# Please stop responding to Alaricthegoth's threads
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 23, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320 "2006-01-23T22:45:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/41 "2006-01-24T16:41:55Z")
I have to admit, I tend to just not read his posts anymore, despite the fact that we seem to agree on a few issues (I think, anyway). They just seem like he wrote a normal post, then ran it through a thesaurus a few times.
Plus he tends to write two/three/four posts in a row. I’d understand that if he’s just forgotten something he needs to add (I myself frequently forget things, and make a new post) but it seems like in every thread he’s in he’ll make his point, then make a _new_ post with his cite, then _another_ new post with a non sequitur, etc.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/42 "2006-01-24T17:06:08Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#):
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> And alaricthegoth, as a general rule, if your thread has only gotten 5 replies in a year and a half, four of which are from you, bumping it is really not a good idea.
Learn it. Live it. Love it.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/43 "2006-01-24T17:24:37Z")
I disagree with him completely, but I think you guys are being way too harsh. He’s not a troll, or a sock. He actually tries to argue and make his points. And he’s usually polite enough about it. I’m not the style police - if I can’t understand what he’s saying, I’ll just ignore his message. If I can, I’ll respond to it.
You can also play the fun, “Guess the exact composition of tonight’s alaricthegoth drug cocktail” game.
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/44 "2006-01-24T17:26:44Z")
Lemur, if he bothers you so much, use the feature in your control center we’re not allowed to discuss. And Alaric is people. He’s neither p **ig nor e** lephant.
Some of us like the crackpots, and it’s entertaining to prod them with a stick and light them on fire.
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### Author:  [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/45 "2006-01-24T17:28:06Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> You can also play the fun, “Guess the exact composition of tonight’s alaricthegoth drug cocktail” game.
Which is always good for a quick laugh.
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/46 "2006-01-24T17:52:41Z")
Well, we can always put him on ignore. As I have done.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/47 "2006-01-24T18:06:17Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#):
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> Some of us like the crackpots, and it’s entertaining to prod them with a stick and light them on fire.
Give a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/48 "2006-01-24T18:12:50Z")
> [@Lemur866](#):
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> Give a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
With your permission, may I occasionally use this as a sig?
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/49 "2006-01-24T18:16:32Z")
> [@Clothahump](#):
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> Well, we can always put him on ignore. As I have done.
It’s against the rules to discuss who is on your ignore list, **Clothahump**. So, you know, don’t.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/50 "2006-01-24T18:18:58Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#):
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> With your permission, may I occasionally use this as a sig?
I didn’t make it up, it’s one of those jokes that float around the interweb.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/51 "2006-01-24T18:27:51Z")
Ahh, did not know that :smack: , it’s just soo perfect for the Pit!
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2006, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/52 "2006-01-25T09:45:09Z")
He’s at it again. [Remember when a “brick” was just a kilo of weed?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=355745)
All I can say is, Who does he think the Office of the [Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction](http://www.sigir.mil/org.html), who issued this report, is. A Democratic spy? A whistle blowing, self-sacrificing low level operative?
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### Author:  [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-responding-to-alaricthegoths-threads/341320/53 "2006-01-25T13:06:28Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> That’s one of my favorite movies!
Hehehehe…mine too.
“Stand back, I have a dragon and I ain’t afraid to use it. I’m a donkey on the edge!!!”
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