User talk:Smartstocks
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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 19:31, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
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[edit]Maybe you could devote your user page to that poet. Then do some useful edits and some helpful edits and wait as curious people look to see who this "useful and helpful" person is and instead gets an education about your favorite poet. All of which can be accomplished with a cellphone.
Or not....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 14:25, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Gross, a bully. Where should I even begin. . . ?
To be frank, I don't know why you're attacking me and targeting my edits, but I guess it's better that you attack me rather than someone else.
I'm not sure why you decided to focus on cellphones, which isn't even what I wrote in the first place. I mentioned smartphone. While they are technically the same thing, any intelligent person would agree that the word "cellphone" invokes other, more primitive, connotations than the word smartphone, which has become synonymous with the word "computer". I suppose I should've just used the word "internet" but how was I to gauge your reaction to the word "smartphone"?
Anyway, he is not my favorite poet. I don't even really like him, though I have his complete works, including his novels, in my library. They're on my desk right now actually. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner. You must not know what that means: the Pulitzer Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. His wikisource profile contains 69 poems. All of these things, I've mentioned multiple times now, are more than reason enough to embolden his name.
I don't believe that making miniscule edits to insignificant profiles of obscure mathematicians is cause for a smug attitude. However, you seem to think otherwise. I've also noticed that while you're condemning me for making small edits, you're doing the same thing by removing mine, as well as the countless other small edits you make. The only difference is this: I am not a bully. You are.
But hey, even though I don't condone it, if you need to be a bully and if you need to present yourself as an elite biographer or something in an effort to make yourself feel good about the balding neckbeard staring fatly back at you in the mirror every morning, then I say, 'more power to you.'
Meanwhile, the rest of us have more important things to do in life (including more important things to do for art and, of course, for culture in general) than to spend all day every day on social media, being everything's gatekeeper, making unimportant wiki edits, trying to convince everyone we're superior to them, or policing the internet.
You go ahead and do what you do on wikisource. You obviously need it. I don't.
Oh, by the way, you meant "get an education" not "gets an education." Smartstocks (talk) 23:26, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Smart phone, then. But can it do anything except make bold text on a wiki? It's true -- I am a bean-counter who enjoys counting beans at wikisource.
- There is another lover of poetry here, who left a mess at wikidata. @Londonjackbooks: has, as a cause, Twinkle twinkle little star and really wants to push The Star (Taylor) as the title and left a mess both here and at wikidata. I was thinking today that my little note here would be received as nice or at least thought-provoking and that you could commiserate together about idiot bean-counters who don't get it, who fail at decent communication and who might need proof of the smartness of phones! I have worse failures in my life....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 01:11, 12 January 2021 (UTC)