I don’t think he’s an intentional troll so much. I think he’s actually a child sassing back at the adults. He gave his age as 47, but I think he left out a decimal point.
I admit to mixing up the two ivans, I guess I don’t pay enough attention to either. I am against chasing away posters no matter how annoying. There’s this thing you can do when you don’t like a certain poster, it starts with an “I” for Ivan.
He sure seems to be enjoying the attention you guys are giving him, at least half the posts here are by him.
Technically, Ivan’s running at 18 of 143 posts. Described as a ratio, that figure is somewhat smaller than one half. In fact, it’s pretty close to one eighth on the nose.
Sorry, but you can’t really say, “you guys” when you are posting to this thread yourself. You sorta hafta say “we”.
And in the thread I started, I’ve made one post for every three made by others. Just for clarification purposes.
My last occasion was in the beginning of 1991, when I broke the jaw of a gatecrasher at a funeral wake and I was sentenced to 15mths in prison.
The relevance to anything, being?
I can always count on the nitpicking powers of the Dopers to point out the error of my ways. That’s what I get for not making sure I was using exact terms correctly. I am duly humbled.
I think I’ll go clean litterboxes now, that will be more fun than this.
No, no, please don’t go.
I enjoyed the hell out of that nitpicking!!! 
Oh, no you don’t, Jive Turkey! Don’t try to pawn that off as a nitpick. You can’t walk into a pit thread about a poster and say, “Every single soul posting in this thread are feeding the troll. Except me.” Naw. That’s not a nit I’m picking, that’s a plank I’m removing from your eye.
And what else have you been convicted for, Ivan?
Shagging your Mum on a public highway.
I’m voting “A.” for you too…That girl that met up with you at the Super 8 in Hamilton said you by no means was “abstaining” from anything.
Bullshitter! 
Squink, seriously, it was an intentional exaggeration. I did not truly believe he made half the posts here. I didn’t think anyone else would take that as gospel either. Even though I’m bored and putting off doing other things I really wasn’t about to count them and do the math, so thanks for keeping it real and shit.
Okay, I really don’t want to clean litterboxes so let me point out that you apparently seem to have something in your eye as well since I did not call Ivan a troll or say anything like what you have in quotes there nor was it even my intention. That may have been you reading your own feelings into my post but I would never presume to tell you what you were thinking. But you sure dud get a lot of words I didn’t say or intend out of “you guys”.
But I’m not going to continue to argue about it because IME here, these little side
arguments where poster A insists Poster B actually said X, even though poster B says that was not their intent they were just saying Y, but Poster A won’t let it go because they know what Poster B was really thinking, are just a pointless waste of space.
So let me amend my previous post for you. Maybe if I hadn’t tried to quickly add another comment during the edit window in a hurry I could have taken more time to consider all the possible interpretations of the choice of words before posting and thus avoided any twisted panties on my fellow posters.
Here is what Wile E should have said;
“Ivan sure seems to be enjoying all the attention he’s getting.”
Will that pass the muster? Can the thread resume the Ivan bashing now?
I was really just reading this thread for elucidator’s comments anyway.
“Yo’ mama” digs? Really?
::Checks; is reminded that it’s astikov that he’s posing this question to::
But of course.
This now stands as the most worthwhile thing ivan has contributed to the boards. With all that implies.
Well, he did ask.
Shall I start having a close look at your back catalogue and see what “worthwhile contributions” you’ve been making lately?
Besides coming chasing around my ankles and making an annoying twat of yourself?
One without even a fraction of a smidgen of wit about them, may I add.
So what else have you been convicted for?
Seriously, wtf does it have to do with you? If you are really interested though, search through my posts, I’ve been quite open about my past elsewhere on the forum.
Yeah, I know. It was intentional nitpickery too.
Incidentally you don’t have to count posts or anything, just click on the link in the ‘Replies’ column, and it’ll pop up a window that gives a thread’s posting stats.
That takes all of two seconds.