I am having trouble imagining any standards of trolldom that that asshole DIDN’T meet. I offered to pay him to go away once, but I couln’t afford his price. I nearly started a thread to solicit donations to pay him off and send him packing.
Good riddance, and thank you mods, for saving me money.
Good riddance. Well done, Modsters.
Don’t know/don’t care if he was a troll, but I don’t buy the valued contributor thing- 90% of his posts were in his own threads, which all could be placed in one of three categories- what’s your opinion of this genius obscure work I uncovered, how do I go about doing something bizarre/mundane, and the type that got him banned- perhaps a miscarraige of justice, but no loss for the board.
Hmmm, I put him on my ignore list last night and now he is banned.
I’m dizzy with power! Muahahahaha, who’s next?
I am sorry to see him banned too, but a suspended member is suppose to be on good behavior.
He was often entertaining and very knowledgeable on some subjects. But he was already on thin ice.
This move is not out of the blue and not too surprising.
I guess as is my wont, I am taking both positions. I am sorry he is gone, but I think he brought it on himself.
Jim
Same here. I think he brought some wonderful insight to the board (or could have, if people took more of his posts at face value and ignored who posted them). I would’ve liked to see him stay, but it really is his own fault, and I wasn’t remotely surprised to see him gone after the threads he posted last night.
Well sometimes in life you get the wet end of the schtick.
Throw me in the group of not surprised. but I enjoy watching the trolls its entertaining and now my secret hope of a TLDR / 2.5 troll off is forever crushed.
Gee, as a newbie it sure seems that way to me. But you know, Q.E.D., you seem to be as much into the whole thing as that longnamed person. If threads are so “UN-SDMB”, why don’t you hit the Notify button to have them locked or deleted? Instead, you make it your special calling to start a stream of blather until it’s locked, and then not deleted at all.
From my perspective, if the SDMB didn’t like trolling it wouldn’t make the troll threads more prominent by locking and leaving them up.
So, excuse me for finding your position hypocritical. I blame you as much as long name for this more disgusting side of the board. No offense intended, just registering a different viewpoint to wake you up that there are some.
I am glad to see him gone. He was way over the top in his shit.
Can I get an IP address check on aisle four? IP address check…aisle four. Thank you.
Well, thank god he’s gone, there were actually some interesting and amusing threads here in the pit recently. We can’t have that, otherwise those folks with the psychological defect that forces them to read every thread on the board might get the uncomfortable feeling of their shit being stirred.
hahaha! I was thinking that too! :smack:
Not surprised. He plainly deserved banning under the rules of the board, but he didn’t bother me. He reminded me of the great old Usenet trolls, like the late Plain and Simple Cronan, who could be a valuable poster or a big ol’ troll, pretty much entirely depending on his mood.
This made me genuinely curious: is it still a no-no to mention that someone is on your ignore list?
One man’s troll is another man’s freedom fighter. Au revoir, mon camarade.
FIGHTING INTERESTINGNESS SINCE 1973
(IT’S ALL GOING EXACTLY ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE)
Yes, according to the Rules which are posted at the link below. You’ll have to ask a Staff member here if there is an exception to a banned member.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7697065#post7697065
According to the rules, yes. But it does not mention, mentioning that you had a banned poster on ignore. So this would be a gray area.
And I didn’t mean to suggest that anyone had violated anything, I was just wondering.
Heh, I didn’t realize till I read this thread that the guy with the long string of random letters for a name was VC03.
I, for one, don’t think he was a troll. A jerk of massive proportions, but not a troll. Of course, being a jerk is against the rules here.
And I think that the thread about the woman going into the burning building was intended seriously. VC03 often showed a tendency to over-apply his own opinions.