I don’t even know what to say. I’m starting to think this place really isn’t what I thought it was.
What did you think it was? A troll zoo?
Sometimes it takes a while.
But it’s worth it.
[applauds]
You don’t think he was a troll?
Really?
No, I really don’t.
Actually, that’s not a bad concept. As long as they were behind bars and had no posting privileges, and we could stroll past licking ice cream cones, and watch them play with their privates and throw poo around, with them secure behind their iron bars and a moat or two.
Might be kinda fun.
K, then, what was he? Misunderstood genius? Or merely misunderstood?
How do you account for the sheer repulsiveness of the OP that got him banned? What socially redeeming value do you perceive there, that has eluded the rest of us? Really, I’m curious.
Oh thank fucking God that took long enough.
Just to give the now-departed VCO3/TLDR… the same courtesy we show all our other bannees, I’d ask that you all please confine yourselves to discussing whether or not he should have been banned and avoid posts which are merely celebratory. Thanks.
First of all, I never said that specific OP had any socially redeeming value. But if that were the criteria, we would all be banned.
I’ll tell you what I think VCO3 was. A very valuable contributor to a lot of threads, and a guy with a weird sense of humor. He is kind of an ass sometimes, of course. As are a great many people around here. And unlike some, I never saw him being an asshole directly to another poster, like a lot of people also are around here.
I don’t get it.
Hey, careful with that broad brush! I’ll have you know that every time I post, the ASPCA adopts out a kitten.
Damn it. I run to the grocery store and miss ALL the drama. Dratted mods, couldn’t you have waited 20 minutes? ::sniffle::
His “weird sense of humor” apparently was based on lots and lots of trolling.
I guess I understand why he was banned, but all I’ve got to say is he annoyed me a lot less than a lot of other posters. At least he’d start his own threads, rather than crap all over someone else’s.
He was banned for trolling. Trolling is defined as the posting of deliberately inflammatory remarks solely for the purpose of getting a rise out of people. You never noticed any behavior like that? Or would that all fall under the heading of his “weird sense of humor”? To post an OP excoriating a woman who went into a burning building to rescue her two daughters as an ignorant devotee of a “child cult”? You found that amusing, not trolling?
The ATMB thread shows that he was warned five times before the OP about the evil woman who had the nerve to try and save her kids from a burning building.
Seems more than fair to me.
I didn’t mind TLDR - found him funny actually. But this isn’t surprising, or unwarranted.
Now that Search is re-enabled, I sure would like to see some links, both from his previous incarnation as VCO3 and as his current one.
I actually didn’t find that particular thread to be either one.
I am not surprised in the least. He just couldn’t help himself. I knew it was going to happen sooner or later. I liked him because he knew a lot about indie rock and when I’d post some thread about some obscure (to most people who don’t listen to a lot of music) band, he’d drop in to say something. Sometimes he’d be like the only reply at all. No matter how obscure the band, he always knew about it. Beyond that, I was never bothered very much by his trolling because I saw it for what it was, trolling, and didn’t take it very seriously.