We have found a troll!
Burn him, burn him!
(he turned me into a fish)
(You’ll get better)
I didn’t lurk, but as soon as I discovered the community I saw there was a lot of history that one might want to know if they wanted to fit in. So I quickly knew far more than my join date could explain. Thankfully no one noticed.
I did the same thing. We can be a ruthless bunch. I remember how nervous I was about my first post. IIRC it was about Nietzsche, because that was my jam at the time.
That we’ve mentioned. You, Sir, are On The List.
Another data point. I’ve been hooked on the Straight Dope brand since my undergrad years, and I took to reading the fora when my main supply of snarky info dried up. I only signed up to get to read detailed threads on people being banned (and to bore folk with my boring ideas on new election systems).
So I knew how things worked, and even recognized some names, before I started posting. It’s only polite. So I’m not buying this Individual in Question being suspicious on that data as we see it, though it’s enough to arch an eyebrow a little.
You don’t have to guess as you can now download your entire posting history.
What!? I’ll kill you for that!
Oh, Lord. Honestly, there’s a lot I don’t want to remember.
We are? How come no one told me that? I’ve been mentally giving him wedgies!
Talk about jumping into the water head-first!
From a high rock overlooking a raging surf crashing against the cliff!
Is there anything the SDMB loves more than a tortured analogy?
Only when the analogy self water boards.
Ok - I’m putting my hands up and backing away from the offending post.
I (probably unwisely) got into a meatspace argument about the legitimacy of the election and was hoping to get my hands on some actual facts. I looked for but couldn’t find my opponent’s specific objections; there were A LOT of posts to wade through… which may be why the mods locked my thread - I respect that.
However, the level of vehemence here and the fact that you’ve misspelled my username make me wonder if I might be catching a bit of somebody else’s flak? I mean, my posts aren’t necessarily the most enlightening; but I’ve always tried to be polite, and I’ve been posting about twenty times a year for the past seven years - not exactly shock and awe.
PS. I did get the information I was looking for. (Thanks, Jas09)
Well, truthseeker2 was a real asshole.
He did?
There used to be a poster here with a user name: truthseeker2. Dude would constantly JAQ off, post ignorant bullshit and be generally troll-y as fuck. Can’t be sure because I don’t want to speak for others, but perhaps you’re catching some of that flack.
ninja’d by kayaker.
They spelled it with a capital T - a subtle distinction, but computers can be a little touchy about that sometimes.
So not a misspelling then? And your username was the first word in the sentence so they may have capitalized for that reason.