The damn thing is up to 25 pages now. He will continue it indefinitely as long as he gets responses. Do not post there. That thread needs to die.
No, I am not going to link to it. The thread needs to die.
Shut up, Bryan Ekers
Why single out Bryan? He’s like 10th in number of posts to that thread.
Anyway, I’ve learned a lot from it. There’ve been some really informative and fact-filled posts mixed in among the OP’s dross.
Oh, I’m SOOOO sorry you are bothered by some digital words on a page. How about you live over here where we have to worry about it all the time? Some good information has come out of that thread, and on top of that it brings awareness to the issue. Go sit on a inanimate carbon rod. Putz.
If there’s one thing that thread needed, it’s another thread.
Bryan was possibly singled out because he was the first to post after the request was made; that post addressing him is the flag to read this request.
While some good information has come out of that thread it is overwhelmingly FX’s idiocy blog. Hell, in the last day the putz has posted 8 out of the 15 posts, most of them either contentless or just dumb. (Getting haughty over his false believe that “cite” should never be used as a noun, was pretty funny though.)
That said, it appears that he really is a self-important idiot rather than a troll, so DNFTT need not apply, and it is very easy to not click on it. I haven’t for weeks and just did last night while killing some time during a small patch of not getting tired and there being fairly little of interest elsewhere on these boards; sometimes seeing FX getting reamed over some latest idiocy can pass some time. And there was a link he had provided that had some meaningful content in it. It was even worth expanding upon, IMHO.
It’s a Pit thread Monkey, and at this point mostly one that serves to mock its op and prime poster. (And funny enough his own posts barely need comment to accomplish that task.) Any actual content is gravy.
I know that, but enough is fucking enough. You are right in that FX is a self important idiot and not a troll, but after twenty five pages of his goddamn blog it is enough.
Don’t post to the fucking thread. Let it die.
If it’s keeping him contained to that thread instead of letting him loose to spew more garbage all over the rest of the boards, I endorse it fully.
A case can be made for the fact that nothing posted on this message board is important. Yet threads get closed all the time for all different reasons so members and moderators of this community have decided thread content is important.
The referenced thread has turned into a blog. Any bit of interesting information that has been learned from it is not worth having that behemoth being continually bumped. Board aesthetics is apparently a concern here (see any of the avatar threads).
That thread is a visual blight on this landscape, imo, it needs to go.
Huh. Has FXM limited himself to that one thread?
Nah. He’s made 1337 posts and only 519 of them are in that thread.
I admit that my post was basically joking, but holy shit, that’s almost 40% of his total posts on this board.
I have made that precise point to the managers before, but in this case, for some reason, his blog is being allowed to continue in this message board.
No shit. It’s been on the front page of the pit for five damn months. At this point the mods might as well make it a sticky.
The problem is that FXMastermind made quite clear that he was just going to keep posting, whether or not anyone replied to him. There are places in that thread where five or six posts in a row are all by him.
I left the thread alone for a few weeks, and others did the same for a while, and i was sort of hoping that the mods would shut it down as either a blog or an obvious troll, but they didn’t, and the brain-dead moron continued to post (sometimes with nothing but links to Japanese-language articles) even when no-one else was participating.
But i think the OP is right, and it’s time that i really did leave the thread for good. If no-one else participates, and the retard just keeps bumping it himself, maybe it will eventually get shut down.
Petition a mod to close the damn thing. As long as he keeps bumping it 'dopers (being 'dopers) are invariably going to respond. It’s what we do best…especially in such a target rich environment. Besides, the constant ridicule might actually be a good thing, since there seems to be a lot of lurkers to that thread based on the number of reads vs the number of posts. Scorn and ridicule might do more to get people to consider that perhaps nuclear energy and this disaster weren’t nearly so over the top as folks like FXM make it out to be. Look at the range of posters in that thread who have constantly shot down his (and gonzomax’s) idiotic mouthings. He’s been made to look like a complete idiot.
Consider this…how many 9/11 Truther threads do we get these days? Not sure if the heaping helpings of scorn and ridicule that just about the entire 'doper community heaps on the poor deluded fools who trot in there with the latest Truther YouTube video, but perhaps it has had an effect. You never know.
-XT
I really think that we have to control ourselves and stop posting first.
I’ve always been opposed to closing threads while there were still multiple people responding. Like it or not, that constitutes a conversation of sorts, and that’s what the board is about.
Now, if everyone else can restrain themselves from pointing out FXMastermind’s stupidity and trollery for a few days, then the thread really will be nothing but a blog, and could reasonably be shut down.
Just for being told to shut up, I’m seriously considering a massive post-fest that will make me the biggest contributor to that thread. Maybe I could dust off my fanfiction (the second story in my six-part epic is, coincidentally, about an anti-matter disaster analogous to an oil spill) and post them one sentence at a time.
I like your plan, but I’m afraid you’ll still be told to stay on topic… But wait! Your fan fiction can star FX as its protagonist!
Get to work! Right now!
Star Trek fanfiction?
Shut up, Bryan Ekers