Something I did find interesting, though, was that there are two other shiny new guests posting in that thread; **qualor ** and Snale. They’ve posted only in that thread, too. Now, Mr. Snale is defending Mr. tmaareif, for example initating emails and congratulating him on his posts but Mr. qualor isn’t, though both seem to have a good grasp and knowledge of the board despite being guests (like **tmaareif ** himself) and the latter has also taken to using capslock in his posts. I’ll apologise if these are genuine people are not tmaareif’s sockpuppets. It just strikes me as odd, however, that guests would choose *that * thread to begin their posting careers in. Not unbelievable, but odd. So I thought i’d see what everyone else thought.
I think you’re pretty much right on the money. However, that’s a horrible pitting. Too short, and not a single use of “Fuckwit”. I’ll award 2 points for being right, but that’s all I can give it. Sorry. 2/10.
Actually, I think he’s some sort of anti-troll. I mean, he comes to the board and tries to explain his whacked-out idea, and when everyone pokes him with a pointy stick, HE’S the one who gets agitated. Most trolls are trying to get a rise out of everyone else - he could be the first troll who came to the boards just to piss himself off. Of course, that flows well with his whole mindset of death, darkness and depression.
Interestingly, Snale (who has smelled strongly of Odor Eaters from the start) has been banned, but tmaarief seems to still have posting privileges. Was Snale someone else’s sock*, or has tmaarief been given a reprieve for some reason?
As I’ve not seen him outside that thread, and overly enthusiastically supporting someone else’s crackpot theories isn’t a banning crime, I assume he got canned for sockery.
I’m rather shocked to be called a troll, or troll-helper!
You’re right, I have only posted in that thread, infact I only made this account to post in that thread. I was going to at first come up with some thorough debunking, but I was beaten to it by several people, so at first I started with something jovial on page one, before getting properly involved late into page two.
Use of capslock surely can’t be considered as proof i’m in cahoots with tmaareif.
I’d like to think I had a good grasp of the board, good enough to know when and where to post, or not as the case has been ever since I started reading straightdope, or looking through SDMB. Most of the time I feel i’m too ignorant to engage in certain debates, though something like this I felt was right up my street.
Apologies if I appeared to be a companion of tmaareif, but i’m surprised you came to that conclusion, i bitterly argued with him for the most part, I dunno how that could’ve been to his benefit.
Well, like I said, qualor, if you’re not a sockpuppet i’m sorry to have wrongly accused you. Unfortunetly, for new posters to be coherent and have a familarity with the board isn’t the general standard. The capslock thing doesn’t prove it, no, but I think it does somewhat add to the chance that you are, as does that you’ve only posted in that thread. It’s perfectly true you could be innocent of the whole thing, but some things do point to you being involved. I suppose we’ll find out in the future - if i’m wrong, I hope my accusation doesn’t put you off from contributing to the boards.
As for you disgreeing with him; some trolls don’t just want notoriety, but argument and divisiveness. Often a troll will create multiple sockpuppets on each side of an argument in order to try and get others involved and to keep the debate going.
Unfortunately, I’m way too sober to get much from tmaareif’s ramblings beyond he’s unhappy, he wants to die, and because he realizes this, he’s smarter than everyone else. Aeschines seems to like the guy. I’m guessing that’s because angst-ridden teenagers won’t be fucking fat chicks…
Who was that old guy who started posting bizarre philosophic ramblings out of a Philosphy 101 course that we all thought was a sophomore but was really a 76 year old ex-trucker or something? One of 'em was about learning for it’s own sake or something?
Hmm…you don’t suppose he’s in the downward swing of his (hypothetical) bipolar disorder, do you? That could explain a lot. I didn’t realize it before, but their posting styles are startlingly similar.
My, you do seem hung up on the whole fatness thing, wishing as you do to bring it into every discussion.
Sorry, but unlike most here, I don’t see the SDMB as a big morality play in which everyone must be judged and either accepted or ostracized based on how well they are liked.
I told the guy what I thought in as nice a way as possible. His posting style doesn’t have a huge value-add to it, that’s for certain. Being the cat and treating him as a catnip mouse (“Let’s fuck with the spazzy new Guest, yeah!”) isn’t productive either.
