Bring back the 'Puppies and Rainbows' - Page 2

Agreed there, but the "select few" you're thinking of are probably different from the "select few" I'm thinking of who need to show more respect.

Jason I find it very telling that you automatically think people are 'envious' because we mentioned we are sick of hearing about a persons business.....jumping to this conclusion could maybe lead me to believe 'you' get a teeny tiny bit envious of people ....but then again, I'm no shrink .

I simply mentioned that I am sick of the SAME person/s 'banging on' about how successful,knowledgable, educated they are, their crap don't stink, etc, etc and basically if anyone has a different opinion they are WRONG....

I think this is what Danielle is referring to as well....but once again, I could be wrong as.....apparently every so often I am....damn it's one of the problems with being human.

I wish every happiness to anyone who is successful in life....damn there should be more of it as heavens knows there are so many out there that are really struggling (and this is where it is nice to have compassion.....another quality so many of us are lacking in today's society)..... What is annoying is how they just go on and on about it - no matter what the thread is about.....kind of gets a little bit to the point of "who freaking cares, we all know you are the best, chuck out the rest (you can say that last bit in a sing song-y voice if you like......because it sounds kinda cool and it does get a little bit like pre school on here )

Me thinks I am definitely thinking of the same select few as the OP.....

Hahaha - Kendall it is true, you do automatically want to sing that line. I have nothing to add of any importance, just could tell you were Aussie. Your reply made me both smile and nod my head....same weird sense of humour (Oh and another LEO I see.....good stuff).....




I am surprised anyone got a lime on any cats head....being 'supreme creatures' that they are it must have been a dog behind it

I was just trying to figure out why a few people are so concerned when others talk about their businesses. If it's just that they are tired of hearing about it, it's a little puzzling to me why they continue to read the posts instead of skipping over them. There are new people joining CC all the time, and just because you have heard something before doesn't mean everyone has.

It's also quite a leap from someone bringing up their business and educational experience to address a topic (in my experience it isn't brought up for no reason) to them saying "everyone else's opinions are wrong". If anything this thread is more a fit to the latter, as OP is asking other people to conform to her standards of inferred rudeness/condescension as well as how often one is allowed to talk about their business.

Which other things, aside from the subjectively inferred rudeness and condescension?



Well then you have a choice to make: if the inferred attitude upsets you more than you value their advice, skip their posts. If not, suck it up and read it. People usually don't change their posting style, it tends to be as unique as a fingerprint and can even be used to identify alternate IDs.



Yes, it's hard, but it's the right thing to do. When people insult me here (I have a small fan club) I will typically remove the offending part of their post in my reply or just ignore the post completely.



I'm wondering the same thing. I have an idea of who you may be referring to, and while this person has a direct, no-nonsense posting style I don't read in condescension or bragging. I can see how one could interpret it as somewhat rude if you aren't used to people not pulling their punches, but that's how the business world works, and asking others to compromise their style because you don't like it doesn't seem fair to me.

Also there's nothing wrong IMO with pointing to specific incidents and explaining why you felt the posts were rude/etc. That's not a personal attack at all, since you are sharing your opinion on the content that was posted, as opposed to the poster.

And BTW your quote didn't work because the close quote tag was missing a bracket, it should be [/quote].

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Lol - funny you should say that Danielle - was just wondering exactly the same thing - Jason you are just repeating yourself......are you reading the same posts as us or are you just seeing what you want to see?? Can we just clarify once and for all that I or the OP have nothing against people talking about their business.....can you just see what I have typed.....or do we need to go back and forth and just keep writing the same stuff...

Now I would type slow if it would help you get the 'jist' of what I am saying....it is annoying when people (yes the same few) constantly remind us how important they are.......and I am talking about in threads that have nothing to do with their business..... Please do not try and put words into my mouth Jason in the hope someone else will jump on and think I am attacking them. And FYI I do skip these posts when I see them.....does not mean I don't cringe and involuntarily 'dry reach' and think......here we go again!!!!!

Anyway as you have admitted you are very puzzled by things....and how could you not be....it is some unGodly hour of the morning over there....shouldn't you be sleeping or something, no wonder it is all puzzling.....I think it is best we just agree to disagree....

If you read my post more carefully, I didn't ask you to post specific incidents. You said that I was trying to trick you somehow into posting specifics so I could accuse you of attacking people (not sure why you would think that) and I replied that there's nothing wrong with posting specifics as I don't consider that a personal attack.



It's pretty transparent now that you were targeting a "select few" people by posting this thread, so it doesn't really matter if you post specifics or not (and I don't really care either way). Perhaps this issue would have been better handled by sending private messages to the individuals in question to avoid the drama you've already generated.



I'm sorry if you feel "riled up", I thought we were just discussing and clarifying the details of this topic. If even this discussion is upsetting you, I'm not really sure how much softening of tone by the "select few" will help.



Agreed. Ideally everyone would post perfectly so there would be no chance to read in any rudeness, but they don't. Since you can't really change people's posting styles, your options are to skip content by the offending posters, read it and deal with the rudeness, or leave the forum altogether.

For example, I thought much of Kendall's last post was rude and unnecessary, so I'm simply not replying to it. (FWIW I usually sleep between 11:30pm-7:30am, and that post was written at 11pm.)

All we need is looove...love... love.

Seriously though, some questions are just begging for a virtual slap upside the head. I just read one about someone contemplating a 6 tier cake and not even knowing what supports are required.

Some will come in here and argue that the individual is a newbie, so he/she should be spoon-fed. NO. There are too many resources online and in books for folks to be walking around completely ignorant and waiting to be fed information. Now, nobody knows everything there is to know about caking. There will be times when even the pros want to know how a specific design was executed but there are some things that should be basic knowledge before one accepts to do some cakes; things like understanding that a six tier cake is not just cake piled on top of cake.

Sometimes I try to answer a thread question by doing a Google search, and come up with so many appropriate hits that I just have to shut the page down and SMH because it's obvious the OP didn't take the initiative for a simple Google search. For example, pricing has been discussed to pieces on CC, there are literally HUNDREDS of posts on pricing, many of them saying the same thing. A simple search would answer the question but noooo, folks want to be bottle-fed the info. Other times when I'm in the mood I post a response with multiple links (I have a number of those multi-link posts floating around).

I'm not the most patient person, and more times than not, I try to exercise some restraint (like not responding to that thread) but man, some threads are just asking for it. Le sigh.

We're all adults, we know who the bullies on the playground are and we just ignore them, take the constructive information we need and move on.