Week 2 Predictions and Chat/Discussion

[Split]

Maybe you should reevaluate what you are doing with your life.

[Gazette]

Originally Posted by Split Eight

Maybe you should reevaluate what you are doing with your life.

yeah you're right. half an hours beef on a rap forum has completely realigned my values, not only as a battler, but as a person

[Split]

Rawn. I know what you're saying. I have a history of apparently unfairly DQing people now. But no. If you're actively creating an unfair advantage and refusing to stop, then battle over... Especially when he's posting 3x in a row saying he's not gonna stop, just DQ him, trying to beef with CS in thread..

This isn't personal at all. I don't have any opinion towards anyone, except maybe Gamble. Dude is freaking out.


What do you want me to do? Leave it open? Let it collect 8x pages of freeposts? That just makes the league look bad. Idk I'm trying to help MW and Zygote run this league, by just moderating when they are not around. It seems like the right thing to do.

Originally Posted by Gazette

yeah you're right. half an hours beef on a rap forum has completely realigned my values, not only as a battler, but as a person

I mean. Why are you competitively writing if you don't care about winning? You were taking criticism pretty personally out there.

You attempt to make a mockery of the sport, therefore making a mockery of yourself. G'day

[Gazette]

Originally Posted by Split Eight

I mean. Why are you competitively writing if you don't care about winning? You were taking criticism pretty personally out there.

You attempt to make a mockery of the sport, therefore making a mockery of yourself. G'day

say what? i wasn't aware that beefing w/ some gormless asshole on the internet was classed as 'competitive writing' ... that's what you were replying to - but as for my battling, well, I never said I don't care, in fact, I made a post you promptly deleted about it (which you obviously didn't read) - I said it's annoying when u take the time write a verse, only to get misunderstood or criticized for things that aren't actually in there

Ring a bell? C'mon man, i got voted against for having a 'bad twist' (there was no twist) - and for 'randomly capitalizing letters' (each cap was the start of a multie) and for having only 'the seeds of ideas' (a non-linear narrative split between three conflicting characters, all borne from the word 'Frotterurism')... fuck that, i thought long and hard about my approach. Are you honestly gonna stand there and tell me that if that was your verse, you wouldn't speak up? Honest question. Gotta have a bit of self-respect man

I wouldn't mind taking the L, Ive had plenty and i lost count of my W's / L's years ago, that's just air to me, but it does annoys the fuck outta me when i know ive done a good bit of writing, and I get criticized on totally unfair terms by some jumped up little shit who thinks he can teach me a lesson. "I didn't like the Twist" - "I hate ..., no, i HATE how you capitalize some letters" ... the fuck kinda opinion is that? I lost a battle cus some of the letters I wrote were digitally a bit bigger than my opponents? Yeah, the stupidity IS annoying

[Split]

Originally Posted by Gazette

say what? i wasn't aware that beefing w/ some gormless asshole on the internet was classed as 'competitive writing' ... that's what you were replying to - but as for my battling, well, I never said I don't care, in fact, I made a post you promptly deleted about it (which you obviously didn't read) - I said it's annoying when u take the time write a verse, only to get misunderstood or criticized for things that aren't actually in there

Ring a bell? C'mon man, i got voted against for having a 'bad twist' (there was no twist) - and for 'randomly capitalizing letters' (each cap was the start of a multie) and for having only 'the seeds of ideas' (a non-linear narrative split between three conflicting characters, all borne from the word 'Frotterurism')... fuck that, i thought long and hard about my approach. Are you honestly gonna stand there and tell me that if that was your verse, you wouldn't speak up? Honest question. Gotta have a bit of self-respect man

I wouldn't do so in a battle thread, no. And you aren't allowed to try and explain your writing to voters, that defeats the point of writing in the first place. Especially when Pent uP can't do the same thing.

I'm sure you did take a lot of time. But the fact remains that you can't change your audience, just your approach. Which is why you should appreciate the voters.

[Gazette]

Originally Posted by Split Eight

I wouldn't do so in a battle thread, no. And you aren't allowed to try and explain your writing to voters, that defeats the point of writing in the first place. Especially when Pent uP can't do the same thing.

I'm sure you did take a lot of time. But the fact remains that you can't change your audience, just your approach. Which is why you should appreciate the voters.

nah, you can't ask anyone to appreciate an unfair opinion of you, that's tantamount to asking someone to bend over and smile, it's just unrealistic. you can try to uphold the idealization of it (Every vote is educated and fair yeah?) but if that wasn't a moot endeavor, there would be no need for mods like yourself, would there?

Fact is, people care about what they do, and when they expose what they do to people who may not care (ie - battling / voting) you're gonna get friction.

My opinion is that mods should stop being so passively chauvinistic about the sites they take care of, and actually uphold and encourage a stance against questionable votes. why bother to blindly and deafly keep afloat a site when its integrity depends on its users longterm satisfaction? there's no sense in that, use your melon bro. When did the right to vote become synonymous with a good or valid vote? No. Stupidity.