I guess it's too late now, but I'll still answer.
Yeah, you seem like a good guy and I know that you meant no harm and thanks for the
compliments about the journal and sorry for suggesting that you don't use your brain (that was insulting and excessive) - I just was asking for efforts and for you to be serious. You see, the tone of your posts, even if they don't make fun of me, might encourage
someone else to make fun of me - as happened
here with brettus, whom I placed on my ignore list (and therefore banned from the journal), because of the things he wrote (it hit me two days later), and it had all started from
your post. And now you keep writing with the same tone, so I had to say something against the tone of your posts (and against the smileys, which are part of that tone). The tone of... "this travis is a character".
I had the same exact reaction with tomorton
here and
here:
This is your second sarcastic post (out of five), where you're making fun of me. The first one was here:
http://www.trade2win.com/boards/trading-journals/85510-my-journal-2-a-145.html#post1258228
You've got two more to go, according to my estimates. Then I will ban you for about one month, always according to my estimates. I am very touchy and I don't enjoy being made fun of. Especially on my journal.
And
here and
here is my reaction to be-positive's wise-ass comments (and smileys). He's also banned, and he's the perfect example of what I mean by a "patronizing" and "belittling" tone. I had to start this new journal to avoid his wise-ass comments, since now I have moderating powers and, being on my ignore list, he can't post here.
Even when I am drunk, I am serious. I like to be serious. People laughing bother me. Smileys bother me. Joking bothers me.
You might say "travis is a character" in good faith. You do say it in good faith. But then comes another user (brettus), and says "travis is definitely a character", and then comes a third user and he writes "travis is a creep", as I explained
here. So I have to watch out for this kind of stuff on my journal. I have watch out for this kind of tone and for this kind of potential situation. Because I know that I am a free-thinker, and that the tendency is to conform to the norm, as I explained
here. There's free thinkers like me who write what they think. There's other people who read. And there's other people who, with words or physical actions, tend to gang up on the free thinkers, because they refuse to conform to the norm. So I have to watch out for this kind of situation, because it happens repeatedly. And it often starts with someone saying, like you did, "travis is a character". Or "this guy is a homo". Next thing you know, that guy is taking a beating because of it.
It was really too much to lead a crusade against your specific post above, but I wrote that stuff keeping in mind your other two previous comments as well:
http://www.trade2win.com/boards/trading-journals/85510-my-journal-2-a-150.html#post1265892
http://www.trade2win.com/boards/trading-journals/85510-my-journal-2-a-157.html#post1281436
Also, I had to tell you something because I owed it to all the other people I have argued with for similar reasons.
I am not afraid of your posts, because I know you mean no harm. I am afraid of the posts by other users that your posts encourage: posts that make fun of me. And if that happens, I lose my ability to write openly and freely, and feel very encouraged to conform to the norm. And if I do that, I either don't write or I don't write anything original anymore, as I explained
here to be-positive:
These are 5 out of 8 of your posts on my journal. I am seeing a pattern here: you're ridiculing me and trying to get people to laugh at me. In other posts you say "merry christmas" and similar "nice" things, but it seems you're only pretending to be my friend. In case you care, it bothers me to be ridiculed and it interferes with my ability to express myself freely and sincerely, which is what I would like to do on my journal.
Your posts are not evil. But they give an opportunity to others to start a stream of "let's gang up on travis" posts that will take away my freedom to express myself.