# Anyone else loving Poptech's Hysterical Meltdown? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393 "2010-07-03T03:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/1 "2010-07-03T03:58:57Z")
I didn’t want to interrupt him flailing in these threads: > **[Why are the moderators here biased and intellectually dishonest?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=569195)** > > In a previous discussion here a moderator stated lies and created fraudulent charges against me to censor my thread to this section of the forums. My question is why are the moderators here biased an intellectually dishonest? > **[Do Peer-Reviewed papers exists supporting skepticism of "man-made" global...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=568429)** > > Proponents of government action to regulate CO2 all in the name of preventing a “man-made” global warming “catastrophe” will declare that no peer-reviewed papers exists supporting skepticism of “man-made” global warming alarm. I argue this is not... I love how frantic he’s getting. Does that make me a bad person? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/2 "2010-07-03T04:02:21Z")
Oooh, me, me. I particularly loved how he made three or four posts with nothing but a huge wall of repeated, red, point seven-sized font. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/3 "2010-07-03T04:12:38Z")
I’m thrilled by it. Absolutely. Thrilled. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/4 "2010-07-03T04:14:18Z")
What’s hilarious is he thinks he’s _won_… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/5 "2010-07-03T04:15:17Z")
He’s also banned. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/6 "2010-07-03T04:18:21Z")
I don’t normally do this, but he was totally TL: DR for me. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/7 "2010-07-03T04:21:54Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > He’s also banned. Correction, his status is being discussed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/8 "2010-07-03T04:30:26Z")
[QUOTE=Poptech] You suckers are leaving a spammed thread up. I played you like a fiddle. [/QUOTE] Says the idiot blowing into the wrong end of the kazoo. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/9 "2010-07-03T04:42:19Z")
**Poptech** > [@](#): > > BTW the Pit just attracts the mental midgets and the genetically inferior. Which of us in The Pit are mental midgets and which are genetically inferior? I’m thinking we are going to need a poll here. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/10 "2010-07-03T04:46:50Z")
For the record, the preferred term is “mental little person.” ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/11 "2010-07-03T04:59:43Z")
You are of course correct. I blame it on my genes. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/12 "2010-07-03T05:18:20Z")
What probably never occured to **Poptech** is that if the Moderators were really so inclined to be intellectually dishonest, their solution would be simple. They could ban him and then change any words in his posts that they chose to. They could make him apologize to everyone, admit that he is seven years old and a mama’s boy. But that’s not their style and **Poptech** loses out again. He would look better if someone _would_ change something _anything_ to make his posts … nevermind. I don’t even care. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/13 "2010-07-03T05:38:57Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Says the idiot blowing into the wrong end of the kazoo. By keeping with the times I would had said to PopTech: Says the idiot blowing into the wrong end of the Vuvuzela. 🙂 Just one note from me here, I did send a warning to the moderators **before I even had posted anything** in the thread regarding my concern that Poptech was spamming his list to get more traffic and revenue to his site. Poptech in the end admitted that that was his ultimate purpose all along, the joke is on him as I had already foretold what he was going to do, I only responded to deal with his misinformation, the decision by the moderators to move the thread to the pit was just what I needed to show him the rope that he used to hang himself. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/14 "2010-07-03T07:54:49Z")
Those threads are 5 pages and 8 pages respectively, can anyone present a condensed version? ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/15 "2010-07-03T08:06:54Z")
Poptech: [2 pages of blather, about 700 links. No thesis.] Right? Posters: …what? Poptech: You’re being stupid. Listen. [400 links] Posters: To… what? What are you even wanting to debate? Poptech: You can’t confuse me with your strawman! John Kerry is my baby daddy! Mods: _shrug_ whatever. You seem to be mad about your issue, and not really presenting a topic for coherent debate even though we’ve politely asked for clarification like 50 times. Since this seems like a rant, we’re gonna move it to the pit. Poptech: DON’T CENSOR ME!! SDMB: What? Poptech: Don’t censor me to the pit! SDMB: Do you mean… “move” you to the pit? Poptech: I won’t fall for your censorship strawman you midget-minded liberal shills! SDMB: Wait, we’re confused. [6 pages of back-and-forth ensue, during which time Poptech presumably gets a shiny nickel every time he says “strawman” or “censor”. The rest of the board relaxes when they figure out he doesn’t know what either word mean, and by page 5 it’s largely shifted from trying to understand what on earth he’s saying to just plain poking fun at him] Poptech _now being largely made fun of_: Good thing I won this argument! SDMB: You didn’t. You’re an asshat. Poptech: _posts the same GIANT RED WALL OF LOBOTOMIZED TEXT like 60 times_ _banhammer_ _crickets_ Jack Black: Yea! Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![SevenOfTeemingMillions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@SevenOfTeemingMillions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SevenOfTeemingMillions)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/16 "2010-07-03T08:10:03Z")
Guys like Poptech are the main reason I visit the BBQ Pit. Soap Opera on the Internet. These are the days of our lives on the BBQ Pit. 😃 This was the first meltdown I’ve witnessed and my only regret was that I didn’t have popcorn to eat while reading the thread. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I don’t normally do this, but he was totally TL: DR for me. What’s “TL: DR”? 🙂 > [@Czarcasm](#): > > ``` > >> Originally Posted by Poptech > > ``` > > \>\> You suckers are leaving a spammed thread up. I played you like a fiddle. > > Says the idiot blowing into the wrong end of the kazoo. And Poptech didn’t realize that the mods can clean up the thread removing most of the spam he posted and leaving enough for the reading enjoyment of the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/17 "2010-07-03T08:13:58Z")
> [@SevenOfTeemingMillions](#): > > What’s “TL: DR”? 🙂 “Too long, didn’t read”. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/18 "2010-07-03T08:15:44Z")
> [@SevenOfTeemingMillions](#): > > What’s “TL: DR”? 🙂 ‘Too long: Didn’t read’. AKA, Teal Dear. Often accompanied by a picture of said oddly coloured beastie. ---
**Author:** ![SevenOfTeemingMillions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@SevenOfTeemingMillions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SevenOfTeemingMillions)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/19 "2010-07-03T08:20:29Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “Too long, didn’t read”. > [@Tengu](#): > > ‘Too long: Didn’t read’. > > AKA, Teal Dear. Often accompanied by a picture of said oddly coloured beastie. Thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393/20 "2010-07-03T08:33:37Z")
> [@Omi\_no\_Kami](#): > > _snip_ Many thanks. That does sound humorous. I’ll check it out later. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-loving-poptechs-hysterical-meltdown/545393.md?page=2)