Conquer Club

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:11 pm**

Seriously listen to me now. I own my own company. It is a software company. My clients include Governments and Blue chips. Okay?

Right... so why, when I email you to tell you how you could make a ton of money from this place do you reply once and then essentially forget about it?

Seriously, is this a business to you people or not because raking in a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year in subs is just not cutting it from a business perspective?

Your money though.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:18 pm**

That should be "Is CC stupid?"

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:19 pm**

pmchugh wrote:That should be "Is CC stupid?"

I would have also accepted "Are CCs stupid?"

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:20 pm**

CC is a club, a non-human entity, it cannot be stupid.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:21 pm**

e_i_pi wrote:
pmchugh wrote:That should be "Is CC stupid?"

I would have also accepted "Are CCs stupid?"

Just to add to this, I would have thought "are Conquer Club stupid?" to be bad grammar, too.

"Is CC stupid?"
"Is Conquer Club stupid?"

Or, to expand even further, "are CC's STAFF stupid?" would be just perfect.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:22 pm**

Personally, I think Doritos have an edge in the stupidity stakes

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:23 pm**

Unless used with judicious quantities of guacamole -- and beer.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:24 pm**

What about sour cream and salsa? They always forget about the salsa... :cry:

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:25 pm**

Re: Are CC stupid?

Yes you is stupid.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:31 pm**

dysonsphere wrote:Seriously, is this a business to you people or not because raking in a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year in subs is just not cutting it from a business perspective?

Do you mind adding a comma, or even a question mark in there? For easier comprehension of your post, I recommend:

"Seriously, is this a business to you people, or not?"

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:49 pm**

pmchugh wrote:That should be "Is CC stupid?"

it's a nice blow but i think he is in fact correct. He is talking about CC as a group of people. Maybe "Are the runners of CC stupid?" would be more clear but that is the message we are supposed to infer.

Otherwise with: "Is CC stupid", it would imply that an aspect of the site mechanics/structure is incorrect... or maybe even that our visiting it is stupid. "Is coming to CC a stupid waste of all ours times?"

I do agree that it is quite a grammatical quandary.

I reckon a trickier question, it being a rhetorical question and all, does "Are CC stupid?" need a '?' ? or would a '!' do?

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:54 pm**

obliterationX wrote:
dysonsphere wrote:Seriously, is this a business to you people or not because raking in a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year in subs is just not cutting it from a business perspective?

Do you mind adding a comma, or even a question mark in there? For easier comprehension of your post, I recommend:

"Seriously, is this a business to you people, or not?"

I think that both
"Seriously, is this a business to you people, or not?"
and
"Seriously, is this a business to you people or not?"
are acceptable.

e_i_pi wrote:I would have also accepted "Are CCs stupid?"

I could allow this, seeing how the 'CCs' could be interpreted as "Are Conquer-Clubbers stupid?"; so long as it had a apostrophe before the 's'.

And no, I do not think CC are stupid.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 12:58 pm**

I feel like this is turning into a topic for the Grammer and Spelling Nazis Usergroup.

--Andy

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 1:04 pm**

Or the party dip specialists group.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 1:52 pm**

AndyDufresne wrote:I feel like this is turning into a topic for the Grammer and Spelling Nazis Usergroup.

--Andy

You are correct andy. It is a fun and indirect way of criticizing the post. They are using satire, rather than directly making fun of the thread by saying something like this. "I'm really important and a great business man. When CC doesn't continue a dialogue with me it hurts my feelings and makes me feel less important. So I'm going to post that they are stupid, and that will again make me feel better than them." :lol:

So rather than say something like that, people just make fun of the thread by spending more time talking about the grammar then the actual post.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 2:22 pm**

closed captions are only stupid if you aren't deaf. Who needs to read their television when you can hear?

His grammar is perfect: Are closed captions stupid? - yes.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 2:46 pm**

AndyDufresne wrote:I feel like this is turning into a topic for the Grammer and Spelling Nazis Usergroup.

--Andy

I did post a link to this thread in the Sub-Forum

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 2:51 pm**

AndyDufresne wrote:I feel like this is turning into a topic for the Grammer and Spelling Nazis Usergroup.

--Andy

To be fair, the OP was asking for it when he was asking a question about something being stupid with incorrect grammar.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 2:52 pm**

AndyDufresne wrote:I feel like this is turning into a topic for the Grammer and Spelling Nazis Usergroup.

--Andy

lmfao, i was just about to say that. only so many people can correct his grammar. but, if you are going to call someone stupid, do it without sounding stupid yourself :lol:

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 3:03 pm**

nagerous wrote:
AndyDufresne wrote:I feel like this is turning into a topic for the Grammer and Spelling Nazis Usergroup.

--Andy

To be fair, the OP was asking for it when he was asking a question about something being stupid with incorrect grammar.

Actually, his grammar could be viewed to be completely correct. It's certainly a very common usage in sports, though I'm not sure if it's really used to refer to companies and the like.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 3:14 pm**

dysonsphere wrote:Seriously listen to me now. I own my own company. It is a software company. My clients include Governments and Blue chips. Okay?

Right... so why, when I email you to tell you how you could make a ton of money from this place do you reply once and then essentially forget about it?

Seriously, is this a business to you people or not because raking in a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year in subs is just not cutting it from a business perspective?

Your money though.

Why do you care? Oh also, can you get me a pizza? I'm hungry. Thanks, bye.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 3:58 pm**

My GOD! This guy runs a successful business and wants to show C.C. how to make a shit load of money? Too funny!

Take your idea and make yourself rich!

Stupid is, is what stupid does.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 8:32 pm**

GENERAL STONEHAM wrote:My GOD! This guy runs a successful business and wants to show C.C. how to make a shit load of money? Too funny!

Take your idea and make yourself rich!

Stupid is, is what stupid does.

Personally Dysonsphere has been around a long time. People do enjoy this site you know. Why not wanting to help make it better than playing stupid grammar police. Post something worth a damn every once in a while and people might take you serious.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 8:54 pm**

Bruceswar wrote:
GENERAL STONEHAM wrote:My GOD! This guy runs a successful business and wants to show C.C. how to make a shit load of money? Too funny!

Take your idea and make yourself rich!

Stupid is, is what stupid does.

Personally Dysonsphere has been around a long time. People do enjoy this site you know. Why not wanting to help make it better than playing stupid grammar police. Post something worth a damn every once in a while and people might take you serious.

heheh Christ Bruce, that is a tricky passage to comprehend! it's like making sense of Yoda, doing a press conference about I-Ranian Precedent Armoureddinnerjacket and his Nucular threat... in the style of George W Bush.

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2009 9:33 pm**

Bruceswar wrote:Personally Dysonsphere has been around a long time.

Granted that this may be true, I fail to see the relevance of the fact to this discussion, be the discussion of his grammar OR of his idea for the CC business/site.

Bruceswar wrote:People do enjoy this site you know.

Stipulation granted, I'm one of those people. Again, I fail to see the relevance.

Bruceswar wrote:Why not wanting to help make it better than playing stupid grammar police. Post something worth a damn every once in a while and people might take you serious.

1> We ARE The Spelling and Grammar Nazis. Which part of our user group name did you fail to understand? Why does our collective name make you feel we don't want Conquer Club to be a better place? We most certainly do, we'd like it to be a place where people can actually COMPREHEND what is written in the forums.

2> I keep my posts to serious questions, answering questions, and tournament related posts. Exceptions are made for the rare occasions someone begins flaming my fellow S&GNs outside of the now nonexistent Flame Wars forum, and I find out about it.

3> I'd prefer to be taken seriously, thank you.

4> As for the original Idea... Why is Dysonsphere posting an "open letter", essentially, to Lack (who, so far as I know, is the only one empowered to make business decisions for the CC site)? This should remain firmly in the realm of PMs to Lack, or simply be a post stating his belief in the rank idiocy of the management of CC. Then we can go straight to the banning and avoid all this messy drama.