# BrainGlutton, enough already **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 26, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532 "2014-08-26T03:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532/41 "2014-08-26T22:25:47Z")
> [@Reyemile](#): > > If the link stated the “gist” of the article, I’d be less annoyed–his summary is word for word the title of the linked article, as was pointed out earlier up-thread. Given the trend toward eye-catching titles article titles that bear little resemblance to the actual article, I really don’t know if he’s posted the “gist” or not. I thinks that’s the crux of the problem right there. I won’t go so far as to say **BrianGlutton** is a one trick pony, and I don’t really have much of a problem with his post in the “stupid Republican idea of the day” thread, but too often his posts don’t have any content in them. They’re just a link to an article on another site. He needs to understand that the SDMB’s content is created by the posters themselves. Too often the guy is the fucking buzzfeed of posters. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532/42 "2014-08-26T22:25:57Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I also hate posts that are bare links to videos or outside articles. At a minimum, a poster should offer a brief summary or description of what’s behind the link and perhaps also why he or she thinks it’s relevant to the thread. A lot of posters don’t even read their own links, and they like the post \, \, \ as if it proves some point, and then they leave it up to other posters to point out that the cite does not support the claim made. In some cases, the cite will actually contradict the claim being made. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532/43 "2014-08-27T00:57:04Z")
Again, I don’t have a problem with make a point/provide a link: in fact it’s good practice. Make a point/ link to a vid is another matter: no, you’re not going to make me waste my time like that. I can at least skim an article. > [@John\_Mace](#): > > You must be loads of fun at parties. Hint: You missed the joke, but maybe you’re just not familiar with a certain brand of thread he loves to start every so often. Ah, that was a Pew reference I guess? I still don’t get the joke, but I see Ravenman has. Humor is good: I retract my point. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532/44 "2014-08-27T05:33:56Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > […] Let’s look at the wider context from your link shall we? Quoting a headline is pretty much the embodiment of fair use. Your characterization of the link is highly misleading. Check out the masthead, Jimbo: it says fighting ignorance. You are enabling it. […] Well, first of all, thanks for just calling me Jimbo - I’ve been called much worse. I do appreciate your restraint. Where in my post did I say anything about fair use? I quoted a section of “Guidelines for posting”, which **BG** seems to ignore at … well, I’d be harder put to find an instance where his “accustomed style” doesn’t ignore it. You’re not trying to change the subject, move the yards marker, the goalposts, the batting cage for some reason are you? \<_Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Yaddida, yaddida. Know what I mean, know what I mean?_\> ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532/45 "2014-08-27T10:58:50Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > But he can’t stop. There’s a platypus controlling him, it’s underneath the table! ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532/46 "2014-08-27T21:11:29Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > Well, first of all, thanks for just calling me Jimbo - I’ve been called much worse. I do appreciate your restraint. Excellent use of irony. Point jimbuff314. > [@](#): > > Where in my post did I say anything about fair use? I quoted a section of “Guidelines for posting”, which **BG** seems to ignore at … well, I’d be harder put to find an instance where his “accustomed style” doesn’t ignore it. You’re not trying to change the subject, move the yards marker, the goalposts, the batting cage for some reason are you? > > \<_Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Yaddida, yaddida. Know what I mean, know what I mean?_\> Ok now my irony meter is acting up. I’ll just note for those who don’t want to click the link that “Guidelines for posting” is a list given immediately after a discussion of copyright. In other words, those guidelines are intended to help posters avoid copyright violations. They are not connected with posting etiquette or protecting the hyper-sensitive from content they deem disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532/47 "2014-08-28T00:13:35Z")
Okay, **Measure for Measure**. You’re much too good for me to slip one by you that easily. Besides, I don’t have to. Although you got your defense of **BG** in early in the thread, since then others have spoken and pretty well agreed that yes, this is something for which he is known. Whether or not it _bothers_ them is split, generally-speaking not unless he does it as an OP. Being basically an RSS feed is something known about **BG** , not only here but on other MBs in other lands, where he is _routinely_ laughed at and mercilessly mocked. I trust he knows these things and is not bothered in the least by them. Do you know him personally? How are his nails looking? I’ve read speculation somewhere that “he” may be nothing more than some oddly disappointing spambot escaped into the wild from a chunky monkey’s slovenly coding. “Fuck off, eat shit, suck my Scalia.” Certainly nothing there that couldn’t be vacuumed up virtually anywhere on the 'Net (ha!), or is indicative of any type of intelligence at play. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brainglutton-enough-already/696532.md?page=2)