### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/21 "2006-01-24T04:16:12Z")
I like the man. He makes you question assumptions. Plus, sometimes, there’s a point.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/22 "2006-01-24T06:18:43Z")
OK. I’m absolutely sick fo that idiot. I’m in. Anyone else want to sign up for not posting in his threads or responding to his posts?
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/23 "2006-01-24T06:40:53Z")
**John Mace**
I don’t think I ever posted in any fo his threads.
(Do you have a tpyo virus or something?)
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/24 "2006-01-24T08:40:32Z")
Wow I just looked him up to see who he is. He has 69 posts in one current thread alone.
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### Author:  [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/25 "2006-01-24T10:45:29Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#):
>
> **John Mace**
> I don’t think I ever posted in any fo his threads.
>
> (Do you have a tpyo virus or something?)
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/26 "2006-01-24T12:12:02Z")
He’s bumping his own 2 to 4 year old threads. Our resistance is futile.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/27 "2006-01-24T12:33:18Z")
He has been here for a few years? I did not know that. I am no longer opening his threads.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/28 "2006-01-24T12:51:48Z")
Join date 7-15-2002. He bumped two of his old threads in GD today. One was from 2002, the other from 2004. **MEBuckner** closed one of them.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/29 "2006-01-24T14:02:03Z")
[Quote=E-Sabbath]
I like the man. He makes you question assumptions.
[Quote]
True. I question the assumption that he is entirely sane.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/30 "2006-01-24T14:03:45Z")
I likewise question the assumption that I can code properly.
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/31 "2006-01-24T14:26:51Z")
I am reasonably assured he is not entirely sane. That doesn’t mean he can’t make me think.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/32 "2006-01-24T14:57:33Z")
> [@Crotalus](#):
>
> He’s bumping his own 2 to 4 year old threads. Our resistance is futile.
He likes to talk to himself. Let him.
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/33 "2006-01-24T15:09:01Z")
That’s one of my favorite movies!
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/34 "2006-01-24T15:12:12Z")
OK, where did my quote go? Oh, there it is …
> [@Mellivora capensis](#):
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> \
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### Author:  [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/35 "2006-01-24T15:26:21Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#):
>
> I am reasonably assured he is not entirely sane. That doesn’t mean he can’t make me think.
That’s about where I stand. Hell, I recently posted to a thread of his in which he was one of the voices of reason. I even stated how scary that was. 🙂
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/36 "2006-01-24T15:35:24Z")
I think we need the voice of insanity at the Dope. It, and our reactions to it, are very much a strong part of the tone of our community. We don’t feed trolls. We feed _off_ them, with measured responses. Only here is it typical for discussions to occur out of trainwrecks, debates from flamewars…
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### Author:  [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/37 "2006-01-24T15:50:49Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#):
>
> I think we need the voice of insanity at the Dope. It, and our reactions to it, are very much a strong part of the tone of our community. We don’t feed trolls. We feed _off_ them, with measured responses. Only here is it typical for discussions to occur out of trainwrecks, debates from flamewars…
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/38 "2006-01-24T16:24:41Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#):
>
> I think we need the voice of insanity at the Dope. It, and our reactions to it, are very much a strong part of the tone of our community. We don’t feed trolls. We feed _off_ them, with measured responses. Only here is it typical for discussions to occur out of trainwrecks, debates from flamewars…
I’m thinking mainly of his political “debates”. There are plenty of posters here on the left who can argue the same points he does but without the _non sequiturs_ and nonsensical sentence structure. He adds nothing but incoherence.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/39 "2006-01-24T16:29:01Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#):
>
> Hey everyone, I’m a dumbass. Just now, right now when I saw **“A the G”** did I go back and look at his name and put it together. Or rather, take it apart and see three words there.
>
> I just assumed it was some kind of stoopid Alien name from a Sci-Fi series I missed.
>
> :wally
Yeah, some of the user names here would make a lot more sense if more people put spaces where they needed to be. Say, **mangetout.**
:dubious:
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### Author:  [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/40 "2006-01-24T16:36:38Z")
> [@](#):
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> Say, mangetout.
There’s no space in the word “mangetout”.
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