On the other hand, ticking them off enough to have them bring in the support sock might have been a deciding factor in the end.
TBF, the sock did at the very first try to put forth a slightly different idea. But it was still obvious AF. First time I think I’ve just instantly reported someone as a sock.
As for the thread, I treated it like I do certain debunking videos. I mostly skipped all his posts and just kinda enjoyed the responses.
Yes, the precision of a clean kill is to be appreciated.
But there is a substantial degree of schadenfreude were the perp to slowly bleed out.
I remembered the weird geyser/pyramid thing but did not remember it was this poster.
Now I regret not just opening up with a full salvo of mockery. There was no universe in which anything of value was going to come out of any of those threads. Not as the internet is constituted in 2026
Link??? I missed all the fun!
It’s Cladking. A headshot doesn’t involve any vital organs.
The ATMB thread seems to have been cornfielded per the usual.
FWIW I found that thread pretty interesting. Not anything by the OP, of course, but the discussion about fish was cool.
It was.
If you have an argument between 10 intelligent people and one total dipshit, you know what you have? A conversation involving 10 intelligent people. That’s always worthwhile.
I didn’t follow the pyramidwoo-thread, but I think the sock was in the “Was Hiroshima Justified” thread arguing that:
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The 1945 atomic bombing was a warcrime, and
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Japan was winning the war in 1945.
Which is an interesting tactic since a very common argument for (1) is that Japan was just about to surrender anyway when the bombings happened. Also (2) is not just bullshit but outrageous bullshit.
Kind of sad they were banned. They were a troll, but an interesting troll.
Zostersandstorm continues to troll P&E with wildly inaccurate claims about people he disagrees with. It’s exhausting and contemptible.
There was some hope very early on that it might be an AI thing or that conversation might be possible. That dissipated pretty quick, but we got a good conversation about evolution and fish out of it. Honestly it was sort of nostalgic - the board gets a lot fewer crazy drive-bys than it did in, say, 2010.
And I’d take 10 cladkings over a Zostersandstorm any day.
The panel on Bill Maher’s show?
I though he only had 4 guests and sometimes the guest are also dipshits.
Yep. I didn’t bother linking to a soon-to-be-disappeared thread, but I wanted to recognize the prompt, no-fuss response by our moderation team. Definitely worth this month’s subscription cost!
Hey, one of our top priorities around here is to make sure you get your money’s worth!
Zoster is my board Mandela effect; every time I see his name, I think I’ve somehow stumbled into an old thread because I am CERTAIN he got banned for trolling years ago, only to find out I’m misremembering.
Same!
Zoster had a DEI partner that was banned years ago now. I can’t recall his name. He also disappears for longish stretches.
Maybe that is causing the confusion.
I found it, Damuriajashi was banned in 2023.
Makes 3 of us. Although I do wish we could all stop using the term “Mandela effect.”
It’s a literal reality distortion field, thought up by a crazed white lady to sane-wash her own racism. “It’s not that I can’t tell two completely different black men with vaguely similar backstories apart, it’s that they really are the same person and I’m from an alternate reality where he died in prison instead of becoming President of South Africa.”