# 17,000 posts full of shit...yeah YOU, handy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742 "2003-09-30T18:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/21 "2003-09-30T22:01:52Z")
I like **Handy**. There’s often (not always, but often) a little sting in the tail of some of those short posts of his. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/22 "2003-09-30T22:07:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > My bitch with him is his incessant need to post and _post_ and **post** in threads about which he clearly knows nothing and can contribute nothing as if he actually has a clue in hell what he’s talking about. The thread I posted was the last in a long and unbroken string of posts in which he posted either a complete non-sequitor, a “me-too” post clearly designed for no purpose but to boost his post count, or factually incorrect information. He can be as earnest and sincere as he possibly can be but earnestness and sincerity don’t make his nonsensical misinformation acceptable. You mean like [this example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=214535), where someone is asking about 16-year-olds getting a checking account? - **Joe Random** posts that 16-year-olds can’t enter contracts. - **SnoopyFan** posts what he/she claims to be 3 examples of contracts that they can, in fact, enter and suggests that there might be more exceptions, offering a few. - A half hour later, in the next post in the thread **handy** comes along and posts that 16-year-olds can’t enter contracts, and throws in a Judge Judy non sequitur. **auntnut** , the ignore function only covers up the post. You still see the ignored person’s name, and a big blank space where the post was, saying that you’re ignoring this person, so click this link to see the post if you really want to. So that doesn’t speed anything up regarding loading time. Nor does it address **Otto** ’s point about the level of misinformation coming from such a prolific poster. ( **handy** was forbidden by the mods to post on any medically-related matters - at least in GQ if not elsewhere - due to this in the past.) ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/23 "2003-09-30T22:13:02Z")
I’ll have to agree with **The Loaded Dog**. At first his posts can seem disjointed compared with the rest of the thread, but there’s usually a little bite to them upon sencond read…or maybe I’m just slow… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/24 "2003-09-30T22:25:40Z")
**DANGER! DANGER!** It is a **serious violation** of board policy to discuss the ignore function. All o’ y’all might want to back away from that topic forthwith. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/25 "2003-09-30T22:31:45Z")
I admit, I let him get to me and started a [pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118685) thread myself. I even focused on bandwidth and his wasting of it. Nothing really came of that thread either. My personal solution was to start giving [him](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101676) the “Handy treatment.” ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/26 "2003-09-30T22:33:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*Unless he gets hit by a bus. Buses tend to change everything, they’re funny like that. > > 😛 \*\* If I _do_ get hit by a bus anytime soon, you’re at the top of my afterlife shit list, pal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TaxGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TaxGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaxGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/27 "2003-09-30T22:47:11Z")
**Otto** , just today I was gonna ask you if you were a lawyer because I’ve often seen you post legal-type information that seemed spot on, and you’re handy at digging up statutes. So, keep up the good work even though you haven’t spent three years getting Socraticized. Re the OP: I’ve been hanging around here for a little while now and I’m wondering why I don’t seem to have noticed **Handy** one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/28 "2003-09-30T22:53:02Z")
> [@](#): > > It is a serious violation of board policy to discuss the ignore function. All o’ y’all might want to back away from that topic forthwith. Not to worry. Most times when I see a post discussing the ‘ignore’ function, I just ignore it. Whoops. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/29 "2003-09-30T23:02:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\ ***DANGER! DANGER!** > > It is a **serious violation** of board policy to discuss the ignore function. All o’ y’all might want to back away from that topic forthwith. \*\* Nah, saying who is on it is against the board policy, not discussing it. A: If you wish to ignore a poster, and cannot do so yourself manually, for whatever reason, their is an ignore feature enabled. Which is fine. B: Wow, I’m glad I have poster B on my ignore list. Goodbye idiot. Which isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/30 "2003-09-30T23:03:35Z")
Eh. I’ve never minded handy. If I don’t find some of his posts useful, well, I just skim past them. No biggie. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/31 "2003-09-30T23:10:53Z")
As of now **Q.E.D.** posts 14.6 more posts per day than **handy**. **handy** has a 16957 - 6627 = 10330 post lead. 10,330/14.6 = 707.5 days(just under two years) until Achillies catches the tortise. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/32 "2003-09-30T23:14:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TaxGuy \* > Otto, just today I was gonna ask you if you were a lawyer because I’ve often seen you post legal-type information that seemed spot on, and you’re **handy** at digging up statutes. (bolding mine) Interesting choice of words, **Taxguy** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/33 "2003-09-30T23:15:13Z")
some one has time on their hands, I see. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/34 "2003-09-30T23:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan of Narnia \* > **Nah, saying who is on it is against the board policy, not discussing it.** Well, yes. But the context of the current discussion is fraught with peril. **A:** “I find member X annoying!” **B:** “You know, there’s an ignore list.” **A:** “Ah yes, that’s _much_ better!” I’m just sayin’, is all, before people get themselves in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/35 "2003-09-30T23:42:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TaxGuy \* > \*\ ***Otto** , just today I was gonna ask you if you were a lawyer because I’ve often seen you post legal-type information that seemed spot on, and you’re handy at digging up statutes. > > So, keep up the good work even though you haven’t spent three years getting Socraticized.\*\* Thanks. I’m a (non-practicing) paralegal so I’ve been trained how to do legal research. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/36 "2003-10-01T00:01:32Z")
I made the decision a long time ago that not only was **handy** an idiot, but someone who would rather wallow in his ignorance rather than own up to his mistakes. Oh, and he’s [a sad, pathetic excuse for a human being](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=137424). ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/37 "2003-10-01T00:21:39Z")
> [@](#): > > ## quote: > > Originally posted by TaxGuy > Otto, just today I was gonna ask you if you were a lawyer because I’ve often seen you post legal-type information that seemed spot on, and you’re handy at digging up statutes. > > * * * > > (bolding mine) > > Interesting choice of words, Taxguy **DANGER!!! DANGER!!! IT IS A SERIOUS VIOLATION OF BOARD POLICY TO SUGGEST SOMEONE IS A SOCK!!!** 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/38 "2003-10-01T00:22:59Z")
WOAH!!! Sorry about the size there, I meant 4, not 6. :o :o ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/39 "2003-10-01T01:46:11Z")
Quite frankly, as long as people don’t listen to his misinformation (does he ever actually _care_ if he’s wrong? Does he make an effort to be right or just type the first thing that comes to mind?), I don’t give a shit if he posts that the moon is made of GWB’s droppings. It’s when the thread concerns something of actual importance and he comes in with doggerel. And when it’s a newbie posting it, they don’t know to check his facts twice for him because he doesn’t. He can look mighty convincing to a newbie (speaking as a former newbie who once thought that handy, because he had so many posts, had to know something about what he was posting). SOP around here, as far as I’m concerned (and I realize the partial irony in me, a big-postcount-doper, “flaming” handy for what he does), ought to be that you admit when you’re shown to be wrong about something factual (“2+2=17 for all systems!” “Nope. Cite.” “Oops, sorry!”). But if that were the case the number in the OP would be a lot closer to 30K, and handy wouldn’t have much time at all to teach innocent surfer girls the wrong words for stuff in ASL. And we can’t demand anything more than quantitative superiority when we know we can’t expect so much as qualitative mediocrity. Of course, I’d rather, given the choice, see someone with 125 good, thought-provoking, honest and complete posts than someone with 500 handy posts. But we get what we pay for. ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/40 "2003-10-01T02:32:43Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\* I go long stretches of time without being able to open threads because, I assume, the servers are busy. And what’s part of what keeps them so busy? Processing your stupid shit. Is the slowness of the boards your fault? No, but you sure as hell aren’t helping with your lame-ass, non-responsive, not worth the bandwidth garbage._\* Not that anyone here (not even Kyberneticist), could do much by themselves to actually have an impact on this server, but… Do you think that opening a thread on a subject that’s already been discussed several times in the past, presumably reloading the page a few times to read the new responses, and then posting to the thread 3 more times in the same day, is any easier on the server than Handy’s posting? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742.md?page=3)