dfisherman wrote:
Cjfred68 wrote:
You misunderstand my question....not why do you do it....why do you get attacked so much???? I win a bunch and have no fair share of Titles yet nobody is doing to me what you say is being done to you.
Why don't the immature trolls as you call them attack me like they seemingly attack you?
I believe I can answer this. I am mostly a fly on the wall but I keep up with the forums in all leagues I have been in. I have been in quite a few leagues with smirt. This isn't an attack on you smirt but here are my observations on why you get targeted...
It comes two main things in my opinion:
1. You are always one of the first to find and exploit loopholes in the game mechanics. Some managers take offence to this and others just start to follow the trend. If GMs institute rules around these exploits you definitely do abide by them but if not you do what it takes to win. Everyone has their own opinion on this but it does rub some people the wrong way even though technically you aren't doing anything wrong.
2. You occasionally make posted that come off as arrogant. So people that take offence to my first point get even more pissed off. It's essentially adding fuel to the fire.
Again I am just trying to help with some insight here. If you feel that after my post when your team meets mine you want to put extra effort in to kick my *** go for it haha. Doesn't bother me in the slightest because at the end of the day this is just a game and it's supposed to be fun.
That's probably really close to the truth and I hope Smirt doesn't shoot the messenger. I also think a big part of it is that Smirt doesn't back down from a message board fight. If more people would just accept what he types as "Smirt being Smirt", we'd have less tension.
Everyone knows Smirt talks a lot, and he has explained it's mainly self motivation. That makes it easy for me to say that's Smirt being Smirt, and go about my day unbothered. Smirt's posts don't take a negative turn until someone else bites back at his comments.
At this point, I see Smirt's competitiveness flare up. You think he's intense with game planning? Smirt doesn't want to lose games and he doesn't want to lose conversations either, so when someone pokes the bear, it's on like donkey kong.
My best advice to anyone that doesn't like Smirt's posts is to just ignore them. Everybody here has been great at not poking the bear and I appreciate that. It seems to me others across MFN that aren't in this league need to heed this advice.
