User talk:Wesrichards

Death Nova
Why did you remove Tengsao in the Amnoon in the skill trainers section? 04:22, 1 March 2006 (CST)
 * I just confirmed ingame that he trains Death Nova, so I reverted the change. Evil_Greven 04:33, 1 March 2006
 * Yes, I was bewildered to find that I wasn't able to aquire this skill from Tengsao for my Necromancer. Perhaps it was because I was trying to purchase this skill as my Ranger :)--Wes R 05:58, 2 March 2006 (CST)

Baiting defined
I'm responding to something almost a week old because slang pages are low on the list of stuff I check. Here goes... "Baiting" is, of course, from "bait." "Bait" often refers to a lure or temptation, but the verb form combines that meaning with the idea of tormenting someone or something (this is, for example, the primary definition in WordNet, which manages to be a decent dictionary despite the fact that it's some sort of psycholinguistic research project). Now, it is commonly used to denote inflamatory messages designed to provoke someone else into losing their cool on a message board, but this really isn't any different from the traditional meaning.

It's a major faux pas (both in real life and on the far-less-sensible parody of it that people call the "World Wide Web"), because it indicates crafted malice rather than just poor temper control. Likewise, inviting someone to have a flamewar with you off-site is actually even less mannerly than just having the flamewar then and there, because it hides the ensuing festival of hate from any third parties, thus making it easier to level all sorts of accusations about what may or may not have transpired later on. Kind of like one of those "Meet me on the playground after school" sorts of things, but with an emphasis on rumormongering and secrecy rather than posturing to gain credibility with one's classmates; the idea of ducking out somewhere where the teacher won't see you features prominently in both. (Hurray for my rambling and near-meaningless analogies!)

(Here rather than on Talk:Leaver because it seemed most fitting. Only takes a few key strokes to move it if you disagree.)

--130.58 15:02, 7 March 2006 (CST)