[fintstone]

When you post in a thread about "when do you "lose" an argument to take a shot a folks you lost an argument to.

When you blame your inability to make a superior argument on the other's higher post count...or anything outside the discussion at hand. When you pretend their number of posts actually makes any difference whatsoever to the argument or even bring it up...as it has never occurred to you that the other poster might have been posting here a lot longer, offered much more help in the technical forums, simply has a lot of time in a commute or travelling where they have nothing else to do...or has a higher post count simply because you had far less intelligent discourse to offer.

When you don't realize that they continue repeat the same response because you have once again repeated the same feeble argument they soundly defeated 20 posts ago, 100 posts ago and 200 posts earlier in the same thread...but you bothered to only read the last three posts before responding or simply expected...that because the same dullard argument came from you, everyone would instantly agree (especially if you threw in a couple personal insults about their honesty, parentage, intelligence or implied they had no life).

When you are losing in an argument and you call for others to come to you aid via PM or post that you argument is better because others have not joined the argument on the other side.

When you make some sort of claim/judgment regarding other's penis size, family life, financial situation, marriage, children or life in general based on an unrelated internet argument or make any attempt at psychoanalysis or some sort of thinly veiled inference that the discussion at hand where you are faring so poorly at is a result of anything other than the poor argument you made.

When you join an argument and post solely about another poster without addressing the argument at hand...because they disagreed in another post and piling on slaves your butthurt.