Why I start dumb threads on MP

Princess Puppy Lovrwrote:

If, at every chance to point out the irrationality of my madness, people actually provide useful insights instead, I will change the goal posts to keep my thread going

FIFY

i don’t understand the response to your thread about warming trousers honestly. climbing is inherently absurd and goofy, just as much as it can be awe-inspiring on occasion

a friend at the crag this weekend wore silky star wars pj pants under his crag shorts and honestly it was a look, and i can only aspire to that level of self-certitude. keep on, trevor

So.... you know what trolling is. Good for you.

All of you responding with troll disdain - Congratulations: You've successfully been trolled.

Do like we did and try posting with your pants on, son. It makes for good, honest trolling. The kind of trolls that made this forum great again.

Colonel Mustardwrote:

Do like we did and try posting with your pants on, son. It makes for good, honest trolling. The kind of trolls that made this forum great again.

Princess Puppy Lovrwrote:

There is a large contingent of mountain project that mostly uses this site as a reinforcement mechanism for their own ego. When many users have an opportunity to feel superior they seize it. When you make a good point grounded in objective facts people ignore it (I used to correct insurance misinformation frequently and get no response) or pretend it wasn't said because it isn't an opportunity to feel superior.  In order to illicit a response you have to make the dumbest points possible inorder to evoke that feeling of superiority many users are seeking and that is when they respond. JCM genuinely starts threads that could be interesting topics, yet for some reason more people respond to me. OLH is genuinely nice to people and people don't treat her with the same kindness. Stig wrote a fantastic trip report that got 3 likes (honestly the whole trip report subforum). This is also clear by the lack of people who are actually interested in having a conversation in the forum or over the phone. 

I generally don't love hanging out with egotistical people, but if I am, might as well have fun. It is a simple formula, first find an idea that is uncontroversial but make it crazy. Second make the worst points you can for it, so users have an easy argument to be had. Third, ego driven users won't really argue they will just flame. They construct since poor arguments since their main priority is to feel superior, I can just keep it going. Non egotistical users just won't respond, they are not looking for the validation to feel superior. The hiccup recently is that JT is actually responding to me. 

The other component is to realize climbing is just a hobby. The user base is so insecure that if you attack conventional components of climbing they get flustered because you are attacking their identity. Users care so much about what people think of them, that they assume everyone else does. If a rationale person doesn't care about something, they just won't respond. 

But my threads are also true:

I do actually wear pants over my harness regularly because I don't want to cool off too much or get bit by bugs (looks hella dumb tho).
I do think choss is classic. I just wanna go have fun climbing, if I am having fun, I don't care how good the rock is.
I think climbing gyms are a great resource for some people. It is certainly better than not climbing at all.
I love rock climbing but that only means it is cool to me, it is no value statement about it being cool to anyone else. 

My posts lose their effectiveness if you guys stop having such fragile egos. But it is super funny how insecure yall get. 

Can condense this down to bullet points?

Princess Puppy Lovr wrote:

I tried being nice to mean people. They didn't wanna be nice back now they all just look like raging a**holes. if they were not ego driven most wouldn’t comment.

I don’t think you understand what bullet points are…

Princess Puppy Lovr wrote:

I tried being nice to mean people. They didn't wanna be nice back now they all just look like raging a**holes. if they were not ego driven most wouldn’t comment.

If everyone or even just a lot of people you meet are egotistic raging assholes, maybe the problem isn't with them?

Marc801 Cwrote:

If everyone or even just a lot of people you meet are egotistic raging assholes, maybe the problem isn't with them?

Can you point to an example of me being an a**hole?

Eric Roewrote:

 

Thanks for proving my hypothesis eric, see you in Spokane sometime, I might even be out that way this weekend!

Marc801 Cwrote:If everyone or even just a lot of people you meet are egotistic raging assholes, maybe the problem isn't with them?

It’s only the ones that engage with him. Read: challenge his own ego. He can’t handle someone else trolling at his level. It could damage his own fragile ego.

It is quite entertaining that the second someone says his idea is silly/stupid/unrelatable/irrelevant/etc. is because they have an ego issue, not because it actually is one of those things or, like, their (own) opinion man   

Princess Puppy Lovr:

Can you point to an example of me being an a**hole?

Your definition of being an a$$hole has historically been loose so I’m going to say your targeting of FrankPS in the Sierra Elevation job posting.

Eric Roewrote:

can we leave the super immature ableist comics back in middle school? “retarded” is the sort of casual insult that belongs back in 2008. MP is better than that

Erroll Mwrote:

can we leave the super immature ableist comics back in middle school? “retarded” is the sort of casual insult that belongs back in 2008. MP is better than that

I agree with everything you said except "MP is better than that"

Fail Fallingwrote:

I agree with everything you said except "MP is better than that"

i know it’s not generally speaking but i like to stack logical fallacies to seem more serious/“i’d like to pretend it is”. either way…..

Not Not MP Adminwrote:

It’s only the ones that engage with him. Read: challenge his own ego. He can’t handle someone else trolling at his level. It could damage his own fragile ego.

I have no issue with disagreements actually to the contrary. When I say choss is classic, and someone responds, "You are a dumb gumby" that is an example of ego at play. I would say you actually have little ego JT, you are in the trenches having discussions!

Your definition of being an a$$hole has historically been loose so I’m going to say your targeting of FrankPS in the Sierra Elevation job posting.

I would not say that is full a$$hole. I am sorry Frank if I hurt your feelings! Have better examples? Should be easy to get me banned if you make a list for people to flag my incendiary comments!

Princess Puppy Lovrwrote:

I have no issue with disagreements actually to the contrary. When I say choss is classic, and someone responds, "You are a dumb gumby" that is an example of ego at play. I would say you actually have little ego JT, you are in the trenches having discussions!

I would not say that is full a$$hole. I am sorry Frank if I hurt your feelings! Have better examples? Should be easy to get me banned if you make a list for people to flag my incendiary comments!

I would never get you banned! I’d be extremely bored on here. Plus I tricked you, I secretly need your compliments to pad my ego    

Princess Puppy Lovrwrote:

Can you point to an example of me being an a**hole?

Every time you call someone egotistical when they disagree with you.

Every time you change the frame of reference when you loose ground in an argument.

Look at that, it works here too.