# I sick of ralph124c and his stupidity. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321 "2008-10-03T14:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/121 "2008-10-04T21:02:43Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > This is not St_rm Fr_nt… Oh. Can I get my money back then? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/122 "2008-10-04T21:33:36Z")
I have yet to see any kind of mod warning for this asshole, which surprises me. I fully realize that I might deserve one too, for my initial reaction (which I stand by) but - it specifically says that racism and “hate speech” is against the Pit rules, and I think his language qualifies as racial hate speech especially if it’s true what **askeptic** said. Anyway, I’ll say it again - if [this face](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/th.jpg) is your idea of “beaten with a barbed wire baseball bat” then you need a pair of glasses. My girlfriend is fucking gorgeous, and I will post all the pictures of her that I want. As others have said, it’s fucked that this guy, if he really “doesn’t take this message board seriously” and thinks that we need to “get a life” or whatever, would make this so personal, especially in the defense of someone else (it’s not even like I specifically insulted HIM or anything - I made fun of someone else’s SPELLING and he responded to that with the most hateful remark I’ve ever seen on this board?) I think the guy is nuts, and the fact that he still won’t even apologize after all this would indicate something very wrong with his personality. ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/123 "2008-10-04T22:17:21Z")
Sadly the compare original post and edit feature wasn’t enabled then. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/124 "2008-10-04T22:30:52Z")
**Argent,** I think you done outed a troll–good work, man! Now forbear from feeding the nasty little fucker and perhaps he’ll FOBTTGR and leave the grownups to talk serious-like. [QUOTE=RyJae] Sadly the compare original post and edit feature wasn’t enabled then. [/QUOTE] We have that? Where? @ **askeptic** , wow…just, wow. Good thing you had your Johnny-On-The-Spot shoes on! So hey, **Giraffe,** can we get a mod ruling here on **AT** ’s racist/hate speech assertion? ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/125 "2008-10-04T22:45:50Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > **Argent,** I think you done outed a troll–good work, man! Now forbear from feeding the nasty little fucker and perhaps he’ll FOBTTGR and leave the grownups to talk serious-like. > > We have that? Where? > > @ **askeptic** , wow…just, wow. Good thing you had your Johnny-On-The-Spot shoes on! > > So hey, **Giraffe,** can we get a mod ruling here on **AT** ’s racist/hate speech assertion? For a few minutes when you edited a post you could click a link “edited by Username” and it would bring up a page and show you both before the edit and after the edit. It was removed not long after I noticed it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/126 "2008-10-04T22:53:05Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > So hey, **Giraffe,** can we get a mod ruling here on **AT** ’s racist/hate speech assertion? A discussion of the issue is currently under way among the moderators. Since some are not online at the moment, a decision may take a while. Please be patient. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/127 "2008-10-04T23:15:57Z")
If we can bring this back to Ralph again, I’ve gotta defend him to a degree. Sure he asks dumb questions, but the answers to those dumb questions are often really interesting, the Roman trash collection one being a perfect example. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/128 "2008-10-04T23:22:39Z")
Sure, point taken. If there’s one lesson of this thread in my opinion it’s that while there are some posters who might occasionally annoy us, this is not the same thing as being an ASSHOLE. Despite what’s been said about them **gonzo** and **ralph** obey the rules of the forum and are polite. I don’t really have anything against them and certainly would never attack them personally. Then there are posters who are are just flat-out worthless. Fortunately, they usually end up being banned, and then spend their lives bitching and whining in the you-know-where, like washed up hookers in a crack house. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/129 "2008-10-05T00:00:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > A discussion of the issue is currently under way among the moderators. Since some are not online at the moment, a decision may take a while. Please be patient. _Pas problem,_ and thanks… Dern trolls, coming outta the woodwork on a weekend, making you guys work–what is the world coming to? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/130 "2008-10-05T00:09:11Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > A discussion of the issue is currently under way among the moderators. Since some are not online at the moment, a decision may take a while. Please be patient. I vote for a warning. I know, I don’t get a vote. Just thought I’d throw that out there. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/131 "2008-10-05T00:09:56Z")
The thing that bothers me here is that this guy is NOT a troll - he’s been here for a while, he’s never engaged in any kind of trolling OP or any other kind of posts designed to elicit negative reactions from people. As far as I can tell he has made about 300 very un-extraordinary posts about sports, games and TV shows, and then suddenly out of the blue makes this totally insane, sociopathic, fucked up comment. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/132 "2008-10-05T01:26:21Z")
Actually, it’s pretty classic troll behavior of a certain type–some trolls come out swinging, foaming at the mouth from day one. The problem with those is that they tend to flame out quickly and never get the amount of reaction that the sleeper trolls get. Sleeper trolls, like their cousins the sock puppet trolls, wait around for a while, building up a generally inoffensive demeanor, playing games, posting innocuous “me too” posts here and there but laying low. Usually they’re acquiring targets, people they can see are probably good for a really spectacular high speed comeapart if poked _juuuuuust_ right. I think that one’s been watching you for a while, has figured out you have a temper and figured out one or two good buttons to push on you. Just happens I think he blew his wad too quickly by staying too adamant in this thread–dude coulda been a contender by following you around and pushing for rabid gun control or yak extermination or something. Meh, ignore it, it’ll go find another bridge to infest… ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/133 "2008-10-05T01:34:01Z")
Hey, Argent! Show us the pic of your girlfriend and the rifle! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/134 "2008-10-05T01:38:32Z")
[Sure.](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/may-1-2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/135 "2008-10-05T01:39:29Z")
Just FYI, our resident “I’m not a troll” has now decided **I’m** the one who’s the author of all his troubles and is sending me a whole bunch of PMs. Hooray. Way to prove the non-trollishness there, guy… Can I get another barrel of :rolleyes: \<—these, please? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/136 "2008-10-05T01:41:45Z")
I just wish this were a big gathering of people at a real party or something, instead of an online message board, so that this guy could be dealt with appropriately. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/137 "2008-10-05T01:43:05Z")
Hon, I’d be right there in the parking lot next to you… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/138 "2008-10-05T01:52:06Z")
Feathers I have, but where are we going to get enough tar at this time of night? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/139 "2008-10-05T01:52:58Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I just wish this were a big gathering of people at a real party or something, instead of an online message board, so that this guy could be dealt with appropriately. You mean with the turkey baster and the canola oil? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321/140 "2008-10-05T01:57:20Z")
> [@RyJae](#): > > For a few minutes when you edited a post you could click a link “edited by Username” and it would bring up a page and show you both before the edit and after the edit. It was removed not long after I noticed it. ☹ It was just for your own posts, wasn’t it? It’s either still there or it’s back, as I just did it. Real purty with the contrastin’ color an’ ever’thin’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sick-of-ralph124c-and-his-stupidity/466321.md?page=8)