When you see the words ’snake oil’ on an audio forum, consider automatically changing it to read as the words ’sour grapes’.
If they can’t hear it and/or if they feel it is ’expensive’, then it’s "snake oil".
Oh, I mean "sour grapes".
Almost as if we need a script for the given forums that automatically blanks out the term ’snake oil’ and replaces it with ’sour grapes’, or blanks out the word pairing ’snake oil’ in the same way it blanks out attempts to swear.
One could also ask a forum owner or administration to enact this with their given ’granny checker’, so that it edits it out like attempts at swearing.
I suspect that audio forums would become quite a bit more civil post that change....
Even more fun... the granny checker that checks for swearing can be set so that the post will not happen until the word pairing ’snake oil’ is removed from the attempted post. Further yet...that the given post goes to vapor, and the posting script is reset....the poster loses the post into the interwebs ether. A far more stinging lesson. And far more forum peace. This can be enacted by most audio forums in mere seconds.
sour grapes. COMMON. If you describe someone’s attitude as sour grapes, you mean that they are jealous of another person’s success and show this jealousy by criticizing that person. These accusations have been going on for some time now, but it is just sour grapes. The government says that Mr Fedorov’s criticisms are mere sour grapes. Note: In one of Aesop’s fables (= traditional stories, usually with a moral), a fox tries several times unsuccessfully to reach a bunch of delicious-looking grapes. In the end he gives up, telling himself that they are probably sour and inedible anyway.
If they can’t hear it and/or if they feel it is ’expensive’, then it’s "snake oil".
Oh, I mean "sour grapes".
Almost as if we need a script for the given forums that automatically blanks out the term ’snake oil’ and replaces it with ’sour grapes’, or blanks out the word pairing ’snake oil’ in the same way it blanks out attempts to swear.
One could also ask a forum owner or administration to enact this with their given ’granny checker’, so that it edits it out like attempts at swearing.
I suspect that audio forums would become quite a bit more civil post that change....
Even more fun... the granny checker that checks for swearing can be set so that the post will not happen until the word pairing ’snake oil’ is removed from the attempted post. Further yet...that the given post goes to vapor, and the posting script is reset....the poster loses the post into the interwebs ether. A far more stinging lesson. And far more forum peace. This can be enacted by most audio forums in mere seconds.