An apology to FAN

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

I'm not sure this fits in WWE alone, even though it's a lot to do with that, so I'll post it in here. This is a revised version of something I put on my Twitter earlier, with maybe some other stuff added in. I've had a few days to mull it over, not posting at all, and it's something I need to do before I feel right enough to go back into regular routine on here.

Those who follow my posting patterns on here can probably assume that I'm easy to please, to a fault. That's true... I find that I'm easily satisfied as a wrestling fan, because it's like supporting a sporting team. Sometimes they'll win and I'll be happy, sometimes they'll lose and I'll be disappointed, but rarely do I feel like I've wasted my time watching a show, because I'm not using that time for much anyway.

As such, I find that I get pretty overwhelmed, even as long as I've been here, when I get faced with a wall of anger on a regular basis. I'm like "It's NEVER like this for me, yet some of you can get like this multiple times a week?". I hear you ask "Why do you let this affect you then?"... Because it's no fun trying to talk to angry people, and I do worry that it may someday blow up into a "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" situation. It gets frustrating.

So, it's why I find myself often going on the offensive as a defensive measure. Do unto others before they do unto you, as Steve Austin would say. At the best of times, this probably isn't the right way to approach things on a message board. After the week I've had in my personal life away here... It DEFINITELY isn't the right way to approach things on a message board.

I won't go into too much detail about the personal life stuff here other than it's a family member in a serious health crisis, but being confronted with that there, and then coming back onto here, ostensibly my escape from real life, right in the middle of the controversy regarding the Moolah Battle Royal... I just had no f***s to give. It wasn't really anything I hadn't said at times before ("Now you'll protest to Snickers about the Reigns push"), but I realised at that moment that, in trying so hard over the last decade plus not to become one of those people that is just always complaining about WWE, I'd become one of those other people that just complains about the complaining, and it had become all I was doing here. Other posters had picked up on it. Posters I'm closer to outside of here have told me as such today when I asked them. Most importantly, other moderators were telling to me to stop, and it wasn't for the first time either, so this is something that has been building over months, even years.

So for being needlessly judgmental and unreasonable in several instances over the last however long it's been, I'm sorry. I've always tried to use my "positivity" as a way of just not dumping on things all the time, like what tends to happen when WWE gets in a rut, but I've been going about that the wrong way. I don't think I can change my opinions about things, but I think I can try and show more restraint and not lash out at other posters anymore.

TL;DR: I've been a proper dickhead about things here, and I want to try and set things right. We cool?

[Chainsaw]

[Deleted]

I see a lot of myself in what you apologise for, so there's some self examination needed here too. Anyhow, we be good.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Lord knows I've had my instances where I felt like I've made an ass of myself on the boards and regretted it later.

You've always been cool by me, Excellence.

[Deleted]

*hughugs*

As someone who tries to be calm most of the time and who strives to not let others affect that which I enjoy, I see you as a soulmate of some kind.
The important thing is that you do not let this one lapse in attitude overwhelm everything else that makes you you.
I certainly love having a person with such a positive outlook on hobbies around.

So, keep calm and flutter on.

And if you feel stressed, you know two beings who would gladly give you a massage.

[Allie Kitsune]

For what it's worth, I've never really thought you've been much of a dickhead about anything, personally.

[MrElijah]

Eh. You're human. We all have moments that's not all great, all we can do is be better the next time.

You're good.

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

You're automatically a better person than I am for apologizing. Especially where I honestly have never felt that you should.

[Pgarodactyl]

I didn't realize you were being a dickhead. Then again, I rarely interact with people on here... only when I feel have I a witty quip to add before slinking back into my corner.

So yeah, we cool.

[Andy Martin]

Mar 20, 2018 7:20:43 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

For what it's worth, I've never really thought you've been much of a dickhead about anything, personally.

Ditto.

[Malibu Albino]

I have never found you to be a dickhead. I mostly lurk in the WWE board, mostly for the hive of anger that usually hangs around there, but you've always seemed to keep a level head compared to others. You feeling the need to apologize proves that, I think.

[Ben Wyatt]

Mar 20, 2018 6:58:50 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

Lord knows I've had my instances where I felt like I've made an ass of myself on the boards and regretted it later.

You've always been cool by me, Excellence.

Seconded.

Heck, I think we all have at some point or another

[Ben Wyatt]

Mar 20, 2018 1:04:52 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

TL;DR: I've been a proper dickhead about things here, and I want to try and set things right. We cool?

I mean, there was that time I asked you for $500 and you had the nerve to respond with statements like "I don't know you", "please stop harassing me" and "how did you get my home phone number?"

Other than *that*, you're good by me!

[Kevin Hamilton]

As I said on Twitter, it's just rasslin. Either side takin it so seriously needs to just calm the f*** down. It's by and large an athletically based morality play. Enjoy it, but gettin any sorta way about it is too much

[edgestar]

You're going through a lot, right now. I've been through my share, and it isn't always easy to put on a happy face, but, I've never thought of you as a jerk. You're cool with me I do hope that things start looking up.

[bootytea]

You continue to be one of the good posters here.

It is a very negative environment though so it certainly doesn't help trying to be positive. I came to that realization when exposing my girlfriend to wrestling. She just watches casually and doesn't get so invested in the backstage happenings or what should happen as oppose to what happened. Its much more enjoyable to watch until you don't like it, instead of getting so hot about it.

I wish you well with your personal issues and am appreciative of the time you put into the rankings. Its funny to see how you seemingly put more effort into the programming that WWE.

[fw91]

I honestly don't see the need for you to apologize. Imo, its fine to offer rebuttals to persistent negativity as long as it ain't personal attacks

[Citizen Snips]

1. Hope everything works out well with your family
2. All of the mods here have the patience of saints. I would delete this entire forum after about 15 minutes if I had to do that job, so the odd slip is perfectly understandable in my book.

[Lupin the Third]

Mar 20, 2018 1:04:52 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

I'm not sure this fits in WWE alone, even though it's a lot to do with that, so I'll post it in here. This is a revised version of something I put on my Twitter earlier, with maybe some other stuff added in. I've had a few days to mull it over, not posting at all, and it's something I need to do before I feel right enough to go back into regular routine on here.

Those who follow my posting patterns on here can probably assume that I'm easy to please, to a fault. That's true... I find that I'm easily satisfied as a wrestling fan, because it's like supporting a sporting team. Sometimes they'll win and I'll be happy, sometimes they'll lose and I'll be disappointed, but rarely do I feel like I've wasted my time watching a show, because I'm not using that time for much anyway.

As such, I find that I get pretty overwhelmed, even as long as I've been here, when I get faced with a wall of anger on a regular basis. I'm like "It's NEVER like this for me, yet some of you can get like this multiple times a week?". I hear you ask "Why do you let this affect you then?"... Because it's no fun trying to talk to angry people, and I do worry that it may someday blow up into a "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" situation. It gets frustrating.

So, it's why I find myself often going on the offensive as a defensive measure. Do unto others before they do unto you, as Steve Austin would say. At the best of times, this probably isn't the right way to approach things on a message board. After the week I've had in my personal life away here... It DEFINITELY isn't the right way to approach things on a message board.

I won't go into too much detail about the personal life stuff here other than it's a family member in a serious health crisis, but being confronted with that there, and then coming back onto here, ostensibly my escape from real life, right in the middle of the controversy regarding the Moolah Battle Royal... I just had no f***s to give. It wasn't really anything I hadn't said at times before ("Now you'll protest to Snickers about the Reigns push"), but I realised at that moment that, in trying so hard over the last decade plus not to become one of those people that is just always complaining about WWE, I'd become one of those other people that just complains about the complaining, and it had become all I was doing here. Other posters had picked up on it. Posters I'm closer to outside of here have told me as such today when I asked them. Most importantly, other moderators were telling to me to stop, and it wasn't for the first time either, so this is something that has been building over months, even years.

So for being needlessly judgmental and unreasonable in several instances over the last however long it's been, I'm sorry. I've always tried to use my "positivity" as a way of just not dumping on things all the time, like what tends to happen when WWE gets in a rut, but I've been going about that the wrong way. I don't think I can change my opinions about things, but I think I can try and show more restraint and not lash out at other posters anymore.

TL;DR: I've been a proper dickhead about things here, and I want to try and set things right. We cool?

Aww, I can never stay mad at you. C'mere you big lug!

*goes for a hug, but gets blasted by a Shawn Michaels superkick*

"I'm sorry.....I love you."

*HBK runs off, leaving EoE standing there dumbfounded, while Lupin is seeing stars and birdies.*

[Deleted]

this is why I got a cat