Funny. This thread started with an actual OP, which on some planets is considered to be the topic of the following discussion. Of course, after a few pages, every thread diverges from its topic, but this one is rare in that the OP is pretty much irrelevant from post #2 on.
ExTank linked to a thread and culled three quotes from lissener’s participation therein as background for calling lissener a “shitstain.” From the evidence presented, though, I’ll be damned if I can see why. If Larson’s derivitive of Kliban or any other artist, admittedly or not, the issue certainly impacts upon the question asked – and it was a question, as to whether Larson was the greatest ever, even though ExTank tries to characterize it as “…folks who are doing nothing more egregious than sharing a few laughs and fond memories over the works of one of the more popular contemporary cartoonists…” Nope, I think, this was no private party, this was a thread asking for diverse opinions. It got one. I’m not that impressed by the fact that the opinion wasn’t prefaced with the humble phrase “I think…” or some equivalent. People tend to say what they think, and it’s not unheard of to express one’s opinions as fact, when the subject is inherently a matter of opinion.
Anyhow, the thread from the OP on strikes a casual observer as completely haywire. By my count there are perhaps half a dozen posts which address **lissener’**s behavior in the Larson thread at all, including Tomdebb’s perhaps-unintentional observation that every participant in it is a few bricks short of an intellectual load.
Otherwise, it seems, there’s plenty to say. Vinyl Turnip scores first in post #2 by dragging in another thread, without linking, as an inside joke, and we’re off. QED, relying upon the same undisclosed and irrelevant thread, takes a shot at lissener, not for his behavior in the Larson thread but at what QED knows, from his target’s own disclosures, at lissener’s management of his personal finances.
Smelling blood, Colibri makes an appearance. lissener’s behavior in the Larson thread, the subject of this pitting, doesn’t interest him either: Colibri’s contribution consists of (a) the statement that lissener calls people who disagree with him a liar (not in evidence anywhere in this thread, the thread the OP linked to, or anywhere in post #35), (b) that Colibri thinks lissener is delusional (again w/out support or qualification) and © an allusion to other instances of lissener’s misbehavior that may or may not (there’s no link or helpful description) have anything whatever to do with this pitting. Or reality, for that matter.
From there, Frank gets in a shot, linty fresh wants to avenge an old slight about the movie Shogun, Colibri laughs off the notion that he harbors old grudges but still can’t explain his presence in this thread, and in post #65, Charter Member Kendall Jackson has a balanced and reasonable post regarding this topic – lissener’s conduct in the best cartoonist thread.
lissener may be the most obnoxious poster on the SDMB, but you know what? This pitting doesn’t prove it, and the fact that it immediately became almost exclusively the province of posters re-articulating other, older grudges does nothing for its credibility, or theirs.
