Every time I go away for a weekend, I think people sense a disturbance in the board and things get crazy in second. I am not going to pass judgement on the now deleted thread of [expletive deleted] customs that I can't reference yet, but I can give a few items as food for thought for both sides.

1. Depending on what you exactly are, develop an epidermis or exoskeleton. In clearer terms, get a thick skin. Everyone has an opinion, and half of them are wrong. By posting in a BBS setting, you are asking for people to post opinions. When you get an opinion you don't like, ignore it. You asked for it, and now you got it. When you get one you like, bask in the glory that others think just like you.

2. Be opiniated or be an asshole, but choose one, not both. Basically, if you feel the undying urge to either call out someone on their shit, or take umbrage with the content of a post, do so with style, grace and grammar. Most people can take a beating if they think you are being sincere, but not if you are beating them up for the sake of fighting. Being an ass just to be one just makes you look like a bully, and no one likes bullies except other bullies. I don't like bullies. Granted, if you can be an asshole in such a witty manner that I can't resist your charms you are no longer an asshole, but a charming asshole, which I think none of us are. (Granted that toilet lid post was damn close, some of the others much less so.)

3. If you wouldn't say it to their face, don't type it. That is pretty self explanatory. The internet is full of 12 year old gangster thugs from the suburbs. They will all later be picked up later by internet predators. Some of us (myself excluded) are actually big dudes who will remember you later. This is not a position that you want to be in.

4. Don't respond. Lord knows the only thing an attention freak on either side needs is fuel for the fire. Let it die. Please. (all of you.)

5. Look before you leap. If you got to a custom chopper forum to post pictures of your vespa you are going to get yelled at. Make sure you know where you are on the internet before you start moving in. There is a time and place for everyone, and look and see if what you are planning on discussing has any relevance to the audience.

6. The unwritten rules. These don't take long to figure out. I bet within a day or two of genuinely reading posts here you will get a sense of what they are. If you can't figure it out, you probably aren't actually trying.

7. Cranky old men. Somehow, many of us have aged beyond our years over here. We were all newbies once, a little helpful advice with or without a scolding goes a lot further than just a cold shoulder, otherwise who are you going to pawn your excess figures from last year on?

I expect comments.

for reference, here is the thread:

http://www.skullbrain.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=13171

Fuck that guy, spamming his lame munny customs all over the board and then getting an attitude when he's called out, dude should at least know where he's posting, and he obviously doesn't, his bad.

I've been mostly going for the asshole approach to this matter, but I believe it is a little bit opinionated as well, I just refuse to choose.

just to let everyone know... english is not my native language. So if i come of as being rude, it is because i'm french

Flynn turns me on when he talks like that.

Your advice will only be read by members so it doesn't really work Guys like this don't read anything before they spam the boards. They are spammers like anyone else, except they just have shitty product than boner pills or bank accounts in africa. You are giving advice to the community but these guys are not part of the community.

Who post on a BBS before they read anything on it? Asshats.

I say give them hell until a mod or admin comes along to delete their threads.

tell me more about these magical boner pills.

i'll send you a couple of links frank

I won the lottery today, which is weird because I won a different one just yesterday!

sweet

i had an elk head fall on me last week and a leaf blower this week.

this seems impossible.

I want details

alright, let me introduce myself first. i am the most accident prone person you will ever encounter.

i work for an interior design firm. basically it's 3 designers with a warehouse full of furniture to pull from. i' one of the monkeys that hauls the furniture. there was this large resin elk head, roughly 4 ft tall and 3 ft wide, that has been hanging on a wall in the warehouse for over a year. on wednesday, as i'm working under it, it falls and lands right on my head. knocks me to the ground and jacks up my neck. i think my brain was harmed as well. numbers haven't worked correctly since.

yesterday, as i'm mowing the lawn, i go into the garage to get the leaf blower. it falls off the hook on the wall and lands on my foot. it actually landed right on my big toe, which is now black.

so improbable yes, but far from impossible. i'm the same guy who had his hand sliced open, all the way to the muscle, by a stray staple on the bottom of a couch.

The dude's 1st post was to promote his show, his 2nd was to post his custom dummys to hype his show. Pissed on my Wheaties first thing in the morning.

I think its time for you to start an online blog of your misfortunes , with pics !

more offensive than his work was his grammar, and general lack of spelling/typing skills which offended me.
I have to say as well as much as like to 'laern' new things calling me 14 really hurt my feelings.

Brian you are strict, were you ever a teacher?

I like it by the way

Where be tha all knowiing and king of replies Cesar?

IKe

This has all been discussed previously with a lot of the members here. Some are Assoles and some are encouraging assholes and some are just nice and not assholes at all. This is probably the way it has always been and will always be this way. We just need to develop that rough leathery skin and not take everything to heart and we can all get along, well most of us anyways.

Just be polite

Not to go on All-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to eat Fish or Flesh; that is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to claw the Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not men?

- The Island of Doctor Moreau

Hey motorbot, didn't one of your toy cases fall off the wall and didn't you also fall out of your truck and break your arm once?

FUCK, dude! remind me not to hang out with you if we ever meet.

i'm sad i missed the fun

the blog of misfortunes is a good idea. if anypne can think of a good title for it let me know.

and yes i did have a toy case fall off the wall. there weren't many casualties but my astrolapin did lose his head.

and yes i did fall out of a truck, but i did not break my arm. amazingly i have never broken a bone.

another recent injury happened a few weeks ago when i was working on the balzac zombie. i stabbed myself in the finger with an xacto knife. pretty sure the whole blade went into my finger.

i have a cell phone pic of my slcied open hand that i'll try to track down and post.

"An Embarrassment Of Riches"

here's the hand



and with stitches

Oh man.