“Just Saw The Green Lantern Trailer…Why Is He Not A Black Guy?”

[InterestingJohn Alpha-Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close InterestingJohn]

It's just bad message board etiquette to come in and talk like you own the place before you've established yourself as a valuable member of the community I've got over 1500 posts and I still feel a bit like a noob

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InterestingJohn has my stamp of approval.

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It's just bad message board etiquette to come in and talk like you own the place before you've established yourself as a valuable member of the community I've got over 1500 posts and I still feel a bit like a noob

It's a message board. I read and leave messages. I don't disrespect individuals. That's all that's required. As for post counts, I don't care if you have 1 post count or 30,000 post counts. If what you say is valid then it doesn't matter your post count. That's just comic book guy elitism at it's finest to buy in to that sort of rationale.

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InterestingJohn has my stamp of approval.

Wooo!

Did I win?

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It's a message board. I read and leave messages. I don't disrespect individuals. That's all that's required. As for post counts, I don't care if you have 1 post count or 30,000 post counts. If what you say is valid then it doesn't matter your post count. That's just comic book guy elitism at it's finest to buy in to that sort of rationale.

It's called being part of a community.

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It's a message board. I read and leave messages. I don't disrespect individuals. That's all that's required. As for post counts, I don't care if you have 1 post count or 30,000 post counts. If what you say is valid then it doesn't matter your post count. That's just comic book guy elitism at it's finest to buy in to that sort of rationale.

You obviously dont get social etiquette then do you? If you were in a bar that had a fairly regular group of guys that visited it, and this completely new guy comes in and starts shouting at people, saying they're elitists and wrong, you'd probably say that guy was out of line.

This message board is the bar, we are all the regulars and youre the new guy. Not trying to shun you or nothing, but just trying to show you that you need to kind of stick around solidly before anyone gives any real thought to your posts.

Just sayin'.

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He'd get his teeth kicked in.

Also, you dont know any of us from Adam. The majority of us doesnt fit the typical "comic book guy" mold of "in mommy's basement with thousands of issues and over weight" stereotype.

Some of us do cool things. Some of us have exciting lives and we share those aspects of our lives along with our shared mutual interests here. So YOUR elitist attitude of "you are wrong, people! Hear me out!" is one of the many things that make these communities tighter- we just leave you out.

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For my part, I'll admit to fitting in to many of the CBG stereotypes, but I think I'm nicer.
I never do anything cool, though.

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For my part, I'll admit to fitting in to many of the CBG stereotypes, but I think I'm nicer.
I never do anything cool, though.

Im sure you do. You just dont realize it. People usually never realize that something they do is cool, they just think its something they like to do.

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Exactly.

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You obviously dont get social etiquette then do you? If you were in a bar that had a fairly regular group of guys that visited it, and this completely new guy comes in and starts shouting at people, saying they're elitists and wrong, you'd probably say that guy was out of line.

This message board is the bar, we are all the regulars and youre the new guy. Not trying to shun you or nothing, but just trying to show you that you need to kind of stick around solidly before anyone gives any real thought to your posts.

Just sayin'.

Ok. Now try this.

Imagine you're an ol'timer who's been frequenting a bar since it's grand opening way back when. Just enjoying your favorite beer and the ambiance. Then... some guys find the place and start to visit the bar regularly, too; just with a lot more to say than you. They then bring up a topic where you feel you have some experience in and you decide to chime in. Now imagine that group of guys all looking at you as if you're the new guy and can't possibly have anything worthwhile to say because they've never noticed you before in a place that is all of a sudden "their" bar.

How would you look at these guys? They assume you're new because you don't make a lot of noise at the bar and try to discredit what you say because of it. And even if you were new...why should that discredit what you say? Elitism at it's finest.

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If you do nothing, say nothing, you are nothing. You dont have a foot hold for the simple fact that you seemed to chime in for controversey for its sake, not to contribute.

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Ok. Now try this.

Imagine you're an ol'timer who's been frequenting a bar since it's grand opening way back when. Just enjoying your favorite beer and the ambiance. Then... some guys find the place and start to visit the bar regularly, too; just with a lot more to say than you. They then bring up a topic where you feel you have some experience in and you decide to chime in. Now imagine that group of guys all looking at you as if you're the new guy and can't possibly have anything worthwhile to say because they've never noticed you before in a place that is all of a sudden "their" bar.

How would you look at these guys? They assume you're new because you don't make a lot of noise at the bar and try to discredit what you say because of it. And even if you were new...why should that discredit what you say? Elitism at it's finest.

Youre completely missing what anyone has been doing to you in the first place. No one is trying to "discredit" you.

And the fact that if youre an "old timer" doesnt make any difference. Even if you've been here longer, that doesnt give you the right to spout on and on about how everyone is elitist. It doesnt matter. It doesnt change the fact that you havent been an active part of this community and doesnt give you the right to go and spout on and on about how everyone is like Comic Book Guy. Now if West was saying something like that, I'd listen a bit more. He's been here for ages and he's earned his place. You havent.

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He'd get his teeth kicked in.

Also, you dont know any of us from Adam. The majority of us doesnt fit the typical "comic book guy" mold of "in mommy's basement with thousands of issues and over weight" stereotype.

Some of us do cool things. Some of us have exciting lives and we share those aspects of our lives along with our shared mutual interests here. So YOUR elitist attitude of "you are wrong, people! Hear me out!" is one of the many things that make these communities tighter- we just leave you out.

What does that have to do with anything?!?

I said we shouldn't be snobs about it. Nobody mentioned "mommy's basement", "issues", or anything to do with being "overweight". I don't have to know a person's private life to deduce if they're responding like a snob about something.

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Forget it guys. This "bar" is all yours. Not my kinda place anymore.