# WTF is going on with the stalker fan threads? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 22, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-with-the-stalker-fan-threads/651032 "2013-02-22T01:12:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-with-the-stalker-fan-threads/651032/21 "2013-02-22T16:19:50Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > This thread is off to a very bad start, and I’ll close it if this continues. As someone that is fairly new to this board and as someone who has posted in thread, I ask seriously, what is the issue with this thread so far? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-with-the-stalker-fan-threads/651032/22 "2013-02-22T16:23:52Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > As someone that is fairly new to this board and as someone who has posted in thread, I ask seriously, what is the issue with this thread so far? Stuff like this: > [@madsircool](#): > > IMO, anyone calling for another poster to be banned should be banned themselves. Trying to run someone out of town is so 13th Century. > [@Troppus](#): > > But you’re totally cool with the posters attempting to bait, shame, and humiliate her until she breaks a board rule? Surely a mercy banning based on her constant spamming is better than fucking with her until she suffers a mental break. > [@madsircool](#): > > In this thread and others you sound oddly obsessed with her. And you have your own spamming issues. Live and let live and use the ignore function of you must. Separately, I forgot to address this: > [@Troppus](#): > > Surely she’s met the MarkXXX rule for promotion. **Markxxx** was promoting his own comics. And he was subject to the same rules as everybody else on that score; he just did it more often and got away with it for a long time because I think most of us didn’t realize he was linking to his own work. ---
**Author:** ![dexter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@dexter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dexter)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-with-the-stalker-fan-threads/651032/23 "2013-02-22T16:27:19Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > We do have an ignore function, too. This. Tis’ a blessing, and I recommend it highly. Once I feel that a poster has nothing to say that I want to hear, a quick trip to the user panel cures all ills. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-with-the-stalker-fan-threads/651032/24 "2013-02-22T17:29:03Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > The attacks from educated, well-versed members against an ill-equipped poster are gross and abusive at this point. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Speaking as someone who has contributed to the thread in question, I’d just like to point out that I’m really not all that well educated. And I’m exceptionally poorly versed.:(:(☹ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-with-the-stalker-fan-threads/651032/25 "2013-02-22T17:41:43Z")
If the person in question feels they are being abused, they are free to leave. But since they keep coming back for more, I feel zero compassion for them when they get curb-stomped in threads. Sorry I can’t do that in iambic pentameter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-going-on-with-the-stalker-fan-threads/651032.md?page=1)