OK, the comment (from
@Mick063) to which you (
@Rainger) were replying here
does actually attack your argument and even you, and it has a very sarcastic tone. I think your reply is still a little heavy-handed, but less inappropriate than the way you went after me for making a joke about what was obviously a typo (and I even said that in my comment) and wasn't in any way an attack on you or your position.
Joking around is part of what we do here. It's part of any healthy informal conversation. In the last couple of days, somebody said in a thread about the Cardinals game that if Carroll were as great as some of us say he is, he would have run the ball in himself (I think on Walker's final rushing TD, but I'm not 100% sure and won't go look it up now). Somebody else asked who that first somebody thought would be a better choice to replace Carroll. Even though it wasn't completely clear if that reply was a joke asking who else might run the ball into the end zone instead of Carroll or a more-serious question about who would be a better choice than Carroll to be head coach (I
think it was the latter, but I'm not completely sure), I made a joke about Schneider and Hurtt having more-appropriate builds for the task of running the ball into the end zone in a short-yardage situation, and everyone understood it was a joke. Not many people found it funny enough to "like" or "laugh"-react to it, but nobody got offended because, just like in the case of the joke I just made about your typo, it was clear I wasn't attacking anyone. I was just being silly, which is part of friendly conversations about any subject, including football, whether those conversations are held in person or via a web forum.
You don't have to share my sense of humor. You might not think it's funny, and that's fine. I'm weird, and I always have been. For most of the time since 1976, I've been the only Seahawks fan I know. And my nerdy-ass sense of humor is very odd, so many, many people don't find funny the same things I do. I'm totally comfortable with that. I see lots of jokes here from other .NET denizens that just aren't funny to me, but I know they are to whomever it was that posted them. Each of us has his own sense of humor, and what different people find funny varies tremendously. However, I don't see any reason for you to have felt like you were being attacked by my moment of silliness, which your heavy-handed response indicates you did.
As I said in my previous comment, I really thought you'd think it was funny too. I didn't even get close to imagining you'd be offended. And it's not that I don't think about those things. Yesterday, I caught another .NET denizen saying he thought all along that Smith would be better than Wilson, and I found his comment from August in which he made it clear he didn't think Smith should even be a starting QB in the NFL. I hesitated before posting the comment in which I called him out on that, because I knew he was very likely to get upset with me for pointing out that what he said in August was not even remotely similar to "Smith will be better than Wilson." I'm still not 100% sure I was right to point it out. So I
do think about those things. And in this case, I thought you would reply, but I thought you'd play along with the joke and laugh about the typo. My intent was just to joke around with a fellow Seahawks fan, and I really believed you'd find what I did with your typo at least mildly amusing, and even if you didn't, I didn't think it was even remotely likely that you'd get offended and reply the way you did.
You might want to apply to yourself a variation of the same question you just asked of
@Mick063. Why such anger in response to my comment, which was obviously a joke and not an attack on you or your arguments at all in any way, and even why such anger in your reply to
@Mick063's comment in which he sarcastically disagreed with you?
