure where that came from. I may be forgetting some nuance here, as 5-1/2 years ago my constant criticism was only in its infancy.

Also, I came into the thread asking if there was a list of the current Box rules, so clearly I don't claim to have to have expertise on this. And, honestly, I may have been careless here in not delineating between rules and guidelines... although since you don't recognize a difference between the two it may be a moot point.

I don't think a current list of Box rules/guidelines exists, so we might want to start workshopping one...

• Don't start a Box thread about Blind Mellow Jelly posting consecutively.
• Don't hijack Box threads.
• If someone starts a Box thread about Blind Mellow Jelly posting consecutively, the thread is subject to hijacking to concern over Blind Mellow Jelly.
• This is not to be characterized as concern trolling if the poster does not self-identify as a concern troll and makes it clear that he or she is not actually concerned about Blind Mellow Jelly.
• Blind Mellow Jelly shall only make one post in a row in a Box thread. If Blind Mellow Jelly wants to make more than one post in a row, he should use the Blind Mellow Jelly Box thread that has been created for this purpose, which is not this thread, which should not have been created, because it is wrong to start a thread about Blind Mellow Jelly posting consecutively.

That's just a quick rough draft based primarily on this thread and doesn't touch on specific instructions for Chacoguy or Dragonlady or Hitler or many a forgotten (but probably not actually forgotten) set of parameters laid out to others over the years.

[Borborygmi]

And Roo, a little more seriously here than my previous post directed at you... you of course don't need to change anything about how you post in the Box, either, but the least popular aspects of your posting are all on display in this thread. You've scolded from atop some perceived moral high ground. You've instructed other people on how to post. You've started a thread for the sort of posts you'd like to see quarantined to their own thread as if that is a reasonable thing to do. You've dug up ancient posts for a rhetoric battle that only you are interested in waging. You have jumped on a chance to provoke a discussion on the rules, although I certainly admit I pressed your button on that that one.

I disagree that I have been a 'constant critic' of you, but if I've earned that tag then I get to make a post like this. Despite what you might think, it's meant to be constructive. You can start dozens of threads in the Box in an effort to develop the message board utopia that you envision, away from the oppressive moderation that permeates the rest of the board, but when you start trying to humorlessly micromanage the posting by others, that is what people are going to remember most and hold against you. It comes off as hypocritical... as if you want the freedom to post in whatever way you want, but you don't want anyone else to have the same freedom.

[Borborygmi]

zomg consecutive posting

[Inna Minnit]

So Roo... how is your last post and your new thread any different than Drew's original question? And yet you moralize to him about character flaws? What the fuck? Drew's topic (and indeed most of his postings) seem to be done in good natured teasing. Yours here and your other topic seem to be bossy and mean. But then you live in the box. I guess there really is a reason.

What I can't figure out, is why that's ok with you. Years you've been doing this. There are other places on the internet where you could be posting. Why here where you have obviously annoyed the shit out of enough people that they prefer to have you boxed? THAT says a lot about you.

[Borborygmi]

Aside: @Blind Mellow Jelly, honestly I love your consecutive posts. I wouldn't welcome them everywhere, but I consider your streams of consciousness and flights of fancy to be a fun and unique part of the Box ecosystem. Don't let anyone tell you how you should be posting in the Box forum.

[Rat Diva]

Ooooh, you didn't make the last two posts in the designated "Borborygmi responds to Roo" thread. You're on double-secret box probation now.

Inna Minnit, that's a question for the ages. I've been lurking and/or posting here since almost the beginning and no one has gotten a straight answer to that question, ever.

[Borborygmi]

Originally Posted by Rat_Diva

Ooooh, you didn't make the last two posts in the designated "Borborygmi responds to Roo" thread. You're on double-secret box probation now.

Hey, I didn't get my own Box thread until after I made those posts. They got moved over to my thread, though, by a good Samaritan, so all's well.

[tar503]

Who guessed 4 consecutive posts? You are winning as of now!!

Also, I find it absolutely hilarious that Roo got on her high horse about me picking on BMJ for making consecutive posts, when admittedly it's a behavior that she herself dislikes and has begrudgingly and silently accepted it up until my creation of this thread.

Also, I still want to know what the hell is up with BMJ? In what universe is "fuck your propoganda" a sane response to what Roo posted? a "fuck you" or a "fuck your request" sure, or anything else along those lines. But Roo's post didn't have any propaganda that I could see.

To be perfectly honest, I don't mind BMJ's ravings and consecutive posting either. I just thought it would be funny to make this thread. I don't want him to stop. But I still think BMJ is a raving crazy person who somehow maintains access to the internet.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by drewtwo99

Also, I find it absolutely hilarious that Roo got on her high horse about me picking on BMJ for making consecutive posts, when admittedly it's a behavior that she herself dislikes and has begrudgingly and silently accepted it up until my creation of this thread.

I'm sorry you see it that way. I obviously disagree, but it's probably been hashed out enough, so unless you're going to take me to task for what I posted, I'll leave it at that.