Just once, could I make some sort of comment or request that is not commented on in turn? How hard is it for everyone to read a post asking them to stop doing something or stop acting a certain way and just say to themselves, "hm, okay." Why does every single goddamn thing I ask everyone have to be commented on? Why does everyone feel the need to explain or justify things? When I ask people not to post a thousand superfluous threads, all I want is to not see a thousand superfluous threads. I don't want a paragraph-long response explaining why they disagree with the request, especially not when I have asked a hundred times and read that same paragraph a hundred times. When I ask someone not to respond to calm, polite comments with "bite me", especially directed towards someone that they have already spent a week calling a troll, all I want is for them not to do that. I don't want other people jumping in and trying to explain things. I don't need everyone's opinion on whether or not the thread I merged was necessary, I don't need everyone's opinion on everyone else's posting style. All I need is quiet acknowledgment that I am trying to do my best to keep this place from turning into Reddit.
Now, I don't want to see anything past this point in this thread that in any way relates to the last four or five posts. Let's just stick to the topic, please.