My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 472

On February 17 2012 15:42 Aylear wrote:


If I appeared dismissive or condescending, then I apologize - that was not my intention. I myself have copy-pasted or even written detailed responses to like 8 people who were asking the same question: "I don't understand this; what do you see in it?", and others in the fandom have responded to just as many. It's the same answer every time...

...so we put them in the OP.

It has nothing to do with dismissing a visitor, because dismissal would be "go away", not "the information you seek is readily available if you care enough to go looking for it by reading the first post." In other words, if you're on TL.net and you don't read the OP, expect to be called on it. =)

But let me ask you something. In the gay SC players thread, you said you go out of your way to answer questions. How many of them are along the lines of "Why are you gay? I don't understand it at all. What do you see in being gay?" Because unless you're happy to put up with leading questions that puts the onus on the questioned to defend themselves, and you never get tired of them after 470 pages, it doesn't equate. What you did was basically start off with an argument from personal incredulity, i.e. "I can't understand that people would legitimately like this", and then you put the burden on us to respond specifically to you to show you that we actually do. Do you understand why people might find that annoying?

Lastly, the phrase "I think some of you could learn a thing or two from the ponies" is an insulting passive-aggressive jab taken whilst sitting atop a high horse, and it doesn't impress me in the slightest.

On February 17 2012 15:42 Aylear wrote:


Lastly, the phrase "I think some of you could learn a thing or two from the ponies" is an insulting passive-aggressive jab taken whilst sitting atop a high horse, and it doesn't impress me in the slightest.

On February 17 2012 15:42 Aylear wrote:


whilst sitting atop a high horse