# The legend of Zeldar **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 22, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866 "2015-07-22T10:23:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/81 "2015-07-23T04:40:47Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > That was due to a request by the mods. I doubt a friendly suggestion by some random user would have the same result. You’re wrong. He responded positively to requests by other posters in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=762705) to slow down: > [@Which Actor(s) and/or Director(s) do we need polls for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-s-and-or-director-s-do-we-need-polls-for/725562/25): > > Do you not think 40 or so “what’s your favorite” themed threads in the past month is maybe enough for a while? > [@Which Actor(s) and/or Director(s) do we need polls for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-s-and-or-director-s-do-we-need-polls-for/725562/29): > > Why don’t you try not spamming the board with these incessant polls? > [@Which Actor(s) and/or Director(s) do we need polls for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-s-and-or-director-s-do-we-need-polls-for/725562/32): > > You know, it’s one thing to create a thread that I don’t want to open. But your “top 5” threads are taking over the Café Society forum. So call this thread-shitting if you like, but I wish you’d stop, or at least pace it out a little bit. Thanks for your consideration. > [@Which Actor(s) and/or Director(s) do we need polls for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-s-and-or-director-s-do-we-need-polls-for/725562/33): > > Okay. No new ones from me for a while. > [@Which Actor(s) and/or Director(s) do we need polls for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-s-and-or-director-s-do-we-need-polls-for/725562/35): > > Just one of those impulsive things that got me carried away. Had no idea it would bother anybody. I’m backing off now. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/82 "2015-07-23T04:45:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I think there is a good chance you are wrong. He readily agreed to cut back after a polite suggestion. He was not instructed to do so he volunteered. > > Just because he is compiling statistics on us for our secret lizard overlords doesn’t mean he isn’t a good guy. After a polite suggestion _from the mods_. Look, I’m not saying he’s a bad guy. I’m only saying that he’s received similar polite suggestions from others and ignored them. That’s OK, because he’s not obligated to bow to the whims of other users. But let’s not pretend that he’s sensitive to how he’s perceived by other users and modifies his behavior on that basis. He posts what he wants to post whether others participate or not. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/83 "2015-07-23T04:52:00Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > I’m only saying that he’s received similar polite suggestions from others and ignored them. Where? ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/84 "2015-07-23T04:53:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You’re wrong. He responded positively to requests by other posters in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=762705) to slow down: These posts are all from yesterday, shortly before the ATMB thread was posted. In that ATMB thread **Miller** states that **Zeldar** had been asked to dial it back. When did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/85 "2015-07-23T04:57:25Z")
Oh thank god, I’m not the only one posting that they thought they were the only one who felt this way. And that includes not being pissed off at him or anything; he seems like a good guy. Polls, data and stats are his big thing and I can kinda see how working with them might feel precise and detailed and orderly and feeling good about that (not claiming that’s why he loves poll threads). This is said with tongue firmly in cheek: But who knows, man? What if **Zeldar** is playing a long con here and gathering personal information in tiny, freely-given innocuous bits? Fools, the lot of ye! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/86 "2015-07-23T05:00:36Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > These posts are all from yesterday, shortly before the ATMB thread was posted. In that ATMB thread **Miller** states that **Zeldar** had been asked to dial it back. When did that happen? I don’t know, and don’t care, about the exact time line of the mod requests vs the posts. However, you’ve got zero evidence that he ignored requests by posters and responded only to requests by the mods. He was polite and cooperative in both cases. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/87 "2015-07-23T05:21:13Z")
The last board I was one which got infected by one obsessed individual shut down. Maybe these are the harbingers of doom… ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/88 "2015-07-23T05:25:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > However, you’ve got zero evidence that he ignored requests by posters and responded only to requests by the mods. You are correct, sir. I thought for sure I’d seen at least one post from someone asking him to back off on his polls, only to be politely rebuffed. I cannot find such a post, and I’m frankly tired of looking. I will concede that I was in error, and that he never refused a polite request from another user to dial it back. But holy fucking shit. I just waded through a bunch of those threads and cannot believe it took so long for someone to say _something_ to him about starting all those threads. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/89 "2015-07-23T07:28:26Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And you post so little of substance that it’s difficult to even call what you say wrong. You post to snipe, and you’re not even all that good at it. At least _luci_ makes you laugh. At least _Shodan_ makes you angry. I’m pretty sure that, if you stopped posting right now, no one would even notice you were gone. Someday **BigT** , maybe when you grow up and start drawing welfare and get a crack whore pregnant, maybe then you will start to give a message board like this the significance it deserves. “No one would notice I was gone”? Jeez, I can’t think of a single thing of less importance to my life than that, I can’t think of one insult that could miss the mark so entirely. This message board may be your life BigT, it may be important to you and thats very sweet. But not everybody needs an internet message board to fulfill that role in their life, and so not everybody is as concerned about their message board legacy as you appear to be. I hope someday you will finally become a productive member of society and gain some perspective on this. > [@BigT](#): > > It’s a called a fucking typo. Bringing it up to call me not a normal person is a shitty thing to do. I only give you a pass because you’ve been suicidal lately and I don’t want to contribute to that. > > But if you are depressed, you shouldn’t go around insulting people. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/90 "2015-07-23T07:39:50Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > This didn’t need to be in the Pit. What’s wrong with a PM asking him to back off for a while? PM’s are for little bitches with something to hide. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/91 "2015-07-23T10:18:50Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Let’s list the Top Five Most Annoying Zeldar Threads. I have seriously considered creating a thread like this. Zeldar has taken all the fun out of CS; it’s become a chore to read the OP’s name, before reading the thread title. And in the long run, they’re self-defeating: I’ll never again open a Zeldar thread, no matter what or where. I guess some people simply have too much time on their hands. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/92 "2015-07-23T11:39:57Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > PM’s are for little bitches with something to hide. No. PM’s are for taking care of things in private, without embarrassing someone who has never _hurt_ anyone. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/93 "2015-07-23T12:09:15Z")
> [@](#): > > you caesin-flecked excrement. If he understood what this meant he would really be mad. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/94 "2015-07-23T12:14:42Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I have seriously considered creating a thread like this. Zeldar has taken all the fun out of CS; it’s become a chore to read the OP’s name, before reading the thread title. And in the long run, they’re self-defeating: I’ll never again open a Zeldar thread, no matter what or where. I guess some people simply have too much time on their hands. Seriously? Is he a racist? A sexist? A homophobe? He just loves film and that makes you hate him. Maybe he is a bit OCD but lets not judge folks by their deviation from the norm. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/95 "2015-07-23T12:23:02Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > List of Top 5 movies with Numeric Titles Under 6 > > 1. [4](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045798/) > 2. [1](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2518788/) > 3. [Less Than Zero](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093407/) > 4. [5](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527588/) > 5. [Two](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295210/) Hey! What about [V](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3)? No love for Roman history, I tell ya… > [@BigT](#): > > Am I wrong in not thinking that this thread had to be posted in the Pit? If all you’re doing is asking Zeldar why he like polls so much (as the ATMB thread is covering the “don’t post so many at once” part), I would think the mods would be okay with that in MPSIMS. Well, if we spend too much time talking about how the mods have responded in the other thread, this should be in ATMB… ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/96 "2015-07-23T18:58:12Z")
So… He’s annoying, but not exactly a jerk… How about getting him his very own “Zerldar’s Polls” subforum? He can make polls about favourite toothbrushes, and no-one’d even know. Maybe program a few bots to randomly vote and post stuff like “Wow! Didn’t think option 3 would be so popular!!” I doubt he’d notice. Kind of a mini message board Matrix, but without the trenchcoats or any of the cool. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/97 "2015-07-23T19:15:22Z")
I see that after having 2 days for things to settle, he’s down to 22 threads on the first page of CS. Baby steps, people. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/98 "2015-07-23T19:18:36Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I see that after having 2 days for things to settle, he’s down to 22 threads on the first page of CS. Baby steps, people. In fairness, as long as people keep posting to them, they’ll stay there. A lot of them have moved way down the list. I can’t see that he’s started any new ones. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/99 "2015-07-23T20:25:25Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Seriously? Is he a racist? A sexist? A homophobe? > > He just loves film and that makes you hate him. Maybe he is a bit OCD but lets not judge folks by their deviation from the norm. Please don’t put words in my mouth. I never said I “hate” him; I just don’t want anything to to with him or his endless mind-numbing polls. And I don’t believe that he “loves film;” he just loves repititious, mindless tedium . . . and that hardly qualifies as “deviation from the norm.” Someone doesn’t have to be a racist or sexist or homophobe in order for me to want to avoid having anything to do with him. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legend-of-zeldar/725866/100 "2015-07-23T23:13:38Z")
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