2016-11-22, 08:52 AM
Pikamemnon Wrote:The question is when was the best time to give up? Not if one should give up, two different questions.
What's the point of that question?
Let's supposed that we have a meaningful discussion and reach the conclusion that you should have given up in February 2014.
Now what?
Do you go back in time and undo all the posts since then?
Or maybe you're asking so you would you be able to recognize the correct point to stop nagging about your next obsession, whenever you find one?
That's not going to work, because situations are never quite the same and people who have a hard time understanding "No" will always find that tiny point of difference to say, "But this isn't the same as that was, so maybe this time there's a better chance?" You'd convince yourself to keep going. To never give up while there's a sliver of hope.
As for why people downvote your threads automatically: it's because they're all on the same topic.
To you it may look like each one is a unique perspective that deserves its own discussion, but to people who are not interested in PreBB at all, it all looks the same.
Let me give you an analogy:
Say that among a group of friends there is exactly one guy who is interested in soccer. Everyone else doesn't care and they're sick of his obsession with it. But this guy can't understand that. He keeps bringing up soccer-related topics, and everyone else shouts him down, and he's like, "But why?"
"We already told you the last 9000 times, shut up with the soccer already."
"But I never even talked about Messi before!"
"He's a soccer player. We don't want to hear it."
"But it's not about soccer at all, it's about this shoe commercial he was in - "
"We don't freaking care, ok?"
"But why....?"
It may be unfriendly or even intolerant, but that's how humans are.
Face it. You have burned the topic out. Here on Southperry, and on the official forums, and on the subreddit, everywhere people react with knee-jerk pomegranates because they see all your threads as nothing but excuses to bring up PreBB yet again. They don't care what new angle you think up, they don't want to hear it.
It's easy to say, "Just ignore it if you don't like it," but in a large enough group, there will always be those who can't resist.
It's better to let them just pomegranate/downvote, rather than press them for words, which are bound to be angry or demeaning.
But it's even better to not bring up a topic in a setting where you know people would not want to discuss it. Like your siggy says, "There's a time and place for everything, but not now," and I'll add, "and not here."