Do I deserve this?

[CT Dick]

In the Deli, there is a discussion of Stella's. Jayinla gave a fairly evenhanded account of this visit there (posting #6). TruthTeller went on the attack in posing #7. I responded in posting #12 that I thought his comments were nasty. I got lambasted in #15, as I expected I would.

 

What I did not expect, and really object to, is the comment TruthTeller placed in my negative rating:

 

"Silly and dumb - plagued by a filthy hole - is best friends with his mom (whose hole is also dirty) - painfully slow - a pointless twat "

 

Is this the purpose of the ratings? Is this the price of participating in these boards. Is this a fair payback for trying to keep the level of discussions above personal attack?

 

Dick

[Guest Gentle Dude]

This is very childish and vicious of TT. No one deserves that kind of a personal attack.

 

Are the comments section in the ratings portion "moderated"? If not, wouldn't other posters be able to circumvent the rules of the message board and post "personal info" or libelous statements against another poster? Just asking.

 

GD

[+ deej]

Dick, no you didn't deserve it. Nor did most everyone else TT rated negatively and with personal vitriol. Consider the source, shrug, and go on with life. I'll quote from the rules:

 

"There are no guidelines against rudeness, arrogance, bitchiness, hatefulness, or otherwise just being an asshole."

 

It's your choice which category that rating belongs in. }>

 

GD, no, the ratings are not moderated. I asked HooBoy about potential risk and his response was basically that if someone screws around like that we'll pull it and quite possibly turn the feature off entirely.

[Barry]

>This is very childish and vicious of TT. No one deserves

>that kind of a personal attack.

 

Yes it was but it also showed his true colors. I prefer overt assholes to covert ones.

 

>Are the comments section in the ratings portion "moderated"?

>If not, wouldn't other posters be able to circumvent the

>rules of the message board and post "personal info" or

>libelous statements against another poster? Just asking.

 

As Deej said the comments are not moderated but we have made it very very clear here that the posting of personal info will NOT be tolerated. Worse case scenario, Hoo will shut down the ratings system if it's abused.

 

Barry

 

[Guest jc92103]

What is the point of the rating system? I vote to shut it down.

[+ deej]

HooBoy explained elsewhere that it is something that's been often requested since the Message Center started.

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

>What is the point of the rating system?

 

jc92103,

 

The rating system seemed to me a little dicey at first causing me wonder about its usefulness. But I thought why not give it a go and see just where it does go. Is it a critical component to the message board? Not really, but it has been mildy entertaining. And it has fulfilled a potential (positive for me) I saw that I won't go into right now.

 

Has there been abuse? Of course, why would this area be any better behaved than the Lounge or the Deli, with the same characters roaming around.

 

It does allow one to register approval or disapproval of a poster wiithout getting into a pissing contest on the regular message board. And it doesn't gey buried deeply in the thread before being assigned to the archives.

 

I vote to keep it for now. :-)

[Guest Joey Ciccone]

>What I did not expect, and really object to, is the comment TruthTeller placed in my negative rating<

 

Considering the fact that this TT clown usually says the exact opposite of what's true, you should probably take it all as a compliment.

[marc anthony]

I would take it all with a grain of salt, Dick. I know that I have four or five negative ratings because I "come on this board too often to tell people what I like sexually." I guess I just misunderstood the purpose of a Male 4 Male Escort Review site. It appears that many of the dwellers here really aren't that interested in sharing escort information... and hence they need to spend their days spitting bile at anyone who doesn't fit their fancy.

 

Will it stop me from doing what I am doing, and my enjoyment of this board? NO. Should it stop you? I recommend not as you are a valuable contributer to this board.

 

I take comfort in looking at who my critics are, and you should as well. A man can tell as much about himself by the "quality" of his enemies as well as the quality of his friends!

[marc anthony]

By the way... the rating feature has some quirks in it. I have two ratings... marc and marc anthony. When you click on my name in the forums, it takes you to marc... which is blank. When you click on the rating system from the profile feature, it takes you to marc anthony which has all the contributions. Thanks to those who took the time to post the favorable ratings. And hello to those whom I drive crazy. I am still here!

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

Dick,

 

The short answer is NO! And I suggest that you not let it bother you. I have garnered one negative rating and I'm just as pleased with that as I am with each of the positives. I believe that a man is known by 'his friends' with the term 'friend' given wide latitude to include negative as well as positive values.

 

Despite his handle, TT's mission is more than the telling of his 'his truths'. As I responded to TT in IM_Moore's thread Life Goes On... --

 

"On the other hand my cynical side wonders if your mission is just to stir the pot for a little action and excitement, and maybe in the course of that stirring to get a few panties in a bunch around here. "

 

This is his mission much (though not all ) of the time IMO. In these instances he uses 'his version' of the truth as the vehicle. And he has demonstrated IMO a penchant for going way over the edge indicating to me faulty judgment in where to draw the line. This applies to subject matter and to comments about posters, reference IM_Moore's thread cited above.

 

TO his credit, when not playing his irritating game, he has a good sense of humor (at least it appeals to me) and he can contribute serious well thought through posts. In this mode, I find him an interesting read. The question is: Does the bouquet of the flowers overcome the stench of the dung in which they grow?? Each of us must answer that question for ourself.

 

He is not alone in those that seem unable to control their dark side in public or more accurately -- to flaunt it.

 

The question that perplexes me is: with life so short why does one want to expend the time and energy in such a manner? The only non pathological reason that occurs to me is fun. I just have to wonder. :-(

[Guest cmp]

"I take comfort in looking at who my critics are, and you should as well. A man can tell as much about himself by the "quality" of his enemies as well as the quality of his friends!"

 

Well said! It seems to me that a flame says more about the flamer than about the flamee.

[Guest Kevin 2]

<GD, no, the ratings are not moderated. I asked HooBoy about potential risk and his response was basically that if someone screws around like that we'll pull it and quite possibly turn the feature off entirely.>

 

I hope Hoo keeps this feature, I think its helpful for the new memebers of the board that haven't been around awhile like the rest of us. Don't let 1 or 2 assholes ruin it for the rest of us. Delete their post and moderate them. ;-)

[Guest TruthTeller]

>I hope Hoo keeps this feature, I think its helpful for the

>new memebers of the board that haven't been around awhile

>like the rest of us. Don't let 1 or 2 assholes ruin it for

>the rest of us. Delete their post and moderate them. ;-)

 

That would be an extremely helpful feature for the new members -- a ratings system which, Pravda-like, is cleansed of all comments disapproved of by the authorities.

 

And I'm sure that in the vast expanse of your head, there's something reconcilable about advocating that critical comments be deleted, while at the same time, calling other participants "assholes."

[Guest cp8036]

I wouldn't worry too much. Is just written in good fun, most lines are so over the top, they cannot be true. (did he ever meet your Mom).

 

Just as you may get a bad batch of pancake mix, TT may have gotten an unusually bad batch of meth.

[Guest TruthTeller]

>In the Deli, there is a discussion of

>Stella's. Jayinla gave a fairly evenhanded account of this

>visit there (posting #6).

 

Yes, that was a very "evenhanded" account given by Jayinla. He depicted all the escorts at Stella's as drug-addicted, homeless street trash; snidely mocked them as filth; and attempted to contrast such sewer water with himself -- the Beacon of Clean, High-Class, Elegant Prostitution, who should have been awarded a medal for gracing such a Place of Ill-Repute with his majestical presence.

 

But he's a little twinky escort -- i.e., a darling angel -- so nothing he does could possibly be wrong, and he must be protected by his wanna-be Daddies. What he said about the "low-class" escorts at Stella's is infinitely nastier than anything I said, but because he dishonestly and cowardly couched his insults in the language of Campy Queen Talk ("it was a bit more crass than I'm used to"), and because his sweet little twink escort pictures made your needy cock hard, you were on the verge of tears that anyone would say anything critical of such a sweet, cute, little boy - even though what he was saying was repugnant.

 

As this thread proves -- filled, as it is, with the Well-Mannered, Earnest Good Citizens, spewing every insult they can think of, while they self-righteously protest insult-spewing -- it's not the insult that matters. It's who makes it; at whom it's directed, and how candidly it's made.

 

>What I did not expect, and really object to, is the comment

>TruthTeller placed in my negative rating:

 

Why did you object? Do you think that you can call someone nasty - or, like JayInLa, talk about people like they're viruses -- and then be entitled to immunity from criticsm?

 

>

>"Silly and dumb - plagued by a filthy hole -

>is best friends with his mom (whose hole is also dirty) -

>painfully slow - a pointless twat "

>

 

What's wrong with this? I've read several of your posts, and I *do* think you're silly and dumb; I *do* think that you're painfully slow; and I *do* think that you're a pointless twat. Isn't the purpose of the ratings space to candidly express what you think about the other participants? If not, what is its purpose?

 

(I'll admit that I don't know for certain that your hole, and your mother's hole, are dirty, but I meant this metaphorically, not literally, as I'm sure everyone understood).

[Guest TruthTeller]

>>This is very childish and vicious of TT. No one deserves

>>that kind of a personal attack.

>

>Yes it was but it also showed his true colors. I prefer

>overt assholes to covert ones.

 

My comments about CTDick were "childish and vicious," but your comments about me - calling me an "overt asshole" -- were, naturally, adult and constructive.

 

Congratulations on your consistency.

[Guest WetDream]

Just checked in on this thread and thought I'd add my comments. TT tries so hard to be hurtful and his contributions to the ratings page are so wide of the mark that they are essentially meaningless. I refer specifically what he said about me ("appears to be sympathetic to facism"). Who cares. Just let the old dear rave on and on.

[Guest TruthTeller]

>No one deserves that kind of a personal attack.

 

If you really believe this, this must mean that you're going to now criticize Barry for calling me an "overt asshole," and also criticize this kevin2 thing for calling me an "asshole." I sure hope you are because those comments really hurt my feelings.

 

After all, "No one deserves that kind of a personal attack."

[Guest TruthTeller]

>I wouldn't worry too much. Is just written in good fun,

>most lines are so over the top, they cannot be true. (did

>he ever meet your Mom).

 

Self-importance precludes a sense of humor about oneself.

 

 

> an unusually bad batch of meth.

 

This is an oxymoron.

[Guest Fin Fang Foom]

I didn't know anything about this feature so I put on my cyber-flak jacket before reading mine.

 

I don't think "Donnie" likes me.

 

damn

 

Dejectedly yours,

 

FFF

[+ Lucky]

Well, if I can brag just a little bit, TT rates me as "Evil!" }>

[Guest Kevin 2]

"Is Nothing - a Void - Space - Emptiness Personified - Pure Non-Existence - Wholly Inconsequential - but really, really nice!"

 

TT Ratings are becoming interesting to read, I will give him that much. Above is how he rated me. LOL

[Guest CraigSF39]

>Well, if I can brag just a little bit, TT rates me as

>"Evil!" }>

 

Not just Evil - Pure Evil. Evil Itself.

[Donnie]

T2's rating comments about FFF are perfect, especially the LAST WORD. That alone is worth checking out.