So...
Another thought: I never used to criticize people personally, either. What happened to me? I think I will give myself a 36 hour ban from WNFF. See you guys in the "Go to bed!" thread on Saturday!
I thought this was going to be really easy. I could just log out, go about my business, spend a whole day getting work done and being awesome, and then return to WNFF on a blaze of glory and find thousands of followers clamoring for my presence. Well, it's a good thing I logged out. See, I realized that part of the internet addiction is an instinctive, subconscious clicking on bookmarks process, so for example, when I was waiting for a file to download, my hand automatically clicked WNFF without asking me permission first. Then I went
Oh yeah! and clicked on another site instead. This probably happened about 30-40 times.
When the Chad Gaudin and Matt Antonelli things came up, I really wanted to weigh in. But more importantly, I realized WNFF is my main source for news anyhow. It's an aggregator that saves me having to visit Mark Zuckerman, Adam Kilgore, and Gargles "Gall-Bladder" McGillicuddy III. And the other awesome aggregators aren't as good: MLBTR doesn't always post every tiny rumor, and Twitter is just information overload. Do I really need to be following 157 people? So WNFF is the best place to get Nats news.
So I
did read the Matt Antonelli thread while registered as a guest. I considered re-banning myself for this, but didn't.
Now, time to be self-satisfied for a minute. The offense I banned myself for is something that happens about 600 times a day in the chaotic, charred warzone that is the Clubhouse right now. I think if everybody who insulted each other, lost their cool, or generally took a dump on Chief's Christmas Wishlist banned themselves from posting even for 2 hours, the board would be a much more pleasant place. Even better, we could all just be thoughtful about what we say. It's freaking Christmas. Let's all be Jimmy Stewart instead of Scrooge. (Um... especially if you think the Lerners are already Scrooge. They don't need competition.
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