There is no provocation. In the same way you are allowed to bad mouth Nokia, people are allowed to say "he needed a serious time-out". That is not an insult, it does not provoke injury.

Also, you are not the OP, so you don't get to ask the thread be closed. Even if you were, you need good reason for it to be closed.

Please also stop sprouting lies about moderators modifying your posts. Everyone can see when a post is modified (it actually says it down the bottom of a post, "Last modified by {nickname}, reason: {reason}", regardless if it's a mod or not). If you have problems, please address them with the moderator in question, or ask another moderator to bring it up. Build a case, but please, don't do it in public.

Can someone tell me if/where I've gone over the line on this thread:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=56618&page=4#38

AFAIC I was asking for clarification on what I thought was an improbable claim made by abill and he instantly got very agitated and replied in provoking/childish manner.

I know I'm off-topic but ... well, this is off-topic.

You have given me a great idea, FMS, running statistics is great. So I thought I'd turn a mirror on this thread. Let's see if I've taken THIS too far.

Below is a little stat I ran, partially because I thought it would be fun. I'm not laughing any more. But I am smiling. Anyway, it's been fun for me.

abill_uk:
Posts: ~800.
Posts containing "lol": 256.
Surface scan of first 25 posts: 0 because of quotes (0% excused).
Estimated LOL ratio: 32%

Texrat:
Posts: ~10500
Posts containing "lol": 193.
Surface scan of first 25 posts: 14 by quotes (some by abill_uk) (50% excused)
Estimated LOL ratio: 0.9%

Ndi:
Posts: ~850
Posts containing "lol": 6.
Surface scan of first 25 posts: 6 (4 in suggestions for tag improvement, 2 quoted) (100% excused)
Estimated LOL ratio: 0%

ysss:
Posts: ~2500
Posts containing "lol": 95.
Surface scan of first 25 posts: ~10 (including PR 1.2 thread, TBF) (50% excused)
Estimated LOL ratio: 1.9%

CrashAndDie:
Posts: ~300
Posts containing "lol": 3.
Surface scan of first 25 posts: 3 (all 3 quoted) (100% excused)
Estimated LOL ratio: 0%

sjgadsby
Posts: ~4000
Posts containing "lol": 6.
Surface scan of first 25 posts: 3 (all 3 quoted) (100% excused)
Estimated LOL ratio: 0%

fms
Posts: ~1200
Posts containing "lol": 9.
Surface scan of first 25 posts: 9 (all 9 quoted) (100% excused)
Estimated LOL ratio: 0%

silvermountain
Posts: ~1000
Posts containing "lol": 20.
Surface scan of first 25 posts: 6 (6 quoted, another 8 were in reply to a "lol" post) (30% excused)
Estimated LOL ratio: 1.6%

Stats were run as follows:
Find posts by user containing "lol", show posts.

"Surface" scan is a scan I did on the surface, the first 25 posts in the search, to see how many were in embedded quotes, how many were referrals, etc. For those with a few, I've investigated. For those with 20 or more, I skimmed the search window, so it's far from precise, rather the excuse rate is a percentage of what I found to be "excused" uses, such as quotes, referral to the word, tag, etc.

Percentage is LOLs x Excused x Number of posts (rounded). Silvermountain, e.g., has 1100 posts, not 1000.

As for who made the list, it's the people I saw above in this thread.

Lastly, remember, people, sense of humor. Please don't kill me.

That was funny stuff.

Errata:

a)
Line:
(sjgadsby)
Surface scan of first 25 posts: 3 (all 3 quoted) (100% excused)

should, of course, be

Surface scan of first 25 posts: 6 (5 quoted, 1 search engine misfire) (100% excused)

b) This post contained the said term so, obviously, my stat has become 7/7 instead of 6/6

Don't want to edit it, you know, keep it fresh.

lol........

What he said.