Introduction

[Diesel Grinch]

You know something? We should stage asshat beat downs once a month so that we can weed out persons like ROCKYPATELSOLDERBROTHER. Get them all worked up.


What some noobs don't understand in the beginning is that we are protecting the community. Things like this weed out those that at some point would be an issue. I have seen others step on their own dick but they have come back from it. The person realized what they did, said a straight up sorry with out the but, and took full responsibility for their actions. Now they weren't given a clean slate but they did get the chance to prove themselves as a stand up BOTL over time.


Now a good thing to come out of this is that we got George and Bruce posting a little more here.

DG

[ashauler]

You know something? We should stage asshat beat downs once a month so that we can weed out persons like ROCKYPATELSOLDERBROTHER. Get them all worked up.


What some noobs don't understand in the beginning is that we are protecting the community. Things like this weed out those that at some point would be an issue. I have seen others step on their own dick but they have come back from it. The person realized what they did, said a straight up sorry with out the but, and took full responsibility for their actions. Now they weren't given a clean slate but they did get the chance to prove themselves as a stand up BOTL over time.


Now a good thing to come out of this is that we got George and Bruce posting a little more here.

DG

Exactly, well put!!

BTW, does anybody else wonder just what the hell a SOLDERbrother is? Do they all get together and make PCB's or something?

[Soli]

all this guy did was voice his opinion and he gets jumped on him like he took a sh1t in someones humidor!

it makes sense that you need time to build up respect in a community, but everyone is entitled to their opinion (and to voice such) without getting jumped on by the local vigilante!
who was it that said: '' i do not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the hilt your right to say it''


think we all need to go have a sit down and come back later and hug it out!

[ggiese]

all this guy did was voice his opinion and he gets jumped on him like he took a sh1t in someones humidor!

it makes sense that you need time to build up respect in a community, but everyone is entitled to their opinion (and to voice such) without getting jumped on by the local vigilante!
who was it that said: '' i do not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the hilt your right to say it''


think we all need to go have a sit down and come back later and hug it out!

Seriously - you carefully thought about this post and felt the burning need to post it?

After your post, I'm wondering if you're not truly clueless. I really don't think so because I'd like to think your opinions come from your total ignorance to the overall community (as evidenced by your sign-on date and post count).

Thankfully this is not a contest to speculate on who the biggest Internet meanie is. As has been previous mentioned (ad nauseum, I might add) others have stepped on their dick early on, but later recovered.

To your credit, I'll just take a wait and see attitude. Time and participation are the ultimate gauge of true worth to the community.

[logan37]

wow
different opinion = asshat ?
low post count = worthless opinion ?
correct me if im wrong but that seems to be what is coming across here

all this guy did was voice his opinion and you jump on him like he took a sh1t in your humidor!

it makes sense that you need time to build up respect in a community, but everyone is entitled to their opinion (and to voice such) without getting jumped on by the local vigilante!
who was it that said: '' i do not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the hilt your right to say it''
basil- coming from a brit, you should prob work on your sarcasm

think we all need to go have a sit down and come back later and hug it out!

read.
http://www.cigarbbguide.com/NEWBIE~1/Protocol.html

read.

Funny how small of a community the cigar forums are.

Before everyone does too many welcomes please read the following thread on CP and decide for yourselves.

http://www.cigarpass.com/forums/inde...ic=47687&st=40



We are a tight group.


DG

This has nothing to do with low post count or a different opinion. Me and you are new here, This is NOT our board yet. It might be in the future, but not yet.

SOLDERBROTHER was attempting to defend a douchebag who was not welcome here due to his total douchebaggery on other forums(multiple times). It just so happens that the senior guys here are also members of those forums. SOLDERBROTHER obviously did not read up on Cigary's douchebagginess, eventually turning himself into a douchebag.

My advice, let the dog's hunt, just sit back and LEARN, and don't become a douchebag.

It will help if you laugh. I do.

[NullSmurf]

all this guy did was voice his opinion and he gets jumped on him like he took a sh1t in someones humidor!

it makes sense that you need time to build up respect in a community, but everyone is entitled to their opinion (and to voice such) without getting jumped on by the local vigilante!
who was it that said: '' i do not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the hilt your right to say it''


think we all need to go have a sit down and come back later and hug it out!

As George said, confused. Yes to the First Amendment - free speech, to the death and all that. Congress shall make no law, yadda, yadda. You may express your opinion, but not without cost. You say "A", I say "B", then comes the debate. The audience hears the arguments and line up on the most convincing side. If you can't or won't stand behind what you say, you should stay quiet. That is the price of free speech.

When an argument is as weak as was solderbrother's, its going to get blown out. The final tally is most likely solderbrother 3, us 50. Kabloooey.

[Corvin]

As George said, confused. Yes to the First Amendment - free speech, to the death and all that. Congress shall make no law, yadda, yadda. You may express your opinion, but not without cost. You say "A", I say "B", then comes the debate. The audience hears the arguments and line up on the most convincing side. If you can't or won't stand behind what you say, you should stay quiet. That is the price of free speech.

When an argument is as weak as was solderbrother's, its going to get blown out. The final tally is most likely solderbrother 3, us 50. Kabloooey.

Free speech? Sure in public. But this isn't public. This is Hex's place. And he's nice enough to let us hang out here.

Now, as for the couple of asshats, specifically Cigary and "brother", I'd say we string them up by their toes for all to see when registering and then ban their useless asses.

[ggiese]

Free speech? Sure in public. But this isn't public. This is Hex's place. And he's nice enough to let us hang out here.

I believe Bruce was talking the much deeper pain of "free speech" - beyond the insignificant actions Hex make take on his board.

Nope - I think Bruce is talking about the pain of someone verbalizing their ignorance. For example: walking into a meanest, roughest biker bar late in the evening during free beer night and shouting "FREEZE - POLICE!". That could get quite painful...

Now, as for the couple of asshats, specifically Cigary and "brother", I'd say we string them up by their toes for all to see when registering and then ban their useless asses.

Nope - then they'll be gone for good - never to have proven their true worth. They either prove themselves to be good guys - or they can die the death by a thousand cuts. Either way it's pure entertainment.

[kevin7]

Good board for asshats www.cigarlive.com

[ggiese]

As George said, confused. Yes to the First Amendment - free speech, to the death and all that. Congress shall make no law, yadda, yadda. You may express your opinion, but not without cost. You say "A", I say "B", then comes the debate. The audience hears the arguments and line up on the most convincing side. If you can't or won't stand behind what you say, you should stay quiet. That is the price of free speech.

When an argument is as weak as was solderbrother's, its going to get blown out. The final tally is most likely solderbrother 3, us 50. Kabloooey.

Bruce - How dare you confuse the issues in this argument with facts. You should be ashamed of yourself!

[basil]

all this guy did was voice his opinion and he gets jumped on him like he took a sh1t in someones humidor!

it makes sense that you need time to build up respect in a community, but everyone is entitled to their opinion (and to voice such) without getting jumped on by the local vigilante!
who was it that said: '' i do not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the hilt your right to say it''


think we all need to go have a sit down and come back later and hug it out!

Really. Ok, logan put it better than I would above and you should click the link he found as well.

The only thing I'd like to add is regarding that shitty quote you used. We've had some low-lifes come on here, get their feelings hurt, and in the ensuing meltdown make some pretty heinous statements - racisism, threats of physical and sexual violence to members here and/or their family members. Will you defend that to the hilt soli? Try it and you'll be thrown out so fast you'll be digging yourself out of your defendent's ass.

rockypatelsassholebrother's BS may've sounded relatively mild, but if on a severity scale (call it a troll scale) of 1-100 a racist remark might register in the 80's, and rockyetc.'s polite little contribution in the 20's, the two of them both still have the scale in common. A delicate troll is still a troll - someone who with blustering, threats, haranguing, whining, or whatever, believes he will come onto a forum and arrogantly try to change that forum and the thinking within. Not because he's right. Not because he cares about any principle. Not in the name of the downtrodden under the heels of the mean ol' local vigilante. But simply because he cannot bear the thought of a place in which he has zero control. So, he foolishly goes about the business of creating for himself a delusion of power over others' reality. This person's days are numbered. He has no business here and the sooner he's gone, the better.

So, it'd be pretty cool if you would give it some more thought before you decide to comment any further one way or the other on this issue. No one's trying to indoctrinate here - just suggesting you sit still, enjoy some cigars, etc.

[Soli]

So, it'd be pretty cool if you would give it some more thought before you decide to comment any further one way or the other on this issue. No one's trying to indoctrinate here - just suggesting you sit still, enjoy some cigars, etc.

ok, some very good points been made here. think ive made a few steps in the wrong direction, so my apologies folks.
it seems that things are done very differently indeed on self modded forums, than on the admin controlled ones that i am used to- my bad.
should have heeded the advice given to me, and will be sitting back and watching the fireworks in future, and not to stick me nose in!



on the plus, got me a tupperdor sorted finally and it seems to be holding vaguely steady at 70%, time to go spend some money filling it up!

[basil]

ok, some very good points been made here. think ive made a few steps in the wrong direction, so my apologies folks.
it seems that things are done very differently indeed on self modded forums, than on the admin controlled ones that i am used to- my bad.
should have heeded the advice given to me, and will be sitting back and watching the fireworks in future, and not to stick me nose in!



on the plus, got me a tupperdor sorted finally and it seems to be holding vaguely steady at 70%, time to go spend some money filling it up!

Thanks Soli. Congrats on the tupperdor and have fun filling it.

[ggiese]

You know - the more I think about it...

Mr. Cigary's lack of ethics has become so flagrant that it merits your complete attention. To organize my discussion, I suggest that we take one step back in the causal chain and improve the lot of humankind. All of Cigary's energy is expended in destroying our moral fiber -- and Cigary knows it. He has a talent for inventing fantasy worlds in which women are crazed Pavlovian sex-dogs who will salivate at any object even remotely phallic in shape. Then again, just because Cigary is a prolific fantasist doesn't mean that everyone and everything discriminates against him -- including the writing on the bathroom stalls. What does this mean for our future? For one thing, it means that his maudlin preoccupation with nihilism, usually sicklied over with such nonsense words as "homeotransplantation", would make sense if a person's honor were determined strictly by his or her ability to etiolate Cigary's enemies. As that's not the case, we can conclude only that his primary viewpoint, that hanging out with vexatious psychics of one sort or another is a wonderful, culturally enriching experience, is directly related to the attitudes in our society that put a clog on all attempts to limit his power. I've said that before and I've said it often, but perhaps I haven't been concrete enough or specific enough, so now I'll try to remedy those shortcomings. I'll try to be a lot more specific and concrete when I explain that when he says that the rigors that his victims have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement, that's just a load of spucatum tauri.

The key to Cigary's soul is his longing for the effortless, irresponsible, automatic consciousness of an animal. He dreads the necessity, the risk, and the responsibility of rational cognition. As a result, we should act as a positive role model for younger people. (Goodness knows, our elected officials aren't going to.) Who among you reading these words is not moved to speak up and speak out against Cigary? It is far too easy for him to use fear, intimidation, sedating substances, and other tools to convince revolting pissants to provide support to backwards banana republics and their execrable dictators. So let him call me mendacious. I call him headlong.

Individually, Cigary's prognoses blow the whole situation way out of proportion. But linked together, Cigary's comments could easily cause (or at least contribute to) a variety of social ills. Even with the increasing number of heinous, conniving toughies, Cigary sometimes has trouble convincing people that he is the ultimate authority on what's right and what's wrong. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few irritable moral weaklings to constate authoritatively that all major world powers are controlled by a covert group of "insiders". Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that in these days of political correctness and the changing of how history is taught in schools to fulfill a particular agenda, I oppose Cigary's roorbacks because they are closed-minded. I oppose them because they are brown-nosing. And I oppose them because they will use both overt and covert deceptions to create catchy, new terms for boring, old issues by next weekend. The only way that Mr. Cigary could convince me that society is screaming for his sophistries would be to feed me stupid-flakes for breakfast. Period, finis, and Q.E.D.

[NullSmurf]

Exactly, well put!!

BTW, does anybody else wonder just what the hell a SOLDERbrother is? Do they all get together and make PCB's or something?

Boy, you sure are dumb! A solderbrother is a union tradesman.

[ashauler]

Boy, you sure are dumb! A solderbrother is a union tradesman.

Glad you cleared that up for me. BTW, I'm stupid, remember?

[BDurrani]

BTW, does anybody else wonder just what the hell a SOLDERbrother is? Do they all get together and make PCB's or something?

I think his name is meant to be Rocky Patel'S Older Brother.
But, I doubt that.