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Overall, I've been pretty satisfied with the feedback that my entry has recieved. Some have been short, others have been extremely well thought out, and all have been helpful to some degree...Sort of like getting a test back with the teacher's corrections, thinking "Damn! I should have known that"....
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently - Dove Chocolate Wrapper
I think every one should feel it that way. Usually, thats' what happens. But this time I feel that some persons will have to settle accounts with others who think the sun shines out their a***e.
You don't seem to get the irony of calling someone an abrasive asshole as abrasive.
No, you clearly don’t understand my point. All I said was that abrasive doesn’t equal honest. That’s pretty clear. Keep thinking about it. It’ll eventually sink in.
Since you failed to point to a specific example(of my supposed abrasiveness) I used the point( being discussed) that elicit the particular response from you. Plagiarism.
Again, why would I point out a specific example of your abrasiveness? And why are you asking me to? I said nothing to you until you brought up the remark about plagiarism.
What does “the point (being discussed) that elicit the particular response from you” mean? That’s completely incoherent. These types of nonsensical sentences are what’s causing the problem here.
I think you must have realized how foolish your plagiarism comment was because you still haven’t addressed the real issue. Why would you think my saying that abrasiveness doesn’t equal honesty somehow means I think someone is abrasive for busting someone on plagiarism? You just pulled that out of your ass.
I really am not in the mood for a tit for tat with you...
Clearly you were in the mood for it or you would have just kept your mouth shut. I suggest from now on when you have nothing of any substance to say or you just want to pull nonsense out of your ass that you just keep your mouth shut.
I hope you really mean this. I don’t have anymore time to waste indulging you in your paranoid fantasies. So if you’re really done, then good. I look forward to not having you waste anymore of my time.
I'm curious what the plagiarism issue is all about. Did I miss something here? Who plagiaized who, and in what context?
The best I can figure it out, Jammingirl decided that my assertion that “abrasive doesn’t equal honest” somehow translates to that I believe people who bust writers for plagiarism are abrasive.
In any event, it makes no sense. First off, I don’t think busting someone for plagiarism has anything directly to do with abrasiveness. And secondly, I don’t care if someone is abrasive when they bust someone for plagiarism.
So I asked Jammingirl to explain her position. She could not.
Everybody, I truly apologize for my part in this train wreck of a OWC. Yes I could have gone about things differently, but if I was to be really honest with you I would have to admit that yesterday morning I was having lots of fun. But, it is not fair to drag the whole site down with me and of course I feel bad about that.
This site used to be a fantastic place to come and discuss writing, scripts and films with like-minded people. But recently I have just got so sick of the bile and vomit that is being spewed around the place that I was unable to resist jumping in. And yes, I am not oblivious to the fact that I am hardly innocent in that regard but when somebody pisses me off they piss me off.
I hereby promise that I will not allow one person to ruin my experience of this site and thus will not allow my frustrations spill over onto the rest of the board, no matter how much fun I am having.
Dreamscale, you had not reviewed my script so there was nothing personal there, besides I am a big boy and can take anything anybody wants to throw at me. Others however are not, just keep that in mind when throwing around words like turd and shit. Move on from here and become a better reviewer and I promise I will leave you alone. Actually I will just ignore you but I think that is good enough.
I will be trying to stay away for a while, I do have some writing to do.
Breanne, why don't you get a life and rest the argument?
Hey Jammingirl, it’s true I let you get under my skin. I allowed myself to be drug into all the arguing and bickering. I should have been more professional than to allow that.
I apologize to you for anything I said that was mean spirited. I don’t agree with you. Hell I don’t even understand half of what you’re talking about. But as I look back over my posts, I have no doubt some of my comments were meant to incite you. Mostly because I felt you were inciting me. But without a doubt I incited you a few times. And for that I publicly apologize and you can have the last word with the “get a life” comment.
With that, I would like to publicly apologize to everyone, and I mean everyone, for my behavior. I’ve got a lot of work to do so I’m off. I hope everyone just cools off and everything can get back to normal soon. Me, I’ve had it until things calm down.
Too bad this thread cannot be locked. People obviously have a lot to say on this, and another thread would invariably pop up, so this is as good a home as any for the detritus, I suppose.
This is some of the loopiest crap I have ever read. Looks like a few people are trying to wind up their feuds, and that is good.
If nothing else, please let this absurd "plagiarism" argument drop. It makes no sense at all, and people are supposed to call out plagiarism anyways. It is just about the worst offense you can commit around here.
As for the name-calling and accusations, it is just weird.
I am not Dreamscale's biggest cheerleader, but he contributes, and if having a big ego is a crime around here, we simply do not have enough stockades for the overflow.
If there is some message Dreamscale is supposed to take away from this public flogging, he has surely absorbed it by now -- that, or he never will.
And if Dreamscale put his name on his OWC script and some people acted with that knowledge, that is Dreamscale being a knucklehead and floating conspiracy theories is also absurd. You just need to suck that one up, Jeff.
This thread will not be locked for now, but
* Direct name calling will be deleted from here forward. * Arguments about plagiarism that seem to have originated from Mars will be deleted from here forward. * Other stuff might be deleted at the whims of the moderator. We can do that, you know.
Pia mentioned that there seems to be an annual meltdown that occurs in the spring. She is right. It has been thus for many years.