Aldebaran, for killing a hamster.

Aldebaran, your answer to Anal Scurvy’s question about the Ottoman system of land ownership amounted to:

  1. I, too, would like to know the answer,

  2. …but I don’t…

  3. … and it’s really early in the morning here…

  4. … so I won’t actually post anything useful.

I won’t say that every time you post a hamster dies in vain, but that verges on animal cruelty. Are you trying to squeeze every last free CPU cycle out of SDMB before we force you out with our elitist fees? Or (oh please oh please oh please!) are you staying around so – not unlike the county fair’s dunking booth – people will have to pay money to humiliate you?

Salami this, you waste of oxygen.

Link?

Argh. At least you were asking for something that would help you fight ignorance, instead of just chiming in with a time-check.

If you are going to pit people for lame ass posts, you have a job that will last the rest of your life.

Thank you for having the best new user name in months.

Heh, this guy’s a one-man denial of service attack. Here’s an example of another of his habits: littering a thread with half a dozen posts, asking the same frickin’ question over and over again:

Thread: Viva Espana ! I’m impressed by your courage and determination

From the OP:

Post #25:

Post #34:

Post #44:

Post #58:

Post #63:

Post #71:

SWEET MOTHER OF PEARL, WE HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME! STOP IT!!! JUST STOP IT!!!

Sorry, I’ll calm down now.

As I’ve said elsewhere, Alde is, in effect if not in conscious intent, a bridge-dweller.

That’s his technique. He doesn’t want an answer, of which he received plenty of good ones in that thread, he wants mindless affirmation. But his style is so bitter and caustic (that was the thread in which he threatened to kill me with a scimitar, I think?) that everybody who might agree with him at all has to step his way around it. I am confused as to why the mods seem to want to avoid warning him at all (only been one warning I recall), but there might be something they know that I don’t. I think it’s really weird.

I emailed three mods asking for insight into this, and got no answer.

Lawdy I can’t believe I’m about to do this. I and a dozen or so past Pit threads all agree that Alde is pretty much only good for testing your patience and the occassional laugh in your in the mood to laugh at someone whose tactics are so predictable and … well stupid. But that linked thread isn’t even in the running for irritating Aldeisms. He noted that he liked the subject. An unneeded but benign comment. He helped define some terms that the op was confused about and said he’d help more if given some more specific questions rather than tell me about the Ottoman land system. He was even coherent! Heck that’s like the second time I’ve seen him that! Now in the Viva Espanza thread he’s back in Alde style. Yes, I’d read that as a threat on Mehitabel’s life too, but the mods must feel he has some value, and this is their show.