[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
No, just saying it was a pattern with him-post some outrageously stupid question, then get offended when people say it’s outrageously stupid.
Or his total, foaming at the mouth, Pit threads about nothing in particular, getting pissed at the drop of a hat, starting said Pit threads and never returning, etc.
Basically, the textbook definition of Being a Jerk.
Good riddens.
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[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
I have had my doubts as to the sincerity of several of VCO3’s posts here (like does he really think Orange Juice is the best musical group ever?), but none more blatant than the last- I cannot fathom anyone becoming outraged at a woman for trying to rescue her daughters from a fire. No way any reasonable person would read that article and have that reaction. Woman ABANDONS husband to try and save child? Puh-lease.
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This isn’t necessarily a direct response to the quote above; rather, this is a response to the general position that his posts were inflammatory and based on obviously outrageous opinions (that are therefore considered ridiculous).
As I said before, I didn’t find TLDR’s posts (beyond the racist ones) to be necessarily more than his off-center opinion. While it may be unbelievable to certain posters here that a person could read said article and be outraged by the sacrifice that the mother showed in the article, I find it entirely plausible that someone firmly against personal sacrifice for children would see it so.
I remember on another board years ago when someone started a thread asking how many people were planning on never having children. For some reason, that thread sparked an incredible amount of outrage from people who simply could not believe that anyone would not want a precious little mini-me of their own. At first, I hadn’t considered the possibility either, but after reading the arguments the proponents offered, I decided that it was an entirely valid personal conclusion.
And, in fact, I agreed to some extent. There is, in fact, a “Cult of the Child” in our way of thinking that slips past our normal, rational-radar. (Not that I don’t want kids myself, I’m just saying I understand that this is how society is.)
**TLDR’**s banning over the thread about the mother is the disturbing part for me. It does reek of a banning over a controversial issue. While 99% of people may not consider it an active controversy, that might just mean that the 1% who believe otherwise are just a minority opinion.
Many of the religious debates that are allowed in GD, for example, purposefully bait both the religious and atheists for argument when there’s no possibility for resolution. How many threads have we read that started out basically as:
“Hey Atheists/Theists, Explain This Clearly Idiotic Aspect of Your Stance”
Someone above said that one quality of a troll is that they often won’t return to their threads beyond a token post. They also said that a troll won’t change their opinions even when presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Need I drag this into the Atheist/Theist debate? Or the Global Warming debate?
All of these issues seem like icing on the cake. The real issue seems more to do with TLDR’s inflammatory style. With the exceptions of the race baiting, I did not find his posts to be specifically trollish… just “out there”.
EDIT: I wanted to also say that my opinion is heavily influenced by the fact that those last two threads were in the Pit anyway. This seemed important to me.