Too obvious. You should have gone with “Rarebit Nightmare.”
[shrug]
I have come to the regrettable conclusion that internet message boards must always have someone to hate. Doesn’t matter if the board is liberal, conservative, science, gaming or sports based. Some subset is always going to seek to ban\fight with whatever group that they can identify as different than the majority of the board.
If you ban the groups of people on a board that the most people complain about the goal post will just shift to a new subset of people. The easiest place to see this is sports based forums. Many of these don’t allow apposing fans on their boards. So instead of beating up on opposing team posters the message board will eat their own. (ie the “real fans” tear down the debbie downer negative posters or the “realistic” fans tear into the fan boy posters who think the current coach can do no wrong and won’t reach for excellence etc.)
(Note that not all POSTERS are like this but a large enough subset of the human population is that this “truism” will never totally go away. About the only “solution” I have seen is making users use their real name instead of usernames. I put “solution” in quotes as this merely keeps the problem down to a small roar. )
Personally, I prefer the current policy wear it is very difficult to ban most posters. Keep Shodan. The board is better with a diversity of opinions.
I’m surprised that the OP only noticed one person repeating the same things over and over again, year after year. For whatever reason, this board has a very high hedgehog-to-fox ratio, to the point where you can pretty much guess what a post will state just by looking at the author’s name.
Oh, yeah?!
Belushi!
This Boomer (b. 1955) had to look it up, too.
Heheeh, this Xer knew the character your name referenced without a scorecard, but is surprised that you thought the SDMB operates as anything other than a microcosm of society at large. It’s managed in most places, and we can’t actually clobber each other out of rage like you can in real life, but the same folks will do the same stuff until they aren’t the same folks or they just aren’t anymore.
It’s fun, but it’s repetitive sometimes. Just like life.
This is true. As a different identity I participate in pop music message boards. You won’t believe the fights these people get into, called “fan wars”.