Achoo! Is it a bit dusty in here?

The BBQ Pit
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I was just doing a few searches on current issues and noticed that a particular poster’s user name wasn’t showing up. Well, that really piqued my curiosity, so I attempted a websearch on her user name. To my surprise, I got a message from the search engine telling me

Curiosity meter pegged, the next step was to search for some thread titles with that poster’s user name in it. Some appear and some don’t.

“What gives?” I pondered. “Is this the mods/admins’ version of the Pharonic admonition to ‘erase every trace’ of that person in response to the oft-threatened ‘shaking of the dust from [her] shoes?’” I immediately thought, “That’s funny as hell!”

“Hmmm,” I say to myself. “Maybe it’s a global namechange for her.” Well, that panned out. So, it’s not dusty at all. The sneeze must’ve been something I picked up hanging out until midnight last night.

So, folks, when you see a posting by lynn73 and you say to yourself, “Damn, that sounds a lot like that fibbing sack of dung, His4Ever,” THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS!!!

Anyway, lynn73, why the change? Is it because you’re unhappy with Siege’s suggested username for you, Baal’s4Ever?

Most likely answer is that you find it easier to change your name than to change your ignorance and hatred.

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Monty, please, get a grip on your distaste for lynn73. It’s not like she isn’t allowed to change her username. Besides, it wouldn’t be all that difficult to figure out what her old username was anyway, given that she is frequently referred to by username.

Are you just searching for excuses to Pit her?

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Get a grip, yourself, lel. I find it oddly amusing that she’s changed her name so soon after Siege’s excellent pitting, and also that her new name can be read as “lying 73.” Not to mention that she’s been threatening to abandon us heathens to our poor unbelieving demon-worshipping ways ever since she showed up and started touting malarkey.

BTW, where did I ever say or imply she can’t changer her user name?

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p.s. Get a grip on reading the OP, too, lel. You’ll notice that I obviously did figure it out.

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I don’t think you can use the “lynn = lying” analogy. If you can read her new name as “lying73”, does that make Lynn Bodoni now “Lying Bodoni”? I don’t think so.

You didn’t say or imply that she couldn’t change her username, it’s just that it’s not customary for people to be pitted for changing their usernames. It looks like you’re just looking for an excuse to Pit her, from my POV. YMMV, of course.

And yes, I know you figured out her new username. Even if nobody had pointed it out, I think we could have figured it out on our own without the benefit of a Pit thread. One sees a new name with a fairly large number of posts, clicks on “search all posts by this user,” and figures out what the old name was.

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Maybe she wanted a fresh start, to get away from the stigma her old name has, and to get away from people like you instantly hating any post she makes instead of judging it on its own merits.

Nice of you to be so pleased as punch to “out” her.

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At least she changed something. For someone as devout as she is, I bet it was tough to give up her old username. I for one applaud her for courage and for her unwillingness to retreat from this board.

I guess I don’t share your hatred towards lynne73. I don’t agree with many of her views, but at least she doesn’t act like an ass.

I think the OP is quite immature.

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Devout? Hahahahahah!!!

What has been incredibly tough is for her to show that faith that she demanded everyone else follow, but not her.

Oh, and I have never judged a single post of hers on anything other than its “merit.” OTOH, she’s often made comments along the lines of “What do you expect from a XXX?”

I am not making anything at all of the Esteemed Lynne Bodoni’s name. I was making fun of the new moniker for H4E.

“Outing,” huh? Right. Whilst it’s not customary to pit someone for changing their user name, it is customary to let folks know about it. Of course, it’s not a rule, but I saw this particular one as a stealth manuever.

But, who knows? Maybe, just mabye, she really has started to think for herself. A posting or two, minus her constant falsehoods, would be good for proof of that. I await such proof. Actually, I’m hoping for it.

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I repeat what I said - perhaps she changed her name because she didn’t want people like you continuing your animosity towards her. She’s a human being, after all. And it looks like she had good reason - you’re altogether gleeful about exposing her “stealth manouver”. By not telling everyone about the name change (which she was under no obligation at all to do) she may be trying to disassociate herself from her previous name.

It may be usual to let people know when you’ve had a username change, but it’s certainly not a rule. I can think of several others who have quietly changed their name without fanfare. And if she chose to change her name and not let anyone know about it, I think you should respect that. Instead, you’ve opened this thread saying “Look! Lynn73 is HIS4EVER!” It makes you come accross as a sour bully.

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So changing user names and not notifying everybody is pitworthy? This is ironic coming from Monty who is often the object of pit threads for much more serious things and who does not feel he owes any response or explanation to all those he has offended. This thread shows he has no class either.

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Monty, it really looks like you’re fishing for an excuse to Pit lynn73, and I don’t think a name change is sufficient.

Right, just like every time a long-time poster changes their name and doesn’t inform people, it’s a stealth manuever. Sometimes they announce the change, but more often than not they don’t. Besides, it’s not like she’s trying to deliberately hide the name change – it’s not all that difficult to find out.

If you feel a need to pit someone, do so for their posts, not for a name change.

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Un-huh.

You’re being a dick, Monty.

If/when she does something, great…pit her for it (Lord knows I have), but outing her and pitting her for something that she hasn’t yet done (and if she has, why didn’t you link to it in the OP?) is just asshole-ish.

Fenris

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So being a “smartass” (which I didn’t view Monty’s comments as, since I deal with real smartasses every day of my life) is a serious offense worthy of being pitted?

If I pitted posters in GD appropriately for what Monty was pitted for in that thread, I would have to write a 5 paragraph essay, most of which would just be listing the indivual posters.

Personally, as an outside observer to your frequent tiffles with Monty, I think it’s gotten to an absurd point where neither of you try to understand the other, and would rather just keep attacking each other instead. I may be wrong about it, because I don’t read every single thread you both participate in, but from what I have read that’s how it seems to me.

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I disagree with His4ever/lynn73 on virtually every subject, but this is a droolingly pathetic reason to pit somebody.

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I am going to partially side with Monty here. A regular and controversial GD’er who changes their name and doesn’t announce it is being a bit sneaky. Yeah, people could have figured it out but a bunch of people wouldn’t have made the connection ad thought that there was someone else with the same point of view. Outing her in a Pit thread was a bit over the top though, but only a bit. Also, in lynn4ever’s defense, she may well have been planning to make such an announcement.

Haj

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Why would lynne73 want to announce it though? Especially since Monty and a bunch of other posters still remember when Siege was mocking her old username. If she had created a thread entitled “His4Ever is now lynn73”, wouldn’t it be inviting the vitriol currently displayed by the OP? Wouldn’t it be admitting that she had been defeated? Isn’t that why Monty is so damn gleeful?

To me, it’s like if your name was Larry and all the kids keep calling your Fairy. It hurts your feelings so you change your name. Then everyone makes fun of you for that. It’s a lose-lose situation.

Maybe I would be able to share in the hateration if I felt anything more than indifference towards lynne73.

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I am singularly disappointed in seeing this thread, for reasons Monty could not have known.

For some weeks now, Siege and I have been in e-mail correspondence with she-who-was-His4Ever-and-is-now-lynn73 for the purpose of convincing her that her style in posting was the problem – that accusing Catholics and LDS of not being Christian, and going out of her way to make sure that we know that in her view, the Bible makes it clear that homosexuality is an abomination, is not the way to reach people for Christ – which was, after all, her goal as a Christian poster speaking on religious subjects. We were having some success in that dialogue, and after the last bout here in the Pit, she iundicated that she wanted to quit the boards and come back later under a new name, to try to improve the attitude with which she witnessed without having the degree of dislike she’d stirred up as His4Ever.

I told her that the Mods. ordinarily frown on people quitting and then returning under a new name, but that they are amenable to people requesting a self-requested suspension of poster privileges (you and I both know someone who did that as a means of self-discipline) and a name change – so that after a month or two she might begin posting less hostilely and more irenically under a new name.

She accepted this advice and e-mailed Tubadiva for those two things – intending to make a fresh start.

So you won’t see lynn73 responding to this – she’s inactive and I believe without posting privileges at her own request – and her wishes to get rid of the adversarial role she had fallen into as His4Ever are now down the tubes.

However, there is no way you could have known of her intent to turn over a new leaf. But it saddens me nonetheless.

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If it was her intent to turn over a new leaf, Poly, she could more easily have done so by avoiding the very threads that gave her the infamity she now has. For example, there’s a thread in Cafe Society right now titled “What Songs Make You Cry?” that is now on its second page. She could easily have posted there instead of in a thread with a religious theme.

Or she could have posted an apology of some sort for her past behavior (apologies myself if I missed some sort of apology post on her part) and a desire to make amends. But as I see it, she took a break from the boards and then came back as the same person she was before.

I think, btw, that I have figured out some of the problem she has. Matthew 5:10-12:

"10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 “Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

It is my personal opinion, and based on a little more than scant reading of her posts, that she believes people here persecute her because she is trying to spread God’s Word. Further, that those who are in cohorts with Satan are posing as Christians and telling her that this, God’s Method, is not what He wants in an effort to keep souls from reaching Him (this may seem like a bit of a stretch, but based on the past few days of posting, it’s certainly nothing crazier than I’ve seen). So what does she do? Does she change her style against what she perceived to be God’s Will for her, or does she acquiesce to the fake “Christians” and “water down” her message so it will offend fewer?

I do not desire to correspond with her beyond this MB, as I have done so before and my efforts were wasted once again, but if the situation comes up, please do let her know on my behalf that it was not her name that drew my ire but what she said and how she said it, and more importantly even than that, the fact that after being told time and again by people a shitload smarter and wiser than I am that she was not being loving, she didn’t change her approach. That fact, more than anything else, was what led me to the conclusion that hers is a manner I cannot change, and so I am not meant to.

BTW, I was under the impression that it was customary on this MB (having no knowledge of others, as I didn’t frequent them enough and the situation came up only once) to announce a namechange. That is, I am guessing, what provoked Monty’s ire. Because you can change the name, but unless the person changes as well it’s wasted effort.

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Polycarp: Agreed, except for one thing as explain below. And when she does make a new start–provided it’s a new start–I’ll be happy to say, “Cool.”

Someone above said that she’s people too. Well, LDS & Buddhists & Catholics & Episcopalians & Wiccans and Muslims & etc. are people too. AFAIC, she didn’t have to change anything other than her attitude towards other people. Her attitude towards those some ignorant hateful preacher told her are evil is what’s gotten folks’ goat here and what she’s said about purt near all of them has been beyond hurtful.

When she does return, you know what would be glowingly friendly of her, in a Christian sense? Saying, “Hey, folks; I’m sorry I posted all those lies about y’all.” If and when she does return, and she posts that, or something similar, I’ll do my best to be the very first person to post underneath her with, “Thank you. Let’s try discussing the Great Things Discussed Herein in a friendly & Christian manner.”

Until I see an apology from her, I won’t post that. I don’t care if she witnesses, I don’t care if she proselytizes, I don’t care if she’s firmly convinced her faith is No. 1–more power to her for it! All I care about is for her to (a) quit telling the lies she’s constantly told here, & (b) apologize for them.

But, I thank you, Polycarp, for making the situation clear.

Oh, and if & when she returns and posts that, I’ll be happy to say how wrong I was here. At the moment, though, I’m not convinced I’m all that wrong. She’s made her bed.

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You know, Monty, I have to say I don’t care if her opinion changes a bit. I care about two things:

  1. How she treats people and;
  2. What she says to them, in particular.

It’s one thing to think something about someone else. It’s another thing to let that thought affect your actions. If she goes to her grave thinking you’ll burn in the fires of hell for your religious beliefs, whatever (she probably thinks the same of me;)). She’s allowed to think the moon is made of the dead bodies of athiests if it floats her boat. It’s what she does based on those thoughts and opinions that pisses me off.

Otherwise, though, agree completely.